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This slide shows a plan and seven section drawings for the area now known as the Parliamentary Triangle, which is situated between the Central Basin and Camp Hill.
Walter Burley Griffin called this...
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This slide shows an alternative design proposed by Walter Scott Griffiths for Kurrajong Hill.
Griffiths' plan is overlaid onto Walter Burley Griffin's plan for Kurrajong Hill, the outline of which...
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This slide shows a plan and three section drawings of roads for the wider area of the circuit around Kurrajong Hill, as proposed by Walter Burley Griffin.
On the upper right-hand side of the slide,...
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This slide shows a plan and four section drawings of the roadworks planned for the inner circuit of Kurrajong Hill, as proposed by Walter Burley Griffin.
This area is now known as Capital Hill and is...
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This slide shows the sixth of six sections of the painting titled Cycloramic View of Canberra Capital Site, View Looking from Camp Hill, created by Robert Charles Coulter on 2 January 1911.
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This slide shows the fifth of six sections of the painting titled Cycloramic View of Canberra Capital Site, View Looking from Camp Hill, created by Robert Charles Coulter on 2 January 1911.
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This slide shows the fourth of six sections of the painting titled Cycloramic View of Canberra Capital Site, View Looking from Camp Hill, created by Robert Charles Coulter on 2 January 1911.
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This slide shows the third of six sections of the painting titled Cycloramic View of Canberra Capital Site, View Looking from Camp Hill, created by Robert Charles Coulter on 2 January 1911.
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This slide shows a schematic plan for the central area of Canberra drawn up by Walter Burley Griffin in March 1915 to indicate road, rail and waterway levels.
In October 1913, Burley Griffin had been...
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The Capitol Theatre was opened by the Governor-General, Baron Stonehaven, on 8 December 1927. The Capitol was an immense, white, rectangular structure. Its front entrance faced a dusty road, called...