Showing 27 results

Archival description
Photographs -- Catalogs English
Advanced search options
Print preview View:

Views of Brisbane

  • F3459
  • Item
  • 1870-1879

Album of 12 albumen prints, 15.5 x 10.5 cm, mounted on boards. Inscription on verso front end-paper: "From William Shaw to his Aunt Sarah with his best love. Australia, April 1876". Images attributed to Queensland photographer John Deazeley.
Images are:
1: Parliament House from Botanic Gardens ;
2: Panoramic view of City from Wickham Terrace no. 1 ;
3: Panoramic view of City from Wickham Terrace no. 2 ;
4: Panoramic view of City from Wickham Terrace no. 3 ;
5: View from Wickham Terrace "Grammar School" ;
6: City & shipping from Bowen Terrace.
7: Brisbane Bridge ;
8: Queen Street from Edward Street looking east ;
9: View of river and City from Kangaroo Point ;
10: The Fern Island, Botanic Gardens ;
11: Kangaroo Point ;
12: Botanic Gardens & Parliament House from South Brisbane.

Shaw, William

Album of photographic views of Sydney

  • F3463
  • Item
  • 1876

Album of twenty-four albumen prints (20 x 25 cm) mounted on boards. Views include public buildings, University of Sydney, some inner suburbs, and views of the bays. Some photos with caption. With handwritten inscription: "Presented to our friend L.A. Bernays, Brisbane, 26 August 1876. E. L. Montefiore, Jules Joubert, Commissioners for N. S. Wales at Queensland Exhibition"

Bernays, Lewis Adolphus

Samoa and Samoans

  • F3467
  • Item
  • [18--]? - [19--]?

Album of 53 sepia photographs of Samoan people and scenery, (20 x 15cm) mounted on board. Most photographs are captioned, numbered and annotated with imprint of Kerry Photo Sydney. Some have additional pencilled numbering on boards.

Kerry, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1858-1928

Stodart family album of photographs

  • F3480
  • Item
  • [1901?- 1907?]

Album contains 104 photographs of Stodart family, Melbourne, Egypt, Batavia, no. 3 S.M. Coy Corps of Australian Engineers, Brisbane during the 1898 flood, Enoggera Creek and the early operations of Enoggera Reservoir, federation celebrations in Sydney, Lord Houptoun, federation proclamation in Brisbane, and the visit of the Duke of Cornwall and York to Brisbane.

Sepia and black and white photographs (various sizes) mounted on board. Some photographs have captions. Inscribed inside front cover: 'Nina Stodart with love from F.S. 18.5.05'.

Stodart Family

Photograph album of football clubs

  • F3481
  • Item
  • 1879-1890

Album 20 photographs (26 x 35 cm and smaller) of Rugby Union football teams and matches, 1879-1890. Most teams are from Brisbane, some are from New South Wales and overseas. Teams include Brisbane Football Club, Intercolonial Queensland and New South Wales teams, Wanderers, All England team, Wallaroo Football Club, Emu Football Club, Combined Juniors and All England Club, Wasps and Arfomas.

Sepia photographs (various sizes) mounted on board. Some photographs have handwritten captions identifying players.
Includes a proof of an ink and pen drawing with caption: "NB The top part represents Fall's & Rocks. The bottom scratches are the boy's", and two newspaper cuttings on the Pioneers of Moreton Bay. Green album engraved with gold and word Album written on cover.

Views of Melbourne

  • F3552
  • Item
  • 18--]?

Album of sepia photographs by Thomas Foster Chuck. Album has a captioned page for each scene of Melbourne but only six photographs are in this album. These photographs are: Post Office Melbourne (Chuck photo 33), The Treasury (Chuck photo 19), University Melbourne (Chuck photo 59), Public Library (Chuck photo 54), Bourke St (looking east) (Chuck photo 35), and one uinidentified scene of a river.

Chuck, Thomas Foster, d.1898

C. Stewart Photographs

  • UQFL481
  • Collection
  • [18--]?-

57 sepia studio portraits (Cabinet cards), 2 photographs of Hector William Harris and William Henry Harris, plus one letter card views of Pitlochry no. 2. No details supplied with photographs. Photographs come from mostly Victorian studios, including Geelong, Colac, Ballarat and Melbourne.

Stewart, C.

Views of Cairns-Herberton Railways, etc., Queensland

  • F3462
  • Item
  • 1886-1900

Album of twelve sepia photographs of views of North Queensland including Cairns, Herberton, Barron George, Barron Falls, Hambledon and railways in the area. Title handwritten inside album. Album is undated. A handwritten list of captions and supplied item numbers has been inserted prior to the title page. Most photographs appear to be around the construction of the railway to Herberton which began in Cairns in 1886. It finished in Ravenshoe in 1916.

Written on the inside cover the album, presumably by the seller: "In. [Inventory] 5033. Royal Qto. Oblong Purple toned. 10 [shillings]". These type of photographs were often taken by the Queensland Government.

Each photo has caption, supplied information is included in square brackets:

  1. Glacier Rock . --
  2. [Cairns-Herberton railway] From 28 bridge. --
  3. Surprise Creek bridge [Cairns-Herberton railway]. --
  4. Cairns end of long tunnel. --
  5. The Barron Gorge. --
  6. Herberton end of the tunnel. --
  7. Near the Barron. --
  8. Barron Falls. --
  9. Aborigines of Cairns-Herberton district. --
  10. Kanaka women working in sugar cane. --
  11. Hambledon Sugar Plantation Cairns, general views. --
  12. Hoeing weeds in young cane.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this manuscript may contain images or names of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased.

Results 1 to 10 of 27