The Squatters Exchange: a view of the corner of George and Margaret Streets, Sydney, ca. 1861
The Squatters Exchange: a view of the corner of George and Margaret Streets, Sydney, ca. 1861
The Squatters Exchange: a view of the corner of George and Margaret Streets, Sydney, ca. 1861
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1861
Call Numbers
DL Pd 107
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Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 watercolour - 16.4 x 23.8 cm: sheet 16.9 x 24.3 cm
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
View includes the premises of Brewster, Rea & Company stock and station agents ; F. Mader, stationer ; and R. Leworthy, tailor, and also an omnibus coach called Civility ; two bullock-drawn drays bearing bales of wool, and a five-piece brass band
Alternative Titles
Full title
The Squatters Exchange: a view of the corner of George and Margaret Streets, Sydney, ca. 1861
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Copy print: DL Pd 107 : Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
Keyword subject:
Brewster, John Gray (1823?-1897)
Brewster, Rea & Company
Civility (omnibus coach)
Exchange Hotel (cnr George & Margaret St., Sydney, N.S.W.)
Leworthy, Richard
Mader, Frederick
Squatters Exchange (265 George St., Sydney, N.S.W.)...
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed 'S.T.G.'
Date note
Dates from directories place the Exchange Hotel on the corner to 1858/9 and say Mader's shop was vacant in 1866; 1861 account is most in accord with the view, calling the corner building Squatter's Exchange, though the proprietor is given as John Brewster, stock and station agent, and none of the directories about this time give the form that inclu...
Conservation note
Slightly foxed
Description source
Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
Title from notices on buildings shown
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DL Pd 107
Record Identifier
YdmdNgN9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YdmdNgN9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
840513
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