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Shows & fairs, 1847

23 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2

The Westmister Hall Exhibition. (From Ote Spectator.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 November 1847 · page 3

ALTHOUGH the collection in Westminster Hall does not comprise more than a hundred and twenty pictures, it would be impossible to specify one-half without far exceeding our…

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The Fair Impostor

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 20 November 1847 · page 1

Early last summer a lady calling herself Madame B—, attended by two servants, arrived in a very elegant carriage in a village not one hundred miles from this…

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Original Correspondence. Mr. Turner's Exhibition in King-street. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 December 1847 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Why do not the people of Sydney and its visitors from the country give the diprotodon a visit, they may spend a shilling much worse…

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