Sydney 1850-1900
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# 50338
THORNE (WATKINS), Rosalie Ann (1850-1927)
Rosalie Ann Thorne (later Watkins), of Rose Bay and Parramatta : a substantial archive of unique manuscript ephemera, 1850s-1890s, including family correspondence and material relating to the homeschooling of the Thorne and Watkins children.
Provenance: Rosalie Ann Thorne (1850-1927); Elizabeth Cecilia McNally, aka “The Duchess of Spring Hill” (1909-1996), legendary Brisbane antiques dealer and collector; private collection, Queensland. As the archive is so large, we have arranged it into four main sections catalogued under alphabetical headings, A – D (see below). ROSALIE ANN THORNE AND HER FAMILY Rosalie (“Rose”) Ann …
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![[SYDNEY] State Banquet in commemoration of the completion of the First Hundred Years of Australian Settlement. January 26th 1888.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3492-300x300.jpg)
# 50402
[NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT]
[SYDNEY] State Banquet in commemoration of the completion of the First Hundred Years of Australian Settlement. January 26th 1888.
Sydney : S. T. Leigh & Co., 1888. Menu. Folding gilt-edged card (195 x 135 mm), chromolithograph illustrated, with gold highlights; second and third sides with menu (catering was Baumann of Pitt Street under the supervision of W. G. Cassidy), toasts, and programme of music, featuring decorative borders with cartouche illustrations; light foxing overall, the …
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![[SYDNEY] Opening of St. Mary's Cathedral. Programme of music to be performed during the Triduum, 8th, 9th, & 10th Sept., 1882.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2429-300x300.jpg)
# 50062
[FITZPATRICK, M. J., Hon. Secretary]
[SYDNEY] Opening of St. Mary’s Cathedral. Programme of music to be performed during the Triduum, 8th, 9th, & 10th Sept., 1882.
[Sydney] : J. G. O’Connor, Printer, 26 Jamison-street, 1882. Duodecimo folding card, 150 x 90 mm, printed on [4] sides, text and illustration in purple, decorative borders in silver; front with manuscript entry in ink recording that the programme was issued to Miss Scollen, an official guest; last side with some superficial loss and residual …
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# 47232
FREEMAN BROTHERS
Daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman. Sydney, c.1855.
Sixth-plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 70 x 58 mm (sight); in a square brass mat with arch-top window; housed in a full leather case with the gilt-stamped crest of the photographers ‘FREEMAN BROTHERS / SYDNEY’ to verso, and with two working brass clasps; the daguerreotype is in excellent condition (a few specks of dust underneath …
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![[SYDNEY] Centennial Press Banquet. Given by the Proprietors of the Town & Country Journal & the Evening News, to Australian Press Representatives in the Town Hall ... on the 25th January, 1888. Presided over by His Worship John Harris, Esq., Mayor of Sydney.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2405-300x300.jpg)
# 50072
TOWN & COUNTRY JOURNAL & EVENING NEWS (proprietors of)
[SYDNEY] Centennial Press Banquet. Given by the Proprietors of the Town & Country Journal & the Evening News, to Australian Press Representatives in the Town Hall … on the 25th January, 1888. Presided over by His Worship John Harris, Esq., Mayor of Sydney.
[Sydney : s.n.], 1888. Large gilt-edged card, 125 x 205 mm; lithograph printed recto only in gold on heavy satin finish cardstock, illustration at centre dominated by an Australian coat of arms; a few light marks, verso with residual glue from where the card was once mounted in an album, otherwise in very good condition. …
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![[SYDNEY] The Government of New South Wales has the honour to invite J. G. O'Connor Esq. to the State Banquet, to be held in Sydney, on Thursday 26th January, 1888, in commemoration of the completion of the First Hundred Years of Australian Settlement.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3606-300x300.jpg)
# 50436
NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT. CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION COMMISSION.
[SYDNEY] The Government of New South Wales has the honour to invite J. G. O’Connor Esq. to the State Banquet, to be held in Sydney, on Thursday 26th January, 1888, in commemoration of the completion of the First Hundred Years of Australian Settlement.
[Sydney : Government printer, 1888]. “Pre”-invitation card, 115 x 152 mm, lithograph printed in black on cream card, O’Connor’s name entered in manuscript; a couple of tiny rust marks, small loss at one corner, verso with some residual glue and paper adhesions from where the menu was removed from an album mount, obscuring part of …
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![[SYDNEY] Laying the Foundation Stone of the Houses of Parliament. Monday, 30th January, 1888, at noon. Lady's ticket.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2417-300x300.jpg)
# 50070
BURNSIDE, C. L. (Sec. Secretary, Centennial Committee)
[SYDNEY] Laying the Foundation Stone of the Houses of Parliament. Monday, 30th January, 1888, at noon. Lady’s ticket.
[Sydney : Government Printer, 1888]. Duodecimo card, 60 x 92 mm, printed recto only in black on yellow card; signed by C. L. Burnside, Secretary of the Centennial Committee; some toning, verso with some superficial loss and residual glue from where the card was once mounted in an album, otherwise in very good condition. Provenance: …
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![[SYDNEY] Laying the Foundation Stone of the Houses of Parliament. Monday, 30th January, 1888, at noon. Admit Mr & Mrs J. G. O'Connor.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2434-300x300.jpg)
# 50069
BURNSIDE, C. L. (Sec. Secretary, Centennial Committee)
[SYDNEY] Laying the Foundation Stone of the Houses of Parliament. Monday, 30th January, 1888, at noon. Admit Mr & Mrs J. G. O’Connor.
[Sydney : Government Printer, 1888]. Duodecimo card, 60 x 92 mm, printed recto only in black on brown card; the O’Connors’ names recorded in manuscript, also signed by C. L. Burnside, Secretary of the Centennial Committee; verso with some superficial loss and residual glue from where the card was once mounted in an album, otherwise …
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# 48761
SYDNEY PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
“Building Allotments” timber yard with supervisor and workers. Sydney, c.1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 61 x 101 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Sydney Photographic Company / 200 Pitt St / opposite Victoria Theatre / Views of all prominent buildings in city & suburbs / carte de Visite and larger sizes / Stereoscopic views’; a strong print with excellent clarity; the mount …
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# 40306
BAYLISS, Charles (1850-1897)
Panorama of the Georges Head Battery and Sydney Harbour, looking across to North and South Head, 1874-75.
Two albumen print photographs, in identical 220 x 290 mm format, window-mounted side-by-side to form a contiguous two-part panorama; some light creasing, else very good condition. Two large-format prints forming a panorama of the Georges Head Battery looking east toward the Heads, and capturing the spectacular sweep of the harbour in the middle ground. Bayliss …
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![[SYDNEY] Menu for the luncheon for Cardinal Moran and visiting Bishops to mark the completion of the new sanctuary at St. Mary's Cathedral, given by the Lord Mayor of Sydney at the Town Hall, 29 January 1890.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/05/2026_DSFB_3496-300x300.jpg)
# 50403
[CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF SYDNEY]
[SYDNEY] Menu for the luncheon for Cardinal Moran and visiting Bishops to mark the completion of the new sanctuary at St. Mary’s Cathedral, given by the Lord Mayor of Sydney at the Town Hall, 29 January 1890.
[Sydney : s.n., 1890]. Menu in the form of a fan of three celery ribs (or stalks), die-cut, embossed and chromolithographed, and riveted at one end; the recto of one rib bears the printed menu, the venue, and the date, and on its verso is J. G. O’Connor’s inscription in ink: ‘Luncheon [for] Cardinal Moran, …
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![[SYDNEY] Great French Fair, in aid of St. Patrick's Presbytery, Fraser's old "City Mart," No. 322 George Street, near Post Office ... Opening Ceremon ... will be performed by His Eminence the Cardinal, on Saturday, 14th December, 1889.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2425-300x300.jpg)
# 50064
STEVENS, J. M. & W. J. SPRUSON (Hon. Secs.)
[SYDNEY] Great French Fair, in aid of St. Patrick’s Presbytery, Fraser’s old “City Mart,” No. 322 George Street, near Post Office … Opening Ceremon … will be performed by His Eminence the Cardinal, on Saturday, 14th December, 1889.
[Sydney : s.n.], 1889. Duodecimo card, 92 x 112 mm; lithograph printed recto only; printed in silver on cream card; manuscript entry in ink recording that the invitation was issued to the “Nation”, the Irish news periodical owned by J. G. O’Connor; verso with residual glue from where the card was once mounted in an …
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![[SYDNEY] Dinner to C. A. Goodchap, Esq. Exhibition Building, 29th November, 1888.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2701-300x300.jpg)
# 50110
NEW SOUTH WALES RAILWAYS (employees)
[SYDNEY] Dinner to C. A. Goodchap, Esq. Exhibition Building, 29th November, 1888.
Sydney : W. F. Smith, 1888. Folding card, 140 x 100 mm; lithograph printed in black and red on blue card, on four sides; illustrated front, second and third sides with Menu (catering was by The Compagnoni Palace Cafe and Catering Company, J. F. Gunsler, Manager), fourth (rear) side with Toasts; the rear with residual …
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# 40078
FREEMAN & PROUT
Signed portrait photograph of the Rev. George Fairfowl Macarthur, first Rector of St. Mark’s, Darling Point and Headmaster of The King’s School, Parramatta. Sydney, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm; signed in ink by the sitter ‘Yrs. faithfully Geo: F: Macarthur’; verso with the imprint of ‘Freeman & Prout, Photographers to Their Royal Highnesses The Prince & Princess of Wales & His Excellency the Governor, Sydney’; Rare portrait photograph – signed – of the …
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# 47163
STEPHEN, Alfred, Sir (1802-1894) & REID, David, jun. (1821-1906)
Correspondence between Sir Alfred Stephen and wealthy pastoralist David Reid Jnr., re. donation of funds for the establishment of St. Paul’s College, University of Sydney. October, 1855.
I. Sir Alfred Stephen, [Sydney] to David Reid [Jnr.], Goulburn. 2 October 1855. Manuscript letter, [4] pp., octavo; headed ‘In Court, Tuesday’, the letter is signed ‘in haste yours very truly Alfred Stephen’; the letter has some foxing and browning, but is complete and legible, tipped onto a nineteenth-century album leaf, along with the original …
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![[SYDNEY] Agricultural Society of N.S.W. Great Centennial Intercolonial Exhibition, 1888. Complimentary.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2423-300x300.jpg)
# 50065
WEBSTER, F. (Secretary)
[SYDNEY] Agricultural Society of N.S.W. Great Centennial Intercolonial Exhibition, 1888. Complimentary.
[Sydney : s.n.], 1888. Hexagonal card, 65 mm diameter; lithograph printed recto only; printed in gold on blue card; a little rubbed, small loss at bottom edge, verso with residual glue and superficial loss from where the card was once mounted in an album, otherwise in very good condition. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album …