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179 x 125 mm. A view looking over a crowded commercial part of the town, with a coach works in the foreground. Locations identified in the key are: Roman Catholic Church, Odd Fellows Hall, Road to Huntly in the distance.

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186 x 129 mm. A view along an unsurfaced road towards the centre of the town. Part of Pall Mall is visible at the left of the picture. Buildings identified in the key are Beehive Chambers, Rotunda, City of Sandhurst Claim, City Hotel, Ross, Henderson and Fick’s, Jackson, Ironmongers; Bank of Victoria, Bank of New South Wales, Post Office.

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178 x 124 mm. A view looking along the line towards the tunnel, with embankments on either side. The tunnel, on the Murray River Railway from Melbourne to Bendigo, was opened in 1862. The text below the photograph reads ‘The length of this Tunnel is about half-a-mile through the Hill’.

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177 x 124 mm. A view of Charing Cross, at the junction of Pall Mall and Mitchell Street, taken from the south-eastern corner of the cross-roads. With figures posing around the central lamp post, and with the Oriental Hotel in the background.

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176 x 123 mm. A view looking south-east from the tower and showing the railway station, the goods shed, and the locomotive shed, with Quarry Hill in the distance. Bendigo was connected to Melbourne by rail in October 1862.

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179 x 124 mm. A view looking over a city block, with wide streets on either side, and the outlying parts of the city beyond. Locations identified in the key are: Three Arch Bridge, Garsed Street, Whipstick Hill, Big Hill Ranges in the distance, Stewart and Degraves Flour Mill, Wills Street.

Scope and Contents A commercially produced portfolio containing fifty-two mounted prints measuring approximately 180 x 125 mm., showing views in and around Bendigo and giving a detailed photographic coverage of the city and its suburbs. Each print is pasted to an elaborately printed mount with a decorative border, 'Views of Bendigo' and the print number at the top, and a title and explanatory key beneath the picture. Beneath each plate is also printed 'N.U. Claire Photo. Sandhurst' and 'Welch.Typo.' Some...

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115 x 161 mm. A view of the church, which is built of brick with white stone facings, with a spire at the end nearest the camera. The church was built in 1859. (See also Y3087C/18).