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Yurong Creek Entity
Yurong Water Garden Entity
Yurulbin (Long Nose Point) Entity
Yuwarry Entity
Yvonne Weedon on being a Sydney tram conductress Media
Zabel, Frances Entity
Zadro, Davino Entity
Zahalka, Anne Contributor
Zampatti, Carla Entity
Zamprogno, Lorenzo Entity
Zanzibar Entity
Zavos, Spiro Entity
Zdenkowski, George Entity
Zerbini Quartet Entity
Zetland Entity
Zetland Mosque Entity
Ziegfeld Club Entity
Ziegler, Oswald Entity
Zig Zag Railway Entity
Zimmer, Vojtech Entity
Zimmerman, Arnold Entity
Zofrea, Salvatore Entity
Zoo keeper with quolls Taronga Zoo c1916 Media
Zooch, Betty Entity
Zoological display at Watsons Bay 1860-1870 Media
Zoological Gardens Moore Park Entity
Zora Bernice May Cross, poet and writer 1927 Media
Zora Cross 1919 Media
Zoricich, Zvonimir Entity
Zubricki, Tom Entity
Zuel, Bernard Entity
Zulian, Andrea Entity
Zuliani, Guido Entity
Zusters, Renis Entity
`Hilton', Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, residence of John Rae c1879-1882 Media
Hawkesbury River, view no 6 1802 Media

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Yurong Creek

Creek that originally drained the Woolloomooloo valley, ending in mangroves and mudflats in Sydney Harbour.

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Yurong Water Garden

Sculpture and environmental artwork by Anita Glesta inspired by the Yurong Creek that once ran from the edge of Cook and Phillip Park through the mangrove swamps down into Woolloomooloo Bay. Roughly hewn boulders of sandstone, reflecting its natural and cultural heritage, and original pavers from the former park have been arranged to form a course for the creek which flows down three terraces of gardens retracing the path of the original.

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Yurulbin (Long Nose Point)

Peninsula at Birchgrove. An imaginary line from this to Manns Point at Greenwich marks the transition of the waterway from Sydney Harbour to the Parramatta river.

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Yuwarry

Aboriginal man, married to Bennelong's sister Carangarang, who lived close to the first white settlement.

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Yvonne Weedon on being a Sydney tram conductress

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By
Poppy Stockell
Courtesy:
City of Sydney Council

Zabel, Frances

Owner of the Roycroft bookshop and library in Rowe Street from 1923 to 1933. She had previously run the Book Lovers' Club and Library in Perth from 1902. In Sydney she published a regular column 'Let's Talk About Books' under the name Franziska in The Australian Woman's Mirror from 1924 until her death in 1933.

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Zadro, Davino

Italian community leader.

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Zahalka, Anne

Zampatti, Carla

Italian born fashion designer and business woman.

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Zamprogno, Lorenzo

Builder and community leader who drove the foundation of the Club Marconi.

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Zanzibar

Restaurant hotel building which is the latest incarnation of the series of hotels which have existed here since the 1860s.

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Zavos, Spiro

Rugby union player.

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Zdenkowski, George

Lawyer and magistrate who was sympathetic to the conservation movement in the Blue Mountains.

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Zerbini Quartet

Quartet formed in Melbourne by John Baptist Zerbini soon after his arrival in 1885.

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Zetland

Semi-industrial suburb 4 kilometres south of Sydney, named after the Earl of Zetland in the 1870s by his relative Governor Sir Hercules Robinson. The stables of Robinson's residence, Zetland Lodge, were famous for producing champions of the turf.

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Zetland Mosque

Inner city mosque where people from many different ethnic and social backgrounds share prayer mats.

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Ziegfeld Club

Nightclub in King Street Sydney which operated from 1920 and was a well known venue for drag acts.

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Ziegler, Oswald

Writer and publisher.

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Zig Zag Railway

Railway which required four large cuttings and three stone viaducts to overcome an otherwise insurmountable climb up the eastern side of the Blue Mountains. Closed as a commercial line in 1910 it re-opened as a tourist railway in 1975.

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Zimmer, Vojtech

Importer and businessman in the Marrickville area.

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Zimmerman, Arnold

Swiss-born artist and designer, who was responsible for, or contributed to, the interior design of the Hydro Majestic, Anzac Memorial, Sydney; Paragon Cafe, Katoomba; Luna Park, Sydney, and many other Art Deco buildings in Australia and New Zealand.

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Zofrea, Salvatore

Graduate of the Julian Ashton Art school, Zofrea works in oils, woodcuts and frescos.

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Zoo keeper with quolls Taronga Zoo c1916

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By
Sam Hood
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a2809025 / a2809 Online, 25]
(Mitchell Library)

Zooch, Betty

Aboriginal girl sent to Cootamundra Aboriginal Girls' Home in the 1950s to be trained for domestic service.

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Zoological display at Watsons Bay 1860-1870

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Contributed By
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
[H9248-7]
(Gift of F. Lofts, 1976)

Zoological Gardens Moore Park

Zoo opened at Billy Goat Swamp in Moore Park, now the site of Sydney Boys and Sydney Girls high schools. When the site became too small the government granted land north of the harbour. The original bear pit can still be seen beside Anzac Parade.

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Zora Bernice May Cross, poet and writer 1927

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By
May Moore
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[ P1/413]

Zora Cross 1919

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[PXA 690 / 3]
(Mitchell Library)

Zoricich, Zvonimir

Community leader active in the post war Croatian community.

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Zubricki, Tom

Film director.

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Zuel, Bernard

Music critic and journalist of Mauritian descent.

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Zulian, Andrea

Italian community leader.

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Zuliani, Guido

Italian born artist and photographer who designed the emblem for Club Marconi.

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Zusters, Renis

Ukrainian artist of Latvian heritage who painted large landscapes with oils, many of the Blue Mountains where he settled.

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`Hilton', Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, residence of John Rae c1879-1882

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[SPF/402]
(Mitchell Library)

Hawkesbury River, view no 6 1802

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By
William Westall
Contributed By
National Library of Australia
[PIC Solander Box B20 #R4304]