“Building Allotments” timber yard with supervisor and workers. Sydney, c.1870.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 61 x 101 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Sydney Photographic Company / 200 Pitt St / opposite Victoria Theatre / Views of all prominent buildings in city & suburbs / carte de Visite and larger sizes / Stereoscopic views’; a strong print with excellent clarity; the mount is clean and stable.

A possibly unique image that shows what appears to be the site office for a building construction team most likely contracted to the New South Wales government. The wooden shed at centre has a painted sign at lower left of the facade that reads ‘BUILDING ALLOTMENTS’.