mcmahonspoint

12 photos tagged mcmahonspoint, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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1890

2014

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Sydney Harbour Bridge from Royal Australian Historical Society uploaded April 2017
Vehicular wharf at McMahons Point, NSW from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection uploaded January 2014
Lavender Bay & McMahons Point from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded May 2013
Lavender Bay and McMahons Point with tramsheds in the foreground from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded April 2013
Passenger liner KÖNIGIN LUISE acting as a flagship for the Anniversary Day Regatta on Sydney Harbour from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded December 2012
Chilean naval vessel GENERAL BAQUEDANO and tug in Sydney Harbour, July 1931 from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded May 2012
Port Jackson looking north toward Blues Point and McMahons Point, Sydney from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection uploaded February 2011
Three masted ferry with wharf in background from Powerhouse Museum uploaded December 2008
Yachting off McMahons Point from Powerhouse Museum uploaded September 2008
Balmain, from North Shore from Powerhouse Museum uploaded August 2008
Lavender Bay from Powerhouse Museum uploaded May 2008
Sydney from Lavender Bay from Powerhouse Museum uploaded March 2008

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Yachting off McMahons Point

from Powerhouse Museum

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beachcomber australia said:
I am fairly sure that is the SS Orient (yet again - that's no.10). More info - compare with the side view painting - www.laird-bogstown.com/orient 1.php PhMC SS Orient photos - www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&w=24785917@N03&q=ss+o...
beachcomber australia said:
Second thoughts (some of those liners were very similar) - I now think this is the Orient Line's SS 'ORIZABA' on Friday 27 January 1888. moored in Farm Cove for the Centennial Regatta, and photographed from Mrs Macquarie's Chair. Hence all the flags, boats, colour and movement. Described in the Sydney Morning Herald the following day - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13680429 . The Orizaba was wrecked off Western Australia in 1905, and is now a famous dive site - www.museum.wa.gov.au/collections/maritime/march/shipwreck... . See www.flickr.com/photos/49243167@N03/4537807228/ and www.flickr.com/photos/49243167@N03/4535158238/ Comparison photos - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=447782 www.tallis.on.net/images/p13.jpg And the "Orizaba Gavotte" sheet music (!!) - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.mus-an6304260-s1-e
beachcomber australia said:
Prompted by this Henry King photo - www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2362663293/
pellethepoet said:
I agree beachcomberaustralia - it is 'the Orizaba trimmed up and decorated for the occassion'. Not only have you identified the vessel, but named the very day. Well done.
BobMeade said:
beachcomberaustralia: Lookin' like S.S. Orizaba to me. Matches the other known photograph of Orizaba. Position, dressing of the ship and huge number of people aboard match the newspaper description of S.S. Orizaba for the Centennial Regatta. Yachts under canvas are also mentioned in the newspaper description of the day. A wood engraving of the Sydney Centennial Exhibition held by the State Library of Victoria shows a tableau of scenes. At the bottom is "The Regatta" A ship substantially the same as this one and dressed identically to the one in the photograph above is shown, although there are some very minor differences between the foredeck of the wood engraved ship and the one photographed here. This lends further weight to this photograph being of the Centennial Regatta. Here is the wood engraving: www.slv.vic.gov.au/miscpics/gid/slv-pic-aab13938/1/mp006972 I suppose there are books and pamphlets about Sydney's Centennial Celebrations which will confirm that this is a photograph of S.S. Orizaba at that event.

Balmain, from North Shore

from Powerhouse Museum

Emil said:
This is a fantastic photo!
beachcomber australia said:
Taken from Holtermann's above McMahons Point like Charles Bayliss 25 years before - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.pic-vn4266082-a3-v&...
beachcomber australia said:
Part of a panorama ? with -
covid convict said:
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/237997978 - the Daily Telegraph, 3rd September, 1910...'Panoramic View of Sydney Harbour from Neutral Bay to Goat Island...Photo, just taken by Kerry and Co., George-street' ? possibly used in this panorama...it's difficult to tell the Telegraph's reproduction is so poor...if so some of the ships have been photoshopped out...

Three masted ferry with wharf in background

from Powerhouse Museum

Giovanni Portelli said:
I wonder which wharf
beachcomber australia said:
Looking west across Lavender Bay towards McMahon's Point from Milson's Point.
beachcomber australia said:
A little to the left: Tom Roberts "Sydney Harbour from Milson's Point" 1897 collection.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/results.do?id...