1850s

Wirrabara. The original state school built in 1879. It was replaced with a new brick school in 1921 further along East Terrace. It has been a residence since 1921.
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Baroota. SA. The ruins of Baroota homestead at Mambray Creek today. Unocccupied since 1969 in Mt Remarkable National Park. Dates from 1853. Owned by the Yeates brothers. Pug and native pine construction with stone fire places.
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Tanunda. The Barossa Valley. The old Telegraph Station and Post Office built in 1865. Now the town museum.
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Hallett. Storage shed of the Hallett General Store which was run by Drew and Crewes of Burra. Adverts for Lion flour coffee essence etc.
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1850s Digger in Main Street
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Internal roof structure of No3 Covered Slip at Chatham Dockyard
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Macclesfield. Old town garage with fading signage.
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Napier. Art Deco city of New Zealand. The National Tobacco Company building erected in 1932 after the 1931 earthquake.
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Whyalla. In the Maritime Museum. Old photo of ship building during World War Two.
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Bundaberg. The city's Anglican Church. Built in 1876.
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Wirrabara. Town memorial to local land owner Alexander Scott Murray of Wirrabara station who died aged 34 years in 1880. A highly respected member of the community. .
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Whitwarta. Werocata homestead. Built pastoralist by Edmund Bowman 1864 and extended by Edmund Bowman junior in 1883.
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Hervey Bay. Two humpback whales swimming in Wide Bay beside Fraser Island.
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Barunga Gap. Hummocks Station homestead. Built in local red ironstone in 1858. Purchased by Robert Barr Smith in 1869 who changed the name from Barunga homestead..
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Corowa. The home of the people's movement for Australian federation. The old classical style Memorial Hall.
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Napier. New Zealand. A city of colourful Art Deco buildings. All built in the 1930s after the city centre was destroyed in the 1931 earthquake.
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Near Quorn. Pichi Richi railway steam train going around a sharp curve beside the road. Pichi Rich Pass leads from Port Augusta to Quorn in the Flinders Ranges through Pichi Richi Pass. This Great Northern Line was built in 1878.
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Brisbane War Memorial. The Cenotaph. The Eternal Flame. Anzac Square.
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Springton in the Adelaide Hills. Cheerful colourful ranunculi and River Red Gums in a garden. In October in a cottage garden. .
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Glanville near Semaphore. John Hart built his Tudor Gothic style mansion in 1856. he added this turreted tower as a lookout in 1865.
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Burra. Copper mining town from 1845 to 1870. Quaint old restored stone miners cottage from the 1850s.
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Holbrook. The old general store is still trading
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Echuca. Brigidine Convent and college built 1888.
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. Redwing Farm The farm established around 1875.This old stone shearers or shepherds cottage looks like it dates from around 1860 to 1870.
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Martindale Hall built for the Bowmans, a wealthy pastoral family at Mintaro in South Australia near Clare. It was used for the film "Picnic at Hanging Rock."Bowmans built Martindale Hall in 1879. It is one of the grandest houses in South Australia.
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Infrared HDR Pulpit Rock Park Colorado Springs
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Wirrabara. The 1884 Institute closed 1912 and became a furniture store. Consecrated as an Anglican Church 1964 with the 1908 foundation stone from the first demolished Anglican church.
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Gumeracha in the Adelaide Hills. Mount Lofty Ranges. The 1860 Wesleyan Methodist Church now a Uniting Church.The front porch was added in 1910 and the rear vestry built in 1897. .
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Echuca .On the Murray River. The former Post Office and clock tower designed in Italianate style. Erected 1877.
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1850s Digger in Main Street
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. The first Methodist Church in Weetulta opened in 1887. A new stone church was erected in 1906. This modern church hall was built in 1954.
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Maryborough. The rear of the old Bond Store which was built in 1860. It is now a museum.
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St Arnaud. Classical style 19th century bank building.
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Fisher-Nash-Griggs House
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Wirrabara. The old SAR South Australian Railways station sign. The railway reached here in 1910. Beyond a railway ganger's maintenance car.
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Auchendarroch the summer home of the Barr Smith family in Mt Barker in the Adelaide Hills.
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Weetulta Yorke Peninsula. Donkeys at Redwing Farm.
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Inman Valley. Cairn to Robertsons Springrove homestead and the first Inman Valley Post Office of 1855. Now just teh cairn and the fireplace remain. Demolished in 1983.
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Red House
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Inman Valley near Victor Harbor. The striated glacial pavement at Glacier Rock on the Inman River. Evidence of glacial erosion across these rocks was made in 1859. Glaciers were active about 300 million years ago.
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Glanville.Tudor Gothic Glanville Hall built for John Hart in 1856. Castellated tower and ballroom added in 1865. Hart became a Premier of South Australia.
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Tanunda. This 1877 Hill and Son pipe organ was built for Adelaide Town Hall. It was removed in 1989 and put in storage before being moved to Tanunda. Restoration took 15 years. Now in the Soldiers Memorial Hall. .
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Dug out houses along Burra Creek South Australia. Early miners from 1845 lived in these dugouts until the early 1850s.
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Quorn railway yards now operated by Pichi Richi heritage railway society. Old water tank with Amgourie tea advertisement and some old rolling stock.
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Wisconsin State Capitol, Capitol Square, Madison, WI
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Casino. The railway from Murwillumbah reached Casino in 1894. This wooden railway station was erected in 1903.
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Flinders Ranges. A view of Wilpena Pound from Huck's Lookout. A popular painting spot for Sir Hans Heysen.
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Geelong. The Gordon Technical College. Building started in 1887 and opened in 1888. Became the Gordon Institute of Technology and now is Gordon College of TAFE. This wing added 1916 with Art Deco stained glass windows.
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Whyalla. One of the old BHP galvanised iron houses used by its workers. Built around 1910 to 1914. Now in the Mt Laura Homestead National Trust Museum.
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Albury. The panorma from the World War One Memorial on top of Western Hill at the end of the main street. Site suggested by Charles Reade the town planner from Adelaide.
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Valparaiso, Indiana, April 4, circa 1850s - Postal Cover
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1850s Women in Main Street
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Hobart. Government House was completed in 1857 in Gothic architecture style. Sandstone quarried on the property. Eastern main staircase from the state rooms to the first floor bedrooms. Window overlooks Derwent River. .
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Geelong. Cast iron fence and gate posts to the former Free Presbyterian Church at 2 Myers Street. Details of Melbourne foundries.
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Portrait of young women
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Coolah. The sandstone Anglican Church. Built in 1882. Started in 1875.
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Quorn South Australia. This Dutch gable adorns the old English Scottish and Australian bank which was built in 1881. It is now a fine little cafe. The louvred veranda is a more recent addition.
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Moockra. All the remains of the wooden railway station platform with old wooden train carriage.
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Birregurra. This Gothic Anglican parish hall was probably the original Anglican Church. The stone church was built in 1877. The town was established in the 1850s.
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Werribee. Dining room and table setting in Werribee Park mansion built in 1875 for the Chirnside brothers.
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