Tourism
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# 37798
QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU.
Wheat, Darling Downs, near Warwick.
[Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, between 1930 and 1940]. Large format gelatin silver print photograph, 300 x 370 mm; window-mounted in the original display mount of heavy board, the mount with manuscript calligraphic captions in ink and circular ‘Queensland Government Tourist Bureau’ with hand-drawn map; this photograph would have been used in either a …
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# 38848
Photographer unknown.
Beauty Spots of Adelaide, S. Australia.
[Circa 1914]. Handmade photo album, 80 x 210 mm, original textured brown paper wrappers with manuscript title in white ink to front ‘Beauty Spots of Adelaide, S. Australia’; containing [5] silver bromide prints, in uniform panoramic format 54 x 155 mm, mounted individually on the rectos of [5] leaves, each with a ms. caption in …
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# 38542
SYDNEY FERRIES LTD.
Sydney Harbour Showboat souvenir and harbour guide.
[Cover title]. Sydney, NSW : Sydney Ferries Ltd., [ca. 1950]. Large oblong octavo (174 x 240 mm), pictorial wrappers (light wear), stapled; [24] pp (including wrappers), with a large number of b/w photographic illustrations (most full-page), map; a good copy.
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# 37657
QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU.
Whitsunday Islands : Great Barrier Reef
[Brisbane : Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, between 1930 and 1940]. Six large gelatin silver print photographs in panoramic format, each 170 x 520 mm; window-mounted in pairs in three original display mounts of heavy board; each mount has a poetic manuscript calligraphic caption in ink at the centre, plus across the lower margin ‘Whitsunday Islands …
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# 37994
NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU; WESTON, Harry (illustrator)
[SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Alpine and Southern District for the tourist. New South Wales, Australia.
[Drop title]. Sydney : produced by the New South Wales Government Tourist Bureau ; printed by Posters Pty. Ltd, June 1938. Large folding sheet, 400 x 700 mm, folding to 210 x 140 mm, printed on both sides, recto with [8] panels each with b/w photographic illustration and text, and [2] panels forming the colour-illustrated …
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# 36905
VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS
Mornington
[Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; some surface loss at bottom corner, and marks at top edge, but overall in very good condition. A fine example …
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# 36904
VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS
Road to Toolangi, Healesville
[Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; some surface loss at corners, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs of Victorian …
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# 36911
VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS
Sassafras Gully
[Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; a few scratches at left edge, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs of …
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# 36910
VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS
Balcombe’s Creek, Mornington
[Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; wear at bottom corners, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs of Victorian scenery …
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# 36912
VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS
River Yarra at Heidelberg
[Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; a couple of scratches at right edge, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs …
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# 36898
VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS
Breakneck Gorge, Hepburn
[Melbourne, Vic. : Victorian Government Railways, between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; a few light marks, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs of Victorian scenery …
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# 36908
VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS
Cowes, Phillip Island
[Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; a few light marks, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs of Victorian scenery …
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# 36909
VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS
Cowes, Phillip Island [steam ferry in distance]
[Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; a few light marks, but overall in very good condition. A fine example of the large-format photographs of Victorian scenery …
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# 37732
Barrier Reef Islands Pty. Ltd
Holidays on the Great Barrier Reef
Mackay : Barrier Reef Islands Pty. Ltd., circa 1960. Tourist brochure, folding to DL size, illustrated wrappers, pp. [12], illustrated. Includes popular tourist activities such as climbing coconut palms, poking coral and riding turtles on the Great Barrier Reef.
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# 37733
BEDFORD, Randolph
Inland Australia : a series of photographs
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1928. Quarto, wrappers with title label (a little sunned and worn), pp. [16], with tipped-in photographs of Indigenous Australians by H. Basedow and topographic views by Donald Mackay. The cover design is not signed, however it is reminiscent of the woodblock or linocut designs of Margaret Preston.
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# 37511
Photographer unknown.
Crowd on Queenscliff Pier, Victoria, taken in the summer of 1921.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 137 mm, printed on Kodak Austral postcard stock; verso inscribed in pencil ‘Queenscliff 1921’; superb condition. Taken by an amateur photographer with a personal camera, this picture captures the expectant and happy atmosphere of men, women and children awaiting the arrival of the ferry at Queenscliff on a summer’s …