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New South Wales (state)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1174 Collections and/or Records:

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The Paterson, New South Wales, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/55
Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view from above looking down on the river, which flows through cultivated land. With a small village, unidentified, at the right of the picture.

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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The Post Office, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/12
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163 x 214 mm. A head on view of the building looking from Barrack Street, and across George Street, with the future Martin Place at the left of the picture. This picture shows the building before the clock tower was built. See also plate 45 for another view.

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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The Post Office, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/89
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261 x 209 mm. A view of Sydney Post Office very similar to Plate 45 except that the work in Martin Place is at a slightly different stage of completion. This photograph dates from about 1875.

Dates: 1875
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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The Pulpit Rock, Blue Mountains, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/31
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206 x 158 mm. A view from further along the cliff face looking towards this outcrop of rock, which towers over the Grose Valley just beyond Govett’s Leap.

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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The Renwick Window, Medical School Syd. University, 1895 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086O/36
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77 x 197 mm. A view showing one of the stained glass windows in the Medical School, depicting various figures, whose names are not legible.

Dates: 1895 - 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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[The Ruins of the Garden Palace], 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086A/2
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275 x 225 mm. A view of the wreckage from the roof of Government House and looking south towards the Garden Palace. The whole of the central portion of the building has gone, leaving merely at the left and right, the ruins of two of the major towers.

Dates: 1882
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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The Sailors' Home, George Street North, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/55
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273 x 217 mm. General view of the Sailors' Home, situated on the west side of the Circular Quay overlooking Sydney Cove. The three storey building (? plus basement) has four sets of bastardised Venetian windows on each floor and a steeply pitched roof. Date of construction unknown. Sydney Cove and the eastern half of the Circular Quay, with moored ships and warehouses, can be seen in the background.

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).
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The Scots' Church, College Street, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/40
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275 x 206 mm. View from the west of the attractive and unpretentious Scots' Church, erected in 1824 and now demolished. A plaque on the tower above the west door reads 'Scots' Church erected MDCCCXXIV'. Apart from its pointed windows, this stolid sandstone building with its squat tower has something of the atmosphere of a Norman church. It was designed by S.L. Harris.

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).
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The Seven Cascades, Buldong Falls, Tumut District, New South Wales, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/39
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274 x 350 mm. A view of the falls which drop 200 feet in a series of cascades through rocky woodland. The waterfall is on a tributary of the Tumut River.

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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The Shoalhaven River, South Coast, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/60
Scope and Contents

A view looking down on to the wide river, which is crossed by an iron bridge with eight spans. With pasture land on either side of the river.

Dates: 1911
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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The Sisters' Rocks, Katoomba, N.S.W [i.e. New South Wales], 1872 - 1895

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086C/23
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280 x 225 mm. A view across towards the rocks, which lie beyond the large outcrop of rock in the foreground. The thickly wooded Jamieson Valley lies beneath. The three rocks figure in Aboriginal Australian mythology as 'Meeni', 'Wimlah' and 'Gunedoo', three sisters turned to stone for their misdeeds.

Dates: 1872 - 1895
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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The Spit, Middle Harbour, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/14
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A view of the spit of land, with a sandy beach, which projects out into the harbour, and which was a pleasure spot for the Sydney populace. In 1924 a wooden bridge was built out to the Spit, but at this time, pedestrians or vehicles had to punt across.

Dates: 1911
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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The Summit of Mount Kosciusko, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7619
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Three and a half miles away: on the summit is the hut of Mr Ragg, an astronomer. N.S.W. [View from the road of Mt Kosciusko across rough land, with ponies in the foreground].

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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The Summit of Mount Kosciusko, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7620
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing]. Three and a half miles away: on the summit is the hut of Mr Ragg, an astronomer. N.S.W. [View from the road of Mt Kosciusko across rough land, with ponies in the foreground].

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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The Survey Camp at Canberra for the 'Yass Canberra Site', 1910, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7628
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Camp with two wooden huts and tents, with flag pole].

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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The Survey Camp from the north-west, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7629
Scope and Contents

Landscape format.

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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The Sydney Exchange, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/13
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210 x 152 mm. A view of the exchange, which stands at the corner of Bridge Street and Gresham Street, taken from Macquarie Place. This sandstone building, designed in the Corinthian manner, was opened in 1857. This photograph shows the building before two more floors were added by A.F. Pritchard. For a photograph of the building with these additions see Y3086K/9.

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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The Sydney University, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/4
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A view of the east front of the main building, with the Great Hall on the right. Built in the Gothic style, and designed by Edmund Blackett, building started in 1854.

Dates: 1911
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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The Thredbo River at Creel, near its junction with the Snowy River, N.S.W, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7617
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Showing rapids and an island in the river with rocky slopes with a few trees beyond].

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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The Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/23
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A view looking down on to the rocks, three outcrop which stand over the wooded valley floor. With a man and a woman sitting in the foreground at the cliff edge.

Dates: 1911
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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The Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, NSW, 1900 - 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308H(LS)/8
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A collection of lantern slides of Australia (plus one duplicate). 5-10 are marked 'Commonwealth of Australia' and have serial numbers. 12-22 are marked 'Department of Agriculture and Stock, Brisbane'. The slides' captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.

Dates: 1900 - 1940
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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[The Three Sisters, Katoomba], 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086R/1
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183 x 114 mm. Print stamped with photographer's name. A view on the cliff edge looking towards the three outcrops of rock, which tower above the densely wooded Jamieson Valley.

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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The toilers, 1885 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086U/15
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196 x 150 mm. A view on a dusty country road, showing a horse team pulling a wagon loaded with sacks of wheat, and with foals running beside the team. Negative number 923.

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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The Town Hall, 1875 - 1883

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/16
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154 x 207 mm. A view taken from the junction of George Street and Druitt Street, showing the Town Hall, with its large clock tower. Further along George Street a small portion of St Andrew’s Cathedral can be seen. This photograph was taken between 1875 and 1883: in 1875 the main building was completed, and in 1883 work started on the Centennial Hall extension to the Town Hall – no sign of which is visible in this photograph.

Dates: 1875 - 1883
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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The Town Hall, Sydney, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/3
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A view of the Town Hall from the junction of Druitt Street and George Street, with the Centennial Hall to the right.

Dates: 1911
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).