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PHOTO 1 - EUREKA ! At last I think I have a definite location - from the north end of DARLING ISLAND looking SOUTH across Pyrmont Bay to Pyrmont in the distance. Most of those buildings in the left distance were resumed and demolished soon after this photo (1904). The 'white' building is Boylan's Hotel on the site of its replacement, the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel. The steep ramp on to the new Pyrmont Bridge is just in front of the gabled building at far left. The wharf buildings are a new wheat storage and loading wharf. Evidently there was a bumper crop in 1903. The chimney belongs to the Pyrmont Power Station (not Ultimo), and acrobat Melvin Vaniman photographed a panorama looking the reverse direction from the top of the chimney in December 1903, presumably just before it started belching smoke. Vaniman panorama (which makes sense of my rant) - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemPopLarger.aspx?itemid=412343 , and State Library blurb - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=412343 . 1895 Map of area - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-rm3443-sd&rgn=0... Another contemporary photo of the background Pyrmont to compare buildings with Zoomit - from.ph/28399 There are several pictures available via a "Darling island" search on Trove, showing these warehouses stacked with grain sacks as are being loaded in Photo 1. I think the "Sol" was transporting the Government photographer (was it John Degotardi Jnr?). I wonder what he was standing on - another ship?

@ State Records NSW - I have tried to post the above to the blog site, but it is rejected as "Too Spammy" !! Any suggestions?

Description of the bumper harvest of 1903-4 and the record number of ships in port (22/01/1904), including reference to French ships - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14594761 . Vivid description of the Darling Island wheat wharf (SMH 22/01/1904) - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14594793

By jove beachcomberaustralia, you've done it! Psst ... I've got around the "too spammy" problem in the past by breaking the post into several posts so that each post wasn't too link intensive.

pellethepoet Thanks I split it and posted, but lost the links . . .

The Evening star., August 07, 1919, Image 8, "Society" mentions a Senora de Sol, wife of Don Salvador Sol M, minister of Salvador to the United States chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1919-08-07/ed-...

OK, that's correct. This photo, cropped, appeared inThe Washington times., September 11, 1919 and The Washington (D.C.) Evening Star., January 16, 1920, with the captions: "MME. SALVADOR SOL, Wife of the minister of Salvador, who will assist Mrs. Alice Pike Barney in her tea and auction sale of seats and boxes for the actors' benefit." and "MME. SALVADOR SOL. Wife of the minister of Salvador, who will entertain the wife of the President of Salvador." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1919-09-11/ed-... chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1920-01-16/ed-...

Don Salvador Sol and his wife were in Washington a little over a year. In August, 1920, he resigned his post and they returned to Salvador the following month to resume their lives as coffee plantation owners with intentions of building the country's first sugar mill. The Washington times., August 15, 1920 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1920-08-15/ed-... A photo of Don Salvador Sol at a Washington function in June, 1919: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007018709/

She was the former Eva Duke, born in Salvador but raised and educated in California. (San Francisco Chronicle, 7-21-1918, p. 13.)

According to www.geni.com Eva Duke Carazo, wife of Salvador Sol Millet.

La caballería era el arma más temible del ejército mexicano.

A estas tropas por el color de sus camisas y quepíes se les llamaba "amarillos", eran fieles al ejército federal de Don Porfirio. Dr. Roberto Duarte

The stream of men from left to right flows from south to north, El Paso is behint the bull ring. The pipes and smoke plume should be El Paso smelter.

Found in El Paso Herald issue February 22, 1911 (The Library of Congress, Chronicling America) an article that mentions the soldiers where moved from Juárez bullring to another quarter behind the customs house. Is it possible the Call Nr. locates this picture on February 1911? Dr. Roberto Duarte

Dr. Duarte: While it is quite possible this photograph does date from February 1911, we cannot be positive, as the Bain News Service did not always number their negatives chronologically. Often that is the case in the collection, but not all the time. This is a very interesting piece of information you have found, though, and may be an explanation for the activity shown. We can add more details than are currently present in the record. Thank you!

Genial. A great exchequer