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290 x 234 mm. A view looking over the lake in Carlton Gardens towards the building with its huge central dome. Designed by the architects Reed and Barnes, it covered over 20 acres together with the temporary annexes. One of the triumphs of the building, and of the exhibition, was an electricity generator which cost £60,000 to install.

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287 x 235 mm. A view looking along the hall, which is set out with chairs, towards the wall where the organ stands. With flags of different nations hanging above the nave and countries’ exhibits leading off from the sides.

Scope and Contents An album containing forty-three mounted photographs, uncaptioned and measuring approximately 145 x 110 mm. This family album shows scenes mostly at unidentifiable locations in the Melbourne area.A sizeable number of these photographs appear to have been taken in the Botanical Gardens, but this is the only location that can be identified with any certainty. The rest of the prints show small family groups in private houses or gardens without well-known landmarks visible. It is...

Scope and Contents An album containing eighty-four prints, mounted two to a page, and measuring approximately 200 x 145 mm. All prints have handwritten copperplate captions, and most of the older photographs have the embossed stamp in one corner of the photographers Norrie and Sutcliffe of Melbourne. The prints show scenes in Melbourne and other Victorian towns, notably Walhalla and Ballarat, and various country scenes. Victoria, only legally constituted a colony in 1851, saw a furious growth in...

Scope and Contents A portfolio containing five mounted prints of various sizes with descriptive letterpress by Marcus Clarke on separate sheets. The portfolio has been discarded due to flood damage. An advertisement on the portfolio cover reads: 'With a view to furnishing the public with photographic copies of the best pictures in the Melbourne National Gallery, the Trustees decided on entrusting the task of reproducing them, under the supervision of M. Eugene Von Guerard, to a competent photographic...

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Landscape format. Just inside the Heads, near Port Melbourne. [Seascape].

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A portrait of William Haines 'from a daguerreotype by T.A. Hill' and a description of his life in public service. The page is undated, but refers to Haines occupying the Legislative Assembly seat for South Grant in the new Parliament, which he held 1856-1858.

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181 x 131 mm. A view of the Post Office, which stands at the junction of Elizabeth and Bourke Street. Built between 1859-1867, the building is seen here without the third storey and enlarged clocktower which were completed in 1889.

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204 x 142 mm. A view of the iron bridge, set on stone supports, which was built in 1888. The St. Kilda Road crosses the bridge which is situated just to the west of the Domain and the Botanical Gardens. This photograph is taken from Alexandra Gardens looking across the bridge to the north side of the city.

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201 x 127 mm. A view looking towards Spring Street, on which the theatre and hotel are built. This extravagant theatre was completed in 1887.

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202 x 180 mm. A view of the theatre from the other side of Spring Street. The building, a mixture of styles and decorations, was designed by William Pitt, and was built in 1886-7, including such attractions as electric lighting and a roll-back ventilating roof.

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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.

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183 x 130 mm. A view from across Swanston Street showing the front of the Library. For other photographs, and a brief history of the building, see Y3087D/16 and Y3087/G1-9.

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Landscape format. In front is seen the rock with a buoy on it marking the spot where the Himalaya was wrecked.

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188 x 144 mm. A view of the quartz crushing machines, with the watersluices in the foreground which separate the crushed rock from the gold. The photograph is in fact taken in Bendigo by N.J. Caire and also occurs in Y3087/C5.

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...

Scope and Contents 390 x 275 mm. A view looking over central Melbourne with the junction of Queen Street and Lonsdale Street in the foreground. The two most prominently identifiable buildings are the Post office (at the junction of Elizabeth and Bourke Streets in the centre of the print) and the Town Hall (at the junction of Swanston and Collins Streets, behind and to the right of the Post Office). Scaffolding can still be seen on the lower sections of the Post Office building, whose foundation was laid by...

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204 x 148 mm. A view of the business centre of Melbourne, with offices along the street and a factory in the distance. With a row of horse cabs in the centre of the street awaiting customers.

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184 x 129 mm. A view looking along the wharf showing steam and sailing ships moored in the harbour. The wharf itself is a busy scene, with workers either posing for the camera or operating a crane on the jetty.

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183 x 129 mm. A view of a different section of the wharf showing the end of a jetty in the foreground, with steam and sailing ships moored in the harbour beyond.

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Landscape format. The Quarantine Station: from the Omrah. [Queenscliff hardly visible].

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Landscape format. [A distant view].

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290 x 231 mm. A view showing fishing and agricultural produce from Queensland, with a pyramid built of oyster shells in the foreground.

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199 x 147 mm. A view looking along a wharf, on both sides of which steamers and sailing ships are moored, with a railway line along the pier. Williamstown is at the extremity of a curving spit of land which forms the Western Half of Hobson’s Bay and extends out into Port Phillip.

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The Royal Visit issue (No. 146, December 1953/January 1954) of the pamphlet of the Royal Empire Society's Victorian Branch.