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A search in the NY Times archives found that the wife of the late Adolph A Edlich, Bertha Edlich, died on Feb 26, 1948. A child, Adolph A. Edlich of 327 East 27th Street died at the age of 3. I can't verify if this is the same family of Adolph A. Edlich who had this pharmacy on the corner.

I'm not 100% certain, but this may be 50th Street and First Avenue in New York City. The gabled building in the distance looks a lot like 931 First Avenue a.k.a. the United Nations School a.k.a. Public School 135 a.k.a. Public School 35, originally built in 1892. This building was recently been redeveloped into the the Beekman Regent, so some of its architectural features have been removed. And just as in the photo, there's an address with an 891 only a block away from it.

November 8 - November 11, 1911 New York City Garbage Strike

Uh-uh: the date on seven of Bain's photos is November 13, 1911.

Thanks for your comments! We'll include the additional information about the strike and date next time we update the record.

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

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Police History, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

Thanks for adding this to the Police History Group -- Seen in Police History (?)

November 8 - November 11, 1911 New York City Garbage Strike

No, the date on the edge of Bain's negative is November 13, 1911.

Thanks for the additional information. We'll add it to the description next time we update.