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Museum photos on flickr with open licensing! What a brilliant initiative - makes me proud to be an Australian. Hoping I can add something to the value of these images when I spot something I have first hand knowledge about. (got any images from south australia?)

In all fairness, the "initiative" belongs to the U.S. Library of Congress, the first organization to work on this project on Flickr.

Note the "middle rail" on the King St tram lines - they were cable trams.

What intersection is this?

It is the King Street / George Street intersection looking east. The reverse view is here: www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2901695720/ The pepperpot is still there at the corner of Pitt Street, as are several buildings in King Street. Cable trams ran on this line between 1894-1905; tapered outline telephone poles were pre c.1900, which narrows the date of this photo a lot. www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=207898&...

1904 (electric street lamps) - 1908 (tram "T" pylons in George St).

Fascinating! Isn't it now the site of the Gowings building.

Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies Yes indeed! And previously the Waterloo Stores, see comments etc -

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The date of this pic is closer to 1910-1911; Challice House build is almost completed …

Challis House (the version seen here), built 1906-07
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/113893767

Another date marker is Kincoppal Chambers (this side of the Citizens' Life building) which was built/completed 1903 for Stott & Hoare
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14568899

Bull's Chambers appears with the ca. 1905 addition/s

In the distance we see The Albany, in Macquarie St, which was completed in 1905...remained until the 1960s