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Brisbane

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085U
Scope and Contents

Collection of photographs measuring mainly 90 x 63 mm. Photographer unknown.

Dates: 1950 - 1999
Conditions Governing Access: 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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Brisbane, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/190
Scope and Contents

261 x 203 mm. A view looking along the Brisbane River, showing Petrie’s Bight and wharves, with shipping moored along the river, and with the Metropolitan Baths in the foreground. Photograph by George P. Wright. Another print of the same photograph occurs in Y3085C/7. It is likely that all the Brisbane photographs are by Wright, although only Plates 190, 191 and 198 are positively identified.

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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Brisbane, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/194
Scope and Contents

121 x 99 mm. A view looking across the Brisbane River towards a wharf piled high with timber, with houses beyond. Exact location unknown.

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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Brisbane, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/195
Scope and Contents

129 x 100 mm. A view looking along the Brisbane River bank with houses on the hill beside the river. Exact location unknown.

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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Brisbane, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/196
Scope and Contents

127 x 100 mm. A view looking along the Brisbane River outside Brisbane, with woods reaching to the water edge and a house at the extreme left of the picture. Exact location unknown.

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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Brisbane, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/197
Scope and Contents

129 x 100 mm. A view looking between trees, across the Brisbane River towards an iron bridge in the distance. Exact location unknown.

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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Brisbane Cathedral, 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085Q/2
Scope and Contents

200 x 250 mm. View of the pulpit from in front of the lectern, with some choir stalls visible.

Dates: 1920
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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Brisbane Cathedral showing Chapel, 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085Q/3
Scope and Contents

200 x 250 mm. Photograph taken through arches, showing a side chapel.

Dates: 1920
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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Brisbane Cathedral showing pulpit and Lord's Table, 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085Q/1
Scope and Contents

200 x 250 mm. A view up the nave towards the altar.

Dates: 1920
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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Brisbane from Kangaroo Point, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/122
Scope and Contents

150 x 85 mm. A view looking across from the south bank of the river towards the Botanical Gardens, with Parliament House rising above the tree line.

Dates: 1888 - 1889
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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Brisbane from One Tree Hill, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/7746
Scope and Contents

350 x 250 mm. No print.

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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Brisbane from the Bowen Terrace, 1873

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085A/10
Scope and Contents

390 x 133 mm. A panoramic view looking over a curve in the river, showing mainly residential houses. There is some evidence of industrial growth with two factories visible, and merchant ships moored along the river on the farther bank. The Parliament House can be seen, left of centre, in the distance.

Dates: 1873
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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Brisbane-from Toorak, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085E/27
Scope and Contents

235 x 180 mm. An almost identical photograph to Y3085B/2, but taken nearer to Breakfast Creek, and showing the bridge across the Creek. The extent of building out from Brisbane in the intervening years can be seen.

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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Brisbane from Wickham Terrace, No 1, 1873

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085B/9
Scope and Contents

460 x 175 mm. A panoramic photograph consisting of two prints. A view looking towards the river and showing the side on which most of the building and commerce was taking place.

Dates: 1873
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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Brisbane from Wickham Terrace, No 2, 1873

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085B/10
Scope and Contents

460 x 175 mm. A panoramic photograph which is a continuation of the previous plate. The large street running down towards the river on the left hand photograph is Edward Street, and the Parliament houses can be seen in the middle distance in the right hand print.

Dates: 1873
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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Brisbane River, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/192
Scope and Contents

253 x 197 mm. A view looking along the river outside Brisbane, probably at Milton, with Hill End Point at the left of the picture (compare with Y3085I/11).

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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Brisbane River, Billimba Reach, 1873

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085A/7
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm. A view towards the river, taken from the garden of a private residence.

Dates: 1873
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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Brisbane River, showing Victoria Bridge and shipping, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/3
Scope and Contents

205 x 155 mm. A view looking across the river, with bridge at right, and steam ships moored at wharves.

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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Brisbane; riverside scene with crowd assembled at landing point

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085X
Scope and Contents

245 x 195 mm. This sepia print has Brisbane in pencil on the back, but is otherwise unidentified. The costume suggests a date in the late 1880s.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: 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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Buggy going through a giant fig tree near Atherton, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7574
Scope and Contents

[The split trunk of the giant fig tree makes an arch for the buggy to pass under].

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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Buggy going through a giant fig tree near Atherton, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7575
Scope and Contents

[The split trunk of the giant fig tree makes an arch for the buggy to pass under].

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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Bullocks drawing timber, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/27
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Showing two wagons, loaded with three trunks, pulled by teams of 12 bullocks, with wagonners beside them.

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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Bush Scene, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085E/44
Scope and Contents

265 x 205 mm. The photograph shows a man fishing in a pool in the woods beside a rough wood bridge.

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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Bush school, Petrie's Creek, north coastline, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/8
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Showing the children grouped with their mistress in front of the school house, with a Union Jack flag flying in the yard.

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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Butcher calling for orders, rain after 16 months drought, Mungundi, 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/85
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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

Dates: 1910 - 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).