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949418
  • Title
    The Rocks and Sydney Harbour Bridge photographs, ca. 1865, 1879-1883, 1900-1940
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXA 1329
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1950's copies of ca. 1865, 1879-1883, 1900-1940 photographs
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    949418
  • Physical Description
    56 photographic prints
  • Scope and Content
    1. Bradfield Highway [York Street roundabout, 1932]
    2. Ocean Wave Hotel
    3. Cumberland Street [showing no.193 and Belvidere House]
    4. Cumberland Street looking south [looking south from no. 21 and 23, William Y. Richardson]
    5. Scene in Port Jackson : Dawes Battery, the mail steamer's anchorage [and P&O SS Ellora] off Moore's Wharf, entrance to Darling Harbour, etc, 1865 / from a photograph by Freeman Brothers
    6. Cumberland Street looking south from no.113, 7 August 1901
    7. Cumberland Street [nos 30-52, right ; no. 41 Pashleys & 49 Glenmore Hotel]
    8. Nos. 108 and 110 Princes Street, The Rocks (NSW) - the first hotel on "The Rocks"
    9. Cumberland Street looking south from Little Essex Street [and the North City Fire Brigade], August 1901
    10. 95-97 Cumberland Street
    11. [Harbour Bridge by] night from Lavender Bay, ... March 1932 / photographer H.N. Chadwick
    12. [Harbour Bridge] from northern approach / photographer H.N. Chadwick
    13. [Plan for city centre ?]
    14. [The northern end of the resumption area, The Rocks (NSW)] / Rocks Resumption photographic survey [showing the intersection of Cumberland, Lower Fort and George Streets]
    15. Bradfield Highway [York Street roundabout, 1932] -- filed in a booklet at no. 1
    16. Princes Street looking south, The Rocks (NSW) [Rocks Resumption photographic survey]
    17. Princes Street looking south, The Rocks (NSW) [Rocks Resumption photographic survey]
    18. R.M.M.S. Aorangi passing under nearly completed [Harbour] Bridge, February 1932 / photographer H.N. Chadwick
    19. Princes Street looking south from [No.] 53, The Rocks (NSW), September 1901 [Rocks Resumption photographic survey]
    20. Princes Street looking north from [Number] 95 1/2 [sic, actually 39 1/2], The Rocks (NSW) [Rocks Resumption photographic survey]
    21. Rear of 141 Princes Street
    22. Grand Hotel, [Essex Street] / GPO original locations or series - M5213
    23. Princes Street looking south from the corner of Essex Street, The Rocks (NSW), [Rocks Resumption photographic survey]
    24. Rear of 117 - 121 Cumberland Street, The Rocks (NSW) [Rocks Resumption photographic survey]
    25. Rear of 41 Cumberland Street, The Rocks (NSW) [Rocks Resumption photographic survey]
    26. Nos 140-150 York Street, looking east along Little Essex Street, 1914 / GPO original locations or series - M3051
    27. Rowan's Bond Store [York Street North] / GPO original locations or series - M5210
    28. T. Graham's shoeing forge, Kent Street
    29. [Rear], 86 Princes Street
    30a. Grand Hotel [of A. Ryan, Essex Street]
    30b. [Copy photograph of Grand Hotel]. Negative available at FM1/2199.
    31. Nos 119-121 Gloucester Street and Little Essex Street / GPO original locations or series - M3052
    32. Milsons Point Station in course of construction, February 1932 / photographer H.N. Chadwick
    33. Sydney Harbour Bridge [at night]
    34. Sydney Harbour Bridge [under construction]
    35. Sydney Harbour Bridge [at night]
    36. Bradfield Highway [York Street roundabout, 1932] -- filed in a booklet at no. 1
    37. Bradfield Highway [York Street roundabout, 1932] -- filed in a booklet at no. 1
    38. St James Square and St Mary's Cathedral (C884) / Kerry Photo
    39. No. 144-156 Princes Street, looking south / GPO original locations or series - M3050
    40. Entrance to Darling Harbour, [between 1879-1883]
    41. Corner Essex and York Streets [No. 182 York Street North, formerly Cumberland Street] / GPO original locations or series - M3043
    42. Windmill Street looking towards Trafalgar House, The Rocks (NSW) Rocks Resumption photographic survey
    43. Nos 42-68 Princes Street - east side, The Rocks (NSW) [Rocks Resumption photographic survey] [in the first large house a murder was committed just prior to demolition in 1927]
    44. Kent Street, The Rocks [Rocks Resumption photographic survey]
    45. Cumberland Street (number 41), The Rocks (NSW) [Rocks Resumption photographic survey]
    46. Miles Buildings, Gloucester Street, where Edmund Barton was born, The Rocks (NSW) [Rocks Resumption photographic survey]
    47. 19 Gloucester Street, Sydney (NSW) [Rocks Resumption photographic survey]
    48. Caraher stairs Lower Fort Street, The Rocks (NSW) [Rocks Resumption photographic survey]
    49. Mercantile Hotel (building lease), George Street North / GPO original locations or series - M3045
    50-51. Opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Saturday 19 March 1932
    52. Garden and steps from George St North to York St, [Harbour Bridge], Dawes Point / GPO original locations or series - M5211 -- filed in a booklet at no. 1
    53. Garden and steps from George St North to York St, [Harbour Bridge], Dawes Point / GPO original locations or series - M5212 -- filed in a booklet at no. 1
    54. [Lang cuts the ribbon], opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Saturday 19 March 1932 -- filed in a booklet at no. 50
    55. The Rocks
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Published Information
    For online images of these photographs see State Records NSW (http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/) and Picture Australia (http://www.pictureaustralia.org/), accessed November 2011
  • Description source

    Titled by cataloguer using State Records NSW titles and information on the reverse of the photographs, November 2011
  • General note

    Transferred from Small Pictures File (SPF), November 2011
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    PXA 1329/nos 11, 18 & 32 photographed by H.N. Chadwick, 32 Crabbe's Avenue, Willoughby [photographer's stamp]
  • Attributions / conjectures

    Many of the Rocks photos are from the Rocks Resumption photographic survey
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