Niagara Falls Stereo Cards collection, 1885-1903, n.d.

This collection contains 40 stereo cards of Niagara Falls and the Niagara River. Images include Niagara Falls in winter (the ice bridge); Prospect Point; the Whirlpool Rapids and the Whirlpool; the Upper River rapids; the Maid of the Mist; and Dixon crossing the Niagara River on a tightrope below the Great Cantilever Bridge. Twenty of the cards were published by Underwood & Underwood. The remaining cards are from various publishers including Keystone View Company, American Stereoscopic, Griffith & Griffith, H.C. White Company, E. & H.T. Anthony & Company, and Realistic Travels Publisher. George E. Curtis and Geo. Barker are listed as photographers on a few of the cards.

Deakin family group at Point Lonsdale

From left to right: Alfred Deakin, Pattie Deakin (holding granddaughter Jessie Brookes), Miss Hodgson, Ivy Brookes (nee. Deakin); front row left to right: [hidden - possibly Aunt Kay], Wilfred Brookes, Sid Appleby.

Group on the front steps of Ballara

Front row from left to right: Flora McIntosh, Mrs Jane McMillan (mother of soldier for whom a memorial cairn was erected at Arilpa), Wilfred Deakin Brookes; back row from left to right: Urquhart, Mr. McMillan, Ken Mitchell.

Ivy Brookes presenting the Alfred Deakin papers to the National Library of Australia

Alfred Deakin's daughters seated in the foreground from left to right: Lady Vera White, Lady Stella Rivett and Ivy Brookes; Professor J. La Nauze (Deakin's biographer) is the standing gentleman, second from the left; the Hon. Robert G. Menzies is standing on the far right next to the desk