View of George Street, Sydney, showing the Commercial Bank and Bank of New South Wales, 1860-63.

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Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 80 x 77 mm (arched format), original plain greyish buff mount 84 x 172 mm, verso with studio label printed in blue Stereoscopic Views of Sydney and Environs by W. Hetzer, Photographic Artist, 287 George Street, Sydney, N.S.W. and an accompanying contemporary caption in ink George St. / Commercial Bank Bank of N.S. Wales ; both albumen prints are in fine condition, with good tonal range and sharp detail; the mount is free from foxing. This view looks north along George Street. It was taken from an elevated vantage point on the east side of the street apparently the balcony of the building adjacent to the Post Office, one of the columns of which frames the image on the right. On the west side of the street, in the left foreground and standing on the corner of Barrack Lane, is the original David Jones building built in 1838; on the opposite corner of Barrack Lane stands the magnificent Palazzo-style Commercial Bank, whose façade was removed piecemeal in 1923 and reconstructed on the grounds of the University of Sydney; and a little further north, on the corner of Wynyard Street at the bottom end of Martin Place, stands the Bank of New South Wales, which was demolished in 1923. William Hetzer had arrived in Sydney from Germany in 1850. With his wife Thekla as his assistant, Hetzer was active as a professional photographer in Sydney from this date until the Hetzers departure from the colony in 1867. From 1858 Hetzer pion

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