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Please explain the connection to my image. Unfortunately my internet is so abysmally slow the links above won't currently load. Thanks

Thanks just got to be able to view those links. OK so you are suggesting the image above is incorrectly titled and should be Norfolk Island Civil Hospital. I cannot recall the buildings or lay of the land well enough to be able to confirm your thoughts.

Just had a look through those State Library Pics. The Norfolk Island Pine boulevard in one of the pics could also suggest Norfolk Island. It existed before the US Military removed them to construct an airport during WWll. There is also another pic of cliffs which appears to be Cascade Bay where the whaling station was.

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Bingo! The Civil Hospital it is, or was. See the "c.1900" SLNSW (!) photo on the first page of this report. Mr Macpherson was standing bottom left corner and the one/two-chimney house is on the right. Pyramid roof is there. See also what they found in the privy ! - www.ashadocs.org/aha/19/19_04_Starr.pdf Edit - Here is the image in the SLNSW - archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110197963 - not as clear as the link above.

Good Day....This photo was PROBABLY taken during the Civil War [1861-1865],,,,,The monument was STARTED in 1848......construction did not resume until 1876.....completed in 1884...... If you look carefully at any of the black and white photos taken after the completion date, you will see an OBVIOUS color difference ...... the bottom "starter" portion and the finished upper portion...obviously two different sources were used to acquire the blocks....Dave

Something odd to the top right of the photo? Can you explain - cheers - Paul

Odd is an understatement! The figure is very static (see left hand) but very translucent, standing between steps, and entirely at the wrong angle (ie, leaning backwards about 30 degrees.) If this were a 'genuine' person moving about in the image they would be blurred, but translucence without movement is impossible and thie effect shown can only be achieved by a double exposure. (I'm a press photographer of 40 years experience).

I've just downloaded this image and magnified it, and things get even stranger. Above the person's head tucked to the right of the escalator is an fuzzy 'phallic' object that doesn't have the same focus qualities of its surrounding objects, so doesn't belong in this image either. A private joke of some sort?