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Victoria (state)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 467 Collections and/or Records:

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Jebb’s Pool, Loutit Bay, 1888 - 1889

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/67
Scope and Contents

198 x 142 mm. A view showing a small cascade on a woodland river, with dense vegetation either bank.

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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John Girdwood J.P., Commissioner for Lancashire Court, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/30
Scope and Contents

100 x 125 mm. A portrait of the Commissioner, formally dressed with a top hat, standing outside his office. With large fern trees hanging on either side.

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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[Junction of Gisborne Street and Parliament Place], 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/13
Scope and Contents

389 x 271 mm. A view looking down on the junction of these two streets with a large unidentified building in the foreground, presumably Government offices of some kind (the State Public Offices).

Dates: 1870
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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Junction of River Watt and Cavie’s Creek, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/60
Scope and Contents

205 x 159 mm. A view showing the meeting of these two small rivers, with two men sitting on a fallen tree which spans one of the rivers.

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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Junction of the River Watt and Contentment Creek, 1877 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087L/1
Scope and Contents

187 x 132 mm. A view looking across the narrow river towards woodland and a path on the further bank which leads to the summit of Mount Munda. The photograph was taken ‘about two miles to the westward of Fernshawe, a small but extremely romantic township’. An indistinct figure can be seen beside the creek, partially obscured by ferns.

Dates: 1877 - 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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Junction of the Rivers Yarra and Watt, near Healesville, 1877 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087L/3
Scope and Contents

188 x 132 mm. A view looking towards the junction of the two rivers, with a wooden bridge in the background: The junction is situated about 3 miles from Healesville, and 35 miles from the mouth of the Yarra.

Dates: 1877 - 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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Keppel’s Hotel, Marysville, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/41
Scope and Contents

118 x 85 mm. A view of the small, wood built hotel, with men and women posing for the camera on the verandah, and a stage coach standing in front of the building.

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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Killing a Diamond Snake, Heale’s Villa, 1885 - 1891

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/84
Scope and Contents

203 x 148 mm. A view looking along a country road, with a man in the foreground with a raised stick, about to strike a snake.

Dates: 1885 - 1891
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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Kitchen & Co., Stearine exhibit, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087A/12
Scope and Contents

289 x 233 mm.

Dates: 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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Kock’s Pioneer Quartz Crushing Plant, Long Gully, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/31
Scope and Contents

178 x 124 mm. A view of mining works, showing the Perseverance United Claim, with Windmill Hill in the distance.

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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'Launching Place' - a summer resort on the Yarra, 1909-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6526
Scope and Contents

40 miles from Melbourne.

Dates: 1909-12
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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Law Courts, Melbourne, 1885 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/4
Scope and Contents

204 x 150 mm. A view from the junction of William Street and Lonsdale Street showing the large court building, surmounted by a dome at the Lonsdale Street end. The building was designed by the architects Smith and Johnson, and built between the years 1877-1882. See also Y308A/10.

Dates: 1885 - 1901
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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Left-hand branch, Walhalla, 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087H/2
Scope and Contents

138 x 206 mm. A view from the hillside above the town, with houses along the valley floor, and steep hills rising on either side. The handwritten caption reads: 'View of Walhalla showing how most of the houses are close to the street which follows the valley and is about 1.5 miles long - Dr's house is half way.'

Dates: 1913
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).
 Fonds

Leslie James Wilmoth, 'John Gardiner: pioneer and overlander'

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 284
Scope and Contents Comprises a typescript biography completed in 1936, and revised c. 1960 with the addition of supplementary inserts and photographs. 292 pp., with six portrait photographs inserted. The supplementary information, now housed in an accompanying file consists of: photograph of Gardiner memorial plaque at Hawthorn, with a descriptive note; list of ships passing between Van Dieman's Land [Tasmania] and the Port Phillip settlement in 1835-6 compiled by Wilmoth from the Launceston Advertiser; copy...
Dates: 1936 - 1960
 Sub-Fonds

Letter from John Fawkner to Alexander Simen, 1836 - 1945

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/39
Scope and Contents

Two copies of a letter written from Port Phillip, 2 May 1836, discussing the foundation of the settlement at Melbourne in 1803 and its bright prospects. The collection comprises a manuscript copy (7 pages), which may be contemporary, and an undated typescript duplicate (4 pages). There are two accompanying pieces of correspondence, 1945-1946, regarding the gift of the manuscript copy to the R.C.S.

Dates: 1836 - 1945
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).
 File

Letters from Rowland Childers, 1878 - 1886

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37/18/1-26
Scope and Contents

Letters from Rowland Childers to H.C.E. Childers from Australia, 1878-80, 1884-6, including draft and copy replies (5, 6, 13, 14, 24); letter from Rowland to J.H. Were, 1880 (19); map of the Yanko station, Jerilderie, N.S.W., 1880 (21); ? Macartney, son of the Dean of Melbourne to Rowland Childers, 1886 (26).

Dates: 1878 - 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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Letters to H.C.E. Childers, 1878 - 1880

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37/18/27-64
Scope and Contents Letters to Childers from Bank of S. Australia (27), Sir George Bowen, Gov. of Victoria (28-9), Charles Heneage, 1878-80 (30-57, with draft replies); enclosed are copy letters from Rowland Childers and Charles Heneage to Sir George Verden and from Sir George to Rowland, 1879 (32-6), letters from Childers to Rowland, 1878 (45), Rowland to Heneage, 1878, J.H. Angus to Heneage, with reply, 1878 (50-1), William H. Charnock to Rowland Childers (52), Rowland to H.C.E. Childers, 1880 (55); letters...
Dates: 1878 - 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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Library, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/12
Scope and Contents

200 x 154 mm. A view from Swanston Street showing the front façade of the building. The library, opened in 1856 with a classical pillared exterior, also houses the Art Gallery and Museum.

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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Lunatic Asylum [historic title], 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/128
Scope and Contents

187 x 135 mm. A view looking across the Yarra, towards a hill on top of which stands the asylum, a long low building with a tower each side of the central entrance.

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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[Lutheran Church], 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/12
Scope and Contents

387 x 274 mm. A view looking across Gisborne Street towards the Lutheran Church which looks on to Parliament Place. With the Fitzroy Gardens in the background.

Dates: 1870
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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Lydiard St, Ballarat, 1885 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/53
Scope and Contents

196 x 147 mm. A view looking down Lydiard Street, towards Sturt Street and beyond, with the Post Office beyond the junction on the right.

Dates: 1885 - 1901
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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Main St, Walhalla, 1885 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/58
Scope and Contents

147 x 198 mm. A view of the main street with children standing on the pavement, and houses and a small church on the hillside beyond. Walhalla was a township running along a narrow valley floor, with steep hills on either side.

Dates: 1885 - 1901
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).
 Sub-Fonds

'Melbourne' and 'Geelong' deeds, 1935

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/34
Scope and Contents

Copies of two manuscript deeds drawn up by J.T. Gellibrand, signed between John Batman and eight local chiefs on 6 June 1835. The deeds, the originals of which are in the Public Library of Victoria, granted Batman land covering the sites of Melbourne and Geelong, but were later held to be legally invalid. They have been mounted in plastic sleeves.

Dates: 1935
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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Melbourne Exhibition, 1885 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/9
Scope and Contents

203 x 145 mm. A view inside the Exhibition Hall, showing the decorated and painted walls, with a large organ at the far end, and chairs and a gallery beneath.

Dates: 1885 - 1901
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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Melbourne from South Yarra (from Fairlie House), 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/7659
Scope and Contents

365 x 265 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).