• Title
  [Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney]
• Call number
  SPF/249
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  undated [ca. 1879-1880]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  412560
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - albumen photoprint - 23.4 x 31.8 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  Government House gates in the foreground
• General note
  
  Work on the Colonial Secretary's Office building, designed by James Barnet, began in 1873 and was completed in 1880. In this photograph, one statue is missing from the lower corner niche facing Macquarie Street. The last works on the building, included the statues, commissioned from Achille Simonetti. -- Reference: Australian Heritage Commission : Register of the National Estate Database, Apr 2001
  Digital order no:a089249
  This item has been catalogued and digitised under a project funded and supported by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001.
• Topic
  entrance gates
  official buildings
  sentry-boxes
  
• Place
  Chief Secretary's Building (Macquarie and Bridge Streets, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1229298

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