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C1919
Sydney Harbour Trust Bird’s Eye View Showing New Wharves & Approaches. Jones Bay. Pyrmont
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Large lithographed view of the wharves at Pyrmont by William Henry Withers (1882-1947) commissioned by the Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners as part of their survey and changes to the port facilities in Sydney Harbour. Marked are wharves, roads, railways, depths, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Sydney Harbour Trust Bird’s Eye View Showing New Wharves & Approaches. Jones Bay. Pyrmont
Date:
C1919
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition, with folds as issued. Laid on archival linen.
Technique:
Lithograph printed in colour.
Image Size:
830mm
x 472mm
Paper Size:
847mm
x 500mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1919
Description:
Large lithographed view of the wharves at Pyrmont by William Henry Withers (1882-1947) commissioned by the Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners as part of their survey and changes to the port facilities in Sydney Harbour. Marked are wharves, roads, railways, depths, shipping channels and all the bays are named. This is one of the few views of Pyrmont accurately showing houses and factories that were there around 1919.
William Henry Withers (1882 - 1947)
William Henry Withers (1882-1947) Architect born in Brisbane, son of an undertaker. The family moved to New South Wales when Withers was a child and he trained as an architect at Sydney Technical College from 1899-1902, where he won the Kemp Memorial Scholarship in April 1902. He worked as an architect with the Sydney Harbour Trust from around 1910 until his retirement in 1946 by which time the Trust had become the Maritime Services Board. He is remembered today as the supervising architect for the Maritime Services Board head office building at Circular Quay, Sydney (now the Museum of Contemporary Art). He died at his home in the Sydney suburb of Campsie in May 1947.
