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274 x 190 mm. A view of the club premises, an elegant colonial style building with balconies on each floor, taken from the junction of O’ Connell Street and Bent Street.

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98 x 145 mm. A studio photograph showing two stuffed kingfishers among arranged vegetation. Photograph by Henry King, Sydney.

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202 x 158 mm. A view in the Gardens, showing lawns and trees, with a figure sitting on a bench in the foreground.

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208 x 159 mm. A view in the northern part of the gardens, looking across Farm Cove, with Government House visible on the skyline. With a man standing beside some pampas grass in the foreground.

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209 x 155 mm. A view looking along a path in the Gardens with trees and shrubs on either side and an unidentified monument at the end of the path.

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350 x 250 mm. No print.

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Painting only. [No print].

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205 x 144 mm. A view from the junction of Bathurst Street and George Street, with St Andrew’s Cathedral on the left and the Town Hall on the right.

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[View from hillside down to large house among trees and smaller house on hillside opposite].

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Male ostrich.

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270 x 208 mm. A view from the hill to the west of the Circular Quay looking east towards the Botanical Gardens and the south side of the docks, with merchants’ premises, shops, and sailing ships moored to the wharves. This photograph was taken before the building of the Customs House.

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A view of the curving road at the south side of the quay looking west, with trams and pedestrians. Wharves and shipping (not visible) are to the right of the picture. On the right can be seen notices advertising the ferry services to various of the pleasure spots - 'Mossman Bay - Fare 2d.', 'Neutral Bay - Fare 2d.', 'Manly Beach', etc.

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Collection of professional photographs, each 90 x 70 mm, published for the Yass Newsagency by the Valentine Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney and Melbourne. Yass is 43 miles north of Canberra. Its population in 1947 was 3254.

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145 x 90 mm. The office building is in the background; a military band is marching down the street.

Scope and Contents 202 x 154 mm. A view of the director, a bearded man, sitting at his desk in his office. The office walls are lined with bookshelves and maps. On the reverse of the print is written '3/01'. If these figures refer to the date of the photograph, the director pictured here would be Joseph Henry Maiden (1859-1925). Maiden was director of the Gardens from 1896-1924, and was the world authority on the Australian species of the Eucalyptus, as well as producing a prodigious variety of other...

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A view of the wharves, with moored shipping and railway trucks loaded with coal running up to the ships' sides. The dyke is situated in the middle of Newcastle harbour at Carrington, and contains the main coal exporting wharves.

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350 x 274 mm. A view looking along the railway line, crowded with freight trucks full of coal, towards the wharves, which are lined with steam and sailing vessels waiting to be loaded. The Dyke is situated in the centre of Newcastle harbour, at Carrington, and contains the main coal exporting wharves.

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'The Duchess', named by Queen Mary.

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355 x 280 mm. A view looking up at the rear of the building, with the book-stack to the left. 'The book stack, ... is seven stories in height ... The interior fittings of the stack, lift and staircase are wholly of steel, its floors of thick translucent plate glass, and when the heavy fireproof door is closed the Library is considered to be absolutely fireproof.' (Dallen, 1914, page not recorded).

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355 x 280 mm. A view showing the richly carved stone decorations on the exterior. The building, constructed in a rather ecclesiastical style, was designed by Colonel Vernon and opened in 1910.

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355 x 280 mm. A view looking along the library, showing readers' desks, and the high vaulted wooden arches of the roof, which are supported on elaborate stone corbels.

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35 x 280 mm. A view looking along the library, showings readers' desks, and the high vaulted wooden arches of the roof, which are supported on elaborate stone corbels.

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206 x 155 mm. A view looking down on the small collection of houses grouped near the edge of the cliff at the gap, a fissure in the cliffs situated midway between Outer South Head and Inner South Head. The cliffs at North Head can be seen in the distance on the other side of the harbour.

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280 x 230 mm. A view of the building from the roof of Government House and looking south towards the Garden Palace. A cruciform building 800 ft. long, with towers at the corners and a central dome 100 ft. in diameter, which collapsed in the fire 'with a crash like a peal of thunder'.

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155 x 98 mm. A view of the exterior of the hotel, with figures posing in front, and the river in the background. Lane Cove is a suburb on the north side of Sydney Harbour. Photographer probably an amateur.