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123 x 94 mm. A view showing the entrance to the Rock Hole (filled with water), with a man and two tethered camels in the foreground. Photograph by H.W.B. Talbot. Negative No. 577.

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152 x 107 mm. A view showing the curving western end Lake Violet in the Wiluna District. On the horizon in the distance can be seen the buildings of the Gwalia Consolidated Mine. Photograph by C.G. Gibson. Negative No. 377.

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152 x 107 mm. A view showing prospectors standing beside the well at the Waterfall Gold Mine. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 48.

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152 x 107 mm. A view showing the riverbed of the Ponton River, with a thin trickle of water at the centre of its course and bushes on the far bank. Two pack camels stand at the left of the print. Photograph by C.G. Gibson. Negative No. 474.

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152 x 107 mm. A view looking across the Chapman River towards the further wooded bank. The photograph, taken near the mouth of the Chapman River, shows the riverbed in the foreground and a bank of foraminiferal limestone on the far side. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 60.

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152 x 107 mm. A view looking across scrubland towards a small rocky hill. In the middleground a man is seated in a pony-trap. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 56.

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142 x 102 mm. A view at sunset looking over Sunday Island Bay from the now abandoned Sunday Island Mission. The mission cutter 'Rita' is moored near the beach in the foreground. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 453.

Scope and Contents A collection of fourteen prints mounted on board, with printed captions, most prints measuring 270 x 220 mm. Photographer unknown. Beneath each photograph is printed 'Surveyor General's Office, Adelaide. A. Vaughan. Photo-Lithographer.' Vaughan became photo lithographer for the Survey Department in 1892 and although it is unlikely that he was also the photographer it indicates that the work was done on behalf of a Government department. Possibly Lindt was the photographer.The...

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205 x 150 mm. Showing mill in background with piles of timber in front.

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205 x 150 mm. A view from a hill above, showing the farm buildings in the foreground with orchards beyond.

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117 x 89 mm. A view showing an eroded granite rock among grassland in the Laverton area. Photograph by C.G. Gibson. Negative No. 245.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These files include annual reports, accompanied in some cases by explanatory letters, reports of annual general meetings, statements of accounts and other papers.

Scope and Contents From the Series: By the end of the nineteenth century, the society had established a large non-resident membership in the overseas empire and within the United Kingdom among those not living in the London area. At first a network of honorary corresponding secretaries was formed to manage the society's affairs outside London. In 1910 it authorised the establishment of local branches to increase membership and extend the scope of its activities. The first UK branch was formed in Bristol in 1913 and the first...

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205 x 145 mm. View across a huge field, high with wheat, with a man standing among shoulder high crop.

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155 x 200 mm. Showing wheat sacks piled 20 high, with a railway line for loading to one side, and workers posing for photographer.

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205 x 150 mm. Showing hundreds of sacks of wheat piled in front of the Customs House.

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152 x 108 mm. A view showing a hillside covered in (?) everlasting daisies, probably taken at the same time as plate 38. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. A.

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152 x 108 mm. A similar view to plate 31. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. B.

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152 x 107 mm. A view showing (?) everlasting daisies growing on hillside, with Kings Mount, Sugarloaf Peak and Razorback Mount in the far distance. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 26.

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200 x 145 mm. Showing an orchard of apple trees, with man holding a child in right foreground, (probably J Wheatley).

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200 x 145 mm. A close-up of a small pile of apples.

Scope and Contents This is a semi-autobiographical memoir recording how Helen Shaw’s parents travelled to Malaya in September 1940 during the Second World War, where her father, Dr William D. Ainslie, took up the post of Medical Officer of Health, Penang. Shaw was born in May 1941. She recounts how she and her mother Marcia Margaret Ainslie were evacuated from Penang to Singapore, and then Java, after Penang was bombed by the Japanese in December 1941; their travel from Java to Western Australia in January...

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42 page memoir.

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200 x 150 mm. A general view over the town, with cultivated plots between many of the houses. York lies about 60 miles east of Perth.