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New South Wales (state)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1174 Collections and/or Records:

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Ships in harbour Sydney [?], 1885 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309B/43
Scope and Contents

186 x 127 mm. oval print. A view showing two three-masted steamers at anchor, with parts of a large city visible on the far side of the harbour, bearing a resemblance to Sydney. Sydney would certainly be the obvious port of call for leave and business matters, and Powell did have a number of correspondents there.

Dates: 1885 - 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Showing ends of casks containing 2800 gallons each, etc., on the right; rows of wine butts, with fermenting bubbles, in the centre; and row of casks of 1200 [gallons] each on the left, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086B/15
Scope and Contents

260 x 215 mm. A slightly blurred view looking down central aisle, with barrels on either side.

Dates: 1886
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Showing interior portion of new wine press-room, portion of wine press, 4 casks of 1000 gallons each, and 2 casks of 4000 gallons each, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086B/14
Scope and Contents

260 x 210 mm. Showing a corner of the wine press-room, with fermenting barrels lined up.

Dates: 1886
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Showing row of 4 casks, containing over 3000 gallons each, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086B/16D
Scope and Contents

155 x 105 mm. A view of fermenting wine in barrels.

Dates: 1886
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Showing row of wine-butts in hot-room, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086B/16E
Scope and Contents

155 x 105 mm. A row of barrels of fermenting wine.

Dates: 1886
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Showing Vintage Manager testing Grape must, in glass tube, with Keene's percentage Saccharometer, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086B/9C
Scope and Contents

60 x 95 mm. Showing the manager dipping the instrument into a barrel of grape must (unfermented wine).

Dates: 1886
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Sisters', Katoomba, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/81
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. A view of the three rocks, standing out from the cliff face, with Jamieson Valley obscured by clouds.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sisters' Rocks, Katoomba, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/82
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. A view of the three rocks with Jamieson Valley below.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Slasher's-Flat Bridge, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086F/40
Scope and Contents

146 x 96 mm. A view taken near to the side of the bridge and looking along it.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Slasher's-Flat Bridge, Cudgegong River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086F/39
Scope and Contents

538 x 192 mm. 3 prints joined. Information given states '1 span of 75 feet, 9 approach spans, total length 350 feet'. A panoramic side view of the bridge over an almost dry river, with wooden superstructure and wooden supporting piers.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sleepers for export, Sydney Harbour, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/47
Scope and Contents

A view along a pier in the harbour piled high with railway sleepers, and with various workers posing for the camera.

Dates: 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Snowy R. [i.e.River] at Jindabyne, N.S.W [i.e. New South Wales], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/42
Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view looking upriver where a man is fishing in the rock strewn rapids; with wooded hillside on the further bank.

Dates: 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Soldiers Memorial Hall, Yass, N.S.W [i.e. New South Wales], 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086W/5
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: 1949
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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South African War Memorial, Queanbeyan, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7627
Scope and Contents

[Showing memorial in centre of street].

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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South Arm, Ballenger Road, Nth. Coast District, N.S.W. [i.e. New South Wales], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/75
Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view of a small country road, with a pony trap crossing a small wooden bridge, and fields, trees and hills in the background.

Dates: 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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South Head Sydney, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/1
Scope and Contents

208 x 155 mm. A view looking along the cliff which stands at the entrance to Sydney Harbour, with the north side of the inlet visible in the distance.

Dates: 1870 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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South Sydney, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/87
Scope and Contents

270 x 209 mm. A view from Pyrmont looking over the southern half of Darling Harbour towards the southern side of the city. A fine picture, with the Town Hall and St Andrew’s Cathedral prominent on the skyline.

Dates: 1870 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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South Sydney and University, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/25
Scope and Contents

207 x 156 mm. A view looking towards the East front of the University buildings, taken from the Glebe, and showing house and shops in this suburb. The stream in the foreground is Black Wattle Swamp Creek.

Dates: 1870 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Southern Cross, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/2
Scope and Contents

155 x 200 mm. Sailed from Newcastle on 18 Jan. 1900. Note on the back, ‘The Southern Cross was wrecked in the River Tagus, & for many years used as a dance hall. We saw her several times from the Royal Mail ships to & from Lisbon, then she disappeared.’

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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? Southern Cross, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/3
Scope and Contents

200 x 155 mm. No name is visible but the funnel has the same Pattee Cross as Y308M/1 and 2.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Souvenir programme of Royal Visit to New South Wales, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/12
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Programmes, guides, journals and one map relating to the Royal Visits to Jamaica, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Malta and Gibraltar. There is also a report of Barclays Bank D.C.O. Much of the material relates to the tour of Australia.

Dates: 1954
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Spinebill honeyeater], 1919 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/28
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...
Dates: 1919 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Spinebill honeyeaters], 1919 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/37
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...
Dates: 1919 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Spotted gum tree height 300 ft. cir. 18 ft, 1885 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086U/23
Scope and Contents

151 x 196 mm. A view of the spotted base of the tree (similar to a plane tree). Handwritten captions on reverse identifies it as being in the Sydney Botanical Gardens. With Kerry's embossed stamp in one corner. Negative number 1420.

Dates: 1885 - 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Squatters' Exchange, corner of George Street and Margaret Street, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/1
Scope and Contents

272 x 201 mm. View looking south along George Street, with the Squatters' Exchange at the junction with Margaret Street in the right foreground. The tower in the distance at the extreme left appears to be that of the Town Hall, completed in 1875. Other business premises identifiable in the print are: Petrie at number 269 and next door, Griffiths and Weaver, Stock and Station Agents.

Dates: 1870 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).