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Can you identify this post office?

This week we have an unidentified Post and Telegraph Office. It looks to be one of the first established buildings on the street as there are no other identifiable buildings in sight.

This image is part of NRS 4481 – the photographs were taken by officers of the Government Printing Office during the years c.1870-c.1920. and cover a wide variety of subjects, including: public buildings, railways, tramways, street scenes, harbour views, Sydney University, groups of people, ships, public occasions, the Botanic Gardens, military camps, wharves, dams and waterways, statues and slums.

We have many other undated photographs in Flickr account. If you know the dates or any other interesting facts about these images please let us know.

Can you identify these vessels?

A moment in time……

As there appears to be an ongoing debate regarding the unidentified court houses we decided to let the discussion run on as the court houses have stumped us all. But we didn’t want to disappoint so we thought a completely different topic might be in order. The two images below are of vessels docked at a Sydney wharf somewhere.  So it’s time to get your sea legs going and see if you can identify the type of vessel,  its purpose and the wharf.

Ahoy mateys……

We have many other undated photographs in Photo Investigator and on our Flickr account. If you know the dates or any other interesting facts about these images please let us know.