1870s

Paying the last turnpike toll
by The National Archives UK

french antique mirror crests close up
by frenchfinds.co.uk

Road Adjacent to Rail Tracks, Train Tracks, Downtown Riverside, California
by Ken Lund

Baseball trade card, “Taking things as they come”
by California Historical Society Digital Collection

Young Woman Sewing (1879) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Original from The Art Institute of Chicago. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
by Free Public Domain Illustrations by rawpixel

Mount Macedon. Tieve Tara garden in the autumn.
by denisbin

Seven centuries in Irlam and Cadishead.
by Irlam,Cadishead,Rixton with Glazebrook old photos

DSC08019
by denisbin

Streaky Bay on Eyre Peninsula. The town jetty was built between 1891 and 1896. Morning light and huge eucalyptus tree.
by denisbin

Australia Plains. The old general store and saddlery built 1876 and the Post Office built 1882.
by denisbin

Woods Point on the River Murray. One of 16 workers houses built around 1890 in the Morphett's private town. Irrigated river flats here for lucerne onion potatoes and big dairy herd.
by denisbin

Two Girls Reading (c. 1890–1891) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Original from The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
by Free Public Domain Illustrations by rawpixel

Castlemaine. A distinctive and unusual Gothic style church with much ornamentation of its facade. Built as a Congregational Church in 1861 in front of an earlier 1855 church. Now Presbyterian.
by denisbin

Serviceton. The old railway refreshment rooms in the Serviceton Customs House and Railway Station built in 1889 for the Intercolonial Railway service which linked Melbourne and Adelaide in 1887.
by denisbin

Downtown Riverside, California
by Ken Lund

Red Rock Canyon State Park
by RuggyBearLA

Red Rock Canyon State Park
by RuggyBearLA

Port Augusta. Tracks from the demolished roundhouse with rail trucks and the Flinders Ranges beyond.
by denisbin

Kapunda. Horse hitching ring outside the North Kapunda Hotel which opened in 1849. Produced by Hawke and Co engineers and foundry of Kapunda. Hotel also known as Sir Sidney Kidman hotel until it reverted to North Kapunda Hotel name in 2010.
by denisbin

Adelong. Old gold mining town. The Post Office. The servcie began in 1886.
by denisbin

Looking east from Gage Avenue, circa 1870s.
by Local History & Archives, Hamilton Public Library

An oil rig from the 1960s at the Big Rig museum in Roma.
by denisbin

Apsley. These two English oak trees were planted in 1902 to commemorate the relief of Mafeking by Colonel Robert Baden-Powell and his British troops during the Boer War in May 1900.
by denisbin

Tusculum c.1831
by Sydney Heritage

Whiteford Lighthouse 5th Sept 2014 HDR (1)
by Gareth Lovering Photography

Arthurs Pass railway station in the Southern Alps New Zealand.
by denisbin

Riversleigh fossils. Mt Isa museum.Salt water crocodile
by denisbin

Bruxelles - Palais de Justice
by corno.fulgur75

Serviceton. In the old railway station of 1889 a 1950s poster for the Transcontinental Train service from mMelbourne to Perth
by denisbin

Used in Gold Mining
by Jocey K

Boedeker Bros. Confectionery
by SMU Libraries Digital Collections

Goolwa. Part of the historic Yankee Doodle tobacco mural on the ceiling of the Corio Hotel which was built in 1857.
by denisbin

Hallett. An old General Store in a side street now brightly painted as a home. Built about 1910.
by denisbin

Albany Whale World. Whale skeleton exhibit. Sperm whale 37 feet long.
by denisbin

Bendigo. In View Street the old Survey Office built in 1858.
by denisbin

Adelong. Old gold mining town. The Gold Reef Hotel.
by denisbin

Mount Gambier Railway Station. The wooden station built in 1879 was demolished and this Art Deco station built in 1918. Last passenger train left here 1990. Station closed 1995.
by denisbin

Greymouth New Zealand. Mural on the walls of the local newspaper depicting some of the coal mine disatsers of Greymouth.
by denisbin

Near Otira and Arthurs Pass in the Southern Alps. Trees and alpine snow in the Southern Alps.
by denisbin

Laura. Enlarged photo of Laura Hughes after whom the town was named. Town established in 1872.
by denisbin

Whyalla Sth Australia. Part of the steel works with the coking tower in the background.
by denisbin

Red Rock Canyon State Park
by RuggyBearLA

Kerang. Old steam tractor in the Kerang Historical Society Museum.
by denisbin

Adelong old gold mining town. The Adelonia Theatre. Originally built aroundn 1890 and modernised with a new facade in the 1930s.
by denisbin

Untitled
by Smithsonian Institution

Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. Centenary plaque unveiled in 1983. The current stone buildings were erected in 1927.
by denisbin

Cudahy Old Dutch Cleanser Mine (Red Rock Canyon State Park)
by RuggyBearLA

Maitland. The 1882 Italianate building probably the Mechanics Institute. In 1931 was a Bank of NSW. A few years later in 1946 it became the City Library. Facade detail of pilasters..
by denisbin

Yattalunga historic homestead. Two South Australian Premiers came from this house and it was once the grandest house outside of Adelaide in the 1850s. Yattalunga is near One Tree Hill.
by denisbin

Middleton. Middleton. The largest flourmill on the South Coast was built at Middleton in 1855 by William Bowman. It was enlarged and operated until 1886 by Bowman. It finally closed in 1915. Right by the railway.
by denisbin

Town Hall and clock tower in Ruthven sTreet Toowoomba. Erected in 1900. First Town Hall built in 1862.
by denisbin

Truro. The Bank of Adelaide. It was built in 1918 but the attached residence was built in 1897. In 1981 it was purchased and turned into the Truro Council Offices. It is now a residence.
by denisbin

Truro. An old 19th century store which was added to the Council Chambers in 1966 and used until new premises were acquired in 1981.
by denisbin

Macedon. The naked lady. Unusual headstone and memorial in the cemetery. Entitled "Asleep" carved 1987 by Peter Schipperheyn in Carrera marble.
by denisbin

P00083-49F
by GenealogySA

St Mary's
by itmpa

Manna Hill. The old iron government school still with a ventilator on the roof. The first school opened in 1899. This school room closed in 1967 and is now a green residence.
by denisbin

Bathurst. Information board about Governor Macquarie's cottage built in 1817 that was near this early cottage. It is now Old Government House cottage Museum.
by denisbin

Wellington. Old Courthouse doorway and rounded Georgian style and wall clock.
by denisbin

Kingston. Otter House built in 1859 for one of the Cooke brothers as their main house in their town of Kingston.
by denisbin