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Landscape format. [With steam boats in foreground].

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album containing prints measuring 69 x 95 mm, with handwritten captions. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The flyleaf is inscribed 'To Lieut. Colonel G.S. Walker, I.M.S. with compliments and thanks from the photographer. 1901.' George Lemon Walker (29.7.1849-31.5.1901) was born in Kingston, Ontario and served in the Madras Medical Service...

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Showing paintings and sculpture in one of the halls.

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View looking across an ornamental lake in the Botanical Gardens.

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260 x 212 mm. View of a block of three office buildings in classical style in Pitt Street. Precise location unidentified. The nearest building is the Fire Office.

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95 x 208 mm. A view of one of the stained glass windows in the Medical School, which depicts Richard Bright, Edward Jenner, James Simpson, James Syme, B.E. Brodie, and Astley Cooper.

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[View across plains].

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album containing prints measuring 69 x 95 mm, with handwritten captions. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The flyleaf is inscribed 'To Lieut. Colonel G.S. Walker, I.M.S. with compliments and thanks from the photographer. 1901.' George Lemon Walker (29.7.1849-31.5.1901) was born in Kingston, Ontario and served in the Madras Medical Service...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: An album containing prints measuring 69 x 95 mm, with handwritten captions. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The flyleaf is inscribed 'To Lieut. Colonel G.S. Walker, I.M.S. with compliments and thanks from the photographer. 1901.' George Lemon Walker (29.7.1849-31.5.1901) was born in Kingston, Ontario and served in the Madras Medical Service...

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200 x 154 mm. A good view of one of Sydney’s famous double-decker steam trams, which were introduced in 1879.

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275 x 170 mm. A view of the east front of the main university buildings, with the Great Hall at the right of the picture. A similar photograph to Plate 6.

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199 x 150 mm. A view showing the east front of the main university buildings, with the Great Hall in the background at the right of the picture.

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197 x 143 mm. Another view of the east front of the main buildings, with the Great Hall in the foreground at the right of the picture.

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257 x 208 mm. Information given states '2 spans of 60 feet each, laminated arches, 3 approach spans, total length 210 feet'. A view from the river bank showing the bridge, with 2 laminated arches and wooden supporting piers. Wooden laminated arches were a development used in the railway bridges from the early 1860s and consisted of curved sections of timber bolted together.

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195 x 153 mm. A view of the Gobelin Tapestry of 'Joseph and His Brothers', which hangs on the west wall.

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Showing a wagon-load of sacks, with the horse team loose and feeding, and the wagonners in the background.

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A view taken from the junction of Harris Street and Mary Ann Street. The museum is the nearer building, with the technical college behind it and to the right, facing on to Mary Ann Street. Both buildings were designed by William E. Kemp, the college in 1891 and the museum in 1892.

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Showing a crooked telegraph post.

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274 x 350 mm. A view of a portion of the caves, with hundreds of stalactites growing down from the roof and numerous thicker stalactites growing up from the floor. In some places both have joined to form columns.

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275 x 220 mm. A view of the creek, with wooded hillside on the banks. A large boulder stands in the foreground on the left.

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208 x 151 mm. A view of part of the workings of a machine, presumably used for stress-testing on the strength of components.

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A view from the hillside looking down on the hotel, which served as a base for tourists to the caves. Jeremiah Wilson was appointed 'Keeper of the Caves' in 1867, soon after the area was made a Government Reserve and from the early 1880's he provided accommodation for visitors. The building illustrated here was started in 1897.

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[Outer view of cave in the rock].

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273 x 209 mm. View looking west along Argyle Street towards the Argyle Cut, a passage carved through solid rock beneath Cumberland Street and Prince's Street in the 1840s to give access between the Circular Quay and Miller's Point. Cumberland and Prince's Street pass over the Cut on stone bridges.

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271 x 207 mm. View looking east along Argyle Street towards the Argyle Cut. A small portion of Holy Trinity Church can be seen in the left foreground.