Canberra: Federal Parliament House real photo Opening Day Celebrations showing crowd of automobiles and buses in unsealed dirt parking lot with newly-completed building in background and visitors walking towards it, unused, minor surface fault at L/R.
Canberra: Federal Parliament House real photo Opening Day Celebrations showing throng of onlookers outside the newly-completed building watching the dignitaries holding ceremony on its steps beneath Australian & Union Jack flags, unused, corner bend at L/R.
Canberra: Telopea Park School real photo showing buildings & classrooms sitting in a field, unused, very minor blemishes. Telopea Park School was founded in 1923, and is the oldest school in Canberra.
Canberra: Civic Centre real photo showing building with 'Snow's' signage and 1920s auromobiles parked out front, unused, couple of very minor blemishes.
Canberra: Hotel Canberra real photo showing cluster of low-rise buildings with Model T Ford passing by on partly made road still under construction, used under cover with message dated "Canberra/2.6.27" on back, minor blemishes.
Canberra: Hotel Wellington real photo showing building from vacant lot across the street & nice touring automobile out front, unused, couple of very minor blemishes.
Canberra: Albert Hall real photo showing building from across the street which boasts what appears to be an early roundabout, couple of very minor blemishes, unused. [For many years, the home of Canberra's biennial stamp exhibitions]
Canberra: 1927 'Opening of the First PARLIAMENT at CANBERRA ...' real photo over-sized card with panoramic views of Parliament House & Military Review, Canberra 1½d tied by 'PARLIAMENT HOUSE CANBERRA/9MY27/ FCT' cds being the First Day of Issue hinged in place below, a couple of very minor bends. [A similar card in very fine condition sold at our auction of 29.8.2020 for $958]
Canberra: 'CANBERRA, May 9, 1927' Rose Series real photo card with aerial view of Parliament House (opening day; hidden behind trees), Government House and a sparse group of new 'model homes' dotted in the surrounding countryside, Canberra 1½d tied by 'CANBERRA/16MY27/FCT' cds affixed on back, couple of very minor bends.
Canberra: 1927 Royal Visit of the Duke & Duchess of York set of 6 each with inset images of their Highnesses (later KGVI & Queen Elizabeth) and views of Parliament House, Speaker's Chair, Government House, Hotel Canberra, Hotel Acton and Cotter River Dam, a couple of minor blemishes.
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Cotter Dam: Spillway & Dam real photo showing the gorge and surrounding hills, used under cover with message dated "30/12/35" on back, couple of minor blemishes.
Duntroon: Royal Military College real photo (Howard & Shearsby, Yass) view of buildings & layout from the observatory, unused, a few blemishes mostly on back.
Duntroon: Royal Military College real photo close-up view of barracks with college buildings in background, used under cover with message dated "Dec 1913", couple of minor blemishes.
Duntroon: Royal Military College real photo (Howard & Shearsby, Yass) view of path to barracks with college buildings at left, couple of minor blemishes.
Duntroon: Royal Military College real photo (Lord Dudley, 27.6.1911) view of cadets, officers & dignitaries on parade ground for passing-out parade with spectators behind fence and college buildings in background, used 1912 with NSW 1d Arms tied by just-discernable 'QUEANBEYAN' cds, couple of minor corner bends.
Duntroon: Royal Military College three real photo cards showing different views of cadets, officers & dignitaries on parade ground for passing-out parade with spectators and buildings in background, unused, couple of minor blemishes.
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Duntroon: Royal Military College real photo (Nada Studios, Sydney) showing group of cadets in dress unirforms endorsed "Staff Cadets/2nd Class 1913" on view side and "RMC Duntroon, Fed Territory 2/2/1914" on reverse, unused, minor surface fault at U/R.
Flood scenes mostly in rural areas notably Victoria real photos of the Yarra flooding at Burnley/Richmond x5, also NSW main streets at Maitland c.1960 ? (creased), Moree 1910 & Tamworth c.1910 (?).
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WWII hand-illustrated in blue ink "HITLER DER/SCHWEIN" signed "Dudley Anderson" on the reverse of an Australian Red Cross postcard, minor blemishes, unused.
Wool Industry group from rearing and drafting sheep to shearing & classing the wool, various publishers including Kerry x2, postally used or used under cover.
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Charles Kerry Pioneer Life Series 'Discharging Cargo on the Darling' (a fine action shot), 'A Camp in the Back Country' (reminiscent of the Last Supper), 'A Bush hut' with bullock team & an empty cart), 'A Halt with the Packs' (packhorses) & 'Clearing Scrub Lands' (with a row of tents in the background), a few blemishes, four unused.
(Qty 5)
Aboriginal group including 'After the Kangaroo Hunt', Kerry 'Mystic Bora Ceremony' and c.1905 'artist' cards x6 that are probably the ugliest cards ever produced by his studio, a large group of women & children at 'FINKE RIVER', 1906 'LAUNCESTON CENTENARY' with Captain Patterson being greeted by unfriendly inhabitants, and a couple of others, condition variable.
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