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200 x 250 mm. Photograph taken through arches, showing a side chapel.

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200 x 250 mm. A view up the nave towards the altar.

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150 x 85 mm. A view looking across from the south bank of the river towards the Botanical Gardens, with Parliament House rising above the tree line.

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390 x 133 mm. A panoramic view looking over a curve in the river, showing mainly residential houses. There is some evidence of industrial growth with two factories visible, and merchant ships moored along the river on the farther bank. The Parliament House can be seen, left of centre, in the distance.

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235 x 180 mm. An almost identical photograph to Y3085B/2, but taken nearer to Breakfast Creek, and showing the bridge across the Creek. The extent of building out from Brisbane in the intervening years can be seen.

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460 x 175 mm. A panoramic photograph consisting of two prints. A view looking towards the river and showing the side on which most of the building and commerce was taking place.

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460 x 175 mm. A panoramic photograph which is a continuation of the previous plate. The large street running down towards the river on the left hand photograph is Edward Street, and the Parliament houses can be seen in the middle distance in the right hand print.

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A commercially produced album with printed title page and captions. Photographed and published by George P Wright, James Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.

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205 x 155 mm. A view looking across the river, with bridge at right, and steam ships moored at wharves.

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245 x 195 mm. This sepia print has Brisbane in pencil on the back, but is otherwise unidentified. The costume suggests a date in the late 1880s.

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205 x 155 mm. Photograph looking along Anne Street with the Railway Station on the left.

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245 x 200 mm. In front of the cottage and palm sit three formally dressed children, while a gardener stands beside his wheelbarrow.

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260 x 200 mm. Photograph taken from the cross-roads, showing the Union Bank at the right of the picture.

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205 x 155 mm A view of the Custom House from another angle, and farther back, showing the streamers criss-crossing the street outside.

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210 x 135 mm. A view from further back still, showing the whole building and more of the street.

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205 x 140 mm. A mounted sepia print of twenty-four delegates (plus one looking through a window behind) posed for the camera. Stamped on mount with : 'Peabody, Photo. Rockhampton.' Delegates not identified.

Scope and Contents The primary function of the Empire Tour was to impress the party with the prosperity and economic potential of the Dominions. Kelsey reported on many visits to farms, agricultural colleges, research stations, industrial sites and commercial centres. As an engineer, he was particularly interested in mines, factories and power stations. The party also toured many sites of natural beauty as well as museums and galleries. Kelsey recorded his impressions of the people he encountered and their...

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235 x 180 mm. A general view of the fern garden.

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235 x 180 mm. Another view of various plants in the Gardens.

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155 x 110 mm. A picture of the King and Queen made of lights with the message ‘1901 God Bless our King and Queen’. The firework display took place at Government House on the 22nd of May and was ‘said to be the finest pyrotechnic display ever seen in the Southern Hemisphere’.

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155 x 110 mm A similar picture to Y3085J/28, with the Duke and Duchess of York depicted.

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105 x 150 mm. A time exposure of rockets bursting in the sky

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150 x 105 mm. A time exposure of rockets bursting.

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160 x 115 mm. Time exposure of fireworks on the ground, behind the structure used for Y3085J/28.

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2 prints 105 x 95 mm. and 110 x 110 mm. Two more time exposures of fireworks (a) of rockets bursting in sky, (b) similar to Y3085J/32.