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The caves, a popular tourist spot since the 1860's, and situated 115 miles by road west of Sydney, were originally reached via Oberon, but in 1868 the railway reached Mount Victoria, and from there passengers walked. The road down to the caves, known as the 'Five Mile' was completed around 1887 as far as the Great Arch. In 1896 the road through the arch was completed. The photograph shows a car on the road having just come through the large rock tunnel.

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350 x 274 mm. A view looking along the sheer cliff face and showing the bottom of the gorge.

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350 x 274 mm. A view of the gorge showing the sheer cliff face and the drop into the steep wooded ground below.

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286 x 190 mm. A view looking along the Lithgow Zig-Zag, engineered by John Whitton in 1869 to allow trains to negotiate the steep descent from the Blue Mountains. For a fine panoramic view of the zig-zag see Y3086E51.

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207 x 157 mm. A view from the military establishment at Inner South Head with two soldiers standing by a canon and a man and a woman looking out to sea. Across the bay can be seen the cliffs of North Head.

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350 x 274 mm. A snow scene with skiers in the foreground, with the hotel behind and halfway up the hillside. The opening of Kosciusko as a ski resort was directly due to the work of the famous Sydney photographer Charles Kerry, who in the winter of 1897 led a party from Jindabyne to the summit of Mt. Kosciusko, which in turn led to the building of the hotel and roads.

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350 x 247 mm. A view in the cave, showing rock formations called 'The Willows', with steps carved out of the stone. A highly spectacular complex of caves situated 70 miles west of Sydney, it has been popular with visitors since the 1860s and a large new cave was found as late as 1953.

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[No print]. [Missing].

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Landscape format. [Showing hotel across a lake or river].

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A view across the river, with two rowing boats, with the race course on the other side of the river.

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350 x 274 mm. A river scene with steep wooded hills on the far bank and two large tower-like rocks in the foreground, the rock to the left, half out of the picture, being called 'Toilet Table' Rock.

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220 x 275 mm. A view looking down at the top of the waterfall among the woods, where it drops over an overhang. With two men standing at the edge of the cliff.

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198 x 152 mm. A view looking out over rounded mountain-tops, here and there patched by snowfields. Negative number 2514.

Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 7455-7491; 7334-7344 and 7494-7634. Added numbers are: 7519A-7528A; spoiled: 7484-7486, 7525, 7562, 7611-7614, 7621 and 7626; not used: 7459-7460, 7463, 7526-7528, 7336, 7340, 7543-7544; missing: 7455-7456, 7458, 7462, 7464, 7471, 7473, 7476, 7480, 7489, 7334-7335, 7337-7339, 7341, 7533, 7535-7537, 7540-7541, 7547, 7550, 7560-7561, 7570, 7585, 7608, 7618, 7620, 7624, 7631. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order...

Scope and Contents 345 x 261 mm. A view of this sturdy iron bridge, resting on stone supports, which crosses the Nepean on the main Southern Line: '... a fine tubular bridge, the rails being 63 feet above the ordinary level of the river. This bridge and the adjacent viaduct consists of 'wrought iron, continuous box girders for a double line 498 feet in length, ... resting on stone piers, the masonry being set in Portland cement'. (NSW Registrar-General's Office 1886, pages 83-84).This was the first...

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A view of a large and intricate stalacmite shaped in the form of a minaret.

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202 x 157 mm. A three quarter front view of the Museum which stands at the junction of Park Street and College Street.

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190 x 148 mm. A view of the rock, an outcrop which rises out of the trees and overlooks Jamieson Valley.

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236 x 250 mm. A view of the building, built of differently coloured stone and surmounted by a stone parapet. Exact location unknown.

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350 x 274 mm. A view from above looking down on the river, which flows through cultivated land. With a small village, unidentified, at the right of the picture.

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261 x 209 mm. A view of Sydney Post Office very similar to Plate 45 except that the work in Martin Place is at a slightly different stage of completion. This photograph dates from about 1875.

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163 x 214 mm. A head on view of the building looking from Barrack Street, and across George Street, with the future Martin Place at the left of the picture. This picture shows the building before the clock tower was built. See also plate 45 for another view.

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206 x 158 mm. A view from further along the cliff face looking towards this outcrop of rock, which towers over the Grose Valley just beyond Govett’s Leap.

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77 x 197 mm. A view showing one of the stained glass windows in the Medical School, depicting various figures, whose names are not legible.

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275 x 225 mm. A view of the wreckage from the roof of Government House and looking south towards the Garden Palace. The whole of the central portion of the building has gone, leaving merely at the left and right, the ruins of two of the major towers.