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Defence works at the Heads
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton David Syme & Co. Illustrated Australian News
This wood engraving was published in The Illustrated Australian News, 13 May 1885 and shows colonial defence works being built at Queenscliff, Victoria. The vignettes illustrate the defences at the He...ART19852
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On board the training ship Vernon, Sydney Harbour
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton
Scenes of life on board the training ship Vernon in Sydney harbour, NSW, where boys 'either as criminals or as neglected children' were housed, educated, and taught a trade until they were old enough ...ART50173
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Raising the 25-ton gun, Middle Harbour fortifications, Sydney
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton Australasian Sketcher
A group of men from the New South Wales Artillery pulling on a rope winch to lift a 25 ton gun onto a barge in Middle Harbour, Sydney. The gun was to be placed in defensive fortifications. There is a ...ART19848
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The Victorian Navy
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton Illustrated Handbook of Victoria
A scene of five ships at sea that was published in the Illustrated Handbook of Victoria in 1886. From left to right, the vessels are: the ironclad monitor Cerberus (after conversion to a military mas...ART50191