Author: Paul Irish and Tamika Goward Sydney’s first Government House overlooking Sydney Cove was built for Governor Arthur Phillip in 1789. The building and its grounds were an important place of early contact and cross-cultural exchange between Sydney’s Aboriginal population Read More

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Part four in a series of articles that takes you on a journey through the streets of Sydney written in 1864

History has told us Aboriginal people in Tasmania almost exclusively occupied open plains. Revelations to the contrary could transform modern conservation.

ON Cadigal land the British built a city they named Sydney, a city built on the sweat of thousands of convicts.

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Memories of Mr. John Taylor. Interesting and Amusing Reminiscences of Parramatta (New South Wales) in 1837.

Wing ON and Co. Fruit Merchants, Weymark and Sons Banana Store, Win Sang Fruiterers, Barker Street, Sydney, 1900, John Degotardi jnr., Views taken during Cleansing Operations, Quarantine Area, Sydney, State Library of New South Wales, PXE 91 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nvg8b2p1/Zq0k3rWGpwJpe

Looking south on Princes Street, The Rocks [Rocks Resumption photographic survey] Dated: Year only 1901 Digital ID: 4481_a026_000180 Rights: www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions We'd love to hear from you if you use our photos. Many other photos in our collection are available to view and browse on our website using Photo Investigator.

Tallships and King's Head Hotel, Circular Quay (western side), Sydney, c. 1877, State Library of New South Wales, SPF/782 archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110317952

The convicts in the Cowpastures is an untold story of the colonial settler society of early New South Wales.

In 1902 an exhibition of pictures of Old Sydney featured scenes of The Rocks and Millers Point painted before parts of them were demolished in the name of public health and morality, and changed forever.

Title: Windmill Street, (taken from No. [number] 41), The Rocks (NSW) [Rocks Resumption photographic survey] Dated: year only 01/01/1900 Digital ID: 4481_a026_000079 Rights: No known copyright restrictions www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions We'd love to hear from you if you use our photos/documents. Many other photos in our collection are available to view and browse on our website using Photo Investigator.

Harrington Street, The Rocks [Rocks Resumption photographic survey] Dated: Year only 1901 Digital ID: 4481_a026_000192 Rights: www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions We'd love to hear from you if you use our photos. Many other photos in our collection are available to view and browse on our website using Photo Investigator.

THEY are the buildings that time forgot, former landmarks once patronised by thousands of Sydneysiders now replaced by high-rise office blocks and other developments.

Harold Cazneaux was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1878. His parents, Pierce Mott Cazneau and Emma Florence (née Bentley) worked in commercial studios in New Zealand before returning to settle permanently in Adelaide during the early 1890s. At the ...

ON Cadigal land the British built a city they named Sydney, a city built on the sweat of thousands of convicts.

Title: Cumberland Street [showing No.193 and Belvidere House], The Rocks (NSW) [Rocks Resumption photographic survey] Dated: by 31/10/1901 Digital ID: 4481_a026_000217 Rights: No known copyright restrictions www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions We'd love to hear from you if you use our photos/documents. Many other photos in our collection are available to view and browse on our website using Photo Investigator.

The following colour prints were first published in: The History of New South Wales, including Botany Bay, Port Jackson, Pamaratta (sic), Sydney, and all its Dependances, from the Original Discovery of the Island with the Customs and Manners of the Natives and an Account of The English Colony, from its Foundation, to the Present Time, by George Barrington: Superintendent of the Convicts. Enriched with beautiful Couloured Prints. ~ Printed for M. Jones, No. 1, Paternoster Row, in 1802. Interestingly a number of the prints were subsequently published in 1803 by M. Jones after the initial release of the book, and added to the book at a later date.

Title: The northern end of the resumption area, The Rocks (NSW) Rocks Resumption photographic survey Dated: by 31/10/1901 Digital ID: 4481_a026_000168 Rights: No known copyright restrictions www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions We'd love to hear from you if you use our photos/documents. Many other photos in our collection are available to view and browse on our website using Photo Investigator.

ON Cadigal land the British built a city they named Sydney, a city built on the sweat of thousands of convicts.