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192 x 149 mm. A view showing a team of 12 horses working in a large pit. Uncaptioned on front or back apart from negative number 424.

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200 x 150 mm.

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A view looking across a river towards the ski-resort hotel, with no snow visible at this time of year.

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281 x 213 mm. General view looking along Botany Street towards the Hudson Brothers' Saw Mills, an imposing three storey factory with the narrow façade of the building facing onto the road. One of the posters stuck to the wooden fence in the foreground advertises a meeting of the Randwick Racing Club on Saturday 29 April. See note on dating in introduction to this collection.

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A view across part of the park showing the cathedral behind trees.

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225 x 285 mm. A view of the statue of Captain Cook in Hyde Park, among lawns and trees, with buildings beyond. The statue was unveiled in 1879.

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A view of a small country road, with a pony trap crossing a light wooden bridge, and fields, trees and hills in the distance.

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[Indistinct picture].

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156 x 207 mm. A view looking between trees and branches showing a frontal view of the Weatherboard (Wentworth) Falls.

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205 x 156 mm. A view showing a river running through a wooded valley with sheer cliffs rising on either side. Location unidentified, but possibly the Valley of the Grose.

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[View into cave with opening up on the right].

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A blank invitation from the Lord Mayor of Sydney and others to a ball at the Town Hall, Sydney, 5 February 1954, in honour of the Royal Visitors.

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190 x 140 mm. A view of the iron girder bridge which connected the suburbs of Balmain and Drummoyne across Iron Cove, which was part of the 'Five Bridges Road' connecting the city and the north-side suburbs. This bridge, originally erected in 1884, was replaced in the 1950's.

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350 x 274 mm. A view looking down from the riverbank on to a small wooden road-bridge, with cultivated fields beyond.

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270 x 225 mm. Information given states '3 spans of 90 feet each on iron cylinders, with 7 approach spans. Total length 480 feet'. A view from one side, and from slightly above the bridge, showing the wooden roadway and superstructure resting on iron girders and supports. With various figures standing in the foreground.

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276 x 214 mm. View looking south-west along Bligh Street from its junction with Bent Street, which proceeds south-east out of the right-hand side of the print. Bligh Street is built up along its north-west side with domestic residences, with a verandahed terrace block of four houses (? of the 1860s) in the foreground.

Scope and Contents 281 x 210 mm. View from the southern end of Boomerang Street looking east along William Street, with Yurong Street going off to the south at the right hand side of the print. In the right foreground of the picture on the corner of Yurong Street is Mary Watts National Hotel. Beyond the hotel, on the south side of William Street, the following shops can be identified: Mrs F.J. Hodges at number 47, milliners; C.F. Wright, coppersmith; William Tughy's Albert Hotel at the junction with Riley...

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346 x 262 mm. A view looking across the line towards the main platform, where passengers and a station official stand. Above the platform hangs an ornate sign offering 'Refreshments', beneath which stand four waitresses; 'The largest and most complete refreshment rooms on the railway has been established here, ample time being allowed by all passenger trains for travellers to obtain refreshment.' (NSW Registrar-General's Office 1886, p.96).

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345 x 262 mm. A view of the other end of the platform, with railway employees and passengers posing for the photographer, and a locomotive with freight trucks on the line.

Scope and Contents 345 x 262 mm. A view of the station buildings and entrance, with passers by posing for the photographer. These attractive railway buildings proved to be a good example of the railway's role in economic expansion: 'The original township is five miles away from Junee Junction, but now in the vicinity of the station a new township has been formed. It contains several hotels, two brick-yards, timber yard, gas-works (for supplying the Railway carriages), and a flour-mill is proposed' (NSW...

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[Gully in rock with trees on the right].

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[Gully in rock with trees on the right].

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A view showing the gorge, the sheer cliff face and the drop into the steep wooded ground below.

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...