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19th Century Archive
- Harriet (1830-1907) and Helena Scott (1832-1910)
Illustrations of spiders and insects from Ash Island, 1852-1864
Exhibited date: April 2005 - June 2006
PXE 682/57-73 - Helena Scott (1832-1910)
Botanical drawings of mainly Australian plants, c. 1852-1896
PXA 1710 - Helena Scott (1832-1910)
Butterflies with passionfruit flower, 1854
DL Pd 779 - Edward Forde (1827-1866)
Album of sketches of New Zealand and New South Wales views, c. 1857, 1859-1862
PXA 1688 - Helena Scott (1832-1910)
Letters to E. P Ramsay, 28 October 1861 and 22 October 1862
ML MSS 563/1 - Harriet (1830-1907) and Helena Scott (1832-1910)
Drawings of bird's eggs to illustrate a proposed work on oology by E.P. Ramsay with other natural history drawings by Helena Scott and Harriet Scott, c. 1861
PXA 21 - Harriet (1830-1907) and Helena Scott (1832-1910)
Australian Lepidoptera and their Transformations, Drawn from the Life by Harriet and Helena Scott, London:
Printed by John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, 1864
PXE 78/11 - Harriet Scott (1830-1907)
Letter to E. P. Ramsay, 19 November 1865
ML MSS 563/1 - Helena Forde (1832-1910)
Sketches of Murray and Darling Rivers Taken in Camp, 1865-1866
PXA 551 - Commission appointing Lachlan Macquarie Lieutenant-Colonel in the 86th Regiment of Foot, 29 April 1802
Exhibited date: April 2005 to March 2006
ML MSS 2920X - Lachlan Macquarie (1761-1824)
Letter to Viscount Castlereagh, 12 October 1809
Exhibited date: April 2005 to March 2006
ML A 796 - Lachlan Macquarie (1761-1824)
Letter to Samuel Marsden, 8 January 1818
Exhibited date: April 2005 to March 2006
ML A 797 - Lachlan Macquarie (1761-1824)
Journal of a Tour of Governor Macquarie's first Inspection of the interior of the Colony
Commencing on Tuesday the 6th Novr, 1810, 1810-1811
Exhibited date: April 2005 to March 2006
ML A 778 - Lachlan Macquarie (1761-1824)
Despatch to Earl Bathurst, 1 December 1817
Exhibited date: April 2005 to March 2006
ML A 1191 - George Augustus Robinson (1791-1866)
Journal, Bruny Island Mission, 1829
Exhibited date: April 2005 to March 2006
ML A 7025 (Vol. 4) - George Augustus Robinson (1791-1866)
Correspondence and other papers, Van Diemen's Land - Bass Strait , 1829-1833
Exhibited date: April 2005 to March 2006
ML A 7027 (Vol. 6) - George Augustus Robinson (1791-1866)
Vocabularies and other cultural observations of Victorian Aborigines, 1830-1831, 1840
Exhibited date: April 2005 to March 2006
ML A 7086, Parts 1 and 4 (Vol. 65) - Thomas Brune
Flinders Island Chronicle (draft) 1836
Exhibited date: April 2005 to March 2006
ML A 7073, Part 4 (Vol.52) - Benjamin Duterrau (1767-1851)
Little Trugernerner, 1834
Exhibited date: April 2005 to March 2006
PXA 2004/f.3 - George Augustus Robinson (1791-1866)
Correspondence and other papers, Port Phillip Directorate, 1845-1849
Exhibited date: April 2005 to March 2006
ML A 7078/2 (Vol. 57) - George Augustus Robinson (1791-1866)
Journal, including account of a visit to Oyster Cove, 1851
Exhibited date: April 2005 to March 2006
ML A 7088, Part 2 (Vol. 67) - Photographer unknown
Portrait of George Augustus Robinson, 1853
Exhibited date: April 2005 to March 2006
ML A 7087, Part 6, No. 32 (Vol. 66) - Charles A. Woolley (1834-1922)
Lallah Rookh or Truganni, 1866
Exhibited date: April 2005 to March 2006 - Charles Harpur (1813-1868)
Poems 1863
Exhibited date: January to December 2005
ML A 89 - Charles Harpur (1813-1868)
Poems 1863
Exhibited date: January to December 2005
ML A 90 - Charles Harpur (1813-1868)
Writings on poetry 1867
Exhibited date: January to December 2005
ML A 87-1 - Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911)
The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843, London, Reeve, (1844-1960)
Exhibited date: January to December 2005
DSMQ581.99/H - Creator unknown
Fragments of spear [1883?]
Exhibited date: January to December 2005
R 645c - George Ernest Morrison (1862-1920)
China album, 1910
Exhibited date: January to December 2005
PXA 202-2 - George Ernest Morrison (1862-1920)
Diary, 1900
Exhibited date: January to December 2005
MLMSS 32/9 - J. Taylor Foot, Medallist, London, 1900
Peking Siege 1900 Medal
Exhibited date: January to December 2005
R 644j - John S. Hunt (Storr & Mortimer), London
Candelabrum 1838
Exhibited date: January to December 2005
XR 44 - Robert, James and Josiah Williams, Exeter 1851
Tea and coffee service presented to Edward Hargraves 1853
Exhibited date: January to December 2005
R 675 - John S. Hunt (Storr & Mortimer), London, 1838
Candelabrum presented to Dr James Mitchell, Surgeon in H.M. Colonial Service, Sydney, 1837
Exhibited date: January to December 2005
XR44 - Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898)
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Newly Augmented
Hammersmith:Kelmscott Press, 1896
Exhibited date: July 2004 to June 2005
ML C955 - Holey Dollar, reverse, 1813
Exhibited date: March 2004 to March 2005
ML Safe 1/17b - Holey Dollar, Dump, 1813
Exhibited date: April 2004 to March 2005
ML R 277b - Page 20 and Page 21,
New South Wales General Standing Orders...
Sydney: Printed by George Howe, 1802
Exhibited date: March 2004 to March 2005
ML Safe 1/17b - Artist unknown
Isabella Laycock, c. 1811
Exhibited date: October to December 2004
MIN 321 - Artist unknown
Thomas Laycock, c. 1811
Exhibited date: October to December 2004
MIN 322 - Artist unknown
Elizabeth Macquarie, c. 1819
Exhibited date: October to December 2004
MIN 237 - Artist unknown
Lachlan Macquarie, c. 1819
Exhibited date: October to December 2004
MIN 236 - Artist unknown
Lachlan Macquarie Jnr, c. 1819
Exhibited date: October to December 2004
MIN 238 - Artist unknown
Eber Bunker, c. 1830
Exhibited date: October to December 2004
MIN 58 - Richard Read (c. 1765-c. 1828)
Elizabeth Marsden, 1821
Exhibited date: July to September 2004
MIN 74 - Artist unknown
Simeon Lord, c. 1830
Exhibited date: July to September 2004
MIN 92 - Artist unknown
Eleanor Elizabeth Stephen. Aged 6 months, 1840
Exhibited date: July to September 2004
MIN 195 - Artist unknown
William Bond, c. 1840
Exhibited date: July to September 2004
ML 136 - George Milner Stephen (1812-1894)
Self-portrait, c. 1840
Exhibited date: July to September 2004
MIN 162 - Edmund Edgar (born c. 1804)
Man on board ship, 1842
Exhibited date: July to September 2004
P2/472 - Artist Unknown
Eleanor Elizabeth Stephen, c. 1855
Exhibited date: July to September 2004
MIN 202 - Artist Unknown
Eleanor Elizabeth Stephen, c. 1855
Exhibited date: July to September 2004
MIN 206 - I. Brooks
Clark family member, 1804
Exhibited date: April to June 2004
MIN 59 - Artist unknown
Unidentified woman, c. 1810
Exhibited date: April to June 2004
Pa 27 - After Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)
King George IV, c. 1820
Exhibited date: April to June 2004
Pb 4 - Artist unknown
Unknown man, 1825
Exhibited date: April to June 2004
Pa 10 - Artist unknown
Alfred Wilkinson, 1825
Exhibited date: April to June 2004
MIN 160 - Jean-Francois-Gerard Fontallard (1777-1858)
Flora MacDonald, 1839
Exhibited date: April to June 2004
MIN 69 - Jeanne-Mathilde Herbelin (1820-1904)
Madame Amable Charbonnet, 1850
Exhibited date: April to June 2004
MIN 385 - Artist unknown
Captain John Piper, c. 1811
Exhibited date: January to March 2004
MIN 75 - Artist unknown
Thomas Watson, c. 1840
Exhibited date: January to March 2004
MIN 264 - Artist unknown
Elizabeth Rouse, 1840s
Exhibited date: January to March 2004
MIN 77 - Mary Cover Hassall, 1852
Exhibited date: January to March 2004
MIN 48 - Phillip-Augustus Barnard
F. Thornbury, 1853
Exhibited date: January to March 2004
Pa 12 - Artist unknown
Emily Fitz Stubbs, c. 1855
Exhibited date: January to March 2004
MIN 114 - Henry Kendall (1839-1882)
'Outre mer' , n.d. (Catalogue record)
Exhibited date: January to December 2004
MLC 198 - Henry Kendall (1839-1882)
'Poems', c. 1862-1880s (Catalogue record)
Exhibited date: January to December 2004
MLC 198 - Artist unknown
Chinese export ware punchbowl featuring a scene of Sydney Cove, c. 1820, Chia-Ch'ing period (1796-1820)
Exhibited date: January 2003 to December 2004
ML XR 10 - John Oxley (1783-1828)
A chart of part of the interior of New South Wales by John Oxley, Surveyor General..
Scale [c.1:1 000 000] London: 1825, A Arrowsmith.
Exhibited date: April to June 2004
DL Cc82 1-3 - Pocket thermometer believed to have belonged to Ludwig Leichhardt 1829
Exhibited date: September 2003-June 2004
ML R 905a - Dolland
Compass believed to have belonged to Ludwig Leichhardt, c. 1840s [Obverse view] [Reverse view]
Exhibited date: September 2003-June 2004
ML R 905b - Travelling clock believed to have belonged to Ludwig Leichhardt, c. 1840s [Reverse view]
Exhibited date: September 2003-June 2004
ML R 544 - Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848?)
Report of the Expedition of L.Leichhardt, Esq. From Moreton bay to Port Essington, 1844-1845
Exhibited date: September 2003-June 2004
ML C 157 - Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848?)
Field Book, 1844-1845
Exhibited date: September 2003-June 2004
ML C 158 - Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848?)
Journal of Dr Ludwig Leichhardt's Overland Expedition in the Years 1844-45, revised by the Explorer, and Published with His Sanction.
Sydney, Statham and Foster, 1846
Exhibited date: September 2003-June 2004
ML C 159 - Robert Thornton (1768? - 1837)
The Temple of Flora; or Garden of Nature
London: J.R. Thornton, 1807
Exhibited date: July 2003 to June2004
09:RX581.9/1 - Francois Le Vaillant (1753-1824)
Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Paradis
Paris:chex Denne le jeune, et Perlet to 1806
Exhibited date: July 2003-June 2004
09:F598.8/14-15 - Freeman & Co (possibly George)
Robert Louis Stevenson and family
Exhibited date: September 2003 to March 2004
ML P3/Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
The South Seas: A record of three cruises in the islands - Part 1, The Marquesas, c. 1889
Exhibited date: September 2003 to March 2004
ML C233 - Ethel Turner (1870-1958)
Seven Little Australians, 1893
Exhibited date: June to December 2003
ML MSS 7019 - Andrew Barton Paterson (1864-1941)
'The Man from Snowy River', c. 1895
Exhibited date: June to December 2003
ML MSS 314/195 (filed at ML A1909) - Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
'A Vision of Sandy Blight', c. 1898-1899
Exhibited date: June to December 2003
DL MS 31 - Kerry & Co
With the compliments of Mr & Mrs Quong Tart, 1892, Gallop House, Ashfield, Sydney, NSW
Exhibited date: July to December 2003
SV1A/ASHF/2 - Creelman & Co
Quong Tart and family, c. 1899-1903
Exhibited date: July to December 2003
PXD 660/20 - Henry Parkes (1815-1896)
Letter of introduction, 1 March 1894
Exhibited date: July to December 2003
ML MSS 5094/1/2 - 'Bon Voyage' letter to the Quong Tart family from employees, 20 April 1894
Exhibited date: July to December 2003
ML MSS 5094/1/2 - Prospectus of Quong Tart tea Company, 1900
Exhibited date: July to December 2003
ML MSS 5094/3/6 - Letter received by Quong Tart after his assault, 1902
Exhibited date: July to December 2003
ML MSS 5094/1/4 - New South Wales General Standing Orders
Sydney: Printed by George Howe, 1802
Exhibited date: January to September 2003
ML Safe 1/17a - Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
Sydney: Printed by George Howe, 1803 and 1804
Exhibited date: January to September 2003
DL F8/50 - John William Lewin (1770-1819)
Birds of New South Wales, with Their Natural History
Sydney: Printed by George Howe, 1813
Exhibited date: January to September 2003
DL Q81/9 - John and Elizabeth Gould
Tanagra Darwini, 1840-1843
Exhibited date: July 2006 – June 2007
DSM Q591.9/D/Set, Pl. 34
This Archive is being progressively created over the course of the Heritge Collection exhibition, which commenced in 2003.