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980078
  • Title
    FILE 01: Our home No. 2 Floor 10 The Astor, Macquarie Street, Sydney, [ca. 1938] [photograph album]
  • Call number
    PXA 1474/Item 1
  • Level of description
    file
  • Date

    1938
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    980078
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    1 album (15 photographic prints) - 27.0 x 32.0 cm - gelatin silver, coloured
  • Scope and Content
    Photograph album comprising 15 hand-coloured photographs of interiors of Flat 2 on the 10th floor of the Astor, Macquarie Street, Sydney, ca. 1938.

    [i.] Front cover inscribed 'Our Home No. 2 Floor 10 The Astor, Macquarie Street, Sydney / To Mum with love from Fred and Geo.' [i.e. George].
    [1.] The Hall, from the doorway.
    [2.] Part of the Lounge.
    [3.] More of the Lounge.
    [4.] Another View of the Lounge.
    [5.] View from the Lounge Windows.
    [6.] View from the Lounge Windows [Vera's apartment block is indicated]
    [7.] Mexican dining room.
    [8.] Kitchen.
    [9.] Guest bed-room.
    [10.] Our bedroom with a view of Sydney Bridge.
    [11.] Our bedroom with a view of the City.
    [12.] Bathroom.
    [13.] Shower Room.
    [14.] Picture Projector [and] Play Room and Garden.
    [15.] Looking down the Hall from the back to the front.
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    Digital order no:Album ID : 990738
  • Date note

    Dated by Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library, May 2012, from sale of flat by Richardson and Wrench in March 1938; presence of Luna Park out of lounge room window (1936); and books on shelf in lounge room including 'I Knew Hitler' (1937) and 'How to Win Friends...' (1936).
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