sydneymail12thmay1900

Cascades, Rodriguez Pass

from Powerhouse Museum

• kind approval said:

  I find it amazing that the women wore the restricting white dresses to go bushwalking. Granted that women of that era knew no other way but this way, I admire them!

• Robert W Peabody III said:

  Nice print Fran: perhaps they were carried by servants

• Merryjack said:

  Rodriguez Pass is a walking track linking the base of Govetts Leap to the base of Evans Lookout. Named after Tomas Ramon Rodriquez (1869-1929) born in Santo Domingo, he promoted the walking track which bears his name. Rodriquez was station master for Blackheath in 1890 also a hotel proprietor and real estate agent and councillor on the Blue Mountains Shire Council 1917-1919. Total cost of the track was 270 pounds of which the government provided a 50% subsidy; it was completed on 21st April 1900. Ref. Blue Mountains Geographical Dictionary, Brian Fox

• covid convict said:

  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165301900/17332928 - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 12th May, 1900 in a pictorial titled 'Mountain Scenery on the Western Line'...(see pic top rhs 1st page of link)...

• Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:

  And you have to admire the photographers who schlepped the massive timber cameras, brass lenses, tripods and stacks of glass plates in there and back - no camera phone in the back pocket for them.