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Shows & fairs, 1851

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English Extracts. the Great Exhibition of 1851. (From the Morning Chronicle, September 25.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1851 · page 3

ALTHOUGH a glance at the vast arena within the hoarding in Hyde Park might not perhaps satisfy the sanguine desires of many who are anxious to witness what they might consider…

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The Great Industrial Exhibition Op 1851

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 January 1851 · page 7

Many works of skill have been sent home from this colony to the great exhibition of 1851. There will be sufficient, we trust, to show that although far removed from our…

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Mr. Claxton's Exhibition of Paintings

Empire · Saturday 18 January 1851 · page 3

THE Exhibition of Mr. Claxton's pictures in tho Hall of the Sydney College, was on Monday last opened to the public, and the number of visitors was, we are glad to find,…

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The Fine Arts. Mr. Marshall Claxton's Free Exhibition of Paintings in Sydney College

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1851 · page 2

WHEN we briefly announced, the other day, that Mr. Claxton had generously thrown open his exhibition of paintings to the free admission of the public on Mondays,…

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The Empire. Thursday, February 6, 1851. the Australian Society's Proposed Industrial Exhibition

Empire · Thursday 6 February 1851 · page 2

IF, there is one division of industry which, more then any other, ought to receive the fostering care and attention of the "colonists, at the present period, it is that of…

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Industrial Exhibition

Empire · Saturday 8 February 1851 · page 6

THIS interesting undertaking closed its proceedings yesterday evening, but, owing to name undecision regarding the distribution of prizes, the same cannot be promulgated until…

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Royal Australian Exhibition

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 8 February 1851 · page 2

THE apathy of the Government, and the difficulties which prevented parties from transmitting the production of this country to England for the exhibition of 1851, have convinced the Australian…

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The Loves of Bold Nick lass and The Fair Mary Anne. a Domestic Tale. AIR—Gullielmus Taylorus, Vulgarly called Billy Taylor

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 8 February 1851 · page 3

Nick'lass Nelson was a tall young fellow, Fuller far of glee than gold. And he dearly loved the ladies. Leastways so I have been told…

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The Industrial Exhibition. (From the Times. November 1.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1851 · page 3

THE list of applications for space at next year's Exhibition closed yesterday, and we shall soon know what to expect in this congress of nations. Till the lists are all published it will…

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Tasmanian Contributions to the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, in 1851

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 March 1851 · page 2

[?] is not with any feeling of jealousy that we should contemplate the advancement or ambition of a sister colony; but it is with a sense of our want of zeal and anxiety for our own…

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The Great Exhibition of 1851. (From the Morning Chronicle, Nov. 26.)

Empire · Thursday 13 March 1851 · page 3

The accounts which continue to reach us from all parts of the country are such as to prove that the desire manifested for some time past, on the part of the working classes,…

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English Extracts. Preparations for the Exhibition. (From the Expositor, a Journal relating exclusively to the Exhibition)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 March 1851 · page 5

EXTENSIVE preparations are already in progress for the accommodation of visitors and the information of the public. Arrangements are being concluded all over…

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English Extracts. the Industrial Exhibition.—its Uses and Abuses

Empire · Tuesday 18 March 1851 · page 3

In the records of classic antiquity few characters are treated with a more marked respect than the authorities who presided over the sacred games, who arranged the terms of competition…

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The Lord Mayor's Show. (From the Daily News, Nov. 11.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 March 1851 · page 3

SATURDAY being the day for the public inauguration of the new Lord Mayor, the occasion was, as usual, a complete holiday in the city. From an early hour crowds of pedestrians, in…

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The Fancy Fair

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 5 April 1851 · page 3

"The sky was very beautiful, most beautifully blue; The waters of the Bay retained their usual azure hue;…

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The Industrial Exhibition

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 5 April 1851 · page 2

Several members of the City Council have set to work in good earnest preparing works of art and vertu for exhibition at the forthcoming colonial enterprise. We have gleaned the…

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The Great Exhibition of 1851. (From Bell's Life in London, December 1.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 5 April 1851 · page 4

The subject of the charges for admission into the Exhibition is one which is at present occupying the attention of the Executive Committee. No definite arrangement hat yet been come…

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Original Correspondence. the Industrial Exhibition and the Law of Patent. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 April 1851 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—1 observe in your issue of this day that Dr. Douglass has been getting up a petition to the Home Government for a grant of a patent for the colonies, on the ground…

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Great Industrial Exhibition, at Montreal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 April 1851 · page 2

A very interesting class of contributions to the Great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, to be held next year, is promised from Canada, where a commission has been issued under the great seal of the…

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The Industrial Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 April 1851 · page 2

WE are happy to learn that the project of the Industrial Exhibition has found favour in the sight of the "go a head" gentlemen in Moreton Bay. A local committee in correspondence…

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