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    The first Sydney post office, 1895, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library.

Title
Yeesang Loong, Importer and Exporters
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - George Street

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    Title
    The first Sydney post office
    Date
    1895
    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Form
    Dry plate. 12 x 10 in. L.
    Control
    GPO 1 - 08528
    Source

    NSW Government Printing Office : collection of copy negatives, 1870-1988; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of New South Wales.
  2. Published photograph
    Title
    142-144 George Street, 'Yeesang Loong, Importer and Exporters'
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.83
    Source

    Lydon, Jane, Many Inventions: The Chinese in the Rocks 1890-1930, Monash Publications in History, Clayton, 1999. [ Details... ]

    Foster Collection 121F, Royal Australian Historical Society

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    Title
    The first Sydney Post Office
    Description

    The Post Office operated from the home of the first postmaster, Isaac Nichols, in lower George Street. This photograph was taken a few years before the building was demolished in 1889. -- Reference: No. 1 Martin Place : the story : meet me under the GPO clock. Coogee, N.S.W. : No.1 Martin Place, 1999 (p.10)

    Date
    c. 1885
    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Form
    albumen photoprint - 23 x 28.6 cm
    Control
    SPF/288
    Source

    Photographs of Sydney - the streets, public buildings, views in the Harbour, suburbs etc., chiefly pre 1885; State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of New South Wales.

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