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Commissariat Stores 1872

By
Charles Percy Pickering
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a1107023 / PXD 524, 21]
(Mitchell Library)

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Pickering, Charles Percy

State Library of New South Wales

Commissariat Stores

The Commissariat held a strategic role in the economy of the early colony, supplying and storing foodstuffs and other necessities including 'liquor, hardware and other goods' for the population.

Museum of Contemporary Art

Housed in an Art Deco building constructed for the Maritime Services Board in the 1940s, the Museum of Contemporary Art is based on the Power collection of contemporary art, gathered by John Power, and maintained at the University of Sydney until premises could be found for it.

Colonial architecture

Public building

Commissariat Stores

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Warehouse and offices that stored the goods of the colony, for supply to the convicts, soldiers and others who relied on government rations.