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	47 Sydney Harbour Bridge Menu card. Official Opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge. Luncheon given on board P.&O.S.N. Coy's RMS Maloja…, Sydney, 19th March 1932. Letterpress, the white card cover with gold printing, with 4 ink autographs on inside printed page, folded with blue ribbon tie, 16.5 x 10.5cm. With four signatures: J. Bradfield, Chief Engineer, Lawrence Ennis, Director of Construction for Denman Long, Philip Game, Governor, and A(?) Casselte(?) Stefer(?).	$690
	48 Sydney Harbour Bridge Souvenir photograph by E.A. Bradfield, c.1932. Silver gelatin print and letterpress. Together with Bradfield's business card, letterpress. Framed together. Possibly a promotional item for Bradfield's engineering firm: J.J.C. Bradfield's card is mounted with the photograph. The card is inscribed in ink With Compliments.	$490
	49 Sydney Opera House Robert Emerson Curtis, (Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House under construction), 1965-1972. Pencil drawing, signed and dated lower right, 31.5 x 25cm. The Sydney Opera House is one of the most recognisable buildings of the modern world, and as representative of Australia as the pyramids are of Egypt. It took 15 years to build, from the demolition of the tram-shed in August 1958, through Stage 1 (1959-1963), Stage 2 1963-1967), construction of the roof vaults by Hornibrook Group, "perhaps the most difficult task of prefabricated assembly in the history of building", and Stage 3, the glass walls, interiors, promenade and approaches. The Opera House was finally opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 20th October 1973.	$990
	50 Sydney Opera House - Ephemera (1) Utzon & the Opera House. Statement in the Public Interest, 1967. Book, stiff wrappers, illustrated, 4to. (2) Act No. 29, 1960. Published by V.C. Blight, Government printer, 8pp, 4to. (3) Current Affairs Bulletin. The Sydney Opera House, Vol. 31, No. 3, December 1962. (4) Sydney Opera House. Ceremony to commemorate the commencement of the building of the Sydney Opera House, 2nd March 1959. Gold wrappers, 4to. (5) Sydney Opera House. Official Souvenir, 1973. Blue fold-out wrappers, 4to. (1) A publication concerning the controversy surrounding the resignation of Joern Utzon. The statement, originally prepared by Utzon supporters in 1966 and revised, gives comprehensive contemporary accounts of the building's architect. (2) The Act which provided for the construction of the Sydney Opera House. (5) Copious illustrations, and the full programme of the opening season of drama, ballet and opera.	$490
	51 Yallourn, Victoria Album of panoramic photographs, 1925. 49 silver gelatin prints, all panoramas. The album oblong 8vo, grey wrappers, black cord bound. The photographs linen backed. Of the panoramas, two are 3-part, and eight are 2-part. Five are by E.E. The album is blind-stamped T.M.R. Library of T.M. Ramsay. Ink signature of J.P. Campbell on one of the album pages.	The Album $2,900