Scenes and Places

There’s a marine background to every one of these  200 pix, there’s an aerial view of Sydney Cove in 1870, the Batemans Bay car punt in 1950 and merchant Robert Campbell’s home in 1850.  The first Spit Bridge is seen from the passing ferry and there’s a fine image of Hobarts’ Battery Point  about 1880.  At the Rose Bay International Airport a fuel barge prepares to top-up a Flying Boat. In Avenue Rd Mosman a large camera tripod blocks the road to the Mosman Wharf in the background – it’s 1858.  Down south a very unusual pedestrian cable punt crosses the Yarra River while a crowd strolls across the first Sydney Pyrmont Bridge.

For costs and availability of obtaining any of these photos without watermark, as an electronic file, as a print from the original negative (where available) or as some other format, contact the Maritime Records and Research Centre’s Curator on mrrc@shf.org.au or 02 9298 3850, quoting the full file name and giving details of format wanted.

Copyright for the majority of these images from the collection is vested in the Sydney Heritage Fleet. For the remaining images every attempt has been made to ensure correct attribution. If any originator of an image notes an error the Sydney Heritage Fleet would welcome any notification and will remove that image or modify its attribution.

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