Pitt Street shopping crowds past McCathie's and Selfridges, Sydney

State Library NSW

Pedestrians crowd both footpaths of a Sydney retail street lined with department stores and shopfronts, their signage including McCathie's, Selfridges, Dents Shoes, the Strand Bag Shop and Coles Stores. A tram displaying "RAILWAY" stands on the tracks at left as shoppers spill onto the roadway. The negative is part of the ACP Magazines Pix magazine archive, with the collection's photographs mostly taken or published around 1949.

Collection: Sydney (1949)
Medium: Photograph
Decade: 1940s
Place: Pitt Street, Sydney
Location: Sydney CBD
Source: State Library NSW

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