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209 x 155 mm. A view of one of the lakes in the gardens, showing palms and shrubs growing along the bank.

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266 x 202 mm. View looking along Botany Road (later Flinders Street), probably from its junction with Randwick Road. In the left foreground are the premises of W. Knight, tobacconist, with a glaziers and a newsagents beyond on the other side of the road. Further on still, towards Oxford Street, is an unidentified factory.

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267 x 201 mm. View of a group of shops on Botany Street. At the left is the Stirling Castle Hotel, followed by J.M. Canty, ironmongers; Hankin and Nicoll, boot and shoe warehouse; (?) W.H. Noon; The Live and Let Live public house; and one further small unidentified shop.

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263 x 203 mm. General view from the junction of Elizabeth Street and Albion Street of an unidentified brewery, a fine sandstone building with brick additions to the tower in the background.

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208 x 137 mm. A view of a wooden bridge crossing over a small lake, presumably in Victoria Park, east of the university.

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238 x 175 mm. A view west along Bridge Street (from the Macquarie Street end) looking down into the town with St Phillip’s Church visible on the skyline on Church Hill.

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A view looking down Bridge Street towards the Domain gates from George Street. On the right hand side of the street can be seen the ornate stone façade of the North Queensland Insurance Co.'s building (later the Burns Philp building), the Royal Exchange, the Lands Office, and in the distance the Chief Secretary's Office (now Department of Works).

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A view looking down Bridge Street towards the Domain gates. On the right hand side of the street can be seen the ornate stone façade of the North Queensland Insurance Co. building (later the Burns Philip building), the Royal Exchange, the Lands Office, and in the distance, the Chief Secretary's Office (now the Department of Works).

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153 x 207 mm. Mounted print, mount stamped 'Henry King, Sydney'. A view of a tree in the Botanic Gardens. Handwritten caption on reverse of mount reads 'Broad-leaved Tea-tree (Melacuca Leucadendra, Linn.) Native of Eastern Australia. Planted by H.R.H. the Duke of York in the Sydney Botanical Gardens, 22nd July 1881. Photo 1901'.

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280 x 204 mm. View from a cross-roads (? the George Street junction with Hay Street) looking along the row of shops lining one side of George Street. In the right foreground is E. (or F.) Smith's Burragong Family Hotel; other identifiable commercial premises on George Street are: Louis Uhde and Co., butchers; Fairleigh, Nettheim and Co., leather and grindery merchants at no. 659; A.L. Robinson, tailor at no. 661.

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205 x 152 mm. Mounted print, mount stamped 'Henry King, Sydney'. A view of a tree in the Botanic Gardens. Handwritten caption on reverse of mount reads 'Cabbage Palm (Linistrona Australis mart.) Native of Eastern Australia. Planted by H.R.H. the late Duke of Clarence in the Sydney Botanical Gardens, 22nd July 1881. Photo 1901'.

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264 x 206 mm. General view from the street of the brewery premises, with the malt house at the rear.

Scope and Contents 276 x 209 mm. View looking along Castlereagh Street, with the Royal Navy Hotel in the left foreground. Next door to the hotel is the Theatre Royal, with a porch carried on Ionic columns projecting over the pavement. The Prince of Wales Theatre, built by Joseph Wyatt and opened in 1855, originally stood on this site. This building was destroyed by fire in 1860, rebuilt in 1863, destroyed by fire again in 1872 and re-opened as the Theatre Royal in 1875. The bills at the entrance advertise...

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208 x 95 mm. A view of part of the Royal Window, donated by John Henry Challis, and set in the North-West Recess, which depicts the Kings and Queens of England.

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261 x 198 mm. View of a small church or chapel in Gothic style on the corner of two unidentified streets. The pencilled caption is difficult to decipher and the above title is tentative.

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205 x 134 mm. An exterior view of the cluster of small classrooms.

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204 x 151 mm. A view of one wall of the lecture room, covered with printed material and illustrations.

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A view from the gardens behind, looking through trees and shrubs towards the building, taken from the junction of Macquarie and Bridge Streets. The building now houses the Department of Works.

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276 x 200 mm. View looking north along George Street South towards the west end of Christ Church St Laurence, a Gothic revival building of sandstone built between 1843 and 1845 to designs by Henry Robertson and under the supervision of Edmund Blacket.

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153 x 203 mm. Mounted print, mount stamped 'Henry King, Sydney'. A view of a tree in the Botanic Gardens. Handwritten caption on reverse of mount reads 'Chrysophyllum Imperiale Benth. Native of the West Indies and Brazil. Planted by H.R.H. the late Duke of Edinburgh in the Sydney Botanic Gardens in 1868. Photographed 1901'.

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274 x 212 mm. View of Wentworth House Private Boarding Establishment, a two storeyed verandahed building on Church Hill. The two other houses in the block, without the elaborate cast-iron verandahs but with similar porches supported on Ionic columns, form part of the same terrace.

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270 x 212 mm. View looking along the row of warehouses facing the Circular Quay, with Talbot's Wool Stores in the centre of the group.

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274 x 208 mm. View of warehouses on the Circular Quay. In the left background are the massive premises of Mort and Co., with the warehouses of Harrison, Jones and Devlin and Maiden, Hill and Co. in the foreground.

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A view of the curving road on the south side of the Circular Quay looking west with numerous trams. Wharves and shipping (not visible) are to the right of the picture.

Scope and Contents 190 x 140 mm. A view of moored shipping taken from the west side of the quay which stretches around Sydney Cove, and looking towards the east side. A vast reclamation project created the quay in the years 1837-1844, putting ten acres of mudflat behind a sea wall. Well before this, however, the west side of the quay was the site of Sydney's first shipbuilding dock and in 1789 the first vessel built in Australia was launched from here. Government House can be seen on the horizon beyond the...