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Johnstone's Lane, Sydney (NSW)

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • Mariasme said:
    This is an amazing piece of Sydney's history. I didn't know we had ever had an outbreak of plague.
  • pellethepoet said:
    Mariasme There were 12 major plague outbreaks in Australia between 1900 and 1925. Official government statistics record 1371 cases resulting in 535 deaths. The 1900 outbreak in Sydney is the most widely known, mainly due to the remarkable photographic work of John Degotardi, Jr. See also State Records' Purging Pestilence – Plague! Gallery - gallery.records.nsw.gov.au/index.php/galleries/purging-pe...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Sorry to be another kind of persistent pest, but does anyone know EXACTLY where this "Johnstone's lane" is, or was?
  • pellethepoet said:
    beachcomber australia My hunch is near Pyrmont.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    pellethepoet Yes, there is a Johnston [sic] Lane in Annandale, whizz-up-and-downable in GoogleStreetView. Matching view not yet found, unfortunately. The houses on the left look relatively OK, and may still survive.

Views taken during Cleansing Operations, No.'s 1-5 Blackburn Street, Sydney (NSW)

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • pellethepoet said:
    No mention of our good friend the photographer John Degotardi Jr. in the description? beachcomber australia would be appalled (good thing he's off beachcombing somewhere in the South Pacific). :)

    I've added tags to the relevant photos - www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/tags/johndegotard...

    Maybe create a set in honour of beachcomber australia's hero?
  • Nicole Davis said:
    :)
  • jamica1 said:
    For those not familiar with this episode this is a good starting point sydney.edu.au/medicine/museum/mwmuseum/index.php/Bubonic_... along with of course your own gallery.
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    pellethepoet Mr. John Degotardi, Jr gets his due in the series descripton link but perhaps a mention in the title here might be a good idea! I'll add it.
  • pellethepoet said:
    Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection Mr. John Degotardi, Jr. can never get enough recognition, to make up for being written out of history for a while there. :)

    I've always found it odd that when Max Kelly published his seminal text on the plague photographs in 1977, Degotardi is praised as 'the unknown photographer who was working with the Department of Public Works in 1900', even though in Jack Cato's history of Australian photography published in 1955, he's mentioned by name (though he omits the important Jr. which differentiates him from his photographer father):
    A good example comes from the bubonic plague outbreak in Sydney in 1900 ... John Degotardi's 15" x 12" prints of the rat-infested slums around "The Rocks" ... (Degotardi's dramatic pictures are in the collection of the Government Printer in Sydney.)

    - The Story of the Camera in Australia, p. 58.

Destroyed rats during the bubonic plague in Brisbane (1900-1902)

from State Library of Queensland

  • Miles Green said:
    Yikes !
  • State Library of Queensland said:
    We have to agree with you there Miles Green !