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Photograph; Lawrence Hargrave by Kerry & Co. 310 George St.

1905-1915

Fairlight CMI Series 3 Mainframe

1985-1989

Musical keyboard for Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument.

1982

Light pen for Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument.

1982

Fairlight CMI Series 3 alphanumeric keyboard

1985-1989

Fairlight CMI Series 3 light pen

1985-1989

Fairlight CMI Series 3 graphics monitor

1985-1989

Lawrence Hargrave

1910

Photograph; Lawrence Hargrave by Kerry & Co. 310 George St.

1905-1915

Computer unit for Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument.

1982
Implantable cardiac pacemaker by Telectronics, Sydney, Australia 1980-1990

Implantable cardiac pacemaker by Telectronics

1980-1990
Variant of tintype, mounted into standing frame, of a family in Sydney, Australia 1929

Family in Sydney, Australia

1929
800 feet metal reel, colour, silent footage. Reel starts with aerial shots of Sydney, Australia (view of Sydney Opera House - start of construction 1959, completed in 1973) ; black frames ; sunrise or sunset/night shots ; window view on board of train ; airport with Austrian Airlines planes ; shots taken through plane window showing sun, clouds and montains ; various views of Syndney shot from street level, Syndey bridge, including shots from parc behind Opera House showing cranes (Opera in construction), street/road view ; in parc ; shots through plane window, landing and taking off (leaving Sydney?) Part 2 (after white leader): shots taken in Gibraltar, streets, views of the sea, house/architecture ; street, man with snakes (snake charmer?) ; shots taken from boat, filming Gilbraltar from sea ; Part 3 (film cut, no splice): Gilbraltar, view from sea/boat ; Cliff on Gibraltar, monkeys, group of people looking at a monkey Part 4 (film cut, no splice): shot taken through plane window, Gilbratar landing? ; BEA (British European Airways) plane at airport, group of people gathering ; shots of a hotel ; group of pople (tourist) visit Gibraltar (streets) ; Part 5 (film cut, no splice): railway, filmed from lineside, locomotive 1665 passing, hauling carriages, with people travelling inside opened freight wagons ?; shots taken on board train, window view plus view at back of the train of single line tracks

Original 16mm amateur film 'Australia, BEA Gibraltar, Railway Cynheidre'

circa 1960-circa 1970
Associated Press photograph titled 'Vivien Leigh arrives in Sydney'. Caption on back reads: British stage and screen actress Vivien Leigh, actor John Merivale (right) and actor-producer Robert Helpmann sign the visitors' book at Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney, yesterday, July 1, on their arrival from Britain via the United States. Miss Leigh dened that she had any plans to wed Merivale during their Australian tour.

Vivien Leigh in Sydney

01 July 1961
Poster (reproduction), Australian Railways, Luxurious travel - Night & Day, across Australia, c.1960.

Luxurious Travel - Night & Day across Australia

1960
Rectangular glass bottle with a glass stopper for paregoric elixir, empty. 109 mm x 33 mm x 25 mm, 90g. A. Foss Dispensing Chemists, Sydney, c. 1860.

Bottle for paregoric elixir

1840-1870
Photograph of Hunter S Thompson, taken by Lewis Morley in Sydney, 1976.

Hunter S Thompson

1976
Original 16mm amateur colour silent films, made by Glyn Thomas between 1962 and 1986. The railway footage were taken during journeys with ‘Ian Allan Rail Tours’ and last steam train trips on lines due to be closed as a consequence of the Beeching cuts, especially in England and Wales (Vales of Neath Railway; Cynheidre) – not all the locations were identified. Other films were shot abroad: a cruise on a P&O steamship, departing from Southampton for Rio de Janeiro with scenes shot at the ports of calls Salvador, Dakar, Senegal; footage taken in South England and France (including a railway station); aerial shots taken through planes’ windows, and footage of Sydney (Australia) and Gibraltar.

Original 16mm amateur films of railways, travel abroad and steamship

1962-1986