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60330
  • Title
    Meadowbank
  • Creator
  • Call number
    ON 165/123-133
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    ca. 1911-1916
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    60330
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    Photographs - 11 glass photonegatives - 12 x 16.5 cm.
  • Scope and Content
    1. Congregational Church - Meadowbank - ON 165/123
    2. Railway Bridge Parramatta River. Looking south along John Whitton railway bridge from park in Meadowbank just upstream of bridge abutment (site of subsequent Meadowbank swimming baths) - ON 165/124
    3. Railway Bridge, Parramatta River - ON 165/125
    4. PARRAMATTA RIVER RYDE - 9 - 1 From Ryde bank, past wharf with ferry just about to go downstream, to railway bridge and State Timberyards, Uhrs Point - ON 165/126
    5. PARRAMATTA RIVER NEAR RYDE WHARF. From grassy bank with aloes (foreground) across River to 'Yaralla' on Concord side (background), with ferry in distance - ON 165/127
    6. Parramatta River with three ferries (Kookooburra (sic) on right) looking upstream towards John Whitton railway bridge, with beginnings of Uhrs Point State timberyard left background (?) - ON 165/128
    7. River scene from grassy bank with wharf on left: ferry approaching with strange, square superstructure bearing words starting ( 'New South Wales, Rowing Association'?) - ON 165/129
    8. River scene, motor cruiser (?) Astoria, Sydney pulling away - ON 165/130
    9. Similar river scene to 130, with Astoria side on - ON 165/131
    10. Wharf with sandstone-block edge and people and building left background, burlesque small boat, with two men and boy in long pants aboard, foreground, reading ' VICTORIA ' on stern and ' DREDNORT ' [sic] along side, with drain-pipe 'cannon' etcetera - ON 165/132
    11. Riverside scene: largeish ship under construction in middle ground, with high scaffolding etcetera. Could be on Parramatta River on Ryde side; tower of 'Yaralla', Concord, looks to be in background across river, extreme right - ON 165/133

    A preliminary listing compiled by Mr Laurance Hazlewood is available in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at ON 165
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  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright
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