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Circular Quay c1854 Media
Pitt Street Uniting Church August 2012 Media
Letter from Richard Dawson, Australian Foundry to the Chairman of the City of Sydney Lighting Committee offering to supply cast iron lamp posts 17 March 1843 Media
Letter from R Dawson & Co, Australian Iron Works, to the City of Sydney requesting permission to remove moulding sand from Sydney Common, February 1870 Media
Businesses on lower George Street in 1848 Media
Detail of plan of the City of Sydney showing the wooden bridge over the Tank Stream 1855 Media
Hebe Cottage, Riverstone c1900 Media
Miller's Point from Flagstaff Hill 1842 Media
Hero of Waterloo Hotel & Whalers Arms, corner Lower Fort Street and Windmill Street 1924 Media
Poisonous Spiders: How to Identify Them and Treat Their Bites 1935 Media
Entomologist Keith McKeown at work at the Australian Museum May 1950 Media
Sydney Funnel-web spider, Mosman October 2019 Media
Cover of 'Spider Wonders of Australia' by Keith C McKeown 1936 Media
Cover of 'Insect Wonders of Australia' by Keith C McKeown 1935 Media
Cowan Creek, Ku-ring-ai Chase, NSW 1939 Media
Women commuters, one using a typewriter and another knitting, on The Fish, the train from Sydney to Mount Victoria 8 April 1943 Media
'Terrible and exemplary punishment' Page from Governor Macquarie's diary and memorandum book, 10 April 1816 Media
Lady electrician [Violet McKenzie installing light fitting at the Electrical Association for Women's rooms] June 1935 Media
Lady diamond cutter [Elsa Joris] June 1935 Media
Sydney Observatory (H.C. Russell in doorway) c1860 Media
Mary Allen at the Sydney Observatory using astrographic plates to calculate the relative distances between stars February 1941 Media
Assistant astronomer Ernest Adderley at the Sydney Observatory looking through 6 inch telescope 18 February 1941 Media
Pfahlert's Hotel, Wynyard Square 1879 Media
Observatory and the signalling station, Observatory Hill, Sydney 1870-75 Media
Cover of 'Observations of the transit of Venus, 9 December 1874: made at stations in New South Wales ... under the direction of H.C. Russell, Government Astronomer' 1892 Media
Mr HC Russell, the Government Astronomer, The Bulletin 9 October 1880 Media
HC Russell, CMG BA FRS FRAS 1898 Media
ACACIA PENDULA. A.Cunningham 1877 Media
The Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science ... members of the Council, 1898 Media
Enmore House and ground, 11 allotments for sale by auction by Austn. Auction Compy c1841 Media
Enmore House of Grounds - Contents - Sarah St, Simmons St, Enmore Rd, Harrow Rd, Fancis St, c1873 Media
Sydney Monorail 6 September 2009 Media
Passengers queue to get a ticket for the Sydney Monorail on a hot day in January 2 January 2009 Media
The Echoes band entertaining dancers at Surf City, Sydney 1963 Media
The Hermitage cafe, Ash Street, Sydney 1942 Media
Excerpt of oral history interview with Jane Lanyon about life as a child in the inner city during the Depression, by historian Sue Rosen at Redfern, 19 November 1994 Media
It can't happen here.... Scenes in inner city Sydney during the Depression 1938 Media
The Beach House Beatles performing at a 2UW Surf Music night at Surf City, Kings Cross February 1964 Media
The Beach House Beatles performing at a 2UW Surf Music night at Surf City, Kings Cross February 1964 Media
The Beach House Beatles performing at a 2UW Surf Music night at Surf City, Kings Cross February 1964 Media
The Beach House Beatles performing at a 2UW Surf Music night at Surf City, Kings Cross February 1964 Media
Have YOU tried the Stomp? September 1963 Media
Singer Ray Brown, photographed at Channel 9 studios 2 June 1967 Media
United States R & R men from Vietnam meet Aussie girls at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, 9 November 1967 Media
Title page of the 'Picturesque Atlas of Australasia', Volume I, 1886 Media
Plan of the Sydney National Library [Mitchell Library]. Basement floor, part north elevation, sections and soffit of pediment 29 July 1907 Media
Map of that part of the North Shore of Port Jackson which is opposite to Sydney 1828 Media
Parish of Willoughby, County of Cumberland c1846 Media
Artefact Heritage Services Media
Colonial pardon for James Freeman 'on condition of his becoming the public Executioner' 1 March 1788 Media