Animals Subject Barracluff's Ostrich Farm Bats Bray, James Samuel Felix the cat Insect Wonders of Australia Living with sharks on the Georges River The Cocky Bennett Story Transcript: Mr George Bates on a chance 'meeting' with Henry Lawson's dog Transcript: Mr Joseph Bradshaw remembers working as a child on a farm in Liverpool Transcript: Mrs Dorothy Colburn recalls hazards associated with the Georges River Transcript: Mrs Evelyn Chapple remembers hazards encountered while walking to school Australian Bird Waltz Cocky Bennett Felix the cat Paracyclotosaurus davidi Phar Lap Puppy: Jeff Koons Saccostrea glomerata (Sydney rock oyster ) Spider Wonders of Australia Waterholes 2018 by Leanne Mulgo Watson Excavation of Sheas Creek 1896 Royal Intercolonial Rabbit Commission 1888 Alice the elephant Atrax robustus (Sydney funnel-web spider) Greater Blue Mountains Area Pteropus poliocephalus (grey-headed flying fox) Trim Acclimatisation Society of New South Wales Tost & Rohu Gurangatty Barracluff, Jane Barracluff, Joseph Thomas Bennett, George Coxen, Charles Grace, Henry Albert McKeown, Keith Collingwood Morrin, Beryl Gladys Thompson, Clyde William Waway Wolstenholme, Harry Barracluff's Ostrich Farm Bullen's Animal World Wallacia Dee Why Lagoon Wildlife Refuge Featherdale Wildlife Park Field of Mars Wildlife Reserve Glebe Island abattoir Koala Park Sanctuary Poultry Research Station Seven Hills State Abattoirs Sydney Aquarium Sydney Wildlife World Coogee shark net Robinson's Ladies' Baths Snake Pit La Perouse View of old Government House - Sydney - N.S.W. as it appeared when vacated by Sir George Gipps in 1845 'The Inundations at Marrickville: Rescuing the Homeless' May 1889 A Japanese, in military uniform, addressing his 'poor dog Tray'. This is the only dog left out of the 25 with which the expedition started, May 1911 A Shark Took Beryl Morrin's Arms 1938 A cliff-face stair-way, Darlinghurst c1886 A native family of New South Wales sitting down on an English settler's farm c1826 A new labyrinthodont (Paracyclotosaurus) from the upper Trias of New South Wales Aboriginal man William Worrall outside his hut, Rose Bay 1853 Advertisement for W Blyth, Cook, Pastry Cook and Wholesale & Retail Confectioner 1847 Argyle Street, looking towards the Observatory Hill c1902 Auction sale of Barracluff's Ostrich Farm Estate, Rose Bay Heights, December 1917 Australian prisoners-of-war returning home. Released Eighth Division men coming ashore by barge from the catalinas at Rose Bay 16 September 1945 Bara (eels) 2020 Barracluff's Ostrich Farm business card c1916 Bats at dusk 2006 Bird's egg c1861 Botany Pleasure Grounds 1855 Cambridge St, looking towards the Argyle Cut 1901 Cast of full skeleton of Paracyclotosaurus davidi at the Natural History Museum 2011 Chicken cholera and the rabbits - experiments at Rodd Island. The apparatus and appliances, with portraits of the experimenters 1888 Cocky Bennett, Sea Breeze Hotel, Tom Uglys Point 1911 Cover of 'Insect Wonders of Australia' by Keith C McKeown 1935 Cover of 'Spider Wonders of Australia' by Keith C McKeown 1936 Cover of Marcus Clarks' spring & summer catalogue 1926/27 Dame Eadith Campbell Walker 1924 Dancer Paula Pratt and snake expert George Cann at La Perouse 1947 Design for title page of Venomous and Non-Venomous Reptiles of Australia by James S Bray 1897 Detail showing the area around the mouth of the Tank Stream from panoramic view of Sydney 1829 Diamond Snake, Morelia spilotes 1869 Drawn from life by JS Bray, the tiger or brown-banded snake, Hoplocephalus curtus - venomous. Life size. c1890 Eating oysters from the rocks on Clark Island 1870 Elephants from Wirth's Circus on Sydney Harbour Bridge, 3 April 1932 Emu, or 'New genus of Bird at Botany bay 1788' Entomologist Keith McKeown at work at the Australian Museum May 1950 Excavation of dugong remains at Sheas Creek 1896 Fish hooks of New South Wales and a feather of the cassowary c1789 Flying fox or fruit bat, 1860 George Cann - sometimes he finds them hard to handle George Cann with a bundle of mixed snakes 5 September 1934 George Cann, eyeball to eyeball with a black snake at La Perouse 5 September 1934 George Street looking north, showing Jewish Synagogue, Police Offices, the Markets, old Burial Ground, now the site of the Town Hall, 1842 Government House and part of the town of Sidney, N.S.Wales 1828 Government House c1845 Government House, Sydney 1850 Government officials and resident with cockatoo at the rear of 14 May Street, Ultimo 1900 Gravestone 'Sacred to the memory of William Yardley, who lost his life by the bite of a Snake on the 5th of December 1824' in Devonshire Street Cemetery, 1901 Grey-headed Pteropus, or Flying Fox, 1863. Grey-headed flying foxes, Royal Botanic Gardens 2008 Gurangatty 2020 Harry Wolstenholme at Wahroonga feeding a thrush c1928 Head of black cockatoo, Bantry Bay, Middle Harbour June 1897 Holiday at Taronga: the old days 1918 Horse drawn vehicle in front of Stables, Yaralla estate, Concord West c1910 Immense Increase of Insect Life 5 January 1876 Introduction to The Australian bird waltz 1850-59 Kids & Dogs, Woolloomooloo, Sydney Koala engraving at Westleigh, now destroyed c1970 Lady O'Connell c1847 Little Boy at Manly: "Well! this is the about the last place anybody should come expecting to find the South Pole!" Lower jaw of Dugong, discovered at Shea's Creek, Sydney, showing Cuts made by Aborigines with Stone Tomahawks 1896 Miles Franklin c1925 Model Shirley Beiger on the cover of PIX 28 April 1951 Mr Barracluff (Junior) gives Denis a ride, South Head 24 December 1905 Mr Ledger's alpacas and llamas at Sophienburg, the seat of Mr. Atkinson, New South Wales c1859 Mr WL Davis, secretary of the Canterbury Park Race Club, and his pet kangaroo at Canterbury Park Racecourse on Eight-Hours Day 2 October 1905 Mrs Onslow and her pet cockatoo, Camden Park, April 1906 Old Belmore Markets c1905 On board the Kainan Maru: a Japanese sailor and one of the Siberian Sledge Dogs, Wellington Harbour, New Zealand February 1911 Ostrich Farm, Watsons Bay c1910 Ostriches on a farm near Sydney c1905 Pelicans, Cooks River 2005 Picnic on Rodd Island 22 April 1948 Plague Proclamation poster, 1 February 1905 Poisonous Spiders: How to Identify Them and Treat Their Bites 1935 Princess Alice at Wirth's Bros Circus in Sydney 1938 Professional ratcatchers 1900 Public meeting at Macquarie Place during the election 1857 Rats in quarantine area, Sydney 1900 Ribs of Dugong, discovered at Shea's Creek, showing Cuts made by Aborigines with Stone Tomahawks 1896 Rock carving on Darug country of an echidna 2006 Schnapper, Chrysophrys guttulatus (Cur. and Val.) c1790 Side-show personalities at the great annual agricultural show in Sydney 1932 Sighting a kangaroo, detail from the Captain Cook window at Cranbrook, Bellevue Hill Sir Edward Hallstrom, with a koala at Taronga Park Zoo 1964 Skeleton of the Dugong found at Shea's Creek 1896 Skull of Dugong, discovered at Shea's Creek, Sydney 1896 Sunday 23.8.91 Sea eagle's nest in a red gum tree Sydney Funnel-web spider, Mosman October 2019 Ted Bailey and his Posing Dogs 1913 The Australian Bird Waltz 1850-59 The Battle of Berry's Bay - a battle with sharks in Sydney Harbour 7 March 1886 The Bird That Does Not Bury Its Head In The Sand 1920 The Bubonic Plague - Wash and Pray! April 1900 The Dainty Swallowtail (Papilio Anactus, Macleay) butterfly and caterpillar. Food-plant: Citrus aurantium 1890s The Duke and Duchess, Barracluff's Ostrich Farm, South Head c1906 The Flying Fox ( Pteropus Poliocephalus ) 1869 The Hero of Coogee Beach 1922 The Kangaroo 1788 The Modern St Patrick: or, Parkes's 'Man-Goose' at the Museum, 22 February 1868 The Rabbit Plague and Anthrax in Australia; M. Pasteur's experiments and remedies for its extermination November 1891 The Robert Brough Memorial Fountain 7 January 2021 The bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas 2014 The caretaker of Canterbury Park Racecourse and his pets 1897 The catodon polka c1850 The first Coogee shark net, December 1922 Turning the first turf of the first railway in the Australasian colonies at Redfern, Sydney, N.S.W. 3rd July 1850 View from 'Hilton', residence of John Rae, Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst c1879-82 View from Flagstaff Hill, Sydney c1844 View in the Cowpasture district 1840-46 View of Harbour and Governor Bourke's Statue 1842 Waterholes 2018 Windsor 1883 Zoo keeper with quolls Taronga Zoo c1916 the swan of Auburn, Auburn 2009 George Bates recalls the day when he buried Henry Lawson's cattle dog in North Sydney c1929, interviewed 1986 Max Solling on Wentworth Park Racecourse 2009 Mr Joseph Bradshaw remembers working as a child on a farm in Liverpool c1910-1925, interviewed in 1986 Mrs Dorothy Colburn, interviewed in 1986, recalls hazards associated with the Georges River in the 1930s Mrs Evelyn Chapple remembers hazards encountered while walking to school in the early 20th century, interviewed in 1986 Retired wharf labourer Harry Black talking about transporting circus elephants in the 1950s Thelma Crawley on delivering Meals on Wheels to Rosaleen Norton, the 'Witch of Kings Cross' 2007 Tim Pearson on Sydney's bats 2009
