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Panorama of Sydney entitled "Panorama du Port Jackson et de la ville de Sidney, pris d'une colline pres de la riviere de Parramatta"
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2096
Content Description
Rare single sheet French edition of this highly important panoramic aquatint view of Sydney, based upon Major James Taylor's three-sheet panorama published in London, in 1823. A panorama based on his drawings was exhibited at Barker's Panorama, London in 1824.
Dates:
Publication: ca 1824
Panoramic scene of the field of Battle, near Waterloo ... for the Panorama, Leicester Square
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1101
Scope and Contents
There are 8 parts to the panorama and it was intended that they be joined together to form a complete circle. The viewer would then stand in the centre and have a panoramic view of the entire scene of Battle. Each part is around 60cm x 29cm. Drawn on the Plateau of Mont St. Jean, they show:
- No.1 -The farm at La Haye Saint, and more
- No.2 - Around the orchard of...
Dates:
1816
Papers and artwork of Yolanda Sonnabend relating to her collaboration with C.H. Waddington
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1461
Scope and Contents
Contains:
Coll-1461/1: original artworks created by Yolanda Sonnabend for C.H. Waddington's book 'Tools for Thought'
Coll-1461/2: collections of articles and research materials relating to Waddington's work, including manuscripts for his books 'Beyond Appearance', 'The Man-Made Future' and 'Tools for Thought'
Coll-1461/3: letters to Yolanda Sonnabend, chiefly from C.H....
Dates:
c.1960-2005
Papers and Correspondence of Arthur Berriedale Keith
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-34
Scope and Contents
The Papers and Correspondence of Arthur Berriedale Keith contain Colonial Office correspondence between 1901 and 1914; correspondence about constitutional matters from 1908 to 1939; correspondence, literary and general, with political figures such as R. Stafford Cripps and Herbert Samuel; material relating to the Government of India Bill, 1931-35, and to the Peace Treaty, 1919; news cuttings on Crown matters involving the abdication and coronation, 1936-37; material on Malta between 1924 and...
Dates:
1899-1966
Papers and correspondence of Daniel John Cunningham
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-11
Scope and Contents
The papers cover the years 1876 to 1910 and contains a great many autograph letters from eminent anatomists and medical men, including ten letters from Joseph Lister. There is also a substantial sequence of notebooks and working papers containing detailed notes of experiments and dissections together with drawings and drafts for lectures, and a separate sequence of manuscripts for lectures and addresses. An item of particular interest is an album of 96 photographs from Cunningham's service...
Dates:
c 1876-1910
Papers and Correspondence of H. B. Cruickshank
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-81
Scope and Contents
The Papers and Correspondence of Helen Burness Cruickshank include letters connected with her career in the Civil Service, and retirement from it, covering the years 1913-1945; an engagements diary for 1972; an address book of friends; autobiographical notes; contributions to PEN; letters; short stories; lectures, talks and speeches; notes for articles; accounts and reviews; a horoscope. There is holograph and typescript material, drafts of poems, pencil sketches, a scrapbook, cuttings, and...
Dates:
1900-1972
Papers and correspondence of John Cunningham
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-30
Scope and Contents
The papers include full documentation (case histories, experimental notes and data) of Cunningham's medical researches in India, and in particular of his prolonged and exhaustive work on the bacteriology and immunology of relapsing fever, and the major programme on the treatment of rabies which he instituted on his appointment as Director of the Pasteur Institute, Kasauli, (where over 8,000 cases a year were treated). There are also records of the work on vaccine lymph carried out at the...
Dates:
1905-1968
Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-490
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers, articles, correspondence, publications, photographs, audio-visual material, and artefacts of Professor George "Sam" Shepperson, a prominent scholar of African and American African history, and Malawi specialist. This includes, among other things, papers and correspondence relating to central and eastern Africa with special reference to Malawi and Tanzania (including correspondence of Julius Nyerere); papers on nationalism in Nyasaland (Malawi), including...
Dates:
late 19th-century - late 20th century
Papers and Correspondence of Sir James Mackenzie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-84
Scope and Contents
Many of the papers of Sir James Mackenzie are unindexed. The collection consists of correspondence, largely from the 1900s to the 1920s; notebooks; photographs of people and hospital locations; plans; medical journal articles and other printed material; bundles of notes; reviews of his work; assorted cuttings and typescripts. There is also an album of cuttings and notices, and Mackenzie's birth certificate.
Dates:
circa 1900-1940
Papers and letters of Sir John Dalrymple, on the subject of fish soap
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1917
Scope and Contents
Papers and letters of Sir John Dalrymple, on the subject of "fish soap from herrings", 1798-1799.
Dates:
1798-1799