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1006225
  • Title
    Sydney City Mission photographs and views of Sydney, New South Wales, ca. 1889-1910
  • Creator
  • Call number
    SLIDES 346
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1889-1910
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    1006225
  • Physical Description
    39 slides - glass, lantern - 8.3 x 8.3 cm
  • Collection history
    Previously owned by Sydney City Mission
  • Scope and Content
    The slides depict various locations and events in New South Wales, including views of Bondi beach, Watson’s Bay, and Sydney streets. There are several slides depicting Sydney City Mission activities, staff, buildings and celebrations.

    BOX 1
    1. Group of women and children in hall
    2. Outdoors group portrait of children
    3. Laying foundation stone
    4. Outdoor group listening to speaker
    5. Handing out bread to women and children
    6. Sydney City Mission Christmas Appeal [fundraising poster]
    7. Sydney City Mission Jubilee
    8. Group portrait of men and women
    9. Children at table being fed
    10. [Interior Sydney Town Hall] Sydney City Mission celebrations
    11. [Sydney City Mission celebrations with banners, Sydney Town Hall]
    12. Sydney City Mission celebrations (possibly in a town hall?)
    13. Brass band group portrait
    14. [Group portrait of] Delegates City Mission Conference Hobart 1910
    15. City Mission Hall – group portrait outside
    16. Outdoors group portrait
    17. Outdoors group portrait
    18. [Crowd] at the Queen’s statue, 2.2.01
    19. Barrack St (Kerry & Co. 308 George St)
    20. Tank in Sydney
    21. Elizabeth St looking south
    22. Stratford NSW – cracked
    23. [Police in uniform] Young Bros, 31 Elizabeth St, Sydney
    24. Park Street [street scene]
    25. Customs house
    26. Interior of garage
    27. HMAS Sydney on od Australia's Bulldogs
    28. Take me down the harbour lyrics
    29. [View of Watsons Bay showing wharve], Take me down the harbour
    30. [View of Sydney Harbour looking out to the heads], Take me down the harbour

    BOX 2
    31. View of Sydney from afar
    32. Royal Arthur. Gov. General’s arrival
    33. Man seated looking over harbour – Burwood and Brear Liverpool St
    34. A portion of Bondi on holiday
    35. Bondi beach
    36. Bondi on holiday
    37. Beach scene
    38. Beach scene
    39. Paris exhibition 1889
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Description source

    Titles from lisiting supplied by donor. Some slides titled.
  • General note

    Photographer unknown
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Some slides inscribed "Walter Lewis, Maker, Strathfield"
  • Date note

    No date. Dates devised by curator based on clothing worn etc.
  • Conservation note

    Some cracks to slides
  • Subject
  • Place
  • Open Rosetta viewer

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