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Royal Australian Historical Society. First outing to The Rocks c1901

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Ethel Foster
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[ ON 146/200]
(Series 01: Glass negatives of Sydney and suburbs ca. 1900-1914 / Mrs. Arthur George Foster)

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Foster, Ethel

Josephine Ethel Foster was a historian and photographer. She and her husband Arthur George Foster were two of the earliest members of the (now Royal) Australian Historical Society. They documented the Devonshire Street Cemetery in the early 1900s before its removal for the construction of the Central Railway station.

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Historical Societies

Heritage movement

Royal Australian Historical Society

Founded in 1901 as the Australian Historical Society, the society aimed to encourage Australians to understand more about their history. Itcontinues to hold lectures, publish new scholarship and maintain a research library at History House in Macquarie Street.

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The Rocks

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Suburb located north of the central business district on the western shore of Sydney Cove. Characterised by a precinct of restored nineteenth-century buildings which are a major tourist attraction, it was recognised as a separate suburb in 1993.

Foster, Arthur George

Theodore Arthur George Foster, better known as AG Foster, was a historian. He and his wife Ethel Foster were founding members of the Royal Australian Historical Society and documented the Devonshire Street Cemetery in the early 1900s before its removal for the construction of the Central Railway station.

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Foster, Ethel

Josephine Ethel Foster, better known as Ethel Foster or Mrs AG Foster, was a historian and photographer, who was one of the first members of the Royal Australian Historical Society. She and her husband, fellow historian Arthur George Foster, documented the Devonshire Street Cemetery in the early 1900s before its removal for the construction of the Central Railway station.

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Maiden, Joseph

Botanist who during his tenures at the Technological Museum and Royal Botanic Gardens, brought knowledge about plants, their uses and conservation, into the public realm.

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Selfe, Norman

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Engineer, designer and activist, whose visionary plans for Sydney's harbour crossing and education system were not realised until after his death.