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280 x 230 mm. A view of the unfinished building from George Street. The fenced-off land to the left, along which the building extends, was later to become Martin Place. This monumental building, which took over 20 years to complete, was designed by James Barnet. Work started in 1866. The tower, not yet built in this photograph, was completed in 1887.

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205 x 153 mm. A view looking down the length of the classroom, with work benches, chemicals and various apparatus.

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205 x 151 mm. A view showing workbenches with various experimental equipment, looking towards the blackboards at the front of the classroom.

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Album of captioned photographs.

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140 x 190 mm. A front view of the statue with two men standing in front. Erected in Hyde Park in 1866.

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202 x 147 mm. A view of the hospital from Missenden Road, Camperdown, showing a brick building with stone facings. The hospital was incorporated in 1873 as a gesture of gratitude for the saving of Prince Alfred's life, who was the victim of an assassination attempt while in Sydney. The land for the hospital was granted by the university, and the hospital is used by the university's medical students. The hospital was opened to patients in 1882.

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277 x 183 mm. View of a terrace of modest two storey sandstone houses with dormer windows. The house on the right is dated 1849 on the cartouche above the roofline. The brick houses which continue the terrace to the left are of later date. In the centre of the group is James Lucas' Auckland Hotel, and next door to him the shop of G.E. Coy.

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Programmes, guides, journals and one map relating to the Royal Visits to Jamaica, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Malta and Gibraltar. There is also a report of Barclays Bank D.C.O. Much of the material relates to the tour of Australia.

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A view looking down Bridge Street towards the Domain end, and showing on the right the Royal Exchange, the Lands Office and the Chief Secretary's Office.

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A view from the gardens behind, looking between trees and shrubs towards the building, designed by James Barnet in 1878. The building was originally designed as the Chief Secretary's Office, but later became the Department of Works.

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190 x 140 mm. A view of the building from the junction of Macquarie Street and Bridge Street. Another building designed by James Barnet (in 1878), it is an imposing structure with statues in recesses at the corner, and was originally the Colonial Secretary's Office.

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275 x 220 mm. A view of the beach, with eroded rock formations in the foreground. Three men are some distance along the beach, one of them sitting on Pulpit Rock, an eroded top-heavy structure some 15 feet high.

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245 x 195 mm. A scene on the Murray River near Echuca, with the punt ferry in the foreground with men, carts and horses on board. In the background a small pontoon bridge crosses the river.

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203 x 151 mm. A riverside scene, with a pole-ferry on the near bank. On the horizon can be seen two cabins - a completed building with a bark roof and another cabin still being built.

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350 x 274 mm. A view showing the herd in a large field.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: Fifty-three undated watercolours intended as bookmarks, each 200 x 45 mm in size, sold by John Sands of Sydney as indicated by stickers pasted onto the reverse. The images are of birds, with the exception of two koala bears, two kangaroos and one opossum. The vast majority are the work of three authors, signed Artah, M. Simpson and Koddi. Artah is Violet Artah Bartlett, an artist specialising in Australian ornithology who worked in Sydney during the 1920s. It has proved impossible as yet...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: Fifty-three undated watercolours intended as bookmarks, each 200 x 45 mm in size, sold by John Sands of Sydney as indicated by stickers pasted onto the reverse. The images are of birds, with the exception of two koala bears, two kangaroos and one opossum. The vast majority are the work of three authors, signed Artah, M. Simpson and Koddi. Artah is Violet Artah Bartlett, an artist specialising in Australian ornithology who worked in Sydney during the 1920s. It has proved impossible as yet...

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232 x 183 mm. Information given states '(New superstructure on old piers), 3 spans 75 feet each, 2 spans 60 feet, total length 345 feet'. A view showing the bridge beyond a curve in the river, with figures in front of the bridge which is a wooden superstructure on wooden supports.

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190 x 140 mm. A view from the side of the river looking along the bridge, which has steel supports and girders.

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190 x 140 mm. A view from the side of the river looking along the bridge, which has steel supports and girders.

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138 x 82 mm. A view from above looking down on the iron girder railway bridge, part of the Newcastle to Sydney system, which was opened in 1889. It was also the final link in the railway system, which now extended from Brisbane to Adelaide, via Melbourne and Sydney. The bridge was designed by John Whitton and was the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. It was situated in New South Wales.

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229 x 190 mm. A view of part of the Lithgow zig-zag, the engineering feat of John Whitton which allowed the railway to descend on a manageable gradient from the Blue Mountains. For a fine panorama of the Lithgow zig-zag, and more detail on its construction see Y3086E/51.

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233 x 181 mm. A view of another section of the Lithgow zig-zag.

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345 x 262 mm. A good view of the interior of a railway workshop, showing partially-constructed locomotives at the right of the picture, workmen posing for the camera in the centre, and a row of small furnaces at the left for metal working. Across the roof of the workshop a movable gantry and crane is positioned.

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346 x 262 mm. A view of a part of the railway workshops. On either side are small metal working furnaces and workers posing for the camera, with a central railway line leading up to machinery, possibly some kind of steam hammer or rivetter.