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285 x 230 mm. A view of the front of the building, partly obscured by trees. A mock Tudor gothic building with crenellations and turrets, it was first occupied in 1845 by Governor Gipps. The building is situated on the tongue of land between Sydney Cove and Farm Cove and North of the Botanic Gardens.

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190 x 140 mm. A view across Farm Cove to Government House, a turretted and crenellated building flying the Union Jack, and first occupied in 1845. To the right can be seen Fort Macquarie, manned as a garrison post and artillery store until 1902, when it was demolished. A tram depot was erected in its place and used until 1959, when the area became the site of the Sydney Opera House.

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190 x 140 mm. A view of Government House from across Farm Cove, with a ship at anchor in the cove. Part of Fort Macquarie is visible.

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190 x 140 mm. A view of the front of the house with soldiers on guard before the front door. A crenellated and turretted building, it was first occupied in 1845 by Governor Gipps.

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206 x 158 mm. A view of the front of the house, with a soldier on sentry duty. Government House stands in the Domain, north of the Botanical Gardens and looking over Farm Cove.

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161 x 14 mm. A view looking across Farm Cove towards Government House, with sailing boats in the foreground.

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A view of the front of Government House, first occupied by Governor Gipps in 1845, and built with mock battlements and turrets.

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281 x 210 mm. View of the Mint from Macquarie Street. This two storeyed verandahed building with hipped roof was originally the southern wing of the Rum Hospital, built 1811-16. It became the Government Mint in 1853 and has in recent years been turned into a Museum of State history.

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75 x 52 mm. A view of the final parade in the arena of an agricultural show.

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208 x 151 mm. An interior view along the Hall, this time looking west towards the tapestry. The Hall is laid out with desks and chairs for an examination.

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209 x 145 mm. An interior view looking east along the Hall, with the stained glass windows and organ at the far end. The Great Hall measures 135 feet by 45 feet and its design is based on Westminster Hall. Arms of the British Universities are carved on the stone corbels which support the roof timbers, and hammer beams project above the corbels, at the end of which are wooden statues of angels. The Hall is generally considered the finest piece of Gothic architecture in Australia.

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Two rough, undated pencil sketches with descriptive notes, one on each side of a sheet of paper, 4½'' x 7''. The main writing is not in Frome's hand, but he has added 'Govnt House Sydney' and 'New Govt House Hobart Town'.

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190 x 130 mm. A group portrait taken on the grass outside the house of four men (three of whom are in military uniform) and three women. The women are presumably the Keppel sisters and Violet Douglas Pennant (although these have not been individually identified). The identities of the men have not been determined.

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Possibly Sydney.

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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.

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 lighthouse on a cliff, with the harbour beyond. A thirty foot high tower, painted in red and white vertical stripes, the building was erected at Inner South Head in 1858 and named after Admiral Sir Phipps Hornsby, Commander-in-Chief of the British Pacific Fleet in the 1860's.

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281 x 213 mm. General view looking along Botany Street towards the Hudson Brothers' Saw Mills, an imposing three storey factory with the narrow façade of the building facing onto the road. One of the posters stuck to the wooden fence in the foreground advertises a meeting of the Randwick Racing Club on Saturday 29 April. See note on dating in introduction to this collection.

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A view across part of the park showing the cathedral behind trees.

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225 x 285 mm. A view of the statue of Captain Cook in Hyde Park, among lawns and trees, with buildings beyond. The statue was unveiled in 1879.

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A blank invitation from the Lord Mayor of Sydney and others to a ball at the Town Hall, Sydney, 5 February 1954, in honour of the Royal Visitors.

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190 x 140 mm. A view of the iron girder bridge which connected the suburbs of Balmain and Drummoyne across Iron Cove, which was part of the 'Five Bridges Road' connecting the city and the north-side suburbs. This bridge, originally erected in 1884, was replaced in the 1950's.

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276 x 214 mm. View looking south-west along Bligh Street from its junction with Bent Street, which proceeds south-east out of the right-hand side of the print. Bligh Street is built up along its north-west side with domestic residences, with a verandahed terrace block of four houses (? of the 1860s) in the foreground.

Scope and Contents 281 x 210 mm. View from the southern end of Boomerang Street looking east along William Street, with Yurong Street going off to the south at the right hand side of the print. In the right foreground of the picture on the corner of Yurong Street is Mary Watts National Hotel. Beyond the hotel, on the south side of William Street, the following shops can be identified: Mrs F.J. Hodges at number 47, milliners; C.F. Wright, coppersmith; William Tughy's Albert Hotel at the junction with Riley...