Bridges - Australia - New South Wales

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-122-1

Description: Shows a bridge on the Blue Mountains and a view of the Emu Plains Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Bridge on the first zigzag of Western Railway on Blue Mountains - Emu Plains. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 135 x 200 mm

Date: 1866

By: Elyard, Samuel, 1817-1910; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-063-004

Description: Other Titles - Glebe Island and the old bridge, Sydney Harbour, N. S. W. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed, titled and dated; Verso - Glebe Island & the Old Bridge, Sydney Harbour, N.S.W., 1860 [sic] by S. Elyard [in pencil in the hand of A. H. Turnbull] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 317 x 480 mm Provenance: Purchased by A. H. Turnbull

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-126-2

Description: Shows the Blue Mountains railway, New South Wales, from south west Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - `Great Zigzag' Western Railway - from South West Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 150 x 200 mm

Date: 1916

By: Smith, Sydney Ure, 1887-1949; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-243-003

Description: Looking along a broad road towards a set of steps running up on the left to arched stone bridges supporting higher roads. Horse-drawn carriages and people are on the lower street. The newspaper office for the Herald and the Evening [illegible] is at the higher level on the left. Edition: No. 2 of an edition of 30 Inscriptions: Recto - Signed lower left on etching: S Ure S; in pencil below plate-mark: edition number, title, signature and date Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 247 x 136 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: Before 1894

By: Leitch, W A, active 1894; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-260

Description: Album of scenic views of Tasmania, Sydney and wider New South Wales, and of New Zealand, both North and South Islands. Views of lighthouses include Derwent Lighthouse (Tasmania), Macquarie Lighthouse (South Head, Sydney), and Farewell Spit Lighthouse (Tasman Region, New Zealand). The New Zealand photographs are nearly all taken by Josiah Martin, and include one that is a collage of scenes he photographed, and one of Maori weapons, with captions to say they were deposited [in Auckland Museum] by Captain Gilbert Mair. A photograph attached to the inside of the back cover is of the Farewell Spit Lighthouse, and was taken by the Tyree Brothers firm Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - W.A. Leitch. 1894 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs' in gold lettering, with `Leitch' lettered in gold on spine; 21.5 x 28.5 cm Provenance: Purchase

Date: 1866

By: Elyard, Samuel, 1817-1910; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-063-003

Description: View in Sydney Harbour, looking from modern Black Wattle Bay towards Piermont Bridge. Shows harbour reclamation in the area, with a rail possibly built for this purpose. Title from back Other Titles - Black Wattle Bay looking towards Piermont Bridge. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed & dated; Verso - Title, date and artist's name, in the handwriting of A. H. Turnbull Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 289 x 421 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull.

Date: 1910

By: Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (Sir), 1874-1961

Reference: A-067-001

Description: Looking along a narrow street in Sydney with most of the word Argyle appearing on a wall under a bridge in the background. Buildings on both sides, a flight of steps on the left. People, horses and carts on the street, including a man pulling a pair of horses with a cart into the street on the right No. 5 Edition 20 copies Same as A-067-002 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Mezzotint, 153 x 150 mm (platemark) on sheet 226 x 184 mm

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-126-1

Description: Shows the railway in the Blue Mountains, near Lithgow, New South Wales Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - `Great Zigzag' Western Railway - Blue Mountains near Lithgow from North East Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 125 x 193 mm

Date: December 1936

From: Salmon, Albert Armitage, 1899-1982: Photographs taken on a trip to New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-10262-1

Description: Mounted images with annotations from the first part of Albert Armitage Salmon's 1936-1937 trip to New Zealand. Images of South Island scenery and tramping, particularly along the Milford Track, comprise the bulk of the photographs, but prints also include some images of Salmon's departure from Sydney. Photographs taken by Salmon. - The images follow the route of Salmon and his companions' travels, and begin in Sydney Habour (Port Jackson) with images of the Habour Bridge, Luna Park illuminated at night, and the ship, 'Strathnaver', in the water. Also contains a photograph of Salmon's travel companions, Mary Hansen, Eric Keehn, Irene Booth, and Reg Booth aboard the deck of the 'S.S. Awatea' on their journey across the Tasman Sea. - The New Zealand images of the North Island begin in Auckland, and show a view of the Harbour and the University grounds with tulips in bloom. The images also include a view from inside a road tunnel in the King Country, rock formations above the Awakino River, the coastline and rock formations at New Plymouth, views of Mount Egmont (Taranaki), and tramping scenes in the fairy forest of Mount Egmont. The photographs also include views of Wanganui and the Wanganui River, the Wellington Harbour towards Miramar peninsula from the summit of Mount Victoria, and the hoisting of their car 'Marie', a Ford V8, onto the deck of the 'Rangitira' for the ferry ride from Wellington to Port Lyttelton, Christchurch. - The South Island photographs begin in Christchurch and include images of the War Memorial Bridge over the Avon River, and Hagley Park. The bulk of the images show scenery in Fiordland, including views of Lake Te Anau, the Eglinton Valley, the Hollyford River, Milford Sound, the swinging bridge and other scenes along the Milford Track, including images of snow, ice, waterfalls, glaciers, rivers, plant life, and mountain peaks. The box also contains a photograph of Mary Hansen wearing ankle boots with small heels as she crosses the Roaring Meg stream from Jervois Glacier. Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s) on mounts. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1938

By: Meere, Matthew Charles, 1890-1961

Reference: Eph-E-ATHLETICS-1938-01

Description: Poster promoting the 1938 Empire Games and Australia's 150th anniversary shows an athlete wearing a Unuion Jack on his white singlet, hurdling in the air with the Sydney Harbour Bridge far below This copy of the poster has been signed "to the Waikato Times reporters" by Alan Sayers, and autographed by many athletes from Empire countries (New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, England) Other Titles - February Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 1005 x 635 mm, with handwritten ink annotations Provenance: Purchased from Dunbar Sloane Auction Auckland, 27 March 2014, lot 618.

Date: 1970 - 1979

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Thirteen sketchbooks of Corrie Cook (nee Cameron), covering sketches of Britain, Australia and New Zealand. 1920-1990s]

Reference: E-907

Description: Includes sketches of figures seated below and statue in Sydney, a two-storeyed house at Patea Taranaki, Sydney Harbour scenes, a suspension bridge over a wide Australian river, figure and tree studies, New Zealand, and Sydney scenes, a scene at Greenwich Sydney (26 December 1979), a corner of Jane Cook's back garden in Roselle Sydney December 1979; interior sketches of the home of the artist's step-daughter, Helen Cook, in Greytown. (All identification by Walter Cook, 18 April 2008). Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Spiralbound sketchbook with green and brown cover design, 210 x 150 mm.

Date: 1929

From: MacKay, B.R.S.A. (Estate) :Family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-781

Description: Allison Mackay lived at 32 Macleay Street, Sydney. This album seems to be her record of the city, its streets, parks, notable buildings, and her friends and family Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1840 - 1860

By: Osborne, (Mrs), active 1953

Reference: C-063-007

Description: A man, woman and child in the foreground near a stream, another man seated on a bench in the right foreground and other people visible at a greater distance. Lennox Bridge, an arched stone bridge in the middle distance, 2-storied King's School, both on the left, with Church Street to the right. Compare C-063-006 by same artist and possibly also of Parramatta This painting and its companion work by the same artist (C-063-006) were thought to show Melbourne until reidentified by Joan Kerr, 26 October 1995. Other Titles - View of Melbourne with River Yarra in the foreground. 18-- Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 13.3 x 20.1 inches

Date: 1938

By: Purvis, Tom, 1888-1957; Australian National Travel Association; Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council

Reference: Eph-E-AUSTRALIA-1938-01

Description: Poster issued to attract tourists to Sydney for the 150th anniversary of Australia. Shows a young man with raised beckoning finger, above a scene of the Sydney Harbour Bridge at night. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on poster, 1020 x 635 mm.

Date: 1910

By: Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (Sir), 1874-1961

Reference: A-067-002

Description: A narrow street in Sydney, looking past buildings towards a wall, with part of the word Argyle written on it. A bridge over the street in the centre. People, horses and carts on the street, with a man pulling a pair of horses and a cart onto the street to the right No. 5 Edition 20 copies Same as A-067-001 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Mezzotint, 153 x 150 mm (platemark) on sheet 226 x 184 mm

Date: ca 1880s

By: Paine, John, active 1875-1891

Reference: PAColl-4596

Description: Views of Sydney looking over the harbour with houses in the foreground; a man at a look-out over Govett's Leap Valley; bridge over the Hawkesbury River; and two paddle steamers at Lane Cove with houses on the banks of the river. Photographs taken by John Paine with his stamp on the reverse. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Details of deposit and provenance unknown.

Date: 1911 - 1914

From: Smith, Sydney Ure, 1887-1949 :Original drawings. [Sydney]

Reference: E-025-q-010

Description: Boats and ships moored on the left, the Pyrmont bridge in the middle distance The Library holds a pencil drawing (A-073-002) and an etching (A-073-001) of the same view. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Crayon on mottled paper, 131 x 199 mm glued to page 318 x 253 mm

Date: 2000

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-150

Description: The scene is Sydney harbour with the harbour bridge in the background. An Olympic yacht race is about to start with yachts waiting at the start line. A large ship is waiting behind them. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).