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Shows & fairs, 1875

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A Fair prayer for a House of prayer

Sydney Punch · Friday 17 December 1875 · page 8

IT would be derogatory to Mr. PUNCH'S character, as a great wit and genial humorist, to rake up…

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Mineral and Geological Exhibits for the Philadelphia Exhibition

Evening News · Friday 17 December 1875 · page 2

The exhibits intended to represent the mineral resources of New South Wales at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, were placed for public inspection at the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, on Thursday…

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Hebrew Ladies' Fancy Fair

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1875 · page 791

THE long curious-looking building, or pavilion, which so many people have noticed for some time in course of erection, near the General Post Office, George-street, is now open as the Hebrew Ladies' Fancy Fair, and a more…

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Exhibition of Minerals

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 December 1875 · page 3

THERE has been on view for some days past, and will be until to-morrow (Tuesday) evening, at the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, the mineral trophy and geological collection about to be forwarded by the Department of Mines to…

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Philadelphia Exhibition Commissioners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 December 1875 · page 3

A MEETING of the Commissioners was held at their office Free Public Library, on Saturday. There were present. The Bon. Sir Edward Deas-Thomson, M.L.C. Vice-President (in the chair); the Hon. G. H. Cox, M.L.C., the Hon…

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Exhibition of Minerals

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 December 1875 · page 5

There has been on view for some days at the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, the mineral trophy and geological collection about to be forwarded by the Department of Mines to the great International Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876…

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Philadelphia Exhibition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1875 · page 811

A MEETING of the Commissioners was held at their office, Free Public Library, on Saturday. There were present— The Hon. Sir Edward Deas-Thomson, M.L C, Vice-President (in the chair); the Hon. G. H. Cox, M.L.C.; the Hon…

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Exhibition of Minerals

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1875 · page 811

There has been on view for some days at the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, the mineral trophy and geological collection about to be forwarded by the Department of Mines to the great International Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876…

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