NRS-22567 | Glass Lantern Slides

Glass plate negatives, including:rail bridges in Penrith, Narrandera, Lismore, Picton, Wauchope, Liddell, Macksville, Dubbo, and Bathurst;construction of bridges; construction work and plans for railway and tramways;maps of Sydney, drawings of proposed Circular Quay station;comments relating to Harbour Bridge;plans for Sydney Harbour Bridge, and bridge tenders, aerial photograph of Sydney;cinema slides for recruitment of railway staff;Way & Works photographs;Hawkesbury and Penrith River bridges;Rail machinery shots.The format is glass plate negatives and lantern slides. Series and item start and end dates are circa only. Custody History From 1955 until 2000 the State Rail Authority of New South Wales maintained an 'in house archives' consisting of the archival records of the Authority, its predecessor agencies and the private railway companies taken over by the government. The date ranges of the records were from 1849 until 2000. When the decision was made to close the 'State Rail Archives' the parts of the collection that were required as State archives were transferred to the State Records Authority of NSW. Those record series were incorporated into the State Records series system of archives control and were re-numbered. This series was formerly part of the State Rail Archives collection where it was identified as series R462. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R462 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.