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I'd love to see an enlargement of the figures

Built as a ceremonial entrance arch for Prince Alfred, the first Royal visitor to NSW in 1868. See comments, links to contemporary newspaper articles and other views -

I think that is James Barnet, Government Architect, who designed the Arch, on the left. Or not?

Brilliant !

John Degotardi took photos too. I wonder if there is a matching one.
Via Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

See also -
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/318.2014/
and
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/320.2014/

And B I N G O ! -
au.pinterest.com/pin/271060471301363536/

beachcomber australia 👍

As far as I can tell, "Smith's Wharf" was on the western edge of Millers Point - we are looking south up Darling Harbour. The wharf was redeveloped shortly after, as in this 1903 photo of the reverse view, then known as Dalgety's Wharf - The amazing thing is that John Degotardi Jnr the photographer managed to make a routine photo of a barge clearing rubbish from a wharf into an interesting study in composition, perspectives, light and shapes. I bet he was also responsible for the photo above and these -

beachcomber australia Yep, spot on. This map shows the location of Smith's Wharf, the same location as the "new" Dalgety's Wharf opened in 1903 after the Darling Harbour Resumptions - Plan E, Map of Resumption Area bounded by Darling Harbour, Port Jackson, Kent Street North, Windmill Street, and Bettington Street (Within section 92), 03 May 1900.

pellethepoet Eeek! Your link says "Invalid entity path", whatever that means. Try this for Plan E - gallery.records.nsw.gov.au/wp-content/gallery/darling-har... And for all the Resumption Maps - gallery.records.nsw.gov.au/index.php/galleries/maps-and-p...

beachcomber australia Thanks, the image page must be displayed on a temporary page. I've changed the link to the permanent item record. Scrub that, it appears you can't link to the record page either. (I was trying to link to Archives Investigator map which is higher resolution than the gallery version.)

beachcomber australia Nice work, from Smith's Wharf to Dalgety's Wharf! pellethepoet Yes, for some reason we can't link to items in Archives Investigator from Flickr. A very roundabout way is to go to: Archives Investigator --> Advanced Search --> 19348 (in Series Number) then you will see Plan E in the list of Items. AB