Old Catalogue
Manuscripts, oral history and pictures catalogue
Adlib Internet Server 5
Try the new catalogue. Start exploring now ›

Details



Print
433462
  • Title
    Richard Race Lewis - Sydney Expansion Scheme photographs, 1880-1931
  • Creator
  • Call number
    ON 290
    SLIDES 130
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    1880-1931
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    433462
  • Physical Description
    Photographs - 41 glass photonegatives - 12 x 16 cm. - some cracked or broken
    Photographs - 13 glass photonegatives - 8 x 10.7 cm.
    Photographs - 43 lantern slides - 8.2 x 8.2 cm.
  • Scope and Content
    SLIDES 130 (LANTERN SLIDES)
    1-4. Unidentified
    5. [Passenger train], Harris Park Station
    6. Site of first farm in NSW at Parramatta
    7. Bridge, Nepean River, Penrith
    8. Ferry, Parramatta Wharf
    9. Parramatta Dam
    10-11. Parramatta Park
    12. Bridge, South Creek, St Marys
    13. "All the slides exhibited / were made by / Kodak Ltd / and donated by the firm to the 'Sydney Expansion Scheme' / Mr R.R. Lewis - Granville / Promoter"
    14. Cowan Creek
    15. [Railway trolley], Emu Plains from Lapstone Hill
    16. [Mountain view]
    17-18. [Mountain river]
    19. Proposed designs for Warragamba Dam
    20. Water supply, County of Cumberland [map]
    21. Warragamba water scheme [map]
    22. Unidentified
    23. [North] Sydney and Harbour
    24. Circular Quay
    25. Circular Quay / H.King
    26. Unidentified railway bridge and river
    27. Como Railway Bridge [and dredge]
    28. Lansdowne Bridge
    29. Unidentified
    30-32. Unidentified bridge and river
    33. Georges River
    34-36. Unidentified
    37. [Excavation of stormwater canal]
    38-40. Unidentified
    41. Sydney's Expansion Scheme proposed swinging basin, junction Duck and Little Duck Rivers
    42. Sydney's Expansion Scheme, general view of first section
    43. Sydney Expansion Scheme, complete birdseye view

    ON 290 (NEGATIVES)
    1. Lansdowne Bridge
    2-4. [Georges River ?]
    5. [Dame Eadith Walker Hospital]
    6-14. [Unidentified scenes, incl. river and Harbour]
    15. [Railway yard, Clyde ?]
    16-18. Rings Bridge, Parramatta
    19-20. Granville from Harris Park Heights / E.Arundel, Windsor Road, Baulkam Hills
    21. [River]
    22. [Creek with boulders]
    23. Unidentified
    24. Duck Creek Bridge, Granville - oldest in N.S.W.
    25. Sydney's Expansion Scheme, general view of first section
    26. Sydney's Expansion Scheme proposed swinging basin, main wharf, wool & grain building
    27. Sydney's Expansion Scheme proposed railway & shipping building, Clyde
    28-32. [Views from the Burnside Homes Memorial Hall ?]
    33. [Granville area ?]
    34. Sydney Expansion Scheme, Warragamba water irrigation scheme
    35. Warragamba Dam
    36. Warragamba water scheme [map]
    37. Sydney's Expansion Scheme (no.1) - rough plan of the upper waters of Port Jackson to Parramatta
    38. Unidentified
    39-41. [Granville ?]
    42. Unidentified
    43. [Building stormwater or water supply channel]
    44-46. [Granville ?]
    47. Georges River, Fairfield
    48. Lansdowne Bridge, Fairfield
    49. [Brick culvert]
    50-53. [Bridges and rivers]
  • System of arrangement
    Photographer's order
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  • General note

    SLIDES 130/13-43 are housed in the original padded timber carrying box
  • Creator/Author/Artist
  • Topic
  • Place

Share this result by email