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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350 x 274 mm. A view of the beach at Manly, with holiday-makers posing for the camera, and swimmers in the sea beyond.

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A view of the beach at Manly, with swimmers in the background and men and women posing for the camera in front.

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350 x 274 mm. A view looking down on the broad river, with flat farmland on either side.

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268 x 203 mm. View looking up along Market Street, presumably from the junction with Sussex Street. Margaret Pugh's Old Boomerang Inn is on the corner in the right foreground, with the Lenehan Brothers' (Robert and Christopher H.) New Bridge Grocery Warehouse two doors along at 3 Market Street.

Scope and Contents 263 x 205 mm. View of business premises with the masts of moored ships visible in the right background. The precise location has not been identified, but is presumably one of the streets at the west end of Market Street near the Pyrmont Bridge. In the left foreground is R. Grant's Timber Offices with the Harrison Joinery Works beyond. Next comes the tiny boarding hotel, the Paris Board and Residence, with the more substantial three storey premises of A.B. Armstrong and Co. beyond and...

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Painting only. [No print].

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[No print]. [Missing].

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350 x 250 mm. No print.

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204 x 136 mm. A view of the other side of the building, with the main university buildings visible in the background.

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210 x 146 mm. A view of the Medical School, showing the main façade and entrance. Most of the building is, unfortunately, in shadow.

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194 x 131 mm. A view of the Gothic stone building which was erected in 1887. The first chair, in Anatomy and Physiology, was filled in 1883, the School starting with four students. The growth of the Medical Faculty was fast, and in 1890, the Chair of Anatomy and Physiology was split into two professorships.

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190 x 140 mm. Showing the junction of two smallish rivers below cascades.

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206 x 160 mm. A view looking down on the Middle Harbour from a hillside showing the steep, wooded banks of the opposite shore.

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209 x 152 mm. A view looking down the length of the classroom, with work benches and various pieces of equipment.

Scope and Contents A view looking towards the mines, with a railway line in the foreground, and a residential district in the distance. Situated in the far west of New South Wales, on the Barrier Range, the area was the subject of a gold rush in 1867. No gold was found and it was not until 1875 that it was discovered that the area contained enormous reserves of extremely concentrated silver lead ore. In the 1950's, even after extensive working, geologists estimated that the mines would continue to be...

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A view of a mine in operation at Broken Hill.

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Includes a number of scenes on board ship in 1914 and some miscellaneous unbacked slides which are largely duplicates, or similar to, those in other boxes.

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A series of slides showing the CCCS's work among rural communities in Australia.

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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203 x 150 mm. In the group are (left) Stanley M. Bruce, Australian minister in London, Australian broadcaster Colin Wills (behind) British food minister Lord Woolton and Lady Woolton.

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232 x 183 mm. Information given states '3 spans of 75 feet each with 2 approach spans, total length 300 feet'. A side view of the bridge across a small river, with wooden supports and superstructure.

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257 x 208 mm. A view from the hillside, looking down on the pass, with the road driven through and wooded hills on either side.

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A view from above along Moore Street, looking west to its junction with George Street. With pedestrians and horse cabs, but only one car visible. Moore Street became Martin Place when it was widened after a fire in Pitt Street in 1890 had destroyed a number of buildings in the area.

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282 x 210 mm. View looking towards Mort's large wood-frame factory buildings, with the harbour in the background. Precise location unidentified.