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Lighting up (electric light), Sophia Street, Surry Hills, N.S.W., ca. 1911 [picture] / H. Cazneaux
Bib ID 1963961
Format PicturePicture, OnlineOnline
Author
Cazneaux, Harold, 1878-1953
 
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Description ca. 1911 
1 photograph : silver gelatin ; 26.9 x 22.5 cm. 
Series

Harold Cazneaux photograph collection, 1910-1940.

Notes

Title devised by cataloguer.

Inscription: Signed by artist; "Lighting up, (Electric Llight) Albion St, Surry Hills, a few years later - 'Carbine' Miniature Camera, Kodak Regular Film, 1/2 sec exposure F4.5"--In pencil on verso.

Part of the Harold Cazneaux photograph collection, 1910-1940.

Date supplied by a descendant of Harold Cazneaux.

Identified as Sophia Street, Surry Hills by researcher.

Condition: Soiled.

Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-140177627

Subjects Street lighting -- New South Wales -- Surry Hills -- Photographs.  |  Electric lighting -- New South Wales -- Surry Hills -- Photographs.  |  Dwellings -- New South Wales -- Surry Hills -- Photographs.  |  Surry Hills (N.S.W.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs.  |  Surry Hills (N.S.W.) -- History -- Photographs.
Exhibited Exhibited: Travelling exhibition of "Harold Cazneaux Photographs", between 1994 and 1995.  Exhibited: "Bloodlines: Art and the Horse", Hawksbury Regional Gallery, 1 August 2007 - 14 October 2007. 

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