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90/586-9 Architectural model, building with three 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 three shopfronts

Made
  • 1970-1975
This is one of 23 architectural models representing King Street, Sydney, in the 1880s. This particular model is of 100 to 104 King Street including Crawshaw, McClelland and Varley, drapers and silk merchants, and E.J. Hollingdale, jeweller. The 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.

Drapers specialised in dress materials but they also sold many finished garments such as …

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.

90/586-9

Object Statement

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

Physical Description

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

This model represents Nos 100 to 104 King Street, Sydney. The top of the building has the date 1866. No. 100 and 101 belong to Crawshaw, McClelland and Varley (has washstand, jub and bowl upstairs). No. 102 notes "dress materials and silk merchants, importers, drapers, silk. Fashionable dress materials, cheap cashmere, all fresh fashion, silk merchants and doll, feminine fripperies, ladies drawers and chemises". At No. 104 is E.J. Hollingdale Watchmakers and Jewellers.

Short URL

https://ma.as/108518

Dimensions

Height

550 mm

Width

690 mm

Depth

580 mm

Production

Made

  • 1970-1975

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