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275 x 225 mm. A view of the gutted base of one of the larger towers, exact location uncertain.

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275 x 225 mm. A view of the stairway and entrance, with part of the wall of the gutted tower still standing and a small bronze statue at the corner of the building. This entrance is the one nearest Macquarie Street.

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275 x 225 mm. A view of the stairway and entrance nearest Macquarie Street.

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281 x 197 mm. View looking towards whitewashed factory buildings. The proprietor's name is written on the end façade of the building but is largely faded and only tentatively identified as the premises of S. Zollner.

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202 x 155 mm. A view in the harbour, showing sailing boats racing.

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A view of sailing boats in the harbour.

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A view showing sailing boats near the entrance to the harbour, with a steamer in the background, and the cliffs of North Head in the distance.

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[Three sailing ships, only one on sails and steam boat passing by].

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: Fifty-three undated watercolours intended as bookmarks, each 200 x 45 mm in size, sold by John Sands of Sydney as indicated by stickers pasted onto the reverse. The images are of birds, with the exception of two koala bears, two kangaroos and one opossum. The vast majority are the work of three authors, signed Artah, M. Simpson and Koddi. Artah is Violet Artah Bartlett, an artist specialising in Australian ornithology who worked in Sydney during the 1920s. It has proved impossible as yet...

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180 x 111 mm. A similar view to Y308A/107 , with plants and scrub in the foreground.

Scope and Contents 245 x 180 mm. Oval print. A view across the harbour towards Fort Denison, with a mock battle in progress beyond the fort. The harbour is dotted with small craft and a paddle ferry can be seen to the left of the fort, packed with passengers. The exact year, or event celebrated, has not been determined. Sydney has held a regatta every year since 1837, although this is presumably a re-enactment of a specific happening. Jack Cato, records that Charles Kerry in 1895 'covered the big aquatic...

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245 x 180 mm. A view of the three-masted steamers involved in the mock-battle, with smoke from the guns drifting across the harbour.

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245 x 180 mm. A photograph showing three-masted steamers involved in the mock-battle and a paddle ferry.

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245 x 180 mm. A view of the sham fight with Fort Denison at the left of the picture. Most of the horizon is obscured by smoke, with only one large steamer visible.

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A view looking down on to the moored sailing ships at the quay. Taken from the east side of the quay, facing south into Sydney. James Barnet's Customs House can be partially seen (before the addition of the first floor verandah).

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186 x 127 mm. oval print. A view showing two three-masted steamers at anchor, with parts of a large city visible on the far side of the harbour, bearing a resemblance to Sydney. Sydney would certainly be the obvious port of call for leave and business matters, and Powell did have a number of correspondents there.

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A view along a pier in the harbour piled high with railway sleepers, and with various workers posing for the camera.

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208 x 155 mm. A view looking along the cliff which stands at the entrance to Sydney Harbour, with the north side of the inlet visible in the distance.

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270 x 209 mm. A view from Pyrmont looking over the southern half of Darling Harbour towards the southern side of the city. A fine picture, with the Town Hall and St Andrew’s Cathedral prominent on the skyline.

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207 x 156 mm. A view looking towards the East front of the University buildings, taken from the Glebe, and showing house and shops in this suburb. The stream in the foreground is Black Wattle Swamp Creek.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: Fifty-three undated watercolours intended as bookmarks, each 200 x 45 mm in size, sold by John Sands of Sydney as indicated by stickers pasted onto the reverse. The images are of birds, with the exception of two koala bears, two kangaroos and one opossum. The vast majority are the work of three authors, signed Artah, M. Simpson and Koddi. Artah is Violet Artah Bartlett, an artist specialising in Australian ornithology who worked in Sydney during the 1920s. It has proved impossible as yet...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: Fifty-three undated watercolours intended as bookmarks, each 200 x 45 mm in size, sold by John Sands of Sydney as indicated by stickers pasted onto the reverse. The images are of birds, with the exception of two koala bears, two kangaroos and one opossum. The vast majority are the work of three authors, signed Artah, M. Simpson and Koddi. Artah is Violet Artah Bartlett, an artist specialising in Australian ornithology who worked in Sydney during the 1920s. It has proved impossible as yet...

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151 x 196 mm. A view of the spotted base of the tree (similar to a plane tree). Handwritten captions on reverse identifies it as being in the Sydney Botanical Gardens. With Kerry's embossed stamp in one corner. Negative number 1420.

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272 x 201 mm. View looking south along George Street, with the Squatters' Exchange at the junction with Margaret Street in the right foreground. The tower in the distance at the extreme left appears to be that of the Town Hall, completed in 1875. Other business premises identifiable in the print are: Petrie at number 269 and next door, Griffiths and Weaver, Stock and Station Agents.

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202 x 151 mm. A view from Bathurst Street showing the south side if the Cathedral, with a horse cab and a horse cart standing in the street. The Cathedral, after numerous delays during which a temporary weatherboard cathedral was used, was consecrated in 1868, and the final embellishments completed, to the design of Edmund Blacket, in 1874.