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Main Reading Room, State Library of NSW, Sydney
Dated: No date
Digital ID: 12932-a012-a012X2442000009
Rights: www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions

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BobMeade
- 30/Apr/2009 07:32:41
See a year 2009 view of this scene here:http://lifeasdaddy.typepad.com/lifeasdaddy/2009/04/sydney-then-and-now-state-library-of-new-south-wales.html
NSW State Archives and Records
- 05/May/2009 22:31:01
Thanks, lifeasdaddy - you found the same place to take the photo!
BobMeade
- 07/May/2009 11:19:29
The original photograph had sat in my favourites file for a long time. Firstly because of the beautiful symmetry, and secondly so I could one day take a comparison shot. Over the past two months I had sat in the reading room a few times, wondering if I would be able to get permission to ascend to a "staff only" platform that sits exactly opposite the clock in the photograph so I could take the comparison shot. Then one time I was passing behind the place from where my photograph was taken and discovered there is a locked door to the balcony I wanted to access, but that the door has paynes of glass. I took this pic through the glass, no special access required.
BobMeade
- 30/May/2009 00:41:55
And here is an even earlier reading room: www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/3575553304/

2 years ago a contributor from Vaucluse, Australia suggested this image location is -33.8665, 151.213

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