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862406
  • Title
    Blackwattle & Wexford Street resumed areas, ca. 1906 / Sydney Municipal Council
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXB 179
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1906
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    862406
  • Physical Description
    42 photographs - black & white - each 16.9 x 21.6 cm
  • Scope and Content
    These photographs include approximately the area now bounded by Bay Street, Broadway, Wattle Street, and William Henry Streets.
    The following streets are no longer in existence : Law Street, Little Chambers Street, Chambers Street, Ultimo Street, Athlone Place, Athlone Street, Little Devonshire Place, Mary Street, Johnson Place, Johnson Street, South Street, Church Lane, May Street, Adelaide Place.
    Also included are maps showing the location and direction of the photographs.

    Contents:
    Fly-leaf: Blackwattle Resumed Area (map)
    (1) Howard St. looking North from Hilliers
    (2) Howard St. looking North from opposite No.30
    (3) View at Open Sewer at rear of houses facing Howard St
    (4) May St. looking South
    (5) May St. looking North
    (6) Athlone Place looking South from opposite No 250
    (7) Athlone Place looking South from Ultimo St
    (8) Little Devonshire Place
    (9) Rear of houses fronting Johnson Lane and Johnson Place
    (10) Johnson Place
    (11) Owen Sto looking East
    (12) Nos. 36, 38, 40 Owen st.
    (13) Ultimo St. looking West
    (14) Chamiers St. looking West
    (15) Little Chambers St., open Sewer in foreground
    (16) Rear of houses fronting Chambers St.
    (17) Law St. looking East
    (18) Bay St. from William Henry St. looking South
    (19) Bay St. from opposite No.64 looking South
    (20) George St. West from Hilliers looking West. Premises between XX within Resumed Area
    (21) Panorama of Area from Grace Bros Tower
    (22) Locality Sketch (map)
    (23) Wexford Street looking from Elizabeth Street
    (24) Wexford Street looking towards Elizabeth Street
    (25) Wexford Street looking towards Elizabeth Street
    (26) Wexford Street looking from Goulburn Street
    (27) Western corner of Elizabeth & Wexford Streets
    (28) Eastern corner of Wexford & Campbell Streets
    (29) Exeter Place, looking from Wexford Street
    (30) Exeter Place looking from Foster Street
    (31) Foster Street looking from Campbell Street
    (32) Hunt Street, looking west from Foster Street
    (33) Stephen Street, looking from Hunt Street
    (34) Stephen Street, looking towards Hunt Street
    (35) Macquarie Street South looking north
    (36) Upton Place, looking from Macquarie Street south
    (37) Eastern corner of Goulburn Street & Macquarie Street south
    (38) Southern corner of Goulburn Street & Macquarie Street south
    (39) Goulburn Place looking south
    (40) Birds eye view from Mark Foy's stores
    (41) Birds eye view from Mark Foy's stores
  • Copying Conditions
    Approval for reproduction required
  • Original held by
    Original photographs held by City of Sydney Public Library
  • Description source

    Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
    Pictures detailed contents list. Titles on this list were transcribed from captions in the album held by City of Sydney Public Library.

    Reference:
    City Building Surveyor / City Architect's Department, Album - Demolition Books - Blackwattle and Wexford Street Resumption - Volume 42b (01/01/1906 - 31/12/1906), [A-01137601]. City of Sydney Archives, accessed 25 Jan 2022, https://archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/1900400
  • General note

    Keyword subject:

    Adelaide Place
    Athlone Street
    Chambers Street
    Church Lane
    Johnson Place
    Law Street
    Little Devonshire Place
    Mary Street
    Ultimo Street
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