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Cities on the edge / editor, Julianne Schultz.

Agricultural engineering Australia / Agricultural Engineering Society.

1 presentation album of maroon-coloured Russian leather, embossed in gold, with the monogram of Mr and Mrs Knox with dates 1844-1894, bordered by sprays of cane, on front cover.

Shows the various establishments of the Colonial Sugar Company, with sketches by leading artists of the colony (Percy Spence, B. E. Minns, D. H. Souter, Arthur Streeton, Frank Mahoney), together with platinotype photographs by J. H. Newman arranged in a montage style on each page. Title page by Percy Spence features an allegorical female figure surrounded by sugar cane, tropical pineapples and lush foliage, with an inset view of Double Bay, being the view from Knox's residence 'Fiona'.

Includes scenes of Head Office and operations at Canterbury, Blackfriars and Pyrmont Refineries in Sydney, as well as refineries in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Auckland N.Z. Also Chatsworth and Harwood Mills on the Clarence River, Darkwater Mill on Macleay River, Broadwater Mill on Richmond River, Condong Mill on Tweed River, N.S.W., as well as mills, cane cutting and plantations in Queensland and Fiji.

A pamphlet describing the occasion, entitled 'Golden Wedding: presentation to Hon. E. Knox M.L.C. and Mrs Knox', and illustrated with portraits of Mr and Mrs Knox, view of the ceremony and of the gold plate presented and reproductions from the volumes is also included in the volume.

To the Honorable Edward Knox M.L.C. "Fiona" from Directors, Officers and Employees of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., 1844-1894 [Album of Views]

ff.1-3,6,7,10-13,15-18,20,23,25,27,30-32,35,37-39,42,44-48,53,55,56,61,63-73 are watercolours; f.59 pencil; the remainder are in pencil and watercolour.

1. On the River Brisbane nr Woogeroo [ie Woogaroo]. Aug 12/53. 7.9 x 10.9 cm.
2. View in Port Adelaide. Oct 14. 1852. 25.6 x 37 cm.
3. Entrance to Port Adelaide. Oct 16. 1852. 18 x 25.3 cm.
4. Sheep station on the Bremer. Novr.10. 1852. 22.2 x 34.9 cm.
5. Residence of the Rt. Revd. Dr Murphy. Adelaide Nov 20. 1852. 18 x 25.3 cm.
6. Watervale Village Dec. 1852. 20.5 x 35.7 cm.
7. In Skilligolee [ie Skillogolee] Creek. Dec. 1852. 21.3 x 35.6 cm.
8. Inn at Chain of Ponds. Dec/52. 11.9 x 26.2 cm.
9. Adelaide from N. Adelaide. Dec 27/53. 14 x 23 cm.
10. Adelaide from the Lead mine Glen Osmond. Dec 20/53. 14.1 x 23 cm.
11. Adelaide Plains from N Adelaide. Dec 23/53. 14 x 22.9 cm.
12. Holdfast Bay. Dec 24/54. 14 x 23 cm.
13. Government House Adelaide. Jany 4/54. 14 x 22.9 cm.
14. Adelaide Race Course. Dec 30/53. 13.4 x 21.9 cm.
15. Port Adelaide. Jany 12/54. 14 x 23 cm.
16. Valley of the Wakefield. Jany 19/54. 14.1 x 23 cm.
17. Burra Burra Mine. Jany 21/54. 14 x 22.9 cm.
18. Aldinga Bay. Jany 27/54. 14 x 22.9 cm.
19. View from my bedroom window. Horbury Terrace, Sydney. March 14/53. 18 x 25.3 cm.
20. Port Jackson from Elizabeth Bay. March 23/53. 18 x 25.4 cm.
21. St. Marys Sydney. March 31/53. 18 x 25.2 cm.
22. Stag Horn Fern. Cockatoo Scrub. Aug 20/53. [inscribed along left edge:] Woolston Aug 20/53. 18.5 x 9.7 cm.
23. In the Scrub Breakfast Creek. Nr B. Aug 8/53. 18.5 x 11.1 cm.
24. Gum Tree, Woogaroo, Aug 19/53. 27.3 x 18.5 cm.
25. Woolton. Aug 20/53. 10.3 x 18.6 cm.
26. Entrance to the Domain. Sydney. Sept 10/53. 14.3 x 29.8 cm.
27. Botanical Gardens. Sydney. Sept 14/53. 17 x 36 cm.
28. Government House & Fort Macquarie. Sydney. March 12/53. 20.6 x 36 cm.
29. On the Parramatta River looking towards the Town. Sept 22/53. 25.5 x 35.9 cm.
30. Lake Illawarra looking South. Sep 26/53. 12.3 x 23.4 cm.
31. Palms at Illawarra. Septr 28/53.-. 27.4 x 28.5 cm. 
32. The Emu Plains from Lapstone Hill. NSW. Oct 7/53. 14 x 25.6 cm.
33. Campbell Town from the Appin Road. Sep 29/53. 17.3 x 27.4 cm.
34. At Blackheath. Mt. Victoria NSW on the morning of the 5 Octbr/53. 8.9 x 19.4 cm.
35. Waterfall at Corbetts [Govett's?] Leap nr Blackheath. Mt Victoria. Oct 4/53. 25.6 x 19.9 cm.
36. Government House Parramatta. Oct 8/53. 18.6 x 27.5 cm.
37. Botany Bay from Newtown. Oct 15/53. 18.6 x 27.4 cm.
38. Entrance to Botany Bay. Oct 12/53. 12.9 x 27.5 cm.
39. Botany Bay. Oct 20/53. 14.1 x 27.4 cm.
40. Lyndhurst College from Balmain. Oct 19/53. 13.8 x 22.2 cm.
41. View from the Domain Sydney. Oct 19/53. 13.8 x 44.5 cm.
42. Lewinsbrook. The residence of A. Park Esq. MLC. Oct 27/53. 18.6 x 27.5 cm.
43. At Lewinsbrook looking over the Valley. Oct 28/53. 18.6 x 27.5 cm.
44. Valley of the Hunter between Maitland and Morpeth[?]. Oct 31/53. 18.5 x 27.4 cm.
45. Iron Bark. Aug 22/53. 18.7 x 12.8 cm.
46. [Stand of gums, 1853?]. 25.6 x 28.8 cm.
47. Sydney & Harbour from South Head Road. Nov 3/53. 18.2 x 27.3 cm.
48. [Sydney Harbour from Kurraba Point. Nov 1853?]. 24.5 x 34.5 cm.
49. The High Altar. St Maries Sydney Oct 17/53. 18.5 x 17 cm.
50. Nelson, New Zealand from the Bolder Bank. April 20/53. 17.9 x 25.3 cm.
51. [Nelson, New Zealand, 1853?]. 22.4 x 36 cm.
52. Entrance to the Harbour. Nelson. April 23/53. 17.9 x 25.1 cm.
53. Wairarapa Valley. May 5/53. 17.9 x 25.2 cm.
54. Governmment House. Wellington. May 11/53. 18 x 25.2 cm.
55. [Town, possibly Wellington, New Zealand, 1853?]. 14 x 22.9 cm.
56. [Canterbury Plains, 1853?]. 14 x 22.9 cm.
57. [11 studies of New Zealand plants, 1853?]. 15.1 x 22.7 cm.
58. Akaroa, June 10/53 [9 studies of New Zealand plants]. 27.4 x 36.8 cm.
59. White Pine. Akaroa. June 21/53. 18 x 12.4 cm.
60. [White pines]. 17.8 x 14.8 cm.
61. Flax. Akaroa. N.Z. June 7/53. 18 x 25.3 cm.
62. Tree Fern. N.Z. June 1/53. 17.3 x 12.7 cm.
63. Tree Fern. Akaroa. June 21/53. 17.3 x 12.6 cm.
64. Tree Fern. Akaroa N.Z. June 16/53. 14 x 8.5 cm.
65. Na Powaka & Warre at the Maori Kaik Akaroa June 14/53. 17.9 x 25.1 cm.
66. Head of the KaKa. June 19/53. 7.2 x 10.4 cm.
67. Head of the Molly Mawk. June 29/53. 14 x 14.8 cm.
68. Molly Mawk. at Sea July 7/53. 14 x 22.9 cm.
69. The Australian Ashore off Moulle[?] Point Table Bay April 3/54. 13.7 x 22.9 cm.
70. The Devil's Peak & Table Mountain. Cape Town April 15/54. 17.4 x 27.1 cm. on sheet 18.8 x 27.1 cm.
71. Cape Town from the Beach April 7/54. 17.1 x 27.3 cm.
72. [Cape Town, 1854?]. 17.4 x 27.1 cm.
73. [Cape Town, 1854?]. 17.4 x 27.5 cm.

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