Intercolonial Investment, Land and Building Company

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The company formed in 1885 to deal in real estate and to operate as banker and financial agents in the Australian colonies. In 1887, it absorbed the Joint Stock Building, Land and Investment Company Limited. The company became a subsidiary of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company Ltd in January 1960.

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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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Swan River from St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia
Photographer: The Hart Co.
View from a fenced block of land, looking over buildings and trees to the Swan River and South Perth. The foreground establishments appear to be mainly residential, but in the distance on the left can be seen some major city buildings such as the clock tower of the Town Hall. In the centre of the picture are jetties, ferries and sailing boats.
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Kadina, Perth?, Western Australia
Photograph of a single storey brick house with a small side wing, a verandah and an arched bay window with a heavy white framework. The roof is tiled and the ridges are emphasised by being capped with terra cotta crestings. The house features decorative wooden fretwork trim and corner pieces under the veranda and side wing roofs and on the bay window gable, and there are vertical wooden finials on the roof. 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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South Perth from Mount Eliza, Western Australia
View framed by trees and taken from an elevated point in Kings Park of the Swan River and South Perth. On Mill Point various jetties and buildings are visible, including the Old Mill in the centre. On nearby waters several boats can be seen. Perth Park was re-named Kings Park in 1901 in honour of the accession of King Edward VII.
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Ardmore, Perth?, Western Australia
Photograph of a symmetrical single storey brick house with a veranda that extends the full width of the front and two gables with semi-circular excisions.The roof is tiled and the ridges are emphasised by being capped with terra cotta crestings. The house features an arch shape over the entrance, finials on the roof and decorative wooden fretwork trim and corner pieces under the veranda and at the top 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 Mount Eliza, Western Australia
Photographer: T. Kelly
View of jetties, waterfront and buildings of Perth seen from an elevated position
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Perth from Mount Eliza, Western Australia
View of jetties, waterfront and buildings of Perth seen from an elevated position. Mount Eliza is located within Perth Park, which was re-named Kings Park in 1901 in honour of the accession of King Edward VII.
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Marine Terrace, Geraldton, Western Australia
View of a wide street near an intersection fronted by mostly commercial buildings. On the left is a stone building in a classical revival style with arches and a triangular entablature. Letters in relief on its facade identify it as:...G MEN'S SOCIETY. The full inscription may be: Working Men's Society. On the left corner is the Freemasons Hotel, proprietors: Jones & Inglis. It is a substantial structure with verandas trimmed with iron lace, ornate roof façades and a truncated conical tower. On the opposite corner a building with striped veranda roofs has the date 1895 on its façade. Painted signs on this establishment include: MEADOWCROFT; AUCTION ROOM; LAND; VALUATIONS. At the end of the street is a sign for: BURNS PHILP & Co.. The street scene also shows a four wheeled horsedrawn vehicle, people walking and standing, fences and power poles.
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Albany, Western Australia
Photograph taken from an elevated position, of the town looking towards Mount Melville on the right. The large building with a cupola slightly left of centre on York Street is the Town Hall. It was opened on 1 June 1888 and a clock was installed in its tower in 1891.
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Queen's Birthday Review, Esplanade, Perth, Western Australia
Photographer: A. Pickering
Photograph taken from the Esplanade of Perth Water and the Swan River, with South Perth in the distance. The occasion is Queen Victoria's seventy ninth birthday. Crowds of people kept at a distance by soldiers on horseback watch lines of troops on parade along the foreshore. Various buildings and a marquee can be seen on the recreation ground. On the water, a long structure with onion domes linked to the land by jetty is the Perth City Baths, demolished some time before 1925. In the foreground are a variety of horsedrawn vehicles.
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Llanelly, Perth?, Western Australia
Photograph of a single storey brick house with a small side wing, a verandah and an arched front window with a heavy white framework. The roof is tiled and the ridges are emphasised by being capped with terra cotta crestings. The house features decorative wooden fretwork trim and corner pieces under the veranda and side wing roofs, a semi-circle treatment on the gable and wooden finials on the roof. 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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Crawley Bay (Matilda Bay, Crawley), Perth, Western Australia
Photographer: T. Kelly
View framed by trees of a bay on the Swan River. A road edged with a post and rail fence runs along the foreshore and further around the bay can be seen a low jetty and houses on the far shore. A figure standing on the hillside looks similar to a man who occurs 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. Crawley Bay and Sutherland's Bay were two other names that Matilda Bay was known by. The estate bordering the bay had been first owned by Captain Currie and then by Henry Sutherland, but in 1910 it was acquired by the state and in 1922 it was vested in the University of Western Australia.
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Discharging cargo from "Innamincka", Fremantle, Western Australia
Dockside scene in which railway trolleys are being loaded with cargo from a steamship moored alongside. The ship has masts and a funnel. Attached to the mast is a derrick or pulley system for lifting and lowering objects.The rail wagons are stacked with furniture, sacks, crates, boxes and barrels.There are several men standing among the railway tracks. The "Innamincka" was an Adelaide Steamship Company ship which worked under the Company flag between 1890 and 1916. Subsequently, it was sold to Hong Kong. It was sunk by enemy action in December 1941.
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General Post Office, St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia
View looking along St Georges Terrace, of the Treasury Building that was used for a period as Perth's General Post Office. The scene includes several men standing near the entrance, bicycles, a weighing machine and tall white-painted posts through which wires are threaded. The building is constructed in the typical style of colonial Perth in decorated bricks and rendered facings. It has a high, steeply sloping roof with dormer windows, projecting pilasters and some Victorian classical ornament around the higher windows. The Treasury was built in two stages. The two storey Barrack Street frontage was designed by Richard Roach Jewell and completed in 1874. Around 1887 Chief Architect George Temple Pool designed the St Georges Terrace section and added a third storey to the earlier part of the complex.