• Title
  FILE 01: Our home No. 2 Floor 10 The Astor, Macquarie Street, Sydney, [ca. 1938] [photograph album]
• Call number
  PXA 1474/Item 1
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1938
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  980078
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (15 photographic prints) - gelatin silver, coloured - 27.0 x 32.0 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  Photograph album comprising 15 hand-coloured photographs of interiors of Flat 2 on the 10th floor of the Astor, Macquarie Street, Sydney, ca. 1938.
  
  [i.] Front cover inscribed 'Our Home No. 2 Floor 10 The Astor, Macquarie Street, Sydney / To Mum with love from Fred and Geo.' [i.e. George].
  [1.] The Hall, from the doorway.
  [2.] Part of the Lounge.
  [3.] More of the Lounge.
  [4.] Another View of the Lounge.
  [5.] View from the Lounge Windows.
  [6.] View from the Lounge Windows [Vera's apartment block is indicated]
  [7.] Mexican dining room.
  [8.] Kitchen.
  [9.] Guest bed-room.
  [10.] Our bedroom with a view of Sydney Bridge.
  [11.] Our bedroom with a view of the City.
  [12.] Bathroom.
  [13.] Shower Room.
  [14.] Picture Projector [and] Play Room and Garden.
  [15.] Looking down the Hall from the back to the front.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 990738
• Date note
  
  Dated by Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library, May 2012, from sale of flat by Richardson and Wrench in March 1938; presence of Luna Park out of lounge room window (1936); and books on shelf in lounge room including 'I Knew Hitler' (1937) and 'How to Win Friends...' (1936).
• Subject
  Interior design--New South Wales--Sydney
  Interior decoration--Australia.
  
• Topic
  interiors
  bedroom furniture
  bathrooms
  kitchens
  lounge suites
  hallways
  lights
  bookcases
  furniture
  interior decoration
  flats
  chairs
  dining rooms
  dining tables
  
• Place
  Astor Flats (Macquarie Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Dixson 60 - State Library of New South Wales (October 2013 - March 2014)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE620244

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