Skip to main content

The Dictionary of Sydney
Multimedia
Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney - Annandale 1894

Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney - Annandale 1894

By

Higinbotham & Robinson

Contributed By

City of Sydney Archives

Search

Browse

Browse
- Artefacts
- Buildings
- Events
- Natural Features
- Organisations
- People
- Places
- Structures
- Entries
- Multimedia
- Subjects
- Roles
- Contributors

Connections

Appears in

Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

Subjects

Maps

Natural features

Johnstons Bay Johnstons Creek Whites Creek

Places

Annandale

Artefacts

Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

Footer

Home
About
Copyright
Contact

Footer Secondary

Contribute
Donate

Higinbotham & Robinson

City of Sydney Archives

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.

Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

Published by commercial map makers Higinbotham, Robinson and Harrison in the late nineteenth century, the maps of the Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney provide a portrait of the city's municipalities during a period of rapid growth and suburbanisation.

Maps

Johnstons Bay

Bay between Rozelle and Pyrmont first spanned by the Glebe Island Bridge, and later the Anzac Bridge.

full record »

Johnstons Creek

A watercourse which rises 1 kilometre north west of Newtown and flows for 2 kilometres into Rozelle Bay.

full record »

Annandale

Inner-western suburb bounded by Rozelle Bay to the north and Parramatta Road to the south. It began as farmland granted to Captain George Johnston of the New South Wales Corps in stages between 1793 and 1799, and was later subdivided with wide regular streets on a rectilinear pattern with large lots.

full record »

Whites Creek

A storm drain, once a natural waterway, that flows into Rozelle Bay and has an adjacent wetland.

full record »

Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

Series of late-nineteenth-century commercial maps of municipalities created by Sydney map publishers Higinbotham, Robinson and Harrison.

full record »