Horse 1290 - Reproduce a famous photo in the same location – 25 points (Total: 158)

Arthur Stace was a reformed alcoholic who from circa 1932 until his death in 1967 wrote the word "eternity" in Copperplate handwriting every morning that he was able. Though he was illiterate and otherwise could not write, he believed that it was his mission to write the word and share his faith. Though the word would appear throughout the city, he remained unknown until he was spotted one morning by the Reverend Lisle M. Thompson, taking out a piece of chalk from his pocket.
There are only four known photographs of the "Eternity Man" and all of then were taken by Trevor Dallen who worked for The Sun newspaper. This is where the story begins.

Brendan who thought that this would be a good idea for the photo enlisted my help and together we set off for the location of the photo, which was in the stairwell of the ex-Fairfax Building on Broadway in Sydney and now Building 10 of UTS.

The bulding in question used to be both the offices of Fairfax in Sydney and also the printworks. From here, thousands of newspapers would be printed daily and send to all parts hither and yon.

The scale of the building inside is immense. We we arrived at the main entrance we found that we couldn't actually get to level 6 via the life we intended to use. We found various stairwells; and could get to levels 5 & 7 but not 6. At one point we had enlisted the help of two security guards who I imagine were quite amused by the whole affair and let us into various stairwells in the innards of the building.

There will be two photographs of the same thing and the other one can be found here. For the record "eternity" is written with a wet finger in the dust (my finger), because I don't think that UTS would enjoy having their stairwell graffiti-ed yet again.