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90/586-4 Architectural model, various shopfronts, part of King Street Sydney streetscape, 1870-1890, plywood / cardboard / plastic, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, Australia, 1970-1975. Click to enlarge.
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Architectural model of shopfronts on King Street, Sydney

This is one of 23 architectural models representing King Street, Sydney, in the 1880s. This streetscape reveals a lost city of trades, shops and entertainment, in buildings of a human scale. King Street was a magnet at night and by day a retail mecca.

Yet Sydney was also taking on its modern form as a business and professional centre, with architecture to match. This lost city catches Sydney at a cross roads in its history. A bustling variety of people and activities began to make way for a …

This object is part of

90/586 Architectural models (23), King Street Sydney streetscape, c 1880, plywood/cardboard/fabric/celluloid, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, Australia, 1956-1977
Architectural models of King Street made by Jack Montgomery
1970-1975

Summary

Object No.

90/586-4

Object Statement

Architectural model, various shopfronts, part of King Street Sydney streetscape, 1870-1890, plywood / cardboard / plastic, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, Australia, 1970-1975

Physical Description

This model represents Nos 114 to 124 King Street, Sydney. At No. 114 is James Brown, picture framer. At No. 116 is Yankee Doodle Tobacco. At No. 118 is Nicholson & Co., habit and robe maker. At No. 120 is Edwin Harper, fruiterer. At No. 122 is Henry Wood Oyster Cafe. At No. 124 is the Canadian Rubber Stamp Co., 'Novelties, Notions etc'.

Short URL

https://ma.as/108513

Dimensions

Height

530 mm

Width

920 mm

Depth

580 mm

Cite this Object

Harvard

Architectural model of shopfronts on King Street, Sydney 2021, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, accessed 30 March 2023, <https://ma.as/108513>

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{{cite web |url=https://ma.as/108513 |title=Architectural model of shopfronts on King Street, Sydney |author=Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences |access-date=30 March 2023 |publisher=Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Australia}}

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