203 x 147 mm. A view from across William Street, festooned with telegraph wires, to the mint, a classical building built in the form of a private residence, with the works behind. The road running off to the left is Latrobe Street. The building was designed by the Public Works Office, and the residence and offices fronting the street were completed during 1870.

187 x 148 mm. A view down the street showing various shops, and a church on each side of the road.

200 x 145 mm. A more exact title for this print, which is by N.J. Claire, is ‘Bendigo Flat as seen from Wattle Hill’ and was taken around 1875. See Y3087C/34 for a note on the picture and another print of the same photograph.

179 x 123 mm. A view from a hillside looking over Bendigo (for some years Bendigo and Sandhurst were interchangeable names for the town). Buildings identified in the key are the Jewish Synagogue, Buckley’s Flour Mills, Oddfellows’ Hall, City Town Hall, and the Shamrock Hotel.

180 x 127 mm. A view looking over the town, with the railway station and good sheds in the distance. The street crossing the photograph is Pall Mall, intersecting with Mitchell Street and Bath Corner. Buildings identified in the key include the Post Office, the Warden’s Court, Quarry Hill and the City Hotel.

184 x 134 mm. A view looking along the pier, with a forest of masts on either side with a railway line and freight trucks unloading on to ships.

197 x 147 mm. A woodland scene, with trees and ferns and a small stream in the foreground. With two men sitting on the ground in the background.

179 x 126 mm. A view of the savings’ Bank from the street, a stone building with a façade of square pillars and rounded arches.

189 x 133 mm. A view looking along a creek near Healesville, with scrub and fallen tree trunks in the foreground and woodland beyond.

188 x 134 mm. A view looking over Studley Park from a hillside, with the River Yarra in the foreground. Studley Park is about two miles distant from Melbourne. On the right hand side of the picture may be seen the Johnson-Street new Bridge. The left-hand side of the picture shows a portion of the Abbotsford Convent grounds.

211 x 151 mm. A view looking down river, with woods on either bank.

234 x 289 mm. A view showing an ornate pavilion advertising ‘Wertheim’s Machines’, with sewing machines and cutlery on display.

288 x 235 mm. A view of paintings on the wall of the gallery, with a statue in the foreground.

288 x 234 mm. A view showing various exhibits in the New Zealand Court, with pictures and photographs at the right and rock specimens and biscuit samples in the centre.

188 x 134 mm. A view looking along a shrub-lined path in the gardens with the central lake visible in the centre of the photograph. Taken from the hill on the South Yarra side of the gardens, the Government Domain can be seen in the distance with Government House (completed 1876) on the skyline.

187 x 133 mm. A view from a hill near Rourkes’ Bridge on the Healesville Road looking across the River Yarra, past a recently made clearing on the far side and towards a newly constructed Government road: Corranderrk is the local habitation of the Natives of this district, and is situated on the right hand side of the picture, about a mile and a half from the roadway.

190 x 133 mm. A view from a hillside looking out over dense forest, with a settler’s small hut and cleared space in the foreground.

188 x 134 mm. A view looking along the Yarra as it passes through woodland, its course partially impeded by fallen trees. In the background a homestead can be seen beside the river.

198 x 143 mm. A view looking along the river, with trees and woodland on either side.

186 x 134 mm. A view looking over flooded woodland beside the River Campaspe near Echuca.

178 x 124 mm. A view showing small residential buildings in the foreground, with more sparsely populated ground beyond, and with the Free Methodist Church in the middle distance. The text below the photograph reads ‘This view represents the locality of the Back Creek gold diggings, and though at present almost deserted, was once a scene of activity; in consequence of the rich patches of alluvial ground it contained’.

289 x 233 mm.

196 x 134 mm. A view showing a group of selectors posing with tools and implements: saws, axes and spades. Behind them stands the beginnings of a rough wooden cabin.

198 x 146 mm. A view showing a small wooden cabin in a clearing surrounded by thick forest, with four settlers posing for the camera.

179 x 125 mm. A view of the hotel, a sizeable stone building with iron-work verandahs which stands at the junction of Pall Mall and Williamson Street. With several pony traps parked outside.