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Department stores

Until the 1960s, Sydneysiders usually 'went to town' to shop for furniture and furnishings for the home

Furnishing catalogue / A. Hall & Co. [trade catalogue] 1910s. Back cover, view looking south along George Street Sydney. A Hall & Co is located on the right and Anthony Hordern & Sons is across the road on the left
Department stores

A Hall & Co

A Hall & Co was a retailer of home furnishings and manufacturer of furniture

Anthony Horderns' sports catalogue / Anthony Hordern & Sons, Ltd.
Department stores

Anthony Hordern & Sons

Anthony Hordern & Sons was arguably Australia's largest retailer from the late 19th through to the mid-20th century

Australian Home Furnishers / A.C.O. Limited, complete home furnishers [trade catalogue]
Department stores

Australian Home Furnishers (ACO)

In 1948, Australian Home Furnishers was the retail arm of the home furnishing and credit business called Australian Cash Orders

Department stores

Beard Watson & Co

Beard Watson & Co was renowned in Sydney as a retailer and manufacturer of high-class furnishings for the home

Department stores

Bebarfalds

Bebarfalds was a retailer of home furnishings and manufacturer of furniture, trading for many years from its landmark location opposite the Sydney Town Hall on the corner of George and Park Streets

Art furnishers, upholsterers & decorators / David Jones & Co. [trade catalogue]
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David Jones

The David Jones name has long been synonymous with retailing of fine merchandise

Department stores

F Lassetter & Co

F Lassetter & Co started life as an ironmongery business, becoming one of Sydney's largest 'universal providers' by the end of the 19th century

Feldheim, Gotthelf & Co. : merchants and general importers of British, Continental and American merchandise, Clarence and Barrack Streets, Sydney. On sale: American chairs, American hardware, Austrian furniture, bedsteads, books, cigarettes, cigars, clocks, cricketing and other sporting goods, crockery, cutlery, firerarms, furniture, glassware, ironmongery, jewellery, leather goods, musical instruments, optical goods, organs, Palmer's vestas, patent medicines, perfumery, pianos, plated ware, saddlery, stationery, tobacconists' goods, tobaccos, toys, watches, fancy goods of every description [trade catalogue]
Department stores

Feldheim, Gotthelf & Co

Feldheim, Gotthelf & Co’s new warehouse invited Sydney shoppers to step into a world assembled from every reach of the global trade routes that furnished the late-Victorian home

Department stores

Grace Bros

From its location just outside Sydney’s main business district, Grace Bros grew to become one of the city’s largest department stores.