Powerhouse Museum

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Located in Sydney, Powerhouse Museum is the largest museum group in Australia. Powerhouse sits at the intersection of the arts, design, science and technology and plays a critical role in engaging communities with contemporary ideas and issues.

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Circular Quay Looking South-East

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    A few seconds (!) earlier than this -
  • covid convict said:
    I think the date has to be ca. 1903-04...but I'm not quite 100% on that...we don't get to see the various date markers in good enough detail...

    I think the earliest date has to be ca. mid 1903...

    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165190993/16808491 - the Sydney Mail, 13th May, 1903... the bottom pic here shows the Eastern end of the Sydney Ferries Ltd wharf building under construction...in the PHM Kerry & Co pic it looks complete...which suggests that at the very least the PHM Kerry & Co pic was taken in ca. the second half of 1903...

    Some of the other date markers stack up with this...

    The Customs House shows the 1896-1903 Walter Liberty Vernon additions, which look complete...though I dare say it's possible there could still be some work in progress that isn't visible here...

    Another date marker is the 'Goldsbrough Mort & Coy Limited' signage on the former Mort & Co wool store at Circular Quay ...which we see here. Although Goldsbrough Mort & Co came into being in in 1888, the 'Goldsbrough Mort' signage appears not to have been added until the earlier 20th century...from what I've managed to establish so far, the 'Goldsbrough Mort' signage appears to have been added some time in the period 1902-06...

    - My sources re the 'Goldsbrough Mort' signage dates are at this pic...
  • covid convict said:
    As for a latest date...my theory is ca. early-mid 1904...

    If it were there...at the top of Loftus St, we should see the Colonial Sugar Refining Co's building at the corner of Bent/O'Connell Sts...but I don't think it's there yet...the CSR Building was evidently built in 1904-05...the construction work was well under way by April 1904...it evidently took 17 months to complete...and was finished by ca. August 1905...read the details here...

    Instead, at the top of Loftus St, I suspect we see the Dalgety's Building (completed 1899), which was on the opposite corner of Bent/O'Connell Sts...if the CSR Building were there I think it would obscure the Dalgety's Building...

    trove.nla.gov.au/work/190009370 - the O'Connell St facade of the Dalgety's Building appears on the right in this 1911 NLA Fairfax pic...If you zoom in at the PURL on PHM's pic and take a screenshot and then blow that up...you discover there's a good match-up with the Dalgety's Building...
  • covid convict said:
    11th August, 1908

Sydney Harbour scene with housing development

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    From Neutral Bay (in the vicinity of Wycombe Road) looking south towards Kirribilli and the Botanic Gardens.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Another coincidence?

    Arthur Streeton "Sydney Harbour from Penshurst (Cremorne)" 1907
    [OA29.1962]
    ED - New link for AGNSW - www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/OA29.1962/
  • Philip Cohen said:
    To be more precise, it's Thrupp Street, Neutral Bay …
  • spelio said:
    beachcomber australia

    See Cody Tutt book “Caution! THIS BOOK CONTAINS DEADLY REPTILES” p.91 the Aboriginal and Traditional Owners of YUIN Country around Darling Harbour Foreshores, also named WARRANG, …

    Watch out for the Broad-headed snake or, YUGA-MAGA, P90 in “Deadly Reptiles” book.

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