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Four groups of three identical prints showing Pacific tools and weapons mounted on the wall in the hall of Dunn's house.

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203 x 150 mm. Showing boomerangs and shields mounted on the wall around a window at Roseneath.

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203 x 150 mm. Showing boomerangs and shields mounted on the wall around a window at Roseneath.

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203 x 150 mm. Showing boomerangs and shields mounted on the wall around a window at Roseneath.

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202 x 155mm. Showing Maori, New Caledonian and Australian tools and weapons mounted on the wall. The caption continues:' Maori specimens (illegible word) door to right, New Caledonian (illegible word) over door, Australian stone impliments to left of door'. A slice of 'New Zealand ?boulded green stone' is individually identified by handwriting on the photograph

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202 x 155mm. Showing Maori, New Caledonian and Australian tools and weapons mounted on the wall. The Australian stone impliments are to the left, New Caledonian artefacts above the door, and the Maori artefacts are on the right.

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202 x 155mm. Showing Maori, New Caledonian and Australian tools and weapons mounted on the wall. The Australian stone impliments are to the left, New Caledonian artefacts above the door, and the Maori artefacts are on the right.

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204 x 150 mm. Showing spears and stone tools mounted on the wall at Roseneath.

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204 x 150 mm. Showing spears and stone tools mounted on the wall at Roseneath.

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204 x 150 mm. Showing spears and stone tools mounted on the wall at Roseneath.

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199 x 147 mm. A view looking down Russell Street, with the large market buildings on the right.

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178 x 125 mm. A view looking east along Pall Mall, with the Beehive Buildings at the right, and the Shamrock Hotel a few doors down at the corner of Williamson Street. With horse carriages in the street.

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178 x 126 mm. A view of the street from the east end, looking west and showing the shop fronts of saddlers, shirt-makers, and tailors. Moore Bros. can be seen at the left, and the Beehive Stores can be identified at the other of the street. To the right, at the end of Pall Mall, is the City Hotel.

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183 x 125 mm. A view of the rear of the buildings, which face on to Spring Street. The building was started in 1856 and continued with various delays until 1892 (even then, two sides of the building remained unfaced).

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199 x 145 mm. A view of the Parliament House building from Spring Street. The treasury building can be seen in the distance. The Parliament buildings face down Bourke Street and have an ornate frontage with steps leading up to Doric columns and facings of Mount Difficult stone. Building was started in 1856 and largely completed by the middle of the 1880s.

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187 x 134 mm. A photograph of a model of the Victoria Parliament buildings, complete with dome. This dome was never in fact built.

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388 x 272 mm. A view looking along a path in the Gardens, lined with trees and with statues at intervals.

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288 x 187 mm. (oval print) A view looking along a path in the exhibition hall gardens towards the buildings in the background.

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288 x 235 mm. A view of the large archway and doors at the sastern end, with the central dome beyond.

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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].