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Bedroom in "The Old Shebang", Cuba Street, Wellington, ca 1883

from National Library NZ on The Commons

• Andrea said:

  Home of the photographer William Williams.

• Hannah Young said:

  My teacher of Mandarin school shanghai( www.mandarininn.cn/ ) asked me wrote a poem about the light , so I wrote that : The cricket's chirp and the patter of rain come to me through the dark, like the rustle of dreams from my past youth.

"The Old Shebang", Cuba Street, Wellington, ca 1883

from National Library NZ on The Commons

• pabIo said:

  Wow, Cuba Street doesn't look like that today. ;)

• National Library NZ on The Commons said:

  Nope, not a bit! Courtney

• Andrea said:

  Home of the photographer William Williams, "shebang" means "house".

The Old Shebang, Cuba Street, Wellington, 1883

from National Library NZ on The Commons

• Jack Falstaff said:

  Ticklymoo, are you sure Mr Williams is preparing a negative? In broad daylight? Isn't it more likely that he is looking at a printing frame?

• Hannah Young said:

  In the dusk of the evening, you know the evening of Chinese lessons shanghai ( www.mandarininn.cn/ )is perfect, yes, very perfect, the bird of some early dawn comes to the nest of my silence.