Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Mitchell Library Reading Room

Main hall of the Mitchell Library, it is a research and study facility.

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Constructed
1939 - 1942
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Type

The Mitchell

CC BY-SA 2.0
,
2014

For a century the Mitchell Library has been Sydney's memory, a storehouse of treasures and a club of eccentric scholars. It is all but impossible to write or read about the history of Australia, the Pacific and the Antarctic without being in debt to the great collector and eccentric recluse David Scott Mitchell.