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A Queen's Birthday review at Moore Park
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Maker: Unknown
Depicts a New South Wales military contingent on parade that appeared in the 'Illustrated Sydney News' . A large crowd observes the volunteer soldiers, field guns and horses marching across large, ope...ART96046
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Departure of the New South Wales Contingent from Sydney for the Sudan
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Maker: Unknown The Graphic
A page from 'The Graphic' illustrated newspaper, 2 May 1885, p. 432 depicting six vignettes showing; 1. Lord Augustus Loftus, Governor of New South Wales, and the Guard of Honour, 2. The troopship "Ib...ART19878
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Embarkation of the New South Wales troops for the Sudan
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton The Illustrated Australian News
Depicts men of the NSW Contingent (infantry and artillery) boarding a ship (either SS Iberia or SS Australasian) to sail to Sudan with a crowd of civilians on wharf to see them off, after the artist G...ART19881
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Fort Denison, Sydney Harbour
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Maker: Nerli, Girolamo
Fort Denison was one of the last Martello towers to be built in the world and is situated on a small island in the middle of Sydney Harbour. The island had been identified from an early stage as an im...ART91992
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HMS Royal Arthur
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Maker: Ashton, Julian Rossi
Pre Federation, pre-1901 and not BA, NZ, SU or CH; 1898; HMS Royal Arthur; vessles, fishing vessles.ART90990
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HMS Vulcan off Garden Island
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Maker: Garling, Frederick
HMS Vulcan was an iron-hulled, screw propelled steam frigate of 1747 tons, laid down in down in 1846 and launched in 1849. Converted to a troopship in 1851, her first trip in this role took troops to...ART92624
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Officer of the New South Wales Artillery
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Maker: Ashton, Julian Rossi
Julian Ashton was born in England and moved to Australia in 1878 to work for the 'Illustrated Australian News'. He later worked for the 'Australasian Sketcher' and 'Picturesque Atlas of Australasia', ...ART50216
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On board the training ship Vernon, Sydney Harbour
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton
Scenes of life on board the training ship Vernon in Sydney harbour, NSW, where boys 'either as criminals or as neglected children' were housed, educated, and taught a trade until they were old enough ...ART50173
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Port Jackson, from Dawes' Battery
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Maker: Prout, John Skinner
This well-known image by Prout was reproduced as plate 4 in his publication 'Sydney Illustrated', 1842-44. It depicts British soldiers and guns at the Dawes' Point Battery in Sydney. The Battery was c...ART94357
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Raising the 25-ton gun, Middle Harbour fortifications, Sydney
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton Australasian Sketcher
A group of men from the New South Wales Artillery pulling on a rope winch to lift a 25 ton gun onto a barge in Middle Harbour, Sydney. The gun was to be placed in defensive fortifications. There is a ...ART19848
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The ceremony of unveiling the statue of Captain Cook, Hyde Park, Sydney
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Maker: Montague Scott, J Illustrated Sydney News
Thomas Woolner's statue of Captain Cook is unveiled in Hyde Park, Sydney. The ceremony was attended by some thirty thousand spectators, and included a parade by men of the Royal Navy, Naval Brigade an...ART19819
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The 77th Galop song-sheet cover
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Band of 77th Regiment playing in the Botanical Gardens to celebrate the end of the war in the Crimea (this Regiment was only in Australia from September 1857 to April 1858). A crowd of people are list...ART19818
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The war in the Sudan: departure of the Australian contingent from Sydney, New South Wales
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Maker: Unknown Unknown
Depicts a page from the 'London Illustrated News' from 25 April 1885 with an upper image of the departure from Sydney of the Australian contingent for the Sudan and the lower image of a St Bernard pup...ART19877