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Hauling logs, Karridale Timber Station
Photographer: not known
In 1884 Maurice Coleman Davies established a sawmill in the southwest of Western Australia which he named 'Karridale' after the karri timber in the area. In its heyday, Karridale Timber Station township was populated by 300 timber workers and their families and had a school and a hospital. The town declined in 1913, when the sawmill closed. In 1961 a fire destroyed most of the remaining buildings.
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Railway Station, Wellington Street, Perth, Western Australia
View of Perth Railway Station and Wellington Street. The scene includes a number of men gathered around the arcades of the nearest building where large squarish wicker containers are stacked. The street contains a variety of horsedrawn vehicles. Some of these are four wheeled covered carriages, presumably designed to carry passengers, while other two wheeled carts appear to be used for delivering goods. The railway station was designed by Richard Roach Jewell and built in two stages. The first stage was completed in 1885, but between 1894 and 1898 the structure was considerably extended and remodelled. The complex consists of two two-storeyed wings with arcades that flank a central section with a veranda and a three storey entrance façade that incorporates a large clock. The construction features the brickwork typical of colonial Perth as well as Victorian classical relief decoration on the entablatures.
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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.
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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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Queen's Gardens, Perth, Western Australia
View of Queen's Gardens, East Perth, opened in 1899, on the site of a former claypit. The area has been planted with lawns and deciduous trees such as weeping willows. The park is equipped with paths, benches, a rustic bridge and a lifebuoy. On the water, black swans and white birds are watched by a boy wearing knickerbockers. Visible in the distance are various buildings including a very long structure that is possibly an exhibition hall, and an ornate building with a mansard roof.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Norwood, Perth?, Western Australia
Photograph of a two storeyed brick house with a veranda and possibly an extra room in the roof. The roof is tiled and the ridges are emphasised by being capped with terra cotta crestings. The house features extensive use of decorative wooden fretwork trim around the gable, under the roof line and on and under the verandah. There is also a wooden finial on the gable. 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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Serpentine Falls, Western Australia
View of a hillside with a waterfall cascading down rocks to a stretch of relatively still water. The surrounding vegetation includes thin trunked trees with sparse foliage and low growing shrubs. The Falls and the Serpentine Dam, which is a major water catchment area, are located 54 kilometers SW of Perth near the Darling Range. For many years the Serpentine Falls has been a popular recreational destination for Perth residents.
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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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Hauling logs, Karridale Timber Station, Western Australia
Photograph with a forest backdrop of a train loaded with logs in the foreground. A number of men stand on and alongside the train. Painted on the engine side panel is: M. C. DAVIES CO LTD., and below the funnel: KATE. Written on the cross section of the foremost log is: 156 (6 underlined)/ x/ 208 (8 underlined) girth. 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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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.