Scope and Contents Circular copper token 34 mm in diameter inscribed, 'A. Toogood Merchant Pitt & King St. Sydney’. On the reverse is a woman in classical dress representing Justice, holding a set of scales in her right hand, and an overflowing cornucopia in her left. She is seated on a wool bale, and behind her, a wine barrel lies on the ground and ship sails across the horizon. Above her ‘Australia’ and the date ‘1855’ are inscribed.The token had the value of a penny and was produced by W.J. Taylor...

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350 x 274 mm. A view showing a man fishing in the lagoon, with Bong Bong Mountain and other hills rising in the background.

Scope and Contents 225 x 285 mm. A view of the Town Hall from the junction of George Street and Druitt Street, a massively ornate structure, with a large clocktower. On the corner of the street in front is a suitably elaborate drinking fountain. Designed by J.H. Wilson, building started in 1868, the Duke of Edinburgh laying the foundation stone, and the clocktower was completed in 1875. This photograph would have been taken between 1875 and 1883; in that year work started on the Centennial Hall, an...

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A view of the Town Hall from the junction of Druitt Street and George Street, with the Centennial Hall on the right.

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350 x 274 mm. A view of the Town Hall from the junction of Druitt Street and George Street, with the Centennial Hall on the right in Druitt Street.

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140 x 190 mm. A view of the Town Hall from the junction of George Street and Druitt Street, with pony cabs in front of the building. This photograph was taken around 1885; at the extreme right, construction work on the Centennial Hall can be seen, an addition to the Town Hall which was built between 1883 and 1888.

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195 x 136 mm. An exterior view of a large, two storey house.

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350 x 274 mm. Showing a steam locomotive with freight trucks loaded with bales of wool and railway workers standing in front of the train.

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275 x 220 mm. A view looking down on the river with the training wall in the foreground.

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275 x 220 mm. A view looking along the river from a hillside, with heavily wooded ground all around. The training wall, built to direct the flow and current, can be seen in the river in the middle distance.

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A clear photograph showing work in progress on the deck of S.S. 'Indraghiri', with harbour waves at the right of the slide.

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Arthur Bryant Triggs (1868-1936) was a pastoralist and art collector. He settled at Yass in 1888, becoming a leading station owner and sheep dealer. He died in Yass in 1936 and the people of the town subsequently erected memorial gates at Victoria Park.

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350 x 274 mm. A view showing a man fishing above a small series of rapids among rocks in the river.

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A view of a man fishing beside a fast flowing river.

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198 x 146 mm. Information given states '2 spans of 75 feet each with 9 approach spans. Total length 340 feet'. A view from along the river bank towards the bridge, a wooden superstructure resting on wooden supports.

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A view looking down from the riverbank on to Jones' Bridge, a small wooden roadbridge with cultivated fields beyond.

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278 x 180 mm. A view along the Newton Boyd Road, where the road goes through a tunnel carved from solid rock. Photograph probably by J.W. Lindt.

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190 x 245 mm. A view of the same tunnel, but taken from inside and looking out along the road which is perched on steep rocky hillside. With a wagon and horses on the road. Photograph probably by J.W. Lindt.

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191 x 240 mm. The caption is taken from Y3086F/67, where another print of the same photograph occurs. The picture shows a view through, and the road beyond on which there is a horse-team.

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210 x 194 mm. A view on the seashore showing low rocky cliffs leading down to the water’s edge. In the distance the town of Eden can be seen on the clifftops. Twofold Bay lies on the south coast of New South Wales and was discovered and named by George Bass in 1797.

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228 x 194 mm. A view from above the bay looking down on the sandy beach, with trees reaching almost to the water’s edge. With wooded hills in the distance.

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202 x 190 mm. A view looking across to a cliffy headland at Twofold Bay, with a small lighthouse near the cliff edge.

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221 x 190 mm. A similar view to Plate 74, but taken further along the coast and with a ship at anchor in the bay. The headland and beach in the foreground of Plate 74 can be seen in the distance in this picture.

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Twofold Bay 216 x 195 mm. A view showing cliffs and rocks leading down to the seashore.

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224 x 188 mm. A view looking out between two rocky headlands, across the bay to land in the distance.