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Edward Everett McCall (1863-1924), former New York Supreme (Trial) Court Justice, unsuccessful New York Mayoral Candidate, and here in January 1915 Chairman of the New York (State) Public Service Commission, making an appearance at the disaster site. According to the Political Graveyard site, he was "chair, New York State Public Service Commission, 1913-15; removed from office in November, 1915, because he owned stock in a company under commission jurisdiction." politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccall.html

artolog: thank you for the additional information. We will update the record.

Comparison photograph taken in July 2008 shown here:

Post renovations / additions. c.1903+ see www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/3794327782/ and www.sydneyarchitecture.com/ROC/QUA05.htm

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Yes, it is much later than you would first think. I was trying to find a motor car ... !

trove.nla.gov.au/work/247384316 - Trove link to slide at PHM... The building under construction (obscured by the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency wool store) has to be the NSW Education Department Building, in Bridge St...which was built in 1912-15... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/263732819 - Australian Town & Country Journal, 21st January, 1914...pic here shows how the construction of the Education Department Building looked at that point... trove.nla.gov.au/work/189953118 - this [1924] NLA Fairfax pic shows a similar view to the Kerry & Co pic...with the completed Education Department Building in the background...

Here's the same view in 1920: www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/2687730703/ And in 2008: www.flickr.com/photos/lifeasdaddy/2684017015/

This image has been used in the indicommons.org then-and-now post Tyrell Today, which also talks about the Tyrell Today group.

Kerry was rather keen on this view - www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3004417112/ and www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3023700018/ I think this one is the best, and the earliest - no tram electric pylons.

Yep, beachcomberaustralia, you're right. Some other views photographers of the era were also keen on the same scene. Flip through some of the images of the Queen Victoria Building at Picture Australia to see some: www.pictureaustralia.org/apps/pictureaustralia?term1=quee... The Queen Victoria Building was one of the colossal Australian buildings of that age.

Thanks lifeasdaddy for the link. it is interesting to search "Queen Victoria Markets" as well, to get a lot of older photos which have not been cross-referenced or tagged. Something odd with the State Library links - I will complain to my local State MP! The QVB certainly is 'colossal' - I always thought it needed two or three extra floors height to balance the length and those heavy looking domes on the roof. But I am so glad it survives and flourishes.