• Title
  File 1: Anthony Hordern and Sons - Building construction of Brickfield Hill site
• Call number
  PXE 1103/Vol. 3/Box 1/1-98
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  approximately 1901-1938
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records
• Reference code
  145892
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 box (98 photographic prints) - 43 x 53 cm or smaller - gelatin silver print
  0.01 metres of textual material (2. pp.) - 30.5 x 23.0 cm - typescript
  
• Scope and Content
  Box 1
  1-69. Building construction of Brickfield Hill site, ca. 1901-1905 ; Building alterations and excavation of store, 1932-1933 ; Interiors of the underground service tunnel and pipes.
  
  Boxes 1-2
  70-198. Hordern industry and factories: including The new Foundry, Alexandria,
  1934-1935 ; The printing department ; Clothing factory and mattress factory ; Marble Works, Camperdown, including examples of their marble-work in the Bank of New South Wales, Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, Farmers, 'Herald' building, Perpetual Trustee Building, St. James Building & Theatre, Union House and Yorkshire House.
  
  Box 3
  199-233. Vehicles and transport: including delivery trucks and motor fleet ; transport of Craig Williamson's stock from Melbourne ; Interiors of the motor garage and workshop, Camperdown.
  
  Box 3
  234-305. Exteriors of department store: including George & Pitt Street entrances ; Decorations and parades, eg. 150th Anniversary Celebrations in 1938, and the Arrival of Santa in his sleigh outside store, 1933-1936 ; Francis Birtles outside store ; Views of Central Railway & Brickfield Hill area and Sydney City, including aerial views.
  
  306-326 are located in Vol. 4
  
  Forms part of MLMSS 1518X
• System of arrangement
  Chronological by subject for dated photoprints
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.1274 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824138
  Contains contents list for Series 03 Boxes - 'Anthony Hordern and Sons pictorial collection'
  Contains contents list for items 73-94 - 'Detail of foundry building with reference photographs' (Call number: PXE 1103/Vol.3/Box 1/73a)
• Name
  Anthony Hordern & Sons
  Australian Sesquicentenary (1938)
  Birtles, Francis, 1881-1941
  Santa Claus
  
• Subject
  Shipment of goods.
  Stores, Retail--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Buildings--Design and construction.
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Place
  Anthony Hordern & Sons (Brickfield Hill, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  This Working Life
  On Sale! Shops & Shopping
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1001822

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