Rae, John Creator Scottish-born public servant, writer and painter who was the first full-time town clerk of the City of Sydney, and later a railway commissioner. Bent St showing old Government Printing Office [Emigrant Barracks] and the Library 1842 as Creator George Street looking north, showing Jewish Synagogue, Police Offices, the Markets, old Burial Ground, now the site of the Town Hall, 1842 as Creator Hyde Park, Museum, Darlinghurst Gaol, Sydney Grammar School, Burdekin's and Lyons' Terraces, 1842 as Creator Hyde Park, St Mary's Cathedral and Belfry, c1842 as Creator Miller's Point from Flagstaff Hill 1842 as Creator Northern end of Hyde Park, St James Parsonage, Dispensary, afterwards the Mint, and Emigration Barracks 1842 as Creator Old South Head Rd, now Oxford Street 1842 as Creator Page from letter by John Rae with drawing of his house Hilton September 1857 as Creator Turning the first turf of the first railway in the Australasian colonies at Redfern, Sydney, N.S.W. 3rd July 1850 as Creator