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Bar of the Newcastle Hotel, George Street, 2 January 1957 Media
Australian Subscription Library and Reading Room Entity
Australian Joint Copying Project Contributor
Austn. Subsn. Library allotments, as sold by the Australian Auction Co. on 11 May 1840 Media
Art student sculptor Tom Bass at home with his wife Lenore and their children 1948 Media
ACACIA PENDULA. A.Cunningham 1877 Media
A nulla nulla or wooden club from the Dyarubbin region Media
67 George Street, The Rocks, showing Observer Tavern and John McDonald & Co shopfront 1901 Media
2014 Lindt Cafe Siege Entity
'Dugga', dense Riverflat forest, still standing in Mitchell Park at Cattai November 2011 Media

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Bar of the Newcastle Hotel, George Street, 2 January 1957

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By
Cecil Lynch
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[ON 388/Box 043/Item 059]
(Mitchell Library) (Courtesy ACP Magazines Ltd.)

Australian Subscription Library and Reading Room

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Building on the corner of Bent and Macquarie Streets constructed in 1845 to house the Australian Subscription Library. The subscription library ran into financial difficulties and was taken over by the state government to became the Sydney Free Public Library in 1869. An addition to the building was made in the 1880s as the collection and number of readers grew. In 1895 the name changed again to the Public Library of New South Wales. The  Public Library collection and staff moved to the new extension of the Mitchell Library building in June 1942. The building on Bent Street was demolished in 1969.

Australian Joint Copying Project

The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) is a collection of unique historical material relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific dating from 1560 to 1984. 

Records copied by the AJCP on microfilm include a diverse range of material from UK Government Departments such as the Admiralty, Home Office, Colonial Office, the Dominions Office held by The National Archives of the UK and County Record Offices as well as personal archives and manuscripts of leading politicians, explorers, scientists, religious and missionary societies, convicts and businesses held by private organisations or individuals.

The project to digitise the content of the AJCP microfilm will be completed by the 30th June 2020.  

Austn. Subsn. Library allotments, as sold by the Australian Auction Co. on 11 May 1840

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[M2 811.18113/1840/1 ]
(Mitchell Map Collection)

Art student sculptor Tom Bass at home with his wife Lenore and their children 1948

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By
Robert (Bob) Rice
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[ON 388/Box 006/Item 066]
(Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy ACP Magazines Ltd)

ACACIA PENDULA. A.Cunningham 1877

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Contributed By
Biodiversity Heritage Library
[Iconography of Australian species of Acacia and cognate genera, by Ferdinand von Mueller, J. Ferres, Govt. Printer (Melbourne), No 6. 1877]

A nulla nulla or wooden club from the Dyarubbin region

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Contributed By
Hawkesbury Regional Museum
[ M05325]

67 George Street, The Rocks, showing Observer Tavern and John McDonald & Co shopfront 1901

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Contributed By
State Archives & Records New South Wales
[NRS-4481-2-[4/8628]-891]
(Rocks Resumption photographic survey)

2014 Lindt Cafe Siege

The Lindt Café siege took place over seventeen hours on 15–16 December 2014 when Man Haron Monis, armed with a shotgun took eighteen customers and staff hostage in the Lindt cafe in Martin Place. Two people, store manager Tori Johnson and hostage Katrina Dawson, were killed as well as Monis.
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'Dugga', dense Riverflat forest, still standing in Mitchell Park at Cattai November 2011

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By
Grace Karskens
Contributed By
Grace Karskens