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275 x 220 mm. Showing a river in the foreground, fed from a spring. The cottage stands on a ledge beyond the river, with three figures posing in front of it. The deer-park was an enclosed, cleared area in the park stocked with deer.

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A narrative of Mrs Holttum's experience as an evacuee in Australia between 1941 and 1945, where she sought refuge with her two children during the Second World War (36 sheets).

Scope and Contents 265 x 204 mm. View looking east along Francis Street, a road lined on both sides with modest two storey terraced houses. The view is taken from the junction with College Street which runs north-south along the side of Hyde Park. The entrance to a small alley, Park Lane, can be partially seen in the right foreground. The junction with Yurong Street can be seen in the middleground of the print, with the junction with Riley Street at the bottom of the hill. On the opposite skyline is the...

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...

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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200 x 150 mm.

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200 x 150 mm.

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190 x 140 mm. A view of the island from the east, showing a few buildings which are probably naval warehouses. From 1866 the island was used as a depot for H.M. Ships in Australian waters. From 1877, when a financial arrangement was agreed, building started on the island. This photograph was probably taken around 1885, before building had progressed to any great extent. Between 1940-45 the island was made into a peninsula, joined to the mainland by a graving dock.

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Landscape format. [Tree shading benches by a bit of lawn with large buildings of Sydney behind].

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Landscape format. [Tree shading benches by a bit of lawn with large buildings of Sydney behind].

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152 x 207 mm. A view of the Post Office from a building on the other side of George Street. The area at the left of the print, on which there are still buildings, was later to become Martin Place.

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Photograph of an artist's impression of the building.

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350 x 274 mm. A photograph of a drawing, from a semi-aerial viewpoint, of the Post Office.

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350 x 274 mm. A view looking down on the Snowy River, with scrubland and low hills on the banks. A wooden road-bridge across the river can be seen in the middle distance.

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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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350 x 274 mm. A view looking north along George Street, with a tram in the foreground, and St. Andrew's Cathedral and the Town Hall on the other side of the road. Beyond the Town Hall can be seen the domes of the Queen Victoria Markets, designed in 1893 by George McRae.

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350 x 274 mm. A view from above looking north along George Street, with St. Andrew's Cathedral and the Town Hall on the skyline.

Scope and Contents 272 x 210 mm. View looking along George Street from the junction with Market Street, showing the commercial premises along the left hand side of the road. On the corner in the foreground is the Sydney Grocery Emporium of C.Kidman and Son. Next door at no. 243 is George Fesq's wine and spirit shop and beyond that the ornately detailed frontage of F. Lassetter's ironmongery business at no. 421. This is followed by Hyam Hains, stationers, H Zions, tailors, and Keep and Parsons,...

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288 x 204 mm. View looking south along George Street, with Christ Church St Laurence visible in the right background. The photograph appears to have been taken from the junction of George Street with Hay Street.

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[Five storey buildings on either side of street. Tram lines down centre of road. Horses and carriages. Pedestrians - women in long skirts and hats].

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195 x 126 mm. A view looking along George Street, which is extremely busy with coaches, carriages and pedestrians. The oldest street in Sydney, George Street originated as a track through the bush made by work parties in 1788.

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Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.

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A view from above, looking north along George Street, with St. Andrew's Cathedral and the Town Hall on the skyline.

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A view looking north along George Street, with a tram in the foreground, and St. Andrew's Cathedral and the Town Hall on the other side of the road. Beyond the Town Hall can be seen the domes of the Queen Victoria Markets, designed in 1893 by George McRae.

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A view along the busy street, with trams and pedestrians. The road off to the left is Martin Place, and the building immediately beyond it, the Post Office. The dome of the Victoria Markets can be seen on the skyline in the middle distance.