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Hotel Osborne and the water-tower, Peppermint Grove, Perth, Western Australia
Photograph of a large brick building and a square four storeyed tower set within fenced gardens. The water-tower has an external staircase and is surrounded by balconies guarded by diagonal cross fretwork railings. At the tower's upper corners are small open turrets capped with onion shaped cupolas. The hotel features Dutch scalloped gables and a square tower surmounted by a mansard roof. The hotel's balcony railings include balustrades, iron lace and fretwork.The Osborne was built in 1895 by the Grave family near where the Osborne Steps give access to the Swan River and the Osborne jetty. It was a very popular holiday destination in the 1890s, but in 1901 was taken over by the Loreto Convent and later became part of the premises of the Western Australia International College.
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Cutting timber, Karridale Timber Station, Western Australia
Photograph of timber-cutters in a forest. Four men stand on a platform around the base of a large tree and saw at the trunk with a long blade, while a man on horseback watches. A cut has already been made on the other side of the tree and two axes have been stuck into the trunk above the men's heads. The trees are probably eucalyptus diversicolor, known as karri. Maurice Coleman Davies, who established a sawmill in the area in 1884 named it Karridale after the virgin karri forest in the area. In its heyday, the timber station town was populated with 300 timber workers and their families and had a school and a hospital. The town declined when the sawmill closed in 1913 and in 1961 a fire destroyed most of the remaining buildings.
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St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia
Street scene in Perth's business centre with mostly commercial buildings and in the distance, two church spires. The spires belong to the new Trinity Church built in 1893 to a design by Henry Trigg. The new church is in front of the original 1864 building. Much of the street's architecture is in the Classical revival style, such as the building on the right with its arched openings, horizontal edgings and balustraded parapet. The establishment on the left corner features continuous verandas guarded by foliate wrought iron lace railings. Various businesses have their names painted on walls including : NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY. The scene also shows various horsedrawn vehicles, cyclists, streetlights, trees and power and telegraph poles.
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Hay Street, Perth, Western Australia
View looking along Hay Street with the clock tower of the Town Hall visible on the right. Many of the mostly commercial two storeyed buildings have facades decorated with pilasters, capitals, entablatures and ornate parapets supporting urns. On the right, a draper's premises has a veranda supported by cast iron poles trimmed with iron lace. Various businesses have their signs painted on or attached to the buildings. They include: S. FREEDMAN, Tailor, Clothier & General Outfitter. There are also signs that indicate the establishments of express carrying services, drapers, jewellers and opticians. Other details in the scene include a large clock on the left, streetlights and power and telegraph poles. Perth'sTown Hall was designed by Richard Roach Jewell and completed in 1870. It was built in the style of a Tudor market hall with a clock tower and spires and for many years town markets were held there.
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Barrack Street, Perth, Western Australia
View looking down Barrack Street towards Perth Water, with the Town Hall clock tower visible on the left. The Town Hall was designed by Richard Roach Jewell and completed in 1870. It was built in the style of a Tudor market hall with a clock tower and spires and for many years town markets were held there. The mostly commercial buildings include a few with Classical revival details such as fluted pilasters, but many establishments are also decorated with iron lace trim on veranda posts and railings. The street scene also shows horsedrawn vehicles, pedestrians and power and telegraph poles. Various businesses have their names painted on or attached to the buildings. They include: GREENHAM & EVANS/ PHOTO ARTISTS; J. T. -UNNOCK; BROWN & BROWN/ MANUFACTURERS of PNEUMATIC TYRES; SUMMERFIELD/ THE CELEBRATED TAILOR FROM SYDNEY; P. SEELIGSON/ CITY LOAN OFFICE.
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Masonic Temple, Hay Street, Perth, Western Australia
Photographer: A. Pickering
Photograph of a two storeyed brick and sandstone building known as the Old Masonic Lodge. It was built in 1867 to a design that may have been by Richard Roach Jewell. It is an example of the Gothic revival architectural style and features details such as arches and towers. Various Masonic symbols decorate the front façade including the five-pointed star and a square and compass united. The Latin inscription above the entrance is: AUDI VIDE TACE (Hear, See, Be Silent). Around 1895, a new western wing was added.The building was demolished in 1971. During its history it had had a number of occupants: the Mines Department; The Agricultural Bank (Rural & Industries Bank); and, the Public Trust Office.
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Bunbury looking east, Western Australia
Photograph taken from an elevated position of the buildings and streets of Bunbury with Koombana Bay, Leschenault Inlet and a number of islands visible in the distance. The town buildings include a two storeyed structure with a veranda which is probably a hotel and a stone house with a dormer window. On the left can be seen a goods train silhouetted against the water.
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Mounts Bay Road, Perth, Western Australia
View from an elevated point, of the Swan River, the cliffs of Kings Park on the right and Mill Point on the left. Mounts Bay Road runs along the shoreline beside plots of land on which are houses, fences and other structures. Perth Park was re-named Kings Park in 1901 in honour of the accession of King Edward VII.
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Barrack Street Bridge, Perth, Western Australia
View of the 1894 Barrack Street Bridge as it crosses the railway line. To either side of the main bridge are footbridges guarded by iron lace railings and picket fences. A small child can be seen on the far left. Visible on the right is the Town Hall which was designed by Richard Roach Jewell and completed in 1870. It was built in the style of a Tudor market hall with a clock tower and spires and for many years town markets were held there.
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Botanical Gardens, Perth, Western Australia
View of curved garden beds set amid lawns and paths, with trees and buildings in the distance. The foreground bed is planted with staked chrysanthemums and a border of silver leafed artemisia. Other plantings in the park include trees, evergreen shrubs, palms and bamboo. The Botanical Gardens are located on land set aside as a public park in 1845. In the course of the park's existence it has been known by many names including the Treasury Gardens, Government Gardens, Stirling Gardens and the Supreme Court Gardens.
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Oceana, Perth?, Western Australia
Photograph of a single storey brick house on a corner block. The building is designed with a deep roofed corner wing with verandas on two sides. This section is flanked by two wings with gables. The roof is tiled and the ridges are emphasised by being capped with terra cotta crestings. The house features elaborate chimneys, finials on the roof and decorative wooden fretwork trim and corner pieces under the veranda and at the tops of the veranda posts. The house is an example of the Queen Anne architectural style which was especially popular in Perth between 1895 and 1910. This image is one of six similar pictures of houses with names written on them. Three of the house names: Norwood, Clyde and Kadina are also those of ships that brought people to Western Australia in the nineteenth century. All houses have the same type of fence and appear to be new. It may be that they are sample houses that the Intercolonial Investment and Land Building Company staff displayed to prospective buyers of house designs.
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Perth from a ferry boat, Western Australia
View of the city seen from the water. On the left a long low boat lies alongside the boatsheds and jetties of the [SWAN] RIVER SHIPPING COMPANY, while another jetty can be seen on the right of the photograph. The road running along the shoreline is Riverside Drive. Buildings visible on St Georges Terrace which runs parallel to the foreshore, include the colonial classical facade of the Treasury Buildings of 1874-77and the spires of Trinity Church, built in 1865. Further to the right can be seen the clock tower of the Town Hall on Hay Street of 1867 while slightly to the right of center is the turret and many verandas of the Esplanade Hotel, built in 1898.
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Stirling Terrace, Albany, Western Australia
View of the upper side of Stirling Terrace and of the town as it extends away from the coastline. The street runs parallel to the shoreline of Princess Royal Harbour which is one block away. The buildings include THE ROYAL GEORGE hotel, while Glasgow and Edinburgh Houses accommodate respectively: JOHN MOIR & CO.; and, JOHNSON & CO., chemist. The Argyle Buildings house the offices of the: ADELAIDE STEAMSHIP COY. LIMTD.; AUSTRALASIAN UNITED STEAM NAV. COY. LTD.; ALBANY PRODUCE & GROCERY CASH STORE; WM. HOWARD SMITH; and GEORGE WILLS, agent for the ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. A street away is the façade of REYNOLDS GARDEN THEATRE. Most of the commercial buildings are two storeyed, with arched windows, parapet finials such as urns and corrugated iron roofs. The hotel has verandas and iron lace railings. The building with the clock tower surmounted by a cupola is the Albany Town Hall on York Street. It was opened in 1888 and the clock was installed in 1891. Other structures include a large corner hotel below the town hall and a windmill.
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Hotel Osborne, Peppermint Grove, Perth, Western Australia
Photograph of a large brick building with arched verandahs, balustrades, Dutch scalloped gables and a square tower surmounted by a mansard roof. At all levels of the building guests occupy balconies that are guarded by various types of railing, including iron lace and diagonal cross fretwork. The surrounding gardens are furnished with benches and sun shelters, and are planted with young palms and grasstrees. The Osborne was built in 1895 by the Grave family near where the Osborne Steps give access to the Swan River and the Osborne jetty. It was a very popular holiday destination in the 1890s, but in 1901 was taken over by the Loreto Convent and later became part of the premises of the Western Australia International College.
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Perth from Hay Street West, Western Australia
Photographer: T. Kelly
View of Perth seen from an elevated undeveloped block of land. A man with a dark moustache wearing a bowler hat surveys the block. He resembles the man in other photographs taken by T. Kelly. The large building on the left with its ornate tower and many iron lace decorated verandas is the Federal Hotel on Wellington Street. It was built in 1896 by Bernard Stein and was demolished to make way for a freeway. Faint smoke around the centre of the view is probably from the railway station on Wellington Street. The buildings visible from beyond the fence seem to be mostly residential and encompass both freestanding houses and terraces such as those to the right of the Federal Hotel.
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Entrance gates, Perth Park, Perth, Western Australia
Photographer: T. Kelly
Photograph of various structures at the point where a road leads into a bushland park. The structures include ornate wooden gateposts, tall scalloped picket fences, a covered gateway and a stone building with decorative beams on its gables.There are two horsedrawn vehicles in the driveway. One has four wheels and a folded down roof. The other is two wheeled and is drawn by a similar white-nosed horse and driven by a similar man to those in other photographs in this collection taken by T.Kelly. The man has a dark moustache and is dressed in a white shirt, jacket and bowler hat. The two wheeled carriage has a lantern attached. Perth Park was re-named Kings Park in 1901 in honour of the accession of King Edward VII.
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Albany from the pier, Western Australia
Wharfside scene of men sitting on the edge of a jetty that curves back towards the town. Alongside the pier is a sailing boat and a tugboat. Railway tracks run along the timber covered jetty which also has large wooden mooring posts and oil fuelled streetlights, erected in 1884. On the Albany waterfront can be seen signs such as: .REW ROBINSON & Co.; and: MY PET. Drew, Robinson & Co. was a major Albany business which was formed when John Robinson of Mckail & Co. joined with Charles Drew. The street running parallel to the shoreline is Stirling Terrace. The three storeyed building with verandas and two gables was built in 1870 on the corner of Stirling Terrace and Spencer Street. It housed the Albany Post office, Court House and Customs Office until 1898 when the court house moved to a new building.
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Railway station, Albany?, Western Australia
View of railway line and town buildings situated on the shores of a stretch of water, with land masses on the horizon. A passenger train is stationary on the line which runs very close to the water. The railway station is a long building behind a picket fence with verandas, exposed beams on the gables and corrugated iron roofs. A house in the lower right corner with corrugated walls and an iron roof has painted on its gable: F. ROYNES, SOLICITOR. A billboard near the railway yard features a poster with several figures and the words: YANKEE DOODLE TOBACCO. Other details in the scene include small boats, a tank on a stand by the water, a flagpole and clusters of fence pickets that presumably protect young trees.
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Royal Perth Hospital, Murray Street, Western Australia
Photographer: The Hart Co.
View of Murray Street with the brick buildings of the Royal Perth Hospital of 1896 on the left. It is built in the Queen Anne Tudor revival style with turrets, bay windows and decorative beam work on the gable and porch. In the distance can be seen Victoria Square, originally known as Church Square, and the façade of St Marys Roman Catholic Cathedral. The cathedral's construction began in 1863 to plans drawn up by Augustus Pugin.
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Queen Victoria' Diamond Jubilee Day celebration, Perth, Western Australia
Photograph taken from the Esplanade, of Perth Water with South Perth in the distance. The occasion is probably the celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Crowds of people, including many women holding parasols, watch lines of troops on parade along the foreshore. A marquee can be seen on the recreation ground behind a line of trees. On the water, a structure with diagonal cross verandas is linked to the land by a jetty. In the foreground are a variety of horsedrawn vehicles and several bicycles.