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A view along the street, with trams, pedestrians, and horse carts. The street leading off to the left is Moore Street, now called Martin Place. Pitt Street runs parallel to George Street.

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350 x 274 mm. A view looking down from roof top level along Pitt Street, with the tower of the Post Office building visible on the skyline at the right.

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Possibly by Violet Artah Bartlett, fl 1919-1930, although the signature is different from the other examples of her work in the collection.

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222 x 135 mm. A view showing the School of Mines in the foreground, with the Engineering School (with tower) behind. The school is named after the benefactor Sir Peter Nicol Russell who during his lifetime gave £100,000 to the university.

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201 x 147 mm. A view of the one-storey building surmounted by a tower, on which is carved the date '1891'.

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195 x 133 mm. A view looking across the pond towards a cluster of small stone cottages.

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A view looking out over the gardens, and beyond the statue of Governor Phillip to Farm Cove. Government House can be seen at the extreme left of picture, with Fort Denison beyond it in the harbour. On the horizon North Head can be seen - the outmost entrance to the harbour.

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200 x 150 mm. An interior view of part of the museum, with display cases and specimens, and the walls lined with framed Botanical illustrations. With a figure standing in the background.

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204 x 153 mm. A slightly blurred print showing an interior view of the museum, with display cases and specimens, and a figure standing in the background.

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350 x 274 mm. A view looking across the harbour, in which various American warships can be seen, among them the 'U.S.S. Connecticut'.

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280 x 230 mm. A view of the unfinished building from George Street. The fenced-off land to the left, along which the building extends, was later to become Martin Place. This monumental building, which took over 20 years to complete, was designed by James Barnet. Work started in 1866. The tower, not yet built in this photograph, was completed in 1887.

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205 x 153 mm. A view looking down the length of the classroom, with work benches, chemicals and various apparatus.

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205 x 151 mm. A view showing workbenches with various experimental equipment, looking towards the blackboards at the front of the classroom.

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140 x 190 mm. A front view of the statue with two men standing in front. Erected in Hyde Park in 1866.

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202 x 147 mm. A view of the hospital from Missenden Road, Camperdown, showing a brick building with stone facings. The hospital was incorporated in 1873 as a gesture of gratitude for the saving of Prince Alfred's life, who was the victim of an assassination attempt while in Sydney. The land for the hospital was granted by the university, and the hospital is used by the university's medical students. The hospital was opened to patients in 1882.

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277 x 183 mm. View of a terrace of modest two storey sandstone houses with dormer windows. The house on the right is dated 1849 on the cartouche above the roofline. The brick houses which continue the terrace to the left are of later date. In the centre of the group is James Lucas' Auckland Hotel, and next door to him the shop of G.E. Coy.

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A view looking down Bridge Street towards the Domain end, and showing on the right the Royal Exchange, the Lands Office and the Chief Secretary's Office.

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A view from the gardens behind, looking between trees and shrubs towards the building, designed by James Barnet in 1878. The building was originally designed as the Chief Secretary's Office, but later became the Department of Works.

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190 x 140 mm. A view of the building from the junction of Macquarie Street and Bridge Street. Another building designed by James Barnet (in 1878), it is an imposing structure with statues in recesses at the corner, and was originally the Colonial Secretary's Office.

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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345 x 262 mm. A good view of the interior of a railway workshop, showing partially-constructed locomotives at the right of the picture, workmen posing for the camera in the centre, and a row of small furnaces at the left for metal working. Across the roof of the workshop a movable gantry and crane is positioned.

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346 x 262 mm. A view of a part of the railway workshops. On either side are small metal working furnaces and workers posing for the camera, with a central railway line leading up to machinery, possibly some kind of steam hammer or rivetter.

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341 x 262 mm. An interior view of a railway workshop, showing workers posing with their tools.

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350 x 274 mm. A view looking down on to railway sidings, with freight wagons filled with coal, and wharves and the harbour beyond. The goods station is Illawarra, lying south of the harbour.