View of Martin Place, showing the Commercial Travellers Club, Government Savings Bank of N.S.W., the Commonwealth Bank, the G.P.O. and the Commercial Bank, ca. 1930 / photograph by E.B. Studios

XV1/St/Mart Pl/1

fonds

ca. 1930

Graphic Materials, Photographs

877603

1 photograph - 27 3/4 x 33 in. approx., measurement taken inside mount

The photograph was apparently taken from the N.E. corner of Castlereagh St. and Martin Place, looking SS-W., the names of the buildings mentioned above being indicated in white lettering. The Commonwealth Bank is the present (1968) Commonwealth Trading Bank, on the corner of Pitt St. and Martin Place. The Cenotaph is just visible on the right-hand side of the picture. The dating is almost exact, as the Cenotaph was not completed and opened until 1929, and the Government Savings Bank of N.S.W. was taken over by the Commonwealth Bank in 1931. The Commercial Bank is the Head Office of the Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney.

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