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George St, looking north from the old Burial Ground (now Sydney Town Hall) to the Synagogue, Police Offices & the Sydney Markets, 1842John Rae, watercolour, DG SV* / Sp Coll / Rae / 7Sydney's first markets were set up on the harbour foreshore, moving further along George Street as the city expanded, before finally settling in the block bounded by Market, York & Druitt Streets (the present site of the Queen Victoria Building) in 1810.Digital order no: a928368
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Bullock teams crossing the Dandenong Ranges, Vic, 1860S. T. Gill attrib., watercolour, 'Dr Doyle's Sketchbook', PXE 1983/ f.24By the time a product is placed on a grocery store shelf, it has usually traveled countless miles and been handled by many people. The mode of transport by which a product gets to market can effect freshness, quality, profit and productivity. In the days when farmers hauled their produce to market by road, growers could lose up to 100 working days per year to travel time and needed fair weather to keep roads passable.
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York Street, looking south to the Markets, Police Office and temporary Cathedral , 1842John Rae, watercolour, DG V* / Sp Coll / Rae / 2Digital order no: a928001
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Camel train, Wanaaring Road, Warrego District, NSW , 1890Kerry & Co., albumen photoprint, PXD 546/ 2Picturesque New South WalesDigital order no: a5091002
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Fruit Market, Sydney , 1853Frederick Terry, 'Landscape Scenery', hand coloured engraving, ML Q981/22A4
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Sydney Markets, York St., South end, 1868stereograph, DL PX 132/ 16Digital order no: a922001
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View in the northern portion of the George Street Market, Sydney’, 16/9/1876 , 1876engraving, Illustrated Sydney News, DL F8/32
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Old George St. Market from York St, Sydney, NSW, 1889W.B. Spong, watercolour, V1 / St / York / 1Digital order no: a6923001
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Invitation Card for a ball ... on Thursday 21st July ... to celebrate the opening of the Queen Victoria Market Buildings , 1898coloured lithograph, DL Card File 1/ 70Digital order no: a7623001
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Interior, New Queen Victoria Markets, Sydney, 1899A. G. Foster, photoprint, PXB 18/ f.10
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Fruit being loaded onto a goods train at Pennant Hills, heading for Sydney’s Belmore Market, 1910Rex Hazlewood, glass plate negative , ON 151 / 6Digital order no: a2015006
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View along Ultimo Road to Sydney Markets, Fruit Exchange on left , 1909Rex Hazlewood, glass plate negative, ON 151 / 132Digital order no: a128202
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Fruit Exchange building, Sydney Markets, horsecarts of produce in foreground, 1909Rex Hazlewood, glass plate negative, ON 151/ 10Digital order no: a2015010
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Fruit Exchange Buyers and sellers, Sydney Markets, with stacks of boxes and fruit outside Bart Allen's Stand, 1910Rex Hazlewood, glass plate negative, ON 151/ 16Digital order no: a2015016
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Vegetable stands at Sydney Markets with seller in foreground and customers behind, 1915Rex Hazlewood, glass plate negative, ON 165/ 1086Digital order no: a7204002
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Cart load of pumpkins and piles of melons with market workers at Sydney Markets, 1915Rex Hazlewood, glass plate negative, ON 151/ 88Digital order no: a416010
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Workers unpacking, weighing and stacking bags of vegetables at Sydney Markets, 1915Rex Hazlewood, glass plate negative, ON 151/ 89Digital order no: a416011
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Workers with mounds of cabbages inside Belmore Market sheds, Sydney , 1915Rex Hazlewood, glass plate negative, ON 151/ 87Digital order no: a416009
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Seller with Potted plants at Stand 57, Sydney Markets, next to W. Crowe, bird and animal dealer , 1915Rex Hazlewood, glass plate negative, ON 165/ 1085Digital order no: a7204001
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Road train, or electric truck, imported by F.S. Falkiner of "Wanganella", Hay, NSW, travelled at 4 miles per hour and used to transport bales of wool, 1915copy negative, BCP - 06726Digital order no: bcp_06726
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Market workers at City Market, Newcastle, NSW, 6 February, 1957Sam Hood, copy negative, Home and Away - 29147Digital order no: hood_29147
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Semi-trailer delivering produce to Flemington Markets, NSW, , 1975Government Printing Office, copy negative, GPO 3 - 28687Digital order no: d3_28687
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Market worker moving boxes of produce with forklift at Flemington Markets, NSW , 1975Government Printing Office, copy negative, GPO 3 - 28671Digital order no: d3_28671
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Flemington Markets, NSW, 1975Government Printing Office, copy negative, GPO 3 - 32394Digital order no: d3_32394
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Bargain hunters shop for fruit and vegetables at Flemington Markets, NSW , 1975Government Printing Office, copy negative, GPO 3 - 28635Digital order no: d3_28635