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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Landscape format. Just inside the Heads, near Port Melbourne. [Seascape].

A portrait of William Haines 'from a daguerreotype by T.A. Hill' and a description of his life in public service. The page is undated, but refers to Haines occupying the Legislative Assembly seat for South Grant in the new Parliament, which he held 1856-1858.

181 x 131 mm. A view of the Post Office, which stands at the junction of Elizabeth and Bourke Street. Built between 1859-1867, the building is seen here without the third storey and enlarged clocktower which were completed in 1889.

204 x 142 mm. A view of the iron bridge, set on stone supports, which was built in 1888. The St. Kilda Road crosses the bridge which is situated just to the west of the Domain and the Botanical Gardens. This photograph is taken from Alexandra Gardens looking across the bridge to the north side of the city.

201 x 127 mm. A view looking towards Spring Street, on which the theatre and hotel are built. This extravagant theatre was completed in 1887.

202 x 180 mm. A view of the theatre from the other side of Spring Street. The building, a mixture of styles and decorations, was designed by William Pitt, and was built in 1886-7, including such attractions as electric lighting and a roll-back ventilating roof.

Programmes, guides, journals and one map relating to the Royal Visits to Jamaica, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Malta and Gibraltar. There is also a report of Barclays Bank D.C.O. Much of the material relates to the tour of Australia.

183 x 130 mm. A view from across Swanston Street showing the front of the Library. For other photographs, and a brief history of the building, see Y3087D/16 and Y3087/G1-9.

Landscape format. In front is seen the rock with a buoy on it marking the spot where the Himalaya was wrecked.

188 x 144 mm. A view of the quartz crushing machines, with the watersluices in the foreground which separate the crushed rock from the gold. The photograph is in fact taken in Bendigo by N.J. Caire and also occurs in Y3087/C5.