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Cat Lady, Kings Cross 1970-71

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Ellis, Rennie

Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive

The Rennie Ellis archive contains thousands of documentary images taken by the late Rennie Ellis over many decades

A City of One's Own: Women's Sydney

A boom in apartment living brought freedom from the suburbs for many women in Sydney in the early twentieth century. In their writing, they celebrated Sydney as a place of unique freedoms, sensual pleasures and dangers for women;and the harbour as a steady, vivid source of joy

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Kings Cross

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In the nineteenth century one of Sydney's most prestigious suburbs, it became home to a vibrant bohemian community and later Sydney's red light district. Named for the intersection of Darlinghurst Road, William and Victoria Streets and once called Queens Cross, the area is now a neon lit mecca for tourists and Sydneysiders.