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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203 x 150 mm. In the group are (left) Stanley M. Bruce, Australian minister in London, Australian broadcaster Colin Wills (behind) British food minister Lord Woolton and Lady Woolton.

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A view from above along Moore Street, looking west to its junction with George Street. With pedestrians and horse cabs, but only one car visible. Moore Street became Martin Place when it was widened after a fire in Pitt Street in 1890 had destroyed a number of buildings in the area.

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282 x 210 mm. View looking towards Mort's large wood-frame factory buildings, with the harbour in the background. Precise location unidentified.

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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262 x 209 mm. View looking across (?) Pitt Street towards the two storey Municipal Chambers which stands on the corner of Wells Street, with the small wooden premises of E. Allen, family butchers, and domestic residences beyond. The segmental pediment which stands on Ionic columns on the first floor above the porch is inscribed with the date 1870.

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211 x 153 mm. A view of display cases in the museum, showing skeletons of horses, alligators and various birds.

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190 x 140 mm. A view of the museum. A telegraph pole can be seen centre foreground in this picture. The first telephone was installed in Sydney in 1880; by 1882 there were 300 lines.

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196 x 150 mm. A view of the exterior of the herbarium, a two-storey building completed in 1899. The herbarium was erected during J.H. Maiden's directorship.

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285 x 230 mm. A three quarter front view of the bulky sandstone building resting on a stylobate twenty feet high, and rising from that, forty foot Corinthian piers with carving at the top. The building was finished in 1864 to James Barnet's design and part of the old museum can be seen behind the new building. The museum is at the junction of Park Street and College Street.

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75 x 50 mm. A view showing part of the bridge, under construction. Started in 1923, the bridge which links the north and south sides of the harbour was completed in 1932.

Scope and Contents A loose black and white print (two more prints missing), showing embarked troops waving to crowds on the dockside. A handwritten note on the back of the print states: 'Departure of A Battery, RAA, S.S. Warregal (for Boer War) left Port Jackson 30 Dec 1899'. The outbreak of the war on 11th October 1899 produced enthusiastic volunteering throughout the Australian colonies. A meeting in Melbourne in September 1899 had determined upon sending a joint contingent to number 2500 men in the event...

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206 x 135 mm. A view from the road, looking west through the gates and along the drive towards the east front of the university buildings.

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57 x 105 mm. A view of one of the stained glass windows that are high on the north and south walls of the Hall. This window depicts Roger Bacon, Robert Greathead and John Duns Scotus.

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200 x 152 mm. A view of a section of the museum, with a case of exhibits and, hanging on the walls, various stone tablets with Latin inscriptions. Sir Charles Nicholson accumulated a large collection of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Etruscan artefacts which formed the basis of the Museum collection.

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206 x 149 mm. A view of another section of the museum showing a carved stele (upright slab) and various pieces of Egyptian sculpture.

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208 x 150 mm. A view of another section of the museum, with papyri on the walls and various pieces of Egyptian sculpture.

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210 x 149 mm. A view of the museum, showing the inscribed stele (upright slab), various papyri and a Greek or Italian vase.

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98 x 131 mm. A view of the stained glass window depicting various founders of Oxford Colleges.

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South Head: Sydney, N.S.W.

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212 x 152 mm. An exterior view of the north wall showing the stained glass windows and ivy covered buttresses.

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A view looking down O'Connell Street from Bent Street, with horse cabs and pedestrians.

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...

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...