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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A glimpse of Perth, Western Australia
Photographer: The Hart Co.
View of the Barrack Street jetty, waterfront and buildings of Perth seen from an elevated position. The scene is framed by the foliage of various native plants, including eucalypts and possibly banksias.The photograph was probably taken from Mount Eliza and includes the back view of a seated man wearing a boater hat. Mount Eliza is located in Perth Park which 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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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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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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Artesian bore, Western Australia
Photograph of a vertical pipe with a nozzle spraying water in three directions. In the background is a hillside with trees.
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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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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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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 balustraded parapets, but many establishments are also decorated with iron lace trim on veranda posts and railings. The street scene also shows horsedrawn vehicles, pedestrians, lanterns and power and telegraph poles. Various businesses have their names painted on or attached to the buildings. They include: GREENHAM & EVANS/ PHOTO ARTISTS; AH LING/ DRAPERS, GROCERS; PREMIER BOOT CO..
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Barrack Street, Perth, Western Australia
Photographer: The Hart Co.
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 ones with Classical revival details such as fluted pilasters and balustraded parapets, 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.
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Barrack Street, Perth, Western Australia, decorated for the Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
View looking down Barrack Street from Murray Street. The occasion is the celebration of sixty years of Queen Victoria's reign. The street decorations include a street arch with: GOD BLESS OUR NOBLE QUEEN and a profile portrait of Victoria in a medallion. Buildings are draped with bunting and banners and foliage has been arranged in barrels, on balconies and as festoons along shop fronts. On the left, the street is lined by shops such as The Perth Milk Palace. At the corner of Barrack and Hay Streets is Perth'sTown Hall with the Government Titles offices built in 1896 to its 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. It has a shingle roof and like all Perth buildings of this era is constructed of bricks laid in chequered Flemish bond.
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Botanical gardens and General Post Office, Perth, Western Australia
View from the Botanical Gardens looking across St Georges Terrace to the Treasury Building that was used for a period as Perth's General Post Office. The gardens include paths, formal beds and exotic plantings such aloes and conifers. 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.The building is constructed in the typical style of colonial Perth with decorative brickwork 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.
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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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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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Clyde, Perth?, Western Australia
Photograph of a single storey brick house with a decorative semi-circular treatment on the gable and a bay window. The roof is tiled and the ridges are emphasised by being capped with terra cotta crestings.The house features patterned brickwork, some iron lace trim 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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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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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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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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Freshwater Bay, Claremont, Western Australia
View of the Freshwater Bay foreshore of the Swan River seen from above a house and garden. The garden is bounded by a steel post and wire fence and runs down to the river and a small jetty. Three girls can be seen down by the water. The house is of stone construction with a corrugated iron roof and a brick chimney. A trellis-walled room is attached to the back of the house and there are several other iron roofed structures on the block. The garden plants include eucalypts and pine trees, a bank of agapanthus along the back and a climbing plant at the rear of the house. The settlement of Claremont was originally called Freshwater Bay because the crew of H.M.S. Beagle found fresh water oozing out of the sand there. In the nineteenth century, Claremont was a separate township, but as the city railway network grew, it became a suburb of Perth.
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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.