Miles Lewis

The forgotten half of the GlobeThe forgotten half of the Globe

the remote Pacificthe remote Pacific

the Typus Orbis Terrarum map, by Ortelius, 1570National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

after John Hardy & Alan Frost [eds], European

Voyaging Towards Australia (Canberra

1980), fig 18

thesouthern

hemisphere

conditions at Cape Hornafter John Hardy & Alan Frost [eds], European Voyaging Towards Australia (Canberra

1980), fig 1

detail from The Straits of Magellan, by J W CarmichaelNational Maritime Museum, Greenwich

'Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique', design by Jean-Gabriel Charvet, manufactured by Dufour & Cie, 1804-5, Australian National Gallery, Canberra: panel 1

Susan Hall [ed], Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique (Canberra 2000), cover

'Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique ': panels 1-4

Femmes de Tahiti, by Paul Gaugin, 1891Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Arthur Baessler, Neue Südsee-Bilder(Verlag von Georg

Reimer, Berlin 1900)

Kinder von Tahiti.

Gesellschafts-Inseln

Haus der Oster-Insulaner

auf Tahiti

Baessler, NeueSüdsee-Bilder, facing

pp 88, 80

Port PhillipPort PhillipPort PhillipPort Phillip

winds and currents in the Pacific Oceanafter John Hardy & Alan Frost [eds], European Voyaging

Towards Australia fig 9

ValparaisoValparaiso

Queen Victoria Hotel, Plaza Sotomayor,

Valparaiso, by E O F

Harrington

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architect’s signature,Queen Vicotria Hotel, Plaza Sotomayor, ValparaisoMiles Lewis

‘Singapore Cottage’ / ‘Argyle Cottage’, Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne, c 1841, as sketched by one of the McCrae children

Georgiana McCrae [ed Hugh McCrae], Georgiana's Journal (Sydney 1934), p 235

major sources of prefabricated buildings in the early nineteenth century (other than Australasia)

the golden Pacificthe golden Pacific

Franciscan missions on the Californian coast

after Rexford Newcomb, The Franciscan Mission Architecture

of Alta California (1916), pl I

Adobe house, California, 1846. MUAS 14,471

Nahant Hotel, Massachusetts, 1822-3

Thomas Larkin house, Monterey, 1835-7

Harold Kirker, 'The Role of Hispanic Kinships in Popularizing the

Monterey Style in California, 1836-1846', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, XLIII, 3

(October 1984), p 251

Alpheus B Thompson house, Santa Barbara,

completed 1836Lugo adobe, Los

Angeles county, 1844Sanchez adobe, Pacifica, 1846

Kirker, 'The Role of Hispanic Kinships', pp 254, 252

access to California from Europe and the eastern USA

Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Chagres, Panama, by John WalkerBuilder, XI, 543 (2 July 1853), p 422

access to California from Pacific ports

a Singapore house, Mentone, Melbourne, during demolition, 1983Miles Lewis

the Mentone house frame reassembled in CollingwoodMiles Lewis

Mentone house frameroof structure showing

mortised king posts

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Malay roof structure

Showing alang mudaconnecting mortised tunjuk

langgit posts

Phillip Gibbs, Building a Malay House (Singapore 1987), p 19

the Mentone house

roof post with Chinese characterbottom plate & scarf joint

Miles Lewis

Charles D Young & Co’s catalogue for

South America

station houses / casas para estacionesCharles D Young & Co

Chilean Galpóns

Estancia Avelina, view

Estancia San Gregorio, interior

Benavides C, Mateo Martinic B, Marcela Pizzi K,

María Paz Valenzuela B, Las Estancias

Magellánicas (Santiago 1999), figs 49, 71.

the American Pacificthe American Pacific

American stoves in Melbourne

the ‘Brilliant’, imported by E C Wheelock & Co of

Russell St, 1856

unnamed stove, imported by Burlingame

& Co, 1856

Australian Builder, 30 April 1856, p 76

Bradshaw’s Guide to Victoria(Melbourne 1856), no page

Air-warming Furnace by Chilson and Co of BostonLondon, Great Exhibition, Catalogue, III, p 1463

A J Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses (New York 1850), p 457

Residence of Captain Thomas W. Badger, Brooklyn [California], from the Northwest, by Joseph Lee, 1871

Oakland Museum of California

the ‘Improved Panel House’ of W H

Wrigley, Berkeley, California, 1878

Berkeley Advocate, 6 April 1878from Jill Korte of Berkeley

US patent no 250,857 to William H Wrigley of Oakland, California, 13 December 1881

the Kenny cottage, Berkeley, California, c 1881, during removal in 1906 from 2114 Addison St to

1725 University StBerkeley Architectural Heritage Association:

http://www.berkeleyheritage.com/berkeley_landmarks/landmarks.html

John King’s Elford house, Maffra via Dalgety, NSW, 1884

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John King’s Elford house, Maffra via Dalgety, NSW, 1884: view and detail

Miles Lewis

automatic fire doorGrinnell Sensitive Automatic Sprinkler

C H Woodbury, The Fire Protection of Mills; and Construction of Mill Floors, &c (New York 1882), pp 59, 87

RIO VISTA

C H Woodbury, The Fire Protection of Mills; and Construction of Mill Floors, &c (New York 1882), pp 59, 87

'Rio Vista', 199-205 Cureton Avenue, Mildura, by E C Sharland, 1889Miles Lewis

Willer blinds

Willer Manufacturing Co, Catalogue No. 10 Pocket Edition (Willer Manufacturing Co, Milwaukee

[Wisconsin] 1890), p 319, pp

12, 13

automatic fire doorGrinnell Sensitive Automatic Sprinkler

C H Woodbury, The Fire Protection of Mills; and Construction of Mill Floors, &c (New York 1882), pp 59, 87

fireproof partition in the Rookery,

Chicago, by Burnham & Root,

1885-8

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the International Fireproofer

International Fireproofer, I, 5 & 6 (January-February

1889), cover

'Little Wonder' terra cotta lumber press used by the Victoria Terra Cotta Company at Brunswick, made by the Wallace Manufacturing Co, Frankfort, Indiana

International Fire-Proofer, I, 1 (September 1888), p xi

‘Benvenuta’, 48 Drummond St, Carlton, By W S Law, 1891Miles Lewis

‘Benvenuta’, fireproof balcony floorW S Law, 'Specifications of Residence Drummond St. Carlton for Mrs. L.

Abrahams' (Melbourne 1891), p 6

59 Bayswater Road, Kensington,

Melbourne, view & detail

Terry Sawyer

Romanesque Cottage no 1, of Durant's lap-jointed terra cotta block, c 1898American Clay Working Machinery Co, pp 268/271

the three main American types of hollow tile in 1919, Natco at the left

C E White [ed W S Lowndes], Hollow Tile Construction (Philadelphia 1924 [1919]), fig 1

construction with hollow tilesWhite, Hollow Tile, p 13

Rule house, Mason City, Iowa, by W B Griffin, under construction

White, Hollow Tile, p 68

Gunn house, by W B GriffinWhite, Hollow Tile, p 170

Design by George Elgh of Melbourne, entered in the Natco competition, and published in 1917National Fire Proofing Company, The Natco Tex-Tile One-Family House (Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania] 1917), p 50

Reginald A Prevost, Australian Bungalow and Cottage Home Designs(N.S.W. Bookstall Co, Sydney 1912)

Radford's Artistic Bungalows: Unique Collection of 208 Designs (Radford

Architectural Company, Chicago 1908)

Prevost, Australian Bungalow and Cottage Home Designs, plan 33

Radford's Artistic Bungalows, p 25, Design 6039=B

THE COMMUTER THE COMMUTER PACIFICPACIFIC

Pullman Building 200 South Michigan Avenue, sw cnr

Adams St, ChicagoArchitect: S S Beman, 1884

Kilburn Collection no 32

Home Insurance Building, La Salle & Adams Sts, Chicago

architect: W L B Jenney 1884-5 Kilburn Collection no 76

staircase, Home Insurance Building, La Salle & Adams Sts, ChicagoArchitect W L B Jenney, 1884-5

Kilburn Collection no 10

library, Palmer House III, 17 East Monroe St, by J M Van Osdel & C W Palmer, 1874-5

Kilburn Collection no 41

Alleghany County Buildings, Pittsburgh, PA

architect: H H Richardson, 1883-8Kilburn Collection no 86

‘The Priory’, 61 Alma Road, St Kildaby Ellerker & Kilburn 1890

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‘Cestria’, 521 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn

by E G Kilburn 1891Miles Lewis

Morrell's report, 1915: title page, Philadelphia Parkway

J C Morrell, Town Planning: Report to the Honorable the Minister for Public Works

(Melbourne 1915),p p 1, 51

St Francis Court, Pasadena, California, by SylvanusMarston, 1909, as illustrated by Morrell in 1915

Morrell, Town Planning, p 51

Municipal engineers' reports: Morton, Garnsey, FraserH E Morton, Report of the City Engineer on his Visit to America and Europe 1920-21 (Melbourne 1922)

A H Garnsey, Report of the City Engineer and City Surveyor on his Visit to Europe and America 1946-47 (Sydney 1949)

L T Frazer, Municipal Engineering Developments Abroad 1950 (Melbourne 1951)

traffic interchanges in the USAGarnsey, Report of the City Engineer, p 219.

Frazer, Municipal Engineering Developments, p 195

parking building in Kansas City with ground floor shopsopen deck carparks in Washington and Baltimore

Garnsey, Report of the City Engineer, p 304Frazer, Municipal Engineering Developments, p 113

subway entrance showing ventilators, Chicago

subway stairwell on footway, Chicago

entrance on footway to underground railway,

Paris

Frazer, Municipal Engineering Developments, p 169

the Degraves Street Subway, Melbourne, under construction, 29 January 1954

Herald Sun Archives

MacRobertson at Hollywood

[MacPhersonRobertson],

MacRobertson Abroad: a reprint of Mr. Mac. Robertson's Diary written during his

World Tour of 1926-1927 (Melbourne

1927), p 118

The Marvellous Vitaphone– Moving Pictures that

sing and talk. The complicated machine

which registers the voice and takes the motion

pictures of the speaker or singer simultaneously.

(After a great deal of trouble I succeeded in

securing an illustration of this wonderful mechanism.)

A – The camera,B – The registering disc.

Robertson, MacRobertsonAbroad, p 63

Florence M Taylor, A Pot-Pourri of Eastern Asia with

Comparisons and Reflections (Sydney 1935)

Zoning in ShanghaiThe buildings are being

built everywhere in receding stages according

to the latest American practices though the

application of this science is not necessary in the

extremely wide Bund facing the river.

Florence M Taylor, A Pot-Pourri of Eastern Asia with

Comparisons and Reflections(Sydney 1935), 63.

Neil Clerehan in the USA, early 1950s