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Port Adelaide [B 10741] • Photograph

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Summary

Commercial Road, Port Adelaide, looking south from the river. The building on the right is the Customs House which was constructed in 1878-79 to the design of the Colonial Architect George Thomas Light. The South Australian Government collected taxes on goods imported from other Australian states and from overseas. The building has cut stone dressings and cornices and is constructed from Dry Creek stone with dressings of Sydney white freestone. It boosts a prominent tower with a mansard roof, lookout and a flagpole. The tower faces the Port River. On the other side of Commercial Street stands the Commercial Hotel which was built in 1841 and rebuilt after a fire in 1857. JC Addison was the proprietor at the time of this photograph.

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Physical description

Photograph; 20.5 cm x 15.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1880

Creator

Sweet, Samuel White

Collection

Part of Port Adelaide Collection

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Digitisation information

Date

05/01/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,705 x 2,847 pixels (10.5 MP)

Size

31.68 MB

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