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Circular Quay 1965

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Circular Quay 1965

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City of Sydney Archives

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(Len Stone / Vic Solomons Collection: 397)

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Cahill expressway Circular Quay

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The City of Sydney Archives holds items from as early as 1842 when the Municipal Council of Sydney was established, and manage, preserve and provide access to more than 1 million items, including documents, photographs, maps, plans and data. The collection consists of City of Sydney corporate archives, items collected from the community relating to the City of Sydney local area and published reference material. Use the links to go directly to the City of Sydney's website.

Bridges

Commercial building

Wharves

AMP Building

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Post War International style office building which at 25 storeys was the first to officially break the 1912 Sydney height of Buildings Limit of 150 feet and thus become the tallest building in Australia at the time of its construction.

Cahill expressway

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Overhead road that crosses Circular Quay above the elevated railway line.

Circular Quay

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Area of Sydney's central business district that surrounds the quays built on reclaimed land from the 1830s.

Circular Quay

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Quay built between 1837 and 1855 and originally known as Semi-circular Quay, because of the shape of the stoneworks built with convict labour to stabilise the new shoreline reclaimed from mudflats.

Sydney Cove

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Small bay on the southern shore of Port Jackson, which became the site for the European settlement in Sydney.

Sydney Harbour Bridge

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Steel through arch bridge from Sydney business district to the North Shore, constructed between 1923 and 1932.

Sydney Harbour

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The largest arm of Port Jackson, which extends west from the Heads past Balmain and meets the estuaries of the Lane Cove and Parramatta rivers.