#pre-wwi

Quartet in Prussian blue - Pose taken from a Beatles photoshoot. Characters clockwise: Leon von Zelewski, Gottlieb Witt, Siegfried Isenstein and Vincent Odinkirk. All star in 'Moth'.

Autochrome by Alfonse Van Besten, Belgium, 1912.

Image description: Photograph of shipping barges moored at piers, showing various degrees of destruction. The barges closest to the camera are somewhat damaged; further into the distance the barges are more and more destroyed.

Classic Edwardian-era dated shop-top. Now most likely a brothel, sweat shop, or grow room. Newtown.

Lucian Bernhard: Konkurrenzfliegen der ersten Aviatiker, 1909. Lithographie, 115,8 x

Austerlitz introducing himself in Ottaway vol 2.

Some distinctive brick work on the St. Mary's church school (1912). Erskineville.

The old Westgate Post Office (1913). Saved from dereliction about a decade ago, and converted into ten artists studio's and creative spaces. Named after a long-gone nearby toll gate on the Great Western Highway from the CBD to the Inner West, then on to the Outer West and the Blue Mountains and beyond. Annandale.