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RCS/Fisher contains:
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19 Volume XIX : Borneo and Hong Kong, January 1909
20 Volume XX : China and Hong Kong, January-February 1909
21 Volume XXI : Great Britain, 1909
22 Volume XXII : Great Britain, 1909
23 Volume XXIII : Gibraltar and Malta, October-November 1909
24 Volume XXIV : Maltese Islands, Victoria, Tasmania, November 1909
25 Volume XXV : South Africa
26 Volume XXVI : New Zealand, 1910
27 Volume XXVII : New Zealand
28 Volume XXVIII : New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji, 1910
29 Volume XXIX : Fiji and New South Wales, 1910
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Fisher photograph collection

Title Volume XXIV : Maltese Islands, Victoria, Tasmania, November 1909
Reference Fisher 24
Creator Fisher, Alfred Hugh, 1867-1945
Covering Dates Nov. 1909
Extent and Medium 126 images in 1 boxed album; This album is badly damaged with pages completely detached from the hinges.
Content and context

This album now contains photographs numbered in the ranges 6178-6238A and 6501-6612 (originally there were 167). Added numbers are 6238A, 6515A and 6547A; spoiled: 6198; not used: 6210, 6212, 6217, 6228, 6232, 6502, 6604 and 6611; missing: 6184, 6197, 6199, 6205, 6209, 6211, 6220, 6230, 6233, 6235, 6501, 6513-6516, 6520-6521, 6527-6529, 6538, 6540, 6545, 6552-6554, 6556-65563, 6565, 6582, 6600-6602, 6605-6606 and 6608.

Subjects covered in this album are:

Malta: views from sea - Marfa, Comino [also known as Kemmuna], Gozo [also known as Ghawdex]; Gozo: farmhouse; Rabat; Gigantea. Malta: prehistoric statues in museum; Governor's Palace; Valetta and Floriana; prehistoric temples: Coradino, Hagar Kim, Menaidra; three cities; Maltese man and woman.

Australia: voyage on R.M.S. 'Omrah'; Melbourne; Scout camp at Eltham, Yarra River; Burnie, Tasmania; Emu Bay Railway: Zeehan, Oonah Smelteries, Strahan Bay; Mount Lyell Mine, railway; Scottsdale: rural scenes and mines; Launceston: general views and Cataract Gorge.

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Indexed

This album is available on microfiche: General Collections, fiche numbers 111-112.

Index Terms
Australia
Europe
Malta
Oceania
Tasmania
Victoria
Fisher, Alfred Hugh (1867-1945)
RCS/Fisher 24 contains:
6178 Marfa Point, Malta. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [With two rowing boats in the foreground].
6179 Fishing boats off Comino Island. Quarter-plate (landscape format).
Slightly faded..
6180 The Castle, Comino Island. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [From the sea].
6181 The Castle, Comino. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [On the island].
Slightly faded..
6182 Gozo : Lourdes Church on the left, and Jesuit monastery of St Francis on the right. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [View from the sea].
6183 Fort Chambray, Gozo. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [View from the sea].
6184 Quarter-plate. [No print]. Missing. Lacemakers, Gozo. Most of the Maltese lace is made here.
6185 Old house (Arab style), Gozo. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Note pigeon holes in the tower, and wooden pigeons as well as live ones on the roof. [Pigeons not obvious. Cacti on the ground in the foreground].
Slightly faded..
6186 Courtyard of old farmhouse, Gozo. Quarter-plate. [Man and pony standing in the courtyard].
6187 Rabato, Gozo. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [View from a road across stone walls].
6188 Rabato, Gozo. Half-plate (landscape format). From the east, showing hilly appearance of Gozo. [Photograph taken from road with stone walls on either side].
6189 Rabato, Gozo. Quarter-plate (landscape format). From the east. [Similar to previous photograph].
6190 Gigantea, Gozo. Half-plate. Megalithic monument view from the interior. [Showing girl in shadows for scale].
Slightly faded..
6191 Gigantea, Gozo. Half-plate. View from exterior. [Showing man in dark suit and hat sitting on stones on one side of gateway and girl standing on the right].
Slightly faded..
6192 Gigantea, Gozo. Half-plate. One side of the entrance from the north-east taken from the interior. [Showing girl standing by the entrance stone].
6193 Piazza Reale, and Church of Rabato, Gozo. Quarter-plate (landscape format).
6194 View of the Cathedral within the castle of Rabato, Gozo. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [View across stone walls].
6195 View from the wall of the Castle of Rabato, Gozo. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Looking south.
Slightly faded and slightly blurred..
6196 The same [view from the wall of the Castle of Rabato, Gozo] : looking east. Quarter-plate (landscape format).
6197 [No print]. Missing. The same: looking north.
6198 Painting only. [No print]. [Missing]. Strada S. Giovanni, Valetta, Malta. [Negative useless].
6199 [No print]. Missing. Valetta Harbour, and Mediterranean Fleet.
6200 Group of objects found in the Hypogeum at Halsaflieni. Half-plate (landscape format). Casal Paula, Malta. [Four shelves of carvings, etc.].
6201 Group of the Seven Cabiri. Half-plate (landscape format). Found in the megalithic ruins of Hagar Kim, Krendi, Malta.
6202 Ballroom of the Governor's Palace, Valetta, Malta. Half-plate. Showing frescoes and minstrel gallery: also dining room seen through the doorway. [Three busts on pedestals and man standing in the doorway].
Slightly faded..
6203 The Armoury, Governor's Palace, Valetta, Malta. Half-plate.
6204 The Armoury corridor. Half-plate. Governor's Palace, Valetta, Malta. [Showing uniformed man on the right].
Slightly faded and overexposed..
6205 [No print]. Missing. Auberge de Castile: Valetta, Malta: now offices of Royal Artillery with signal station on roof.
6206 Auberge de Castile. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Turkeys in foreground, Valetta, Malta.
6207 Looking south at the ruins of Cordin No 3. Quarter-plate (landscape format). The latest discovery of megalithic remains at Malta.
Blurred..
6208 The ruins of Cordin No 3. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Showing the trough stone on the right.
6209 Half-plate. [No print]. Missing. The nave and high altar of the Co-cathedral of St John, Valetta, Malta.
6211 [No print]. Missing. Gateway of Fort Ricasoli, Valetta Harbour.
6213 Castel St Angelo : Malta. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [View from the sea].
Faded..
6214 Admiralty House. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Vittoriosa, showing Castel St Angelo.
Slightly faded and blurred..
6215 Senglea. Quarter-plate. [Showing boats by the road with houses in the background and two men by the boats].
Slightly faded..
6216 A small street, Strada Vittoria, in Senglea, Malta. Quarter-plate. [With goats wandering down the street].
6218 Isola Point, Senglea, Malta. Quarter-plate. Showing turret with eye and ear carvings.
6219 The statue of Grand Master Manoel Antonio di Vilhena. Quarter-plate. Now in the Maglio Gardens.
Faded and torn..
6220 [No print]. Missing. The Moslem Cemetery at Marsa, Malta.
6221 Hagar Kim : the north apse. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing girl standing among the stone walls].
Slightly faded..
6222 Filfola islet, with Hagar Kim in the foreground. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Islet lost in the distant mists].
6223 Altar to the north of the north apse of Hagar Kim, Malta. Quarter-plate (landscape format).
6224 Altar of Menaidra, megalithic ruins. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Near Hagar Kim, Malta. [Showing young girl sitting in left foreground].
6225 Mushroom table at Menaidra. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Seen through opening in stone.
6226 Menaidra from the west, Malta. Quarter-plate (landscape format).
6227 Menaidra from the west. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Hagar Kim in the distance.
Slightly faded..
6229 Portrait of Mr Mercieca. Half-plate. Typical Maltese gentleman chosen by Government to sit for me as of pure Maltese descent.
6230 Half-plate. [No print]. Missing. Young Maltese Lady in a Faldetta and other national costume.
6231 Young Maltese Lady in a Faldetta and other national costume. Half-plate.
Faded..
6233 [No print]. Missing. Strada San Giovanni, Valetta, Malta.
6234 Strada San Giovanni, Valetta, Malta. Quarter-plate. [Showing steep steps between tall buildings with people walking up or down them].
Slightly blurred..
6235 [No print]. Missing. Strada San Giovanni, Valetta, Malta. Showing steep steps between tall buildings with people walking up or down them].
6236 The iron ring Strada San Giovanni. Quarter-plate. Through which all midshipmen (as described in Midshipman Easy) used to be passed. The projecting shopfront now renders this impracticable.
6237 The iron ring Strada San Giovanni. Quarter-plate. Through which all midshipmen (as described in Midshipman Easy) used to be passed. The projecting shopfront now renders this impracticable.
6238 The iron ring. Quarter-plate. Strada San Giovanni. [Showing two lads outside shoeshop beside the ring mentioned in previous pictures].
Slightly faded..
6238A [Rocky point ]. Quarter-plate. [Seen from sea with flat rocky land behind].
6501 [No print]. Missing. Chatham Island off West Australian coast.
6503 Christmas mails from England on the Orient R.M.S. Omrah. In the Gulf of St Vincent.
6504 Christmas mails from England on the Omrah.
Slightly faded..
6505 Queenscliffe [sic], near Melbourne. Landscape format. The Quarantine Station: from the Omrah. [Queenscliff hardly visible].
Faded..
6506 The pilot coming out to R.M.S. Omrah. Landscape format. Port Lonsdale in the background. [Port Lonsdale in the very far distance].
6507 The pilot climbing rope ladder. Landscape format. [Pilot in bowler hat].
6508 Quarantine Station, Queenscliffe [sic]. Landscape format. In front is seen the rock with a buoy on it marking the spot where the Himalaya was wrecked.
6509 Queenscliffe [sic] : Victoria. Landscape format. [A distant view].
6510 Pope's Eye Fort. Landscape format. Just inside the Heads, near Port Melbourne. [Seascape].
6511 Buildings of Quarantine Station, Queenscliffe [sic], Victoria. Landscape format. [Distant view from the ship].
6512 Ormond College, from the Royal Park, Melbourne, Xmas Day [i.e. Christmas Day] [1909]. Landscape format. [Eucalyptus tree in the foreground, woman in long skirt with a hat on in the middle distance with buildings in the far distance]. 25 Dec. 1909
6513 [No print]. Missing. The new railway station, Flinders Street, Melbourne, Dec 26 1909. 26 Dec. 1909
6514 [No print]. Missing. The new railway station, Flinders Street, Melbourne, Dec 26 1909. 26 Dec. 1909
6515 [No print]. Missing. Christmas camp of Boy Scouts by the Yarra River, Eltham, Victoria.
6515A Christmas camp of Boy Scouts by the Yarra River, Eltham, Victoria. Landscape format.
Faded and blurred..
6516 [No print]. Missing. Christmas camp of Boy Scouts by the Yarra River, Eltham, Victoria.
6517 The kitchens of the same camp. Landscape format.
6518 The kitchens of the same camp. Landscape format.
6519 The dinner hour. Landscape format. [Showing scouts sitting under tent for shade].
6520 [No print]. Missing. Imperial Boy Scouts on guard at Xmas [i.e. Christmas] Camp: each patrol has a special name: this boy is a 'plover.'.
6521 [No print]. Missing. Imperial Boy Scouts on guard at Xmas [i.e. Christmas] Camp: each patrol has a special name: this boy is a "plover".
6522 A patrol bathing in the Yarra, near Xmas [i.e. Christmas] camp.
6523 Boy scouts bathing in the Yarra River. [Among rocks].
6524 The rapids of the Yarra. Boy scouts bathing. [Vegetation on the far bank].
6525 Boy scouts at play. A boxing match.
6526 'Launching Place' - a summer resort on the Yarra. 40 miles from Melbourne.
6527 [No print]. Missing. The Yarra at Warburton - about 50 miles from Melbourne - looking up stream - eucalyptus.
6528 [No print]. Missing. The same - the wooden bridge.
6529 [No print]. Missing. On the banks of the Yarra at Warburton, Victoria.
6530 On the banks of the Yarra at Warburton, Victoria. [Very tall trees with people in the middle ground].
Slightly faded..
6531 Tasmania. Landscape format. Field of oats and forest land near Burnie on the Emu Bay Ry Co's line: from moving train.
Slightly faded..
6532 Burnt gum trees between Burnie and Pigeon Hill, Tasmania. Landscape format. From moving train.
Slightly faded..
6533 Pigeon Hill, Emu Bay Railway, Tasmania. Landscape format. [Showing burnt trees and wooden fences among scrubland].
6534 From Ridgley Station looking west. Landscape format. Emu Bay Railway, Tasmania. [Tree trunks in the foreground].
6535 From Ridgley Station, looking east. Landscape format. [Bungalow and huts with dead trees behind].
6536 View from train. Landscape format. 2 1/2 hours from Burnie towards Zeehan, Tasmania. [Four men by telegraph post with forest in the background].
Slightly faded..
6537 Near Guildford Junction, Emu Bay Railway, Tasmania. Landscape format. [Dead trees and fallen logs].
6538 [No print]. Missing. A peep at the mountains between Guildford and Zeehan, Tasmania.
6539 Between Guildford and Zeehan, Tasmania. Landscape format. [View down wooded hillside].
Faded..
6540 [No print]. Missing. The forest land from the train.
6541 Watering the train, Emu Bay Railway, Tasmania. The water butt by the line.
6542 View from the Railway Station, Rosebery. Emu Bay Rlwy, Tasmania. [Across tussock grass to trees in the distance].
6543 Zeehan Station : New Year's Day crowd going to the races, Tasmania. [Crowd standing on the platform].
6544 The Oonah Smelteries, Zeehan. Landscape format. (Lead, silver, copper, zinc) Emu Railway, Tasmania.
6545 [No print]. Missing. Main street, Zeehan.
6546 Strahan Bay. Landscape format. [Sailing boat in bay taken from by railway tracks with wooded land on far side of the bay].
6547 Strahan Bay. Landscape. [View along Emu Bay Railway line with sea on the right with a boat alongside and forested area beyond].
6547A Strahan Bay. Landscape format. [Similar view across bay from Emu Bay Railway, Tasmania].
6548 Sailing boat : Regatta Point in distance. Landscape format. Strahan Bay, Tasmania.
6549 Strahan Bay. Landscape format. [Similar view to 6547 and 6547A but with sailing but with sailing boat also].
6550 Slag heaps near the smeltery, Mount Lyell, Tasmania. Landscape format.
6551 One of the Mount Lyell Smelteries, Tasmania. Landscape format. [Among dead tree stumps].
6552 [No print]. Missing. Queenstown from the north.
6553 [No print]. Missing. 'The Open Cut' Mount Lyell Mine.
6554 [No print]. Missing. 'The Open Cut' Mount Lyell Mine.
6555 The 'Open Cut' from within Mount Lyell Mine, Tasmania. [Showing deep quarry with rail tracks at the different levels].
6556 [No print]. Missing. The 'Open Cut' from above: Mount Lyell Mine.
6557 [No print]. Missing. The 'Open Cut' from above: Mount Lyell Mine.
6558 [No print]. Missing. Gormanston, near Queenstown.
6559 [No print]. Missing. Mount Lyell Smelters: Mount Sedgwick and Mount Lyell in the distance, Tasmania.
6560 [No print]. Missing. Mount Lyell Smelters: nearer view.
6561 [No print]. Missing. The upper flue from the blast furnaces: carrying one half of the poisonous fumes into the air: Queenstown.
6562 [No print]. Missing. View from the balcony of the Empire Hotel, Queenstown, looking towards the Mount Lyell smelteries and mine, Tasmania.
6563 [No print]. Missing. View from the balcony of the Empire Hotel, Queenstown.
6564 On the Mount Lyell Railway near Queenstown from moving train. Landscape format. [Showing forested hillside with fallen and dead trees].
6565 [No print]. Missing. Scenery on the Mount Lyell line towards Regatta Point, from moving train. [Showing river between forested hills].
6566 Scenery on the Mount Lyell line towards Regatta Point, from moving train. [Showing river between forested hills].
Blurred..
6567 Looking up a gorge on the Mount Lyell line.
Slightly faded and blurred..
6568 Bridge on the Mount Lyell line. [Fallen tree across stream by pond among the trees].
Slightly faded and slightly blurred..
6569 Train on the Mount Lyell line. [Showing train on a bend and people leaning out of the carriage windows].
6570 Near Regatta Point. Mount Lyell line. [Forested hillside coming down to lake or wide river].
Slightly faded and blurred..
6571 The sea east of Emu Bay, from moving train, Tasmania. Landscape format. [Sandy shore with rocky outcrops and sea beyond].
6572 Sea near Penguin, Tasmania. Landscape. [Rocky cliffs coming down to a small bay with scattered rocks].
6573 Lords Hotel at Scottsdale, Tasmania. Landscape. [Near wooden building of Lords Hotel with balcony and more similar buildings beyond up the street].
Slightly faded..
6574 The main street, Scottsdale, Tasmania. Landscape format. [A wide rough street with wooden building on the left and pair of horses and buggy carrying man and woman in the shade. Stone building on right behind fence].
Slightly faded..
6575 Hauling blackwood logs on the road to Scottsdale, Tasmania. Landscape format. [Oxen hauling cart loaded with three logs along straight road from the rear].
Slightly faded..
6576 The Forester River, near Scottsdale. Landscape format. [Showing stream with dead trees and stumps and stumps in the background].
6577 The same [i.e. The Forester River, near Scottsdale] - showing wind pump.
Slightly faded..
6578 Team of oxen on the Ringarooma Road near Scottsdale. Landscape format. [Team pulling cart along dusty road with man walking beside with whip].
6579 Team of horses drawing tin from Ruby Flat. Landscape format. Ringarooma Road, near Scottsdale, Tasmania. [Team passing man holding a whip with forest in the background].
6580 Sheep near the Kimona turnoff on the Ringarooma Road. Landscape format. Dorset County, Tasmania. [Sheep being driven by a man on horse back with dist obscuring the background].
6581 Sheep near the Kimona turnoff. Landscape format. [Similar picture to previous one but with cart disappearing into the dust].
Blurred..
6582 [No print]. Missing. Team of oxen near the Arbur Mine on the road from Bhanxholm to Derby, Tasmania.
6583 Sluice tail race and tin shed. Landscape format. Main pressure column and tail column: Briser's mine: Derby, Tasmania.
6584 Glen Dhu State School for boys and girls : Launceston, Tasmania. Landscape format. [Young man in boater standing in front of entrance tower of brick and stone with brick building beside and a flagpole].
6585 Launceston Brickworks. Landscape format. To the left Glen Dhu Home for neglected children: beyond is seen the district of Inverary between between the stacks: River Tamar 42 miles from the sea: smoke of bush fires obscuring all distance.
6586 Man putting in ripples in the main tunnel tail race. Landscape format. Briser's Mine, Derby.
6587 A 'face' of the Briser's mine showing drift and cement, Derby, Tasmania. Landscape format.
6588 Hydraulic sluicing in the tin face. Briser's mine, Derby, Tasmania. [Showing man with pump and pipes].
Blurred..
6589 Hydraulic sluicing in the tin face. Briser's mine, Derby, Tasmania. [Showing man with pump and pipes].
6590 Hydraulic sluicing in the tin face. Landscape format. Briser's mine, Derby, Tasmania. [Showing man with pump and pipes].
6591 General view of Launceston. Landscape format. Cox's Hill in the distance. [Cattle grazing in bush in the foreground and house in the middle distance. Cox's Hill lost in mist/fading].
Slightly faded..
6592 At the lodge gates of Mount Pleasant. Landscape format. A private house and grounds resembling an old English home: Launceston. [Pair of horses pulling open carriage carrying lady with driver in bowler hat approaching the gates].
6593 The 'Ringarooma' - new mine being opened by the Brisers Company. Landscape format. View showing columns going to upper face, Derby, Tasmania.
Slightly faded..
6594 The 'Ringarooma'. Showing drift under overburden and ends of belt, tailrace and hopper, Derby.
6595 The coach on road from Derby to Scottsdale stopping at the 'Camp Inn', Tasmania. Landscape format. [Showing a coach and four with two grooms in attendance and four hatted ladies seated on outside seats of the coach].
Slightly faded..
6596 View of the Mansion, Mount Pleasant, Launceston. Landscape format. [Part of fine two storey house with verandah and garden in the foreground].
6597 View of the grounds : Mount Pleasant, Launceston, Tasmania. Landscape format. [Showing flower beds, path, lawn with trees and part of the house in the background].
Slightly faded..
6598 Municipal Electric Power Station : South Esk River, Launceston. Half-plate. [Showing power station building on the right and pipes above with waterfall to the left on the shrubby hillside behind].
Slightly faded..
6599 Municipal Electric Power Station : Launceston. Half-plate. [Similar view to previous print].
Slightly faded..
6600 [No print]. Missing. Municipal Electric Power Station.
6601 [No print]. Missing. Municipal Electric Power Station.
6602 [No print]. Missing. Launceston from Dennison Road: showing spire of Christchurch.
6603 Dinner time at the Municipal Quarry, Launceston. [Four horses with their nosebags still harnessed to their carts].
Slightly faded..
6605 [No print]. Missing. King's Bridge from the willows, Launceston. This is where the South Esk flows into the Tamar. Turning to the right and leaving the bridge behind us on the left we look across the broad waters of the Tamar, Tasmania.
6606 [No print]. Missing. The Tamar at Launceston: in distance S.S. Loongana (native for swift) - claims to have been the first turbine steamer south of the line, and now plys tri-weekly from Launceston to Melbourne].
6607 Loading flour at Ritchie's Cataract Mills, Launceston. [Showing man loading bags of flour onto horse and cart].
6608 [No print]. Missing. The Cataract Gorge: South Esk: Launceston.
6609 The Cataract Gorge, Launceston, looking east. Half-plate (landscape format). [Showing pathway on stilts above the river with falls of water from it. Trees among cliffs above the river].
6610 The Cataract Gorge and bridge, Tasmania. Half-plate (landscape format). [Looking west along the gorge with high path on stilts on the right. Boats visible beyond the iron bridge across the river].
6612 The Cataract Gorge, Launceston, Tasmania. Landscape format. [Showing pathway on stilts along under the cliffs on the left of the picture].

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