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Title
Box 14: Royal Australian Historical Society : photonegatives, ca. 1900-1925
Call number
ON 260/375-430
Level of description
item
Date

ca. 1900-1925
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
421661
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
Photographs - 55 glass photonegatives - 8 x 10.5 cm.
Scope and Content
THE ROCKS
375. [Looking down Essex Street from Gloucester Street (?), The Rocks]
376. [Houses, Princes Street, The Rocks]
377. [Houses, The Rocks (for same buildings, see Home & away - 2162)]
378-384. [Houses possibly Gloucester Street, The Rocks]
DEVONSHIRE STREET CEMETERY, CENTRAL STATION SITE AND CONSRUCTION, 1901-1902
385. Batman memorial, old Melbourne Cemetery
386-387. Morgue, Devonshire Street
388. Devonshire Street entrance to the old [Redfern] station
389-391. [Benevolent Society, with signs redirecting people to temporary building and advertising building materials]
392. [Elizabeth Street and corner of cemetery ?]
393. [Anthony Horderns from the viaduct construction, corner Pitt and Rawson Streets]
394. Eddy Avenue [levelled site with tramline stanchions in place, before paving]
395-396. [Excavations, looking towards] Elizabeth Street
397. Belmore Road
398. Looking west from Pitt Street south, [including Benevolent Asylum, centre, and twin domes of the Broadway Bank of NSW, right]
398. [Benevolent Ayslum after demolition; gatehouse on Pitt Street still standing]
399. [Looking southeast across Eddy Avenue and the cleared site from the roof of Horderns towards Surry Hills]
MISCELLANEOUS
400. Semaphore Railway Station, South Australia with W. H. Ringer’s Excelsior Bakery in the background, circa 1890s
401. [Substantial houses and gardens, one named "Flinton", next to no.8, which has an advertisement "To let, Wm. Dean & Co., Oxford Street"]
402-402a. [Yard of sandstone buildings and sign reading: "Nock & Kirby, ironmongers"]
403. [Pedestrians walk in a street of mainly three-storey terrace houses]
404. [Paddle wheeler at a wharf]
405. [Railway bridge over river]
406. [HMS Royal Arthur, Sydney Harbour (flagship, Australia Station, 1897-1904)]
407. Bronte House
408. [Pavilion and kiosk, Kurnell (see also nos. 236-246)]
409. [Premises housing Robert Whitelaw, plumber & gasfitter, and E.A. George, Venetian blind maker, 370 Pitt Street, between 1905-1910, ref. Sands]
410. [House, 5 Harrington Street, built before 1848 and occupied by Joseph Fowles, demolished early 1900's (ref. Demolished houses of Sydney / J.Hughes, editor, p.51)]
411. [Benjamin's new & second hand clothing shop]
412. [Horsedrawn omnibuses and hansom cabs in George Street, looking south from the Australian Waxworks (no.478)]
"OLD SYDNEY"
413-414. [Paddle wheeler ferry, ("Waratah" class), rowing boat and ferry wharf, McMahons Point]
415. ["Old barn" of the whaling station, Mosmans Bay, with newspaper advertisement on the roof, ca. 1901-1910]
416. [Sailors row a party out to HMS Royal Arthur from Man-o'-War Steps, between 1897-1904]
417. [Steam tram, Phillip and Bridge Streets]
418. [Cable tram, Queens Square, with St. Mary's Cathedral behind (note the central tower was completed 1900)]
419. [Corner grocer store and boot repairer, Commonwealth Street, and single storey terrace houses in Albion Street]
420. [17-19 Macquarie Place, showing Exchange Corner, Exchange Fruit Mart, Royal Exchange branch of the Bank of NSW, Exchange Studios; stockbroker William Carson; jeweller C.Aubert and a tobacconist]
421. [People watch as fig tree cut down, Public Instruction Office, Bridge Street, (also City Club Hotel), 1912]
422. Rock Lily Hotel of Leon Houreux (ref. Sands 1905)
423. Narrabeen Hotel, licensee Robert Norris, [before 1905]
424. [Liverpool or Samuel Street, Darlinghurst with signs for Alfred Jones, plumber and E.A. Court, butcher (ref. Sands, 1890,1900,1905,1910)]
425. [Stone guttering being installed, Elizabeth Street opposite Hyde Park ?]
426. [Launch and swimming baths on Hawkesbury, Parramatta or Cooks Rivers ?]
427. [Road down to wharf on the Harbour or a Sydney River]
428. [Intersection with back of billboard, derelict single storey house and row of 6 terrace houses]
429. [Interior, Gothic Revival church]
430. [Newly planted park with statue, 1920's]
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Description source

Titles of 413 and 414 changed from '[Paddle wheeler ferry, ("Waratah" class), rowing boat and ferry wharf, Balmain ?]' to '[Paddle wheeler ferry, ("Waratah" class), rowing boat and ferry wharf, McMahons Point]' on advice of reader. 16 December 2021

Title of '418. [Steam tram, Queens Square, with St. Mary's Cathedral behind (note the central tower was completed 1900)]' changed to '418. [Cable tram, Queens Square, with St. Mary's Cathedral behind (note the central tower was completed 1900)]' on advice of reader 16 December 2021

Title of 400 changed from [Train in the platform, old Redfern Railway station?] to Semaphore Railway Station, South Australia with W. H. Ringer’s Excelsior Bakery in the background, circa 1890s on advice of reader 24 October 2022.
Name
Batman, John, 1801-1839
Nock & Kirby (N.S.W.) Ltd.
Royal Arthur (warship)
Place
370 Pitt Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
5 Harrington Street (The Rocks, Sydney, N.S.W.)
Anthony Hordern & Sons (George Street, Haymarket, N.S.W.)
Benevolent Asylum (Pitt Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
Bronte House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Central Railway Station (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Commonwealth Street (Surry Hills, N.S.W.)
Department of Education (Bridge Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
Devonshire Street Cemetery (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Eddy Avenue (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Elizabeth Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Essex Street (The Rocks, N.S.W.)
George Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Kurnell (N.S.W.)
Macquarie Place (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Mosmans Bay (N.S.W.)
Narrabeen Hotel (N.S.W.)
Princes Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
St. Mary's Cathedral (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Semaphore (S. Aust.)
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