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289 x 233 mm.

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200 x 147 mm. A view looking down on groups of men and women on the Terrace, with rows of horse carriages standing beyond.

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205 x 155 mm. A view looking along the Royal Arcade, with shops on either side. The arcade runs from Bourke Street through to Collins Street and was built in 1869-70.

Scope and Contents 179 x 124 mm. A view of the front façade of the building, a large construction in Ionic style, with central pillars and a pediment. The patients and staff pose in front of the building. The text beneath the photograph reads ‘This noble Institution is provided for 100 adults and 150 children. Out-door aid is afforded to 220 families weekly. The average expenditure is £9,000 per annum. The cost of its erection is estimated at £20,000. The Hon. J.F. Sullivan, M.L.A. was the first President. The...

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178 x 125 mm. A view up the main drive towards the front entrance of the building from Lucan St, which consists of two wings connected by a central portion. The building was completed in 1859, and in 1891 ‘next to the Melbourne Hospital the institution accommodates a larger number of patients and gives a greater amount of outdoor relief than any hospital in the colony’.

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181 x 128 mm. A view from outside the grounds of the asylum, a large attractive building with something of the look of a country house. With two horse cabs outside the gate.

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201 x 154 mm. A view across a (man made?) lake towards a hill created from goldmining excavations, with mine buildings in the background.

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200 x 147 mm. A view looking across cleared land to the Cathedral Mountains in the distance.

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178 x 123 mm. An exterior view of the hotel, a narrow stone building with iron-work verandahs on the first floor. A horse carriage stands in front of the hotel which was built in 1872, at the height of the Bendigo building boom, and is situated at Charing Cross, just beyond Pall Mall.

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A paper read to the Royal Colonial Institute, 17 November 1896.

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210 x 159 mm. A view among dense woodland, presumably showing the entrance to a cave or gorge, although this is impossible to discern.

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Landscape format. [Showing scouts sitting under tent for shade].

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Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.

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201 x 150 mm. A view along the track, with stands in the distance.

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201 x 151 mm. A view from high ground, looking across hilly wooded land, with the river in the foreground. The land around the river has been partially cleared and cultivated, with many leafless trees showing evidence of ‘ringbarking’.

Scope and Contents 178 x 126 mm. A view showing the office, the battery house and the main shaft of the mine. Text below the photograph reads ‘This famous Quartz Claim covers an area of 24 acres, and has six shafts, which represent 4000 feet of sinking; there are no less than 13 levels and 16 crosscuts, giving a total of 12,000 feet in length. The total amount expended in labour by this company is £228,000. The quartz raised amounts to 114,500 tons, and it has yielded 188, 000 ozs of gold. The amount paid in...

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197 x 140 mm. A view of this large willow tree, with the river beyond. The handwritten caption also states ‘grown from cutting taken from Napoleon’s first grove, St Helena’.

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Landscape format.

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Landscape format.

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155 x 208 mm. A view of the falls, which drop in woodland among boulders and ferns.

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200 x 145 mm. A view of the racecourse paddock, with crowded stands in the background, and smartly dressed women with parasols sitting in the foreground.

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199 x 146 mm. A view looking down on the mine, with workings extending into the hillside behind. The Long Tunnel Mine opened in 1865 and proved to be the most productive of Victorian mines: over 815,000 oz. of gold were recovered in the 50 years of its existence.

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194 x 127 mm. A view from the roof of a nearby building looking over Lonsdale Street to the complex of hospital buildings. The first hospital opened on this site in 1848 had only 22 beds and further buildings were added in the following years. The whole hospital was rebuilt in 1910.

Scope and Contents 177 x 123 mm. An exterior view of the hall, situated in View Street, showing the six Corinthian pillars of the façade, with figures leaning against them posing for the camera. The text beneath the picture reads ‘This magnificent building was erected in 1874, at the cost of £10,000, and contains a fine hall, measuring 95x 45 feet, capable of seating 1,100 persons. A Lodge Room 55 x 32 ft, 6 additional rooms for Masonic purposes, and a suite of 13 rooms in addition (including club, billiard,...

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[No print]. Missing.