Maitland (N.S.W.) Archives - Hunter Living Histories

Digitising the Treasures of Cintra House: Mapping the Journey

October 22, 2025

By Erica Wright, Vera Deacon Intern 2025 (All photographs were taken by Erica Wright unless otherwise attributed.) This post continues the story of “The Treasures of Cintra House Project”, first shared earlier this year. Here I will walk you through the physical and digital journey I’ve undertaken this year with Cintra House and its archive … More Digitising the Treasures of Cintra House: Mapping the Journey

An Australian Language (Title) Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld's works edited and compiled by John Fraser (1892)

Where is John Fraser’s Lost 1882 Journal?

November 15, 2024

The Lost 1882 Journal of John Fraser (1834-1904) by Leigh Budden Warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People This paper contains historical references to Aboriginal cultural practices ‒ but does not provide secret details about those ceremonies. It mentions reference to historical articles that contain terms or views that were considered appropriate at the … More Where is John Fraser’s Lost 1882 Journal?

12 October 1878 f.175-Newcastle and Nobby by H.G. Lloyd Courtesy Dixson Library SLNSW

Newcastle & The Hunter Captured in Watercolours by H. Grant Lloyd, 1878-1879

March 25, 2024

The Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales has digitised an album of 126 pencil and watercolour drawings by H. Grant Lloyd containing a number of views of Newcastle and the townships of the Hunter Valley in October 1878 and February-March 1879. The title of the album is: Volume 2: Sketches of N. S. … More Newcastle & The Hunter Captured in Watercolours by H. Grant Lloyd, 1878-1879

M5031-6: Residence "Belltrees" for Messrs M. E. A. and V. White No. 5 (28/9/1906) (Pender Archive, University of Newcastle)

What’s in the Pender Archive?

July 6, 2023

The Pender Archive represents the surviving work of three generations of Pender Family architects, based in Maitland, New South Wales (Australia) and is one of the largest and most comprehensive architectural collections in the country. A listing of all surviving plans and specifications relating to approximately 3000 projects across the Hunter Valley Region, New … More What’s in the Pender Archive?

High Street, Maitland in 1886

November 5, 2019

“High Street, Maitland 1886” has been digitally remastered by David Sciffer from the original 1886 Mahlstedt and Gee plans, 2019. We thank Mr Sciffer for allowing the University’s Hunter Living Histories to make this work accessible to the wider research communities. Click on the image above for the high resolution version, at 17000 pixels across, … More High Street, Maitland in 1886

Victoria Bridge Maitland in 1855

February 18, 2019

MAITLAND. VICTORIA BRIDGE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST MAITLAND. This Bridge is from an English design materially improved by the Colonil Architect, E.T. Blacket, Esquire. The building was commenced about the middle of 1852, and finished at a cost of less than £2,000. The bridge which is built in an oblique direction, over Wallis Creek, … More Victoria Bridge Maitland in 1855

Maitland Flood (1930) Panorama

November 15, 2017

Hunter Living Histories community researcher, Mr Robert Watson, identified four photographs within the Cultural Collections image archive as a ‘panorama’, and has stitched them together for us. These are the four originals: https://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/6372485563/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/6372488413/in/photostream/ On this next one Robert marked two boys on a homemade raft, and also the rotunda in Maitland Park: https://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/6372490151/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/6372491915/in/photostream/

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