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This picture ran in the January, 1918 number of The Water Tower, with the description: "THE LAYING OF THE FIRST KEEL On Thursday December 20th [1917] at the Newark Bay Shipyard the first rivet was driven in the first standardized structural steel ship ever built. [...] The picture shows Mr John Hunter, representative of the United States Shipping Board, driving the first rivet after the center vertical keelson had been put in place. The gentleman standing immediately behind Mr Hunter in this picture is Mr Henry R Sutphen, vice president of the Submarine Boat Corporation and the man to whom credit for the production of the standardized structural steel ship is due." books.google.com/books?id=FAY0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA48&lp...

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"During World War I the Submarine Boat Corporation's yard was the second largest shipyard in the United States. There were as many as twenty-five thousand men working there." More on the company and its Newark Bay Shipyard here: www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/newark-bay.htm

A January, 1943 biographical sketch of Henry R. Sutphen (standing at center, above), naming him as the force behind the PT boats of WWII. books.google.com/books?id=y0i4p6MqmPgC&pg=PA164&l...

Art Siegel: thanks for finding the matching published image and for identifying Mr John Hunter and Henry R Sutphen at the Newark Bay Shipyard ceremony. We will add more information to both these images when we update.

Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection Thanks for posting this so quickly.

I was amazed to discover where this handsome and very old building was - at the SE corner of George and Market Streets, in the middle of Sydney. Unfortunately it literally has "Gone to Gowings", with the 1929 Gowings building at 452-56 George St., and the 1929 State Theatre in Market St. there now.

Google Maps Street View - goo.gl/maps/FCkLS1ofPNN2
[ed. - updated 23/10/15]
Gowings - www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_04_2.cfm?itemid=2424014
State Theatre - www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_04_2.cfm?itemid=5045499 and www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_04_2.cfm?itemid=2424031

I am not sure what the old building was called or used for, or its date (c.1830?) - does anyone know? Did it survive into the 1920s, or was there another building before Gowings? It seems to have been unloved towards the end of the C19th - most photographs seem to avoid it.

The view to the right -


"George Street from Market Street" Henry King (PhM)

Aha! Found it! Joseph Fowles "Sydney in 1848" names it as Waterloo Stores -

" At the corner of Market Street, with the front in George Street, stands the "Waterloo Stores," a spacious brick building, erected some twenty years since by Mr. Daniel Cooper; it then stood alone at the corner of the Cattle Market, and was without question the best building in the City, and even in the present day, when the spirit and enterprise of the colonists have caused the erection of many very excellent buildings, it still holds its rank amongst the best. The business of this establishment is conducted by Mr. D. Cooper, Junior, (the son of the above named gentleman) on a very extended scale. Country Stores and Settlers are here supplied with every thing they require: Wines, Spirits, Ales and Porter, Grocery, and Drapery Goods, Slops, and Clothing, Ironmongery, etc., in infinite variety. "

from - www.sydneyarchitecture.com/GALL/GALL-1848.htm (just over half way down).

There is a recognisable illustration (top left) -

It is easy when you have the name. The Waterloo Stores was demolished in 1883 -


"The last of the Waterloo Stores" SLNSW

And John Hunter (Boots - next door} took over the George St frontage and erected another building which was demolished for Gowings. Daniel Cooper had acquired the site in 1821 and started building that year. Ref - SMH 17/10/1928, p.11 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/16502273 .

So the Waterloo Stores was there from 1821- 1883. I imagine this photo is shortly before the 1883 demolition. What a great big shame, but how lucky that someone had the idea to photograph it.

Shame it's not a wee bit bigger (or, much bigger!). Be nice to poke around at what's on the sled :)

Hi George, Thanks for the comment. If you follow the Persistent url link, you'll land in our Manuscripts, Oral History and Pictures catalogue. There you'll find the record for the photo and you can click into the image and enlarge it to view the detail.

I would caption this one: "Hangin out with the laundry"....LOL
OOoooo George, ditto, "Say, what's under this bundle....???"

Curious about using glass negatives @ waaay below freezing temperatures. Guess you have to be sure & careful, eh?

from caption:
"Bage instructing Hunter in the use of the artificial horizon"