[Among rocks].

198 x 146 mm. A view of the beach, with families paddling and swimming. Brighton a southern suburb of Melbourne, lies on the coast on the eastern side of Port Phillip.

289 x 233 mm.

289 x 233 mm.

289 x 233 mm.

289 x 233 mm.

289 x 233 mm.

205 x 159 mm. A view from cleared land, looking over woodland to the mountains in the distance. This range lies about 150 miles NE of Melbourne, and the area is now a National Park.

Landscape format. [Distant view from the ship].

119 x 183 mm. A view of the bronze statue of the two explorers which stands on a bronze pedestal at the top of Collins Street, Melbourne.

196 x 147 mm. A view in the bush showing two men standing beside an anvil in a clearing, with tools and a crude shack behind them.

194 x 150 mm. A view showing two tents in a clearing, with five men posing for the camera.

202 x 137 mm A view showing a posed group of Aboriginal Australians (in European clothes) sitting and standing by their camp fire, and holding spears and boomerangs. Photographer possibly Charles Bayliss (Y308A/90).

187 x 132 mm. A view looking towards a meeting of paths in the gardens, with various pieces of statuary placed among the shrubs and trees. The gardens, situated to the east of the city centre, were the creation of James Sinclair who had earlier planned the Czar’s gardens at St Petersburg. Sinclair arrived in Melbourne in 1854 and in 1857 was appointed Curator of the land which was to become the Fitzroy Gardens.

118 x 184 mm. A rear view, showing the hull and twin screws of the ship in dry dock. ‘Cerberus’ was a turret ironclad with 4 18-ton muzzle loading guns, designed for harbour defence. She arrived in Port Phillip in 1871 (partly financed by the British Government), and was finally sunk in 1926 to form a breakwater at Black Rock in Port Phillip Harbour. For some years she was the most powerful ship in the southern hemisphere.

289 x 234 mm. A view of the crowded Ceylon Court, showing a miscellany of products ranging from tea, coconut matting and statues, to a model rickshaw and an elephant’s skull.

204 x 160 mm. A good view of a sawmill, with a bullock team, workers, and sawn wood in front of the sawmill, and a small settlement of wooden cabins among the trees behind.

[No print]. Missing.

Landscape format.

[No print]. Missing.

183 x 130 mm. A view looking up towards the front of the building situated off Domain Road near St Kilda Road in South Yarra. Designed by Webb and Taylor, building started in 1856. This photograph was taken before 1876, when the building was extended, and a central tower added.

197 x 127 mm. A view taken from the junction of William Street and Lonsdale Street showing the Law Courts in the final stages of completion, with just some minor work continuing in Lonsdale Street. This would date this photograph to around 1882, when the buildings were completed.

200 x 151 mm. A view showing woodland clearing with four men operating a hand-powered coal drill.

204 x 146 mm. A rather dark print, looking along Collins Street, with trams and carts.

198 x 146 mm. A view along the street showing various business premises, with a tram in the roadway. The domed tower in the distance belongs to the Federal Coffee Palace (see Y3087D/7).