• Title
  King Street, Sydney from Pitt Street, looking East, February-March 1895 / H. King Syd.
• Creator
  Henry King, 1855-1923
• Call number
  SPF/342
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  [1895 or 1898]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  412721
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - albumen photoprint - 22.2 x 15.1 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  Quong Tart's Tea House, at right
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from SPF / Sydney -- Railways and tramways, 1892 (BM), July 2011
  Digital order no:a089342
  This item has been catalogued and digitised under a project funded and supported by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled at lower edge
  "1451" -- at lower edge
  "Photo by Henry King c. 1880-90" -- stamped label attached below the photograph
• Date note
  
  Dated from: Glimpses of old Sydney, King Street in 1892 (notes by C.H. Bertie available at PXn 916 Mitchell Library)
  In 1894-1895, St James's spire had a broach added which can be seen in this photograph
  The Fatal Card played at the Theatre Royal in 1895 and 1898
  The 'Loong Shan' Tea House at 137 King Street (opposite Theatre Royal King Street entrance) opened on 21 December 1889.
  
  See also SPF/Sydney -- Streets -- King Street 1892 (ACMS 141914) for further information on dating this image
  
  Page & Notting, real estate agents (sign on the mid-right hand edge), split in 1896, and with The Fatal Card playing only in 1895 and 1898, the date of the photograph is February-March 1895 -- information supplied by "quasymody", a State Library of New South Wales Flickr user, January 2012
• Name
  Tart, Quong, 1850-1903
  
• Topic
  cable trams
  crowds
  streetscapes
  city & town streets
  
• Place
  King Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Quong Tart's Tea House (137 King Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1231632

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