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289 x 233 mm. A view of a section of the Austrian Court showing ornate sculptures and chinaware.

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288 x 235 mm. A view looking along the stands, which are piled high with decorated glass and chinaware.

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Print at RCMS 353/2/136.

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197 x 146 mm. An aerial view taken from the top of a building, and looking down at the intersection between Sturt Street and Lydiard Street, with town and country visible beyond. The large building with the tower at the corner of the two streets is the Post Office, built in 1864.

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202 x 148 mm. A view from a hill of mined rubble, looking towards the neat wooden buildings of the mine.

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180 x 127 mm. A view of the crushing machines, complete with water sluices which separate the crushed rock from the gold. Explanation on mount reads ‘The reduction of quartz by stampers, is the only method at present adopted on the Gold Fields of Bendigo. The most extensive plants, being those at Koch’s Pioneer Claim, Long Gully; The Extended Hustler’s; also the Garden Gully United; and the Abe Lincoln Crushing Plant, New Chum Gully’.

Scope and Contents 'Political sketches by B.B no. 3'. The cartoon dates from around the same period as RCMS 278/65/1, and may be by Benjamin Bailey, an obscure printer of the time. It satirises the agitation by residents of the Port Phillip District (now Victoria) for separation from New South Wales. New South Wales is depicted as a convict crone, with Hyde Park barracks in the background. The figures on the left are three of the six representatives of Port Phillip on the N.S.W. Legislative Council. Two...

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189 x 133 mm. Showing a curve in the River Watt in the valley between Mount Juliet and Mount Monda with fern and other trees on either bank.

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180 x 124 mm. A view looking over a former goldfield, with excavated land in the foreground, and small domestic houses beyond. The text beneath the picture reads ‘This flat twenty years since, was a busy scene with its thousands of diggers, breaking the native soil in search of gold. The canvas tents then used have long since given place to the more solid and comfortable domiciles constructed of wood and bricks’. A better print of the same photograph occurs in Y308A/76.

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154 x 170 mm. Mounted photograph. Shows cubes of various sizes representing the relative outputs of different mines. The fronts of the cubes have printed on them information about size, dividends and value. A printed caption stuck beneath the photograph states: 'The above 27 companies represent a paid-up capital of £437,631. Value for gold produced, £6,132,544. Dividends paid, £3,131,355. Approximate value of the 27 mines and machinery, £2,000,000.

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148 x 194 mm. A view looking along Pall Mall in Bendigo, with its broad tree-lined pavement. In fact only a small corner of the Law Courts can be seen. The main building in the picture, with the clocktower, is the Bendigo Post Office opened in 1887.

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202 x 150 mm. A rather dark print showing the front façade of the building; various wings were still being added in 1887.

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100 x 138 mm. A view showing the figures from Y308A/43-44 grouped at the base of a large tree. A dead snake is draped over a milepost which shows Mt Arnold to be three miles distant.

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203 x 149 mm. A view of a billabong, with a bridge crossing it in the background. Billabong is an Aboriginal Australian term for stretches of water or pools, issuing off from the main river and appearing mainly in times of flooding or heavy rain.

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175 receipted bills from Harrow, Oxford and Melbourne, settled by his father H.C.E. Childers

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211 x 158 mm. A view looking down from the tower, presumably of the Federal Bank, towards the harbour, which can be glimpsed in the distance. Government House, in the Domain, can be seen at the left in the distance.

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213 x 154 mm. A view showing a clearing and camp fire, around which are gathered a group of Aboriginal Australians in European dress, watching a man on the left prepare to throw a boomerang.

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187 x 138 mm. A view of a section of the Botanical Gardens, with a top-hatted man in the foreground, and Government House on the skyline on the hill beyond. Photograph by Chuck.

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202 x 132 mm. A view in the gardens, looking across the lake towards woodland.

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203 x 154 mm. A view looking across a lake in the gardens, with Government House visible above the treeline on the opposite bank. The Botanical Gardens are situated on the slopes of a gully leading down to the Yarra River, near the grounds of Government House. They came into existence in 1846, when John Arthur, the first superintendent laid out a five acre paddock.

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178 x 124 mm. A view of a section of the Botanical Gardens, with buildings and greenhouses in the background. The text below the picture reads ‘These public gardens were first promoted by the Sandhurst Corporation in the year 1865. They cover an area of about 30 acres, and contain many choice and rare plants. The public are admitted every day in the week, from the hours of sunrise to sunset. Mr. Gadd is the curator and resides in the gardens.

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202 x 147 mm. A view looking along Bourke Street, with pedestrians, pony-traps and trams on the road. The Post Office clock tower can be seen at the junction of Bourke Street with Elizabeth Street.

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198 x 148 mm. A view showing the busy shopping street, with trams and numerous horse-drawn vehicles.

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183 x 129 mm. A view along Bourke Street towards Spring Street with shops with covered porches on each side and horse cabs on the road. On the left can be seen the Post Office at the junction between Elizabeth and Bourke Streets.

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A boxing match.