Cyclopedia of New South Wales

$31.40

Cat No.:   AU2006:

The Cyclopedias that were published for most states of Australia around the beginning of the 20th Century are a significant resource of historical and biographical information on the state concerned - the people, industries, professional, commercial and social institutions and much more.

This CD includes facsimile images of the entire 766 page volume of the original 1907 edition. It has hundreds of biographies and nearly 900 photos, mainly of people whose biographies are included

The following outline of the contents shows the wide scope of this volume.

History of N.S.W

Constitutional Parliamentary

Federation

Geographical and Topographical

Treasury

Mint

Taxation

Lands

Agriculture

Forestry

Water Conservation and Irrigation

Mines and Mining

Public Works

Water Supply

Education

Technical Instruction

University

Colleges

Schools

Museums

Libraries

Post and Telegraph

Railways and Tramways

Law

City and Port of Sydney

Customs

Harbour Trust

Navigation

Harbours and Lighthouses

Fisheries

Observatory and Meteorological

Ecclesiastical

Architecture and Engineering

Naval and Military

Consuls

Local Government

Fire Brigades

Public Charities

Medical Institutions

Banking

Pastoral

Insurance

Shipping and Shipbuilding

Trade and Manufactures

Wine Growers, Merchants

Racing Clubs

Merchants

Inlcudes special sections on

Newcastle

Maitland

Greatly enhanced access to Cyclopedia content

As with many other products being published under the Archive CD Books project access to the vast amount of information is now greatly enhanced. There is no index in the original volumes, the full text searching on this CD

NOW that is all changing. The entire text is now easily searched. And the machine read OCR text has been corrected to ensure 100% of the text can now be searched. To illustrate the value of this, the following number of returns were obtained - using the Adobe Reader 6 Search.

Sample Search Results

Names

- Blacket - 52

- Macarthur - 94

- Williams - 58

Places - including intersyate and overseas

- Albury - 31

- Broken Hill - 49

- Goulburn - 86

- Parramatta - 199

- Melbourne - 262

- Queensland - 209

- London - 459

- England - 528

- Scotland 68

Other

- solicitor - 274

- cricket - 54

- dentist - 24

- hotel - 42

- Presbyterian - 51

- railway/s - 395

The entire text from the two volumes is searchable - names, places and any other words in the text or advertisements

High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book.

No. of CDs is:  1 ;   Format is:  PDF ;   Searchable?:  YES;

FastFind:  yes;  ISBN No.:   9781920978914;