Cyclopedia of New South Wales
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;