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200 x 149 mm. A photograph showing a group of Aboriginal Australians (in European dress) with two hunting dogs, holding spears and standing in front of wooden cabins, with the river in the background.

Scope and Contents 186 x 129 mm. A view looking down on several mine-workings, with tall brick chimneys dotted over the landscape. The different holdings are identified in the key as The Hustler’s Tribute Company, The Great Extended Hustler’s Claim, Great Hustler’s Claim (late Latham and Watson’s), and the Old Hustler’s Claim. The mines represent some of the most productive mines in Bendigo (Hustler, the original owner of the mines died, true to tradition, without a shilling) and in 1875 the Hustler’s mine...

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205 x 149 mm. A view in the gardens, with city buildings on the skyline. The ‘improvement in the Yarra’ refers, presumably, to the deepening and straightening of the course of the river in 1888 which gave an extension to the garden area.

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288 x 236 mm. A view of the interior of the Indian Court, with carpets and rugs hanging from the ceiling, and with china and other goods on tables and in display cases.

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288 x 235 mm. A view showing display cases filled with vases and with Japanese flags hanging above.

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292 x 236 mm. A view showing various types of wood and animal skins in the Queensland section

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199 x 146 mm. A view looking down the nave from the altar, with choir stalls to left and right.

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126 x 128 mm. A view looking along the pews towards the altar and organ. (See Y3087C/15 for an exterior view of the church).

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140 x 100 mm. A view of the ornate office interior, with hangings, curtains, statues and pictures.

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140 x 100 mm. A view of the other side of the office, showing tables and chairs and the other half of the picture visible in Y308A/31.

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A blank invitation from the Government of Victoria to the Royal Dinner, 27 February 1954.

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A blank invitation from the Government of Victoria to a state reception, 8 March 1954, in honour of the Royal Visitors.

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289 x 232 mm. A view showing statues at the entrance to the Italian Court, with display cases and stands behind.

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291 x 234 mm. A view showing a row of statues in the Italian Court.

Scope and Contents 170 x 118 mm. A view showing the front of the building on Pall Mall, with a large group of people posing in front of the store. This photograph is on a different mount to the rest of the portfolio and has no captions apart from ‘N.J. Claire, Photo, View Street, Sandhurst’. It was presumably taken to celebrate the opening of the new Beehive. The old Beehive stores, which Buick and Co. had shared with Moore Bros, was burnt down in August 1871. The new building, pictured here, was completed in...

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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.