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SS Orvieta leaving Sydney, 1924

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Unique IDA-00034597SeriesSydney Reference Collection (SRC) - Photographs, circa 1850s-2010Date19th January 1924Date qualifierexactFormatPhotograph - DigitalDescriptionCircular Quay East, Sydney. Looking east from the promenade deck of the ship SS Orvieto, which was built by Workman, Clark and Company in Belfast for the Orient Line & launched in 1909, as it departs from Number 2 wharf at Circular Quay East. The streamers that were linking the passengers to their families on the wharf are now drooping into the water. Buildings on the wharf belong to the Orient Line. The trees in the background are in the Royal Botanical Gardens, where the roof line of Government House is also visible at the upper right. Photo taken by Beatrice Valmai (Jenkins) Mason, with her Kodak Box Brownie camera, on a trip which left Sydney on the 19 January 1924 and arrived in London on the 28th February 1924. Scanned from a print loaned to the Archives by Marilyn Mason in March 2016.LanguageNo linguistic content - Not applicable (zxx)Geographic location^[1]

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Source system ID093\093449Alternative IDSRC26118

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SS Orvieta leaving Sydney, 1924