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9661179
  • Title
    Photographs of Sydney and New South Wales taken by Charles Percy Holt
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXB 1755
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    26 December 1924-April 1928
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    9661179
  • Physical Description
    13 photographic prints - gelatin silver
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Charles Percy Holt (1893-1977) ran a haberdashery store in Canterbury, Melbourne, for most of his working life.

    Reference:
    Library acquisition file
  • Scope and Content
    13 photographic prints taken of various locations in Sydney and New South Wales. The pictures include the building of the Harbour Bridge and the excavation of various train tunnels.

    1. Parramatta. April 1928
    2. Steam Tram Parramatta. April 1928
    3. Tube Railway Excavations. Wynyard Square. April 1928
    4. Tube Railway Excavation Sydney. April 1928
    5. Excavating Wynyard Square. Sydney. April 1926
    6. Home Bush 27.12.24
    7. Pitt St. Sydney. 1926
    8. Harbor Bridge. Sydney. April 1928
    9. Wrecked S.S. Greycliffe. Sydney. April 1928
    10. At "Oriana" 20.4.28 Sydney
    11. Goulburn N.S.W. April 1928
    12. Between Albury & Gundagai. 28.3.28
    13. [Photograph of a car] 26.12.24
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Description source

    Title of collection devised by cataloguer based on contents. Titles of the individual photographs, aside from no. 13, were taken from what is written on the lower margin of each. Title of no. 13 taken from the subject of the photograph.
  • General note

    Some of the photographs appear to be cut out of an album as they have other partial photographs on the back.
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