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348 x 262 mm. A view from near the top of the cutting, looking along the rock face and down towards the railway line, and showing the wooden road bridge which runs across the cutting.

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202 x 155 mm. A view in the harbour, showing sailing boats racing.

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A view showing sailing boats near the entrance to the harbour, with a steamer in the background, and the cliffs of North Head in the distance.

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A view of sailing boats in the harbour.

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[Three sailing ships, only one on sails and steam boat passing by].

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A view looking along the paddocks, with cows and horses being paraded and farms and houses on the hill beyond.

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

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275 x 220 mm. A view of the creek, with thickly wooded banks rising steeply on each side.

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A view of a timber mill, with marked trunks ready to be sawn in the foreground, and the sawmill, a low open building, beyond.

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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A view of the colliery, with hills beyond, and railway track in the foreground.

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A view of the colliery, with hills beyond and a railway line in the foreground.

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180 x 111 mm. A similar view to Y308A/107 , with plants and scrub in the foreground.

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194 x 147 mm. A view looking across partially cleared land, with figures in the foreground, towards densely wooded hills beyond.

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148 x 100 mm. A view showing three men rowing, presumably on the Lane Cove River.

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100 x 150 mm. A photograph of three men in casual clothes. The two at the right would appear to be brothers, or even twins.

Scope and Contents 245 x 180 mm. Oval print. A view across the harbour towards Fort Denison, with a mock battle in progress beyond the fort. The harbour is dotted with small craft and a paddle ferry can be seen to the left of the fort, packed with passengers. The exact year, or event celebrated, has not been determined. Sydney has held a regatta every year since 1837, although this is presumably a re-enactment of a specific happening. Jack Cato, records that Charles Kerry in 1895 'covered the big aquatic...

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245 x 180 mm. A view of the three-masted steamers involved in the mock-battle, with smoke from the guns drifting across the harbour.

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245 x 180 mm. A photograph showing three-masted steamers involved in the mock-battle and a paddle ferry.

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245 x 180 mm. A view of the sham fight with Fort Denison at the left of the picture. Most of the horizon is obscured by smoke, with only one large steamer visible.

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A view looking along a shearing shed, with men at either side at work shearing sheep.

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192 x 149 mm. A view looking along a wooden shearing-shed, with men at work shearing with powered clippers. Negative number 948.

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350 x 274 mm. A view looking along a shearing shed, with men on either side at work shearing sheep.

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A view looking down on to the moored sailing ships at the quay. Taken from the east side of the quay, facing south into Sydney. James Barnet's Customs House can be partially seen (before the addition of the first floor verandah).

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A view of moored sailing ships, tied three deep to the shore. Stockton lies just north of Newcastle, on a peninsula the other side of the Hunter River. Like Newcastle it is an important coal producer; in the early days of the colony, the worst convicts from Newcastle were sent to Stockton as lime-burners.