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Item Open Access Field intelligence : its principles and practice(Melbourne: Government Printer,, 1904) Henderson, Lieut.-Col. DavidItem Open Access New Zealand Flowers(Nelson, N.Z. : H.D. Jackson, 1890) Harris, Emily CummingItem Open Access New Zealand Ferns(Nelson, N.Z. : H.D. Jackson, 1890) Harris, Emily CummingItem Open Access New Zealand Berries(Nelson, N.Z. : H.D. Jackson, 1890) Harris, Emily CummingItem Open Access [Block plan of Gawler Place to King William Street, Adelaide].(Adelaide, 1891) Jones, F. OliverItem Open Access Adelaide: Queen City of the South(Adelaide: Vardon & Sons, 1907) Curtis, Leonard Samuel"In launching this volume into the world of books, the Author's desire has been to present, in an artistic, clear and concise manner, a descriptive and illustrated narrative of the City of Adelaide - otherwise known as "The Queen City of the South" - as the heart centre of the great State of South Australia, emphasising its principal public buildings, its leading business houses and its tourists' attractions. Also to present in up to date authentic figures, and in plain brief language , the chief statistical conditions built up in the past history of the State, in its industrial, commercial, political, and civil development. All literary verbosity is excluded, and only such matter-of-fact language used as is in accord with a book whose absolute reliability is stamped upon every page by the unerring science of photography." -- Author's Preface.Item Open Access Smike to Bulldog : letters from Sir Arthur Streeton to Tom Roberts(Sydney: Ure Smith, 1946) Streeton, Arthur, Sir; Croll, Robert Henderson; Roberts, Tom; Conder, CharlesItem Open Access Music: a monthly journal devoted to the interests of the art and trade in South Australia.; 1896-1900(Adelaide: Distributed by Cawthorne & Co. for the Proprietors, 1898)Item Open Access Lena: From Estonia to Adelaide: The inspiring life of Dr. Lena Wallas (Illiashevich-Wallas) 1905-1997(2016) Williams, Olena"This document relates the inspiring life of Estonian Dr Lena Wallas (Illiashevich Wallas), her early years in Estonia, her studies and work in Russia and Belarus before World War II, her remarkable survival with two young children in Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Germany and Czechoslovakia during the war, her work in a displaced-persons camp in Germany from 1945 to 1949, and her migration with family to Australia in 1949 and subsequent years there." Taken from the Foreword.Item Open Access The Crusader: Eighth Army Weekly(Cairo, etc.: Eighth Army H.Q, 1942)Item Open Access Notes from a pocket journal of a trip up the River Murray in 1856.(Adelaide : W. K. Thomas & Co., 1893) Elder, Sir ThomasItem Open Access The straight and devious paths of studentship: a lecture delivered at the School of Design, Adelaide, on Friday, 9th February, 1894(Adelaide: School of Design Art Club, 1894) Gill, Harry PellingItem Open Access The gold digger's guide, or, Practical mining made easy(Adelaide: J.L. Bonython & Co., 1894) Rogers, H. V.Item Open Access Item Open Access Photographs(Sydney? : Commonwealth Immigration Office, 1922) Commonwealth Immigration Office.A collection of photographs depicting rural scenes from all the States of Australia. Each photograph is numbered and has a written caption on the back describing the scene.Item Open Access State children in Australia : a history of boarding out and its developments(Adelaide: Printed by Vardon and Sons Limited, 1907) Spence, Catherine HelenItem Open Access Report of Commission appointed to report on the Destitute Act 1881-1885(Adelaide: E. Spiller, Govt. Printer, 1885)Item Open Access Yu zhi geng zhi tu [Sericulture](Shanghai: Dian shi zhai, 1879) Jiao Bingzhen hui; Qing Shengzu ti shiItem Open Access Yu zhi geng zhi tu [Cultivation of Rice](Shanghai: Dian shi zhai, 1879) Jiao Bingzhen hui; Qing Shengzu ti shiItem Open Access The Raven at her Writing-Desk: Letters 1849-1889 of Amelia Louisa Vaux Gretton (née Le Mesurier, a.k.a. the Raven)(2016-09-01) Gretton, Amelia Louisa Vaux; Gretton, EmilyThis is a story of love, terrible loss, family and faith. It is also a historical document. It spans the second half of the 19th century. It spans the oceans, by sail and by steam. In Australia Amelia casts a withering eye on early colonial society. In Italy she chronicles the life of an Anglo-Italian banking family against the background of the Risorgimento. And cholera. In Britain she engages with provincial society, the American civil war, the future career of Kaiser Bill, imperial expansion, education for the gentry and for the poor, sponsored emigration, church schisms, literary lions - and lionesses, socialist agitation, Irish terrorism, London fogs.