• Title
  Gas holder, Haymarket ... / City Photo Coy., Pastoral Exchange, Hunter St., opposite `Herald' Office
• Creator
  City Photographic Co.
• Call number
  SPF/479
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  [ca. 1879]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  413010
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - albumen photoprint - 14 x 20 cm., on mount 20 x 23.8 cm.
  
• General note
  
  ""One of the first gas holders to be erected for the Australian Gas Company at the rear of Haymarket Anthony Hordern's Store (the orig. store was later destroyed by fire). The donor's father was foreman of the works on this job, and contractors were Lewis & Co., Marion St., Pyrmont"" -- Information from donor
  Reproduced in: First light : 150 years of gas / Rosemary Broomham. Sydney : Hale & Iremonger, c1987 (p.68) Caption: `C. Lewis' construction team built the largest holder at Haymarket. It dominated Pitt Street South from 1879 to 1916'
  Dated from City Photo Co. (Hunter Street, Newcastle) entry in: The mechanical eye in Australia / Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985
  Digital order no:a089479
  This item has been catalogued and digitised under a project funded and supported by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Caption continues: ""... near Central Rly Station. Finished January 1877"" -- on reverse
  Photographer's stamp below image
• Name
  Australian Gas Light Company.
  Lewis & Co.
  
• Topic
  construction & demolition workers
  gasometers
  
• Place
  Haymarket (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  

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