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

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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289 x 233 mm.

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

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40 miles from Melbourne.

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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.

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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.'

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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.

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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).

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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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365 x 265 mm. No print.

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Painted view of early Melbourne. Reprinted by the Grown Lands Dep. Melbourne, March 1881. Drawn by J. Adamson. Engraved by J. Carmichael for R. Clini.