Cumberland Street (Scene of the Guilford…

Engraving comprising a number of inset views relating to th esmall-pox outbreak in Sydneu in 1881. One of cases occurred in Cumberland Street, where William Keates, a Government boatman, kept a boarding house, amongst his lodgers was a Mrs. Guildford, who complained of illness, which subsequently proved to be small-pox, she was at once removed to the quarantine station at North Head, where she recoevered. From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News. The Illustrated Sydney News, which was published from 1854 to 1889 and included a number of high quality engravings to illustrate the accompanying news and articles. It was issued on a monthly basis due to the time consuming process of having to engrave each illustration which would take one engraver between one and two weeks to make each one.