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Showing a steam locomotive, with freight trucks loaded with bales of wool, and with railway workers standing in front of the train.

Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 7455-7491; 7334-7344 and 7494-7634. Added numbers are: 7519A-7528A; spoiled: 7484-7486, 7525, 7562, 7611-7614, 7621 and 7626; not used: 7459-7460, 7463, 7526-7528, 7336, 7340, 7543-7544; missing: 7455-7456, 7458, 7462, 7464, 7471, 7473, 7476, 7480, 7489, 7334-7335, 7337-7339, 7341, 7533, 7535-7537, 7540-7541, 7547, 7550, 7560-7561, 7570, 7585, 7608, 7618, 7620, 7624, 7631. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order...

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An interior view of a large warehouse filled with sacks of different grades of wool.

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195 x 150 mm. A view of a warehouse interior, showing long lines of sacks overflowing with various types of wool. Negative number 2620.

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75 x 52 mm. A view showing wind pumps, ploughs and other pieces of agricultural machinery being inspected by visitors to the show.

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285 x 230 mm. A view looking down Argyle Street and through the Cut, a passage cut through solid rock in the 1840s by convict labour. Made to give access from the Circular Quay to Millers Point and at the time of its construction was Sydney's Chinatown.

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A three-quarter front view from the road of this fine building, designed by Vernon in the 1880's in Renaissance style.

Scope and Contents There are 21 pencil and watercolour sketches of birds, some crudely finished, six of which are endorsed 'drawn from nature by R. Read Snr.' and dated 1820. In February 1963 Dr Averill Lysaght asserted that at least some of the pictures were copied, or even traced, from Latham's 'General synopsis of birds' (see Lysaght's letter in RCMS 296/3). The remaining pieces include pencil drawings of fruit; capitals and entablatures; a scene from the 'Iliad'; a seated nude man; and a coastal scene,...

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A view showing three men in a pony-trap on a Sydney wharf with W.D. (see originator details in the Fonds Level entry for this collection) sitting in the centre.

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A view showing St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral, with the Frazer Fountain partially visible at the left.

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A view looking across wharf facilities with the 'only Australian built steamer' (pencilled on mount) at her moorings.

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A view looking along the northern shore of the harbour with a small lighthouse in the foreground.

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A view showing the small island of Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour.

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A view showing four naval officers in a launch in Sydney Harbour, with W.D. at the right (see originator details in the Fonds Level entry for this collection).

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A view looking along the sandy beach with a headland in the distance.

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A view looking down onto a bay from a hillside, with houses on the slope.

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A view from the wharf showing the S.S. Indraghiri at her moorings, with a horse and cart in the foreground.

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A more distant view of the 'Indraghiri' from the wharf.

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A view looking down on the Port Hacking River with wooded hills on both banks.

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A view showing a boat and a punt ferry moored to wooden jetties, probably at the National Park Camp at Audley.

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A scene on the Port Hacking River with trees in the foreground and on the farther bank.

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A view looking towards a wooden bridge over the river, probably near Port Hacking.

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A view showing a horse drawn coach in the park.

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A view looking across the Port Hacking River towards a long barn on the far bank.

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A view showing an unidentified party of five men and women strolling in the park.