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The bookmark appears to bear no signature.

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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277 x 197 mm. View looking west along Banks Street towards Abercrombie Street, with domestic residences of varied character lining the road. The University of Sydney buildings are visible on the skyline in the distance.

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280 x 213 mm. View of the Redfern Railway Terminal, with the 1870 Sydney Inter-Colonial Exhibition buildings (demolished in 1954) in the background.

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225 x 163 mm. A photograph showing the exterior of the building, with a row of horse cabs at the right of the picture. This photograph was taken before 1870. In Y3086P/2, a photograph taken from a similar viewpoint, the 1870 Exhibition Building is prominent in the background. In this picture building work has not yet started.

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340 x 262 mm. General view probably taken from a bridge, showing the lines running into platforms.

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340 x 262 mm. View from outside with the exhibition buildings in the background. Some blurring of horse-drawn vehicles in the foreground.

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210 x 153 mm. A view of the office, with desk and chairs in the foreground, and various paintings on the walls.

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450 x 295 mm.

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Landscape format.

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 A view of the building, which stands at the corner of Bridge Street and Gresham Street, taken from Macquarie Place. A sandstone building in the Corinthian manner and designed by J.F. Hilly, the foundation stone was laid in 1853 and the building opened four years later. The two upper floors of the building were added later by A.F. Pritchard. This picture was taken in 1901 at the earliest, the flags hanging on the building having among them the flag of the Federated State of Australia. The...

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350 x 274 mm. A view of the building from Macquarie Place.

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280 x 230 mm. Showing an unidentified part of the building, from the path, with pieces of wall still standing.

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280 x 225 mm. A view showing part of the ruins with a small hut in the foreground. The hut has presumably been erected for workmen clearing up the site. The statue of the huntsman and dogs has been removed.

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280 x 225 mm. A view, looking in a northerly direction, showing part of the ruins with a statue of a huntsman with two dogs. The tower of Government House, flying the Union Jack, can be seen in the distance.

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280 x 225 mm. Showing part of the ruins, with just an archway standing and a small obelisk behind. In front is a statue, undamaged, of a huntsman with two dogs (a bronze by A. Jacquemart, purchased for £180). The path in front of the statue runs along Macquarie Street, with the camera looking east.

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275 x 225 mm. A view from Macquarie Street, looking over the railings towards the ruins, with part of the entrance arch from the street still standing at left.

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280 x 225 mm. A slightly blurred photograph. The photograph was taken in a southerly direction from above ground level, over the railings of Macquarie Street (probably from a house on the opposite side of the street). At the left is the entrance hall and the extent of the ruins are shown behind.

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280 x 225 mm. A photograph taken from above ground level in a southerly direction. A certain amount of clearing work appears to have been done. Part of an arch standing in Y3086A/9 has been dismantled and is no longer visible in this print.

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275 x 225 mm. A photograph of the ruins from Macquarie Street, showing the west entrance before demolition work had been started.

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275 x 225 mm. A photograph of the ruins from Macquarie Street looking in an easterly direction showing the west entrance.

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280 x 225 mm. A view showing the few pieces of standing wall and an arch at the south end of the building.

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280 x 225 mm. A view from the path running beside Macquarie Street and looking north. The parts of the walls still standing are probably part of the west entrance, after some demolition work has been done. With Government House visible in the distance.