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210 x 149 mm. A view of the room, showing work benches, with two statues of male figures.

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205 x 132 mm. A view looking along Parramatta Street towards the east front of the main university building, with the Great Hall on the right. The building to the left of the main building is the university Medical School. The university is situated on the small hill overlooking Victoria Park, between Glebe and Newtown.

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190 x 140 mm. A view looking through the gates towards St. Mary's Cathedral, situated on the East Side of Hyde Park. The building seen here is still under construction; the north wall is complete, but there is as yet no roof or central tower. The first Roman Catholic Cathedral on the site was burned down in 1865. William Wardell designed the present building, which took over twenty years to complete. This photograph was probably taken around 1883-1885.

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280 x 225 mm. A view looking down on the bay, with a jetty on the beach, and residential houses just inland. Double Bay, now a suburb of Sydney, lies between Point Piper and Darling Point.

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286 x 210 mm. View looking towards the two storey house with hipped roof and ground floor verandah which occupies the north corner of the junction between Macquarie Street North (at left of print) and Hunter Street (at right). Dr Cox is probably Dr James C. Cox.

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190 x 140 mm. A view down St. Mary's Road, with an ornate stone drinking fountain in the foreground. Known as the Frazer Fountain, it was designed by Thomas Sapsford in 1884.

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280 x 221 mm. A view from slightly to one side of the bridge, showing the approach road and supporting piers.

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287 x 215 mm. Information given states '3 spans of 80 feet each with 5 approach spans, total length 390 feet'. A view of the bridge partially obscured by trees, from the river bank. With a figure reclining on the bank in the foreground. The bridge is a wooden structure with wooden supporting piers.

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A view looking down the railway line, with a terminus at the colliery, and showing wagons loaded with coal.

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350 x 274 mm. A view looking along the railway line which runs up to the colliery.

Scope and Contents 302 x 215 mm. A loose uncaptioned print. A view looking down on the east side of the quay, where three large steamers are moored. Beyond the quay can be seen Government House and the Botanical Gardens, Farm Cove, and the naval deport on Garden Island. The turreted building behind the quay is in the place Fort Macquarie originally stored. The building seen here is actually the tram depot, completed in 1902. On the left-hand corner of the photograph states 'Registered 1903, Melvin...

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205 x 151 mm. A head-on view of the double wooden doors of the Hall, with decorations on the surrounding stonework, and a carved coat of arms at each side.

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209 x 143 mm. A view of the hospital, showing the verandahs, balconies, and elaborate iron-work rails outside the wards. These original buildings have long since been swallowed up in the growth of the hospital, forming a nucleus for the considerable accretions on all sides.

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285 x 209 mm. View of a block of houses on Elizabeth Street. At the right is a small confectioner and fruiterer, in the middle a narrow three storey public house (name unknown), at the left a small wood-frame bungalow with dormer windows. Precise location unidentified.

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A view showing the roofs of the goldmine buildings, with a steep railway escarpment going up the hill behind.

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An edition of the journal of the Royal Empire Society, New South Wales Branch, regarding the Royal Visit.

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280 x 225 mm. A view looking across the plain from a small wooded rise, with the river Nepean in the middle distance, and the township (indistinct) beyond the river. The town lies about 36 miles west of Sydney and in the early years of the nineteenth century was abundantly populated with emus.

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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275 x 220 mm. A view of high, cleared ground, with wooden houses in the distance and some tents nearer the camera. With two figures and a pony and cart. From the album introduction;

'Part of the high lands have been cleared of the dead timber and undergrowth and all but the most ornamental trees, and a large open space afforded, whereon military encampments and reviews can be held. About 600 acres of the cleared lands have been sown with English grasses'.

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260 x 210 mm. A view showing the back of the house and garden, with a shed to the right. With Terrace Hill running along the horizon, and Leconfield House on a small hill in the distance seen between the barn and house.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...

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A view of a figure standing at South Head and looking towards the cliffs of North Head, with a large steamer leaving the harbour.

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260 x 210 mm. View of single storey stone built house, with a covered verandah in front and trees in the fenced-off garden behind.

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260 x 215 mm. A view with the house in the background and an orchard of miscellaneous trees fenced off in front. With the old stables in the centre, and wine stores at the right. Tangorin Mount is at the far right of the picture on the horizon.

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340 x 262 mm. View looking along the platform from above, probably taken from a bridge.