[Athol Moore photonegatives of Sydney 1941-1946, including the dismantling of the GPO clock during wartime]

ON 149/54-83

series

1941-1946

Graphic Materials, Photographs

52476

Photographs - 6 x 6 cm.-10 x 12.5 cm. - 29 photonegatives, b&w

54. Digging air raid shelter at Cammeray, Dec 1941
55-57. Queen's Square, Sydney 1941
58-60. Martin Place 1941 from GPO Tower (note army recruiting huts)
61. Sydney view from Kings Cross, 1942. (The Post Office had secret telephone exchanges in flats, etc, even an old pie shop)
62. Martin Place 1942, sign on building to air raid shelter
63. War time precaution May 1942, a minute hand is in the dog-box the hour hand being removed
64-65. Sydney workman on removal GPO Tower 1942 looking north
66-67. GPO clock from inside
68. Dogman. The Tower is at the Sydney GPO. It is being demolished in case of bombing ...
69. Sydney, hands of GPO clock
70. Size of hands on GPO clock
71. Down came the GPO Tower. A war time precaution ...
72. Sydney 1942 looking east from AWA Tower, GPO Tower is down
73. Sydney 1942, GPO inside clock
74. Sydney 1946, from portico of Public Library towards intersection of Macquarie Street & Bent Street
75-76. Martin Place looking east 1946, Pitt street in foreground
77. Sydney 1946, wharf west Circular Quay, site of International Wharf Terminal
78-79. Sydney view 1946
80-83. Walsh Bay 1946

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