essexstreet

6 photos tagged essexstreet, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.

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1953

2013

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The last upload was January 2013.

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beachcomber australia said:
[Edited] ~~The original glass negative~~ - www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2633070834/ or Zoomify at from.ph/379087 . ~~Strangely this print is taller and narrower than the original negative.~~

Photo taken at 12:20 on 13 August 1901. It was a Tuesday.
pellethepoet said:
This photograph sure got around. The State Library of Victoria have a print too.
pellethepoet said:
See J. J. Hilder's watercolour Frog Hollow, The Rocks, Sydney (1910) in 'The Heritage of J. J. Hilder' by Brett Hilder (Sydney : Ure Smith, 1966), pp. 52-53. In 1965 this was in a private collection in NSW, but the National Gallery of Victoria and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery also have versions of this work, executed 1910 and 1912 respectively. Alas none online ...
Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
This photo was recently determined to be part of the Rocks Resumption photographic survey, the title and date of the image has been changed accordingly

Here is a map of the Rocks Resumption area (last one in the sequence)

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beachcomber australia said:
Photographer John Degotardi Jnr was on top of the 'Harts Pub' (as now is). Hence the unusual height.

pellethepoet said:
Other photos of this intersection of Cumberland and Essex Streets, presented clock-wise.

The north-east corner -

The south-east corner -

(Almost) the south-west corner, the location of the Coach & Horses Hotel -
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beachcomber australia said:
Amazingly several of those buildings on the right (east) of the street are still there - GoogleMapsStreetView