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190 x 140 mm. A view from the side of the river looking along the bridge, which has steel supports and girders.

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138 x 82 mm. A view from above looking down on the iron girder railway bridge, part of the Newcastle to Sydney system, which was opened in 1889. It was also the final link in the railway system, which now extended from Brisbane to Adelaide, via Melbourne and Sydney. The bridge was designed by John Whitton and was the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. It was situated in New South Wales.

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229 x 190 mm. A view of part of the Lithgow zig-zag, the engineering feat of John Whitton which allowed the railway to descend on a manageable gradient from the Blue Mountains. For a fine panorama of the Lithgow zig-zag, and more detail on its construction see Y3086E/51.

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233 x 181 mm. A view of another section of the Lithgow zig-zag.

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345 x 262 mm. A good view of the interior of a railway workshop, showing partially-constructed locomotives at the right of the picture, workmen posing for the camera in the centre, and a row of small furnaces at the left for metal working. Across the roof of the workshop a movable gantry and crane is positioned.

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346 x 262 mm. A view of a part of the railway workshops. On either side are small metal working furnaces and workers posing for the camera, with a central railway line leading up to machinery, possibly some kind of steam hammer or rivetter.

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341 x 262 mm. An interior view of a railway workshop, showing workers posing with their tools.

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350 x 274 mm. A view looking down on to railway sidings, with freight wagons filled with coal, and wharves and the harbour beyond. The goods station is Illawarra, lying south of the harbour.

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The bookmark appears to bear no signature.

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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282 x 213 mm. General view looking across to the east front of the Randwick Asylum facing onto Avoca Street. The hospital, originally known as the Catherine Hayes Hospital and now named the Prince of Wales Hospital, was designed by Edmund Blacket in the mid-1860s. The large block at the left was a later addition.

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275 x 226 mm. Information given states '2 spans of 90 ft each, 2 of 65 ft and [blank] approach spans, total length 665 ft'. A slightly blurred print showing the bridge from a point away from the river. The wooden bridge crosses two tributaries of the river, with approach spans joining the two sections of the bridge.

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277 x 197 mm. View looking west along Banks Street towards Abercrombie Street, with domestic residences of varied character lining the road. The University of Sydney buildings are visible on the skyline in the distance.

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280 x 213 mm. View of the Redfern Railway Terminal, with the 1870 Sydney Inter-Colonial Exhibition buildings (demolished in 1954) in the background.

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225 x 163 mm. A photograph showing the exterior of the building, with a row of horse cabs at the right of the picture. This photograph was taken before 1870. In Y3086P/2, a photograph taken from a similar viewpoint, the 1870 Exhibition Building is prominent in the background. In this picture building work has not yet started.

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340 x 262 mm. General view probably taken from a bridge, showing the lines running into platforms.

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340 x 262 mm. View from outside with the exhibition buildings in the background. Some blurring of horse-drawn vehicles in the foreground.

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210 x 153 mm. A view of the office, with desk and chairs in the foreground, and various paintings on the walls.

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450 x 295 mm.

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A view of the Richmond River from the bank, looking along towards an iron bridge.

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200 x 150 mm.

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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[Seen behind fence beside the road].

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Landscape format.

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...