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Acton Offices - Administration centre for Federal Capital Commission, Depts of Home Affairs and Interior prior to East and West Block construction
Steam traction engine towing a plough
Cletrac crawler tractor hauling a scoop
Lennox Crossing looking north showing Acton offices
Sewerage excavation workmen
Kingston Power Station, interior of Boiler Room, Babcock and Wilcox water tube boilers, automatic chain grate stokers, coal chutes, automatic weighing machine.
Canberra House, Acton. Home of the Administrator for the Federal Capital Territory.
Bridge over Murrumbidgee River, Cotter Pump House on left of bridge beside road. Casuarina Cunninghamiana and River Oaks lining river.
Royal Military College, Duntroon House, eastern facade. Upper storey Commandant's Quarters.
Albert Hall
Royal Military College, Duntroon House. North-east aspect.
Scotts Crossing Bridge over Molonglo River after flood (was called Church Crossing because of parishioners travelling to St John's Church). Flood debris on bridge. Trees in river are Weeping Willows.
Kingston Power Station. 5.5 kV electrical switchboard on engine room floor.
Royal Military College, Duntroon House. Conservatorium.
Keystone steam shovel excavating foundations. Probably East Block.
Trees near Parliament House.
Hotel Acton from Mount Vernon (City Hill). Trees in foreground are Roman Cypress with deciduous trees.
Interior of Kings Hall, Parliament House (under construction).
Waterfall with seated figure (possibly Sir John Butters) at Molonglo Gorge.
Scene at Cuppacumbalong Station
Pine plantation and houses at Kingston from Kingston Power Station.
Bridge over Murrumbidgee River after 1922 flood damage showing the western embankment washed away. Under reconstruction.
Working bee constructing Acton playground.
Parliament House. Parliamentary Library.
Federal Capital Commission staff outside Acton Offices. Includes Sir John Butters, Charles Studdy Daley and Clarence H Gorman.
Tents and buildings. Bachelors quarters, Acton.
Workmen with horsedrawn scoops.
Sewerage excavations and Commonwealth Avenue. Bridge embankment.
Winding gear for sewerage tunnel excavations and Commonwealth Avenue Bridge.
Workmen at a depot, probably Kingston Power Station.
Panoramic view from Black Mountain towards Westridge.
Panoramic view from Black Mountain towards Westridge.
Kingston Power Station. Water supply pipes for boiler feed and cooling from a weir in the Molonglo River. Also used as a swimming pool as the water discharged from the power station was slightly warmer than the river.
Cotter to Uriarra road, under construction.
Cotter to Uriarra Road under construction. Native trees are Yellow Box and White Brittle Gum.
Uriarra Road under construction.
Construction camp for Uriarra Road near confluence of Murrumbidgee and Cotter Rivers.
Mugga Quarry. Rock storage bins on right. Chute to feed rock to gyratory crusher, jaw breaker crusher on the left.
Library chair in the Parliamentary Library.
Parliamentary Library books on book shelves
Parliament House under construction, view from the west.
Interior of carpenters shop with workmen and foreman at Eastlake.
Government House, Governor General's residence, Yarralumla.
Hotel Canberra and Black Mountain from Parliament House.
Kingston Power Station. Bellis and Morcomb 600 kW triple expansion steam engines with alternators.
German railway gun. Amiens gun captured by Australian troops during World War I and brought to Australia. Now at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
Hotel Canberra from the air. Northerly aspect. View of layout of gardens and Commonwealth Avenue on right.
Steam traction engine operating a pile driver. Mobile water tank on right.
Hotel Canberra from Parliament House.
Mugga Quarry showing railway lines and skip
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