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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190 x 140 mm. A view of the island from the east, showing a few buildings which are probably naval warehouses. From 1866 the island was used as a depot for H.M. Ships in Australian waters. From 1877, when a financial arrangement was agreed, building started on the island. This photograph was probably taken around 1885, before building had progressed to any great extent. Between 1940-45 the island was made into a peninsula, joined to the mainland by a graving dock.

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Landscape format. [Tree shading benches by a bit of lawn with large buildings of Sydney behind].

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Landscape format. [Tree shading benches by a bit of lawn with large buildings of Sydney behind].

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152 x 207 mm. A view of the Post Office from a building on the other side of George Street. The area at the left of the print, on which there are still buildings, was later to become Martin Place.

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Photograph of an artist's impression of the building.

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350 x 274 mm. A photograph of a drawing, from a semi-aerial viewpoint, of the Post Office.

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350 x 274 mm. A view looking north along George Street, with a tram in the foreground, and St. Andrew's Cathedral and the Town Hall on the other side of the road. Beyond the Town Hall can be seen the domes of the Queen Victoria Markets, designed in 1893 by George McRae.

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350 x 274 mm. A view from above looking north along George Street, with St. Andrew's Cathedral and the Town Hall on the skyline.

Scope and Contents 272 x 210 mm. View looking along George Street from the junction with Market Street, showing the commercial premises along the left hand side of the road. On the corner in the foreground is the Sydney Grocery Emporium of C.Kidman and Son. Next door at no. 243 is George Fesq's wine and spirit shop and beyond that the ornately detailed frontage of F. Lassetter's ironmongery business at no. 421. This is followed by Hyam Hains, stationers, H Zions, tailors, and Keep and Parsons,...

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288 x 204 mm. View looking south along George Street, with Christ Church St Laurence visible in the right background. The photograph appears to have been taken from the junction of George Street with Hay Street.

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[Five storey buildings on either side of street. Tram lines down centre of road. Horses and carriages. Pedestrians - women in long skirts and hats].

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Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.

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195 x 126 mm. A view looking along George Street, which is extremely busy with coaches, carriages and pedestrians. The oldest street in Sydney, George Street originated as a track through the bush made by work parties in 1788.

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A view from above, looking north along George Street, with St. Andrew's Cathedral and the Town Hall on the skyline.

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A view looking north along George Street, with a tram in the foreground, and St. Andrew's Cathedral and the Town Hall on the other side of the road. Beyond the Town Hall can be seen the domes of the Queen Victoria Markets, designed in 1893 by George McRae.

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A view along the busy street, with trams and pedestrians. The road off to the left is Martin Place, and the building immediately beyond it, the Post Office. The dome of the Victoria Markets can be seen on the skyline in the middle distance.

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[Brass band on edge of pavement with large building behind].

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200 x 161 mm. A view looking north from the Glebe towards the wooden bridge which connects Glebe Island to Pyrmont, with some small factories by the water’s edge, and with grazing horses and cattle in the foreground. The bridge was built in 1857 to shorten road communications between Balmain and Pyrmont and was replaced in 1901. (Glebe Island is not in fact an island nor even part of the Glebe, but is a peninsula on the other side of Rozelle Bay from Glebe.)

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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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204 x 154 mm. A view looking across Farm Cove from the N.E. end of the Botanic Gardens, towards the crenellated turrets and towers of Government House, a mock gothic castle first occupied by Governor Gipps in 1845.

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190 x 140 mm. A view across Farm Cove towards Government House, with a ship at anchor in the cove.

'In 1813 a road three miles long ... was built through the farm to the eastern portion of the cove, where on 13th June 1816, an inscription was etched on a huge sandstone rock known as Mrs. Macquarie's Chair. Here the Governor's wife could rest after her long walk from Government House in Bridge Street ...' (Clune 1968, page not recorded).

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153 x 204 mm. A view looking through trees and over Farm Cover towards Government House.

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202 x 155 mm. A view showing the lawn and front entrance to Government House, with a soldier on duty on the path in front of the building.