Sydney (inhabited place)
Found in 528 Collections and/or Records:
The Fisher Library - Interior of the Reading Room (looking West), 1915
35 x 280 mm. A view looking along the library, showings readers' desks, and the high vaulted wooden arches of the roof, which are supported on elaborate stone corbels.
[The Garden Palace before the Fire], 1882
280 x 230 mm. A view of the building from the roof of Government House and looking south towards the Garden Palace. A cruciform building 800 ft. long, with towers at the corners and a central dome 100 ft. in diameter, which collapsed in the fire 'with a crash like a peal of thunder'.
The Gladstone Hotel-Lane Cove River (Headquarters Xmas 1888), 1888
155 x 98 mm. A view of the exterior of the hotel, with figures posing in front, and the river in the background. Lane Cove is a suburb on the north side of Sydney Harbour. Photographer probably an amateur.
The Heads-Entrance to Sydney Harbour, 1888 - 1889
207 x 157 mm. A view from the military establishment at Inner South Head with two soldiers standing by a canon and a man and a woman looking out to sea. Across the bay can be seen the cliffs of North Head.
The male bird fighting, 1910
The Pacific Insurance Company, 1870 - 1880
The Renwick Window, Medical School Syd. University, 1895 - 1900
77 x 197 mm. A view showing one of the stained glass windows in the Medical School, depicting various figures, whose names are not legible.
[The Ruins of the Garden Palace], 1882
275 x 225 mm. A view of the wreckage from the roof of Government House and looking south towards the Garden Palace. The whole of the central portion of the building has gone, leaving merely at the left and right, the ruins of two of the major towers.
The Sailors' Home, George Street North, 1870 - 1879
273 x 217 mm. General view of the Sailors' Home, situated on the west side of the Circular Quay overlooking Sydney Cove. The three storey building (? plus basement) has four sets of bastardised Venetian windows on each floor and a steeply pitched roof. Date of construction unknown. Sydney Cove and the eastern half of the Circular Quay, with moored ships and warehouses, can be seen in the background.
The Scots' Church, College Street, 1870 - 1879
275 x 206 mm. View from the west of the attractive and unpretentious Scots' Church, erected in 1824 and now demolished. A plaque on the tower above the west door reads 'Scots' Church erected MDCCCXXIV'. Apart from its pointed windows, this stolid sandstone building with its squat tower has something of the atmosphere of a Norman church. It was designed by S.L. Harris.
The Spit, Middle Harbour, 1911
A view of the spit of land, with a sandy beach, which projects out into the harbour, and which was a pleasure spot for the Sydney populace. In 1924 a wooden bridge was built out to the Spit, but at this time, pedestrians or vehicles had to punt across.
The Sydney University, 1911
A view of the east front of the main building, with the Great Hall on the right. Built in the Gothic style, and designed by Edmund Blackett, building started in 1854.
The Town Hall, Sydney, 1911
A view of the Town Hall from the junction of Druitt Street and George Street, with the Centennial Hall to the right.
The tram arriving at Watson's Bay, 1910
[Woman in long skirt and with hat, together with young child in dress and bonnet coming away from the tram seen behind].
The Treasury, Macquarie Street North, 1870 - 1879
252 x 199 mm. General view of the Treasury buildings at the junction of Bridge Street and Macquarie Street. Designed by Mortimer Lewis and built circa 1849, it is a two storey construction in classical style of ashlared sandstone with rusticated quoins and window surrounds. It is seen here before the addition of the Premier's Office added in the 1890s.
The Treasury, Sydney, 1908
A view of the building from Macquarie Street; built of freestone it was started in 1849, and completed in 1851, during the governorship of Sit Charles Fitzroy and shortly after the first discovery of gold in the Colony.
The University, 1908
A view of the east front of the main building, with the great hall on the right. Built in the Gothic style, and designed by Edmund Blackett. Building started in 1854.
The University - Main Building, 1915
355 x 280 mm. A view from the south-east of the east façade of the main university building, with part of the Fisher Library visible in the background. The Great Hall is at the right of the building.