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McCarthy & Co Tobacco Merchants, George & Hay Sts (northwest cnr), c1901

Title
McCarthy & Co Tobacco Merchants, George & Hay Sts (northwest cnr), c1901
Description
McCarthy & Co's heavily painted brick building was a wholesale and retail depot for Dixon's Tobacco. An advertisement for the 'Dark Yankee Doodle' brand features a representation of Archibald M Willard's famous painting from the American Civil War. Posters advertise a building materials sale, together with an 'Intercolonial cricket match' at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Workmen stand in the foreground, one reading the advertising material. In the right foreground is a decorative gaslamp, and overhead are electric wires
Subject
NW cnr George and Hay Sts
Image number
NSCA CRS 51/60
Format
Black and white photographic print in album. Glass plate original negatives also exist for many images in this series. For reference and copy purposes we hold a 35mm mounted slide, and a high-res digital copy of this image.
Managed by
City of Sydney Archives
Collection or series
NSCA CRS 51, Demolition books, 1900-1949
Date or place
c1901
Rights
Reproduction rights owned by the City of Sydney Archives. You may save or print this image for private research. If you wish to use it for any other purpose you must complete the Request for Permission form.