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Useful history and explanation of the Argyle Cut including this picture - www.sydneyarchitecture.com/ROC/ROC23.htm . I have a hunch that a photographer was commissioned to photograph The Rocks and Millers Point in c.1901 after the bubonic plague outbreak to capture the squalor and slums before the NSW Government resumed the area for rebuilding (and later the Harbour Bridge). Many similar photographs are showing up in the State Records NSW photostream on Flickr. My idea is that the prints are the documents the relevant Government department required, but the glass negatives from the unnamed photographer eventually became part of the Tyrrell collection.

A print on Flickr from State Records NSW -

Looking east along Windmill Street from Kent Street intersection. (Map is wrong).

Rear view - www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/3863064063/

The 1901 NSW state election posters for Will Daley are popping up all over the place. [Thanks @beachcomberaustralia for giving me the heads up on this one.] See also: www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/3810910188/ www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/4886221321/ www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/4886823514/ www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2632250969/ www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2801918748/

This photo shares a glass negative (presumably meaning they are contemporary) with

State Records NSW has a copy of the photograph:

Windmill Street looking towards Trafalgar House, The Rocks (no date) [SRNSW: 4481_a026_000040]