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Merlin's photographic cart on Old South Head Road, Watsons Bay and South Head 1870-75

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American & Australasian Photographic Company
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[on4_40137 / Home and Away 40137]
(Mitchell Library)

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American & Australasian Photographic Company

State Library of New South Wales

The road east

The first track east to South Head followed the path Aboriginal people had travelled for thousands of years, but soon became a cleared road and later a paved street.

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South Head

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Southern headland marking the entrance to Port Jackson which, since colonial times, has been an important location for civil and military maritime activities, and is now part of Sydney Harbour National Park.

Watsons Bay

Suburb on the outermost shore of the southern side of Sydney harbour which, since colonial times, has been an important naval and civil maritime precinct, as well as a destination for Sydneysiders and tourists.

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