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Arrival of MV SKAUBRYN at Australian Port with the Intergovernmental Committee on European Migration uploaded April 2018
Group of men eating at tables in large dining room uploaded April 2018
Passengers rescued from burning MV SKAUBRYN on deck of CITY OF SYDNEY uploaded April 2018
MV SKAUBRYN berthed at night, possible at Kiel, Germany uploaded April 2018
Herd of camels in desert uploaded April 2018
Five boys pose for the camera in Aden uploaded April 2018
losed deck of passenger ship with people lying in rows and standing looking out of portholes uploaded April 2018
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Aden uploaded April 2018
Passengers rescued from the sinking of the MV SKAUBRYN in the Red Sea, at Aden airport boarding a plane to take them to Australia uploaded April 2018
Men and women climbing the gangway to MV ROMA berthed at Aden Harbour uploaded April 2018
Passengers from MV SKAUBRYN after the fire in the Red Sea uploaded April 2018
Officers on desk looking accross harbour, possibly Aden Harbour uploaded April 2018
Lifeboat from MV ROMA taking ashore passengers rescued from the sinking MV SKAUBRYN uploaded April 2018
Starboard view of midships of freighter, possibly CITY OF SYDNEY, in harbour uploaded April 2018
Two lifeboats from MV SKAUBRYN uploaded April 2018

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View from Neutral Bay looking towards Fort Denison and Garden Island

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beachcomber australia said:
Taken from almost the same place as -

Phillips Collection, PhM
beachcomber australia said:
This photo is slightly earlier judging by the vegetation.
beachcomber australia said:
The trees and vegetation had grown up considerably by 1907 when Arthur Streeton painted "Sydney Harbour from Penshurst (Cremorne)" - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_Streeton_-_Sydney_Harbour_from_Penshurst_(Cremorne)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg - click through to large size. Original at AGNSW.
pellethepoet said:
beachcomber australia I always find it's best to go straight to the source: www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/OA29.1962/
- click through to large size. :)
beachcomber australia said:
pellethepoet Indeed! But the GoogleArtProject version is sooo much higher-res! You can almost see what Arthur had for lunch!

Victoria Bridge damaged in the Brisbane floods, February 1893

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Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Thanks for the link quasymody :)
sccart said:
The William St wing of the Treasury Building appears completed at this stage . A most interesting photograph .

18 footer KERIKI under sail, Sydney Harbour

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sydneyarbor said:
Heading to Sow and Pigs.
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
sydneyarbor Thanks :) It is an amazing shot, and I have seen it turn up in various places. A coloured version appeared on the cover of Australian Motor Boat and Yachting Monthly, October 1925.
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Thanks QM, I'm pretty sure you can even see this great pic on the wall of the Sydney Flying Squadron :)
covid convict said:
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/169771862 - this pic appeared as a full page feature in the Sydney Mail on 21st January, 1922...

The Sydney Mail's title/caption: 'Exhilarating Sport on Sydney Harbour...Visitors to Sydney frequently express astonishment at the clever manner in which the open boats that stud the waters at week-ends and on holidays are handled by their crews. The sport is often thrilling, and its devotees are very numerous. Our picture shows the eighteen-footer Keriki, sailed by Mr. Lan Taylor, of Lavender Bay.'

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16106479 - the pic also appeared in the SMH on 10th March, 1924...it was evidently one of a number of photos of sailing on Sydney Harbour that Hall & Co were then sending to London for display at the British Empire Exhibition...

Same photo...the return leg...