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Panoramic view of the Royal Mint and Hyde Park Barracks taken from the steeple of St. James's Church, 1871

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American & Australasian Photographic Company
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[SPF/322]
(Mitchell Library)

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American & Australasian Photographic Company

State Library of New South Wales

Colonial architecture

Public building

Hyde Park Barracks

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Georgian brick building at the southern end of Macquarie Street. Designed by colonial architect Francis Greenway to house male convicts, it subsequently became an immigration depot, government asylum, law courts and museum.

The Mint

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Building on Macquarie Street, originally part of Sydney Hospital and subsequently used as a mint.

Macquarie Street

Street at the eastern edge of Sydney's central business district, designed as a ceremonial thoroughfare by Lachlan Macquarie and containing many of Sydney's public buildings. It was later the best address in the colony, and became a prestigious medical precinct in the twentieth century.

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The Domain

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Park in central Sydney which dates from the colony's earliest days.

Woolloomooloo Bay

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Bay in Sydney Harbour east of Farm Cove.

Woolloomooloo

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Once a desirable bayside address east of central Sydney, the area grew more congested and grimy as the wharves expanded and the boarding houses and pubs gave refuge to larrikin gangs and petty criminals. Though now bisected by freeways and rail it is slowly reclaiming its heritage and character with extensive residential development and sympathetic landscaping.

Vaccine Institution

Government vaccine facility that opened at the Emigration Barracks on Bent Street in 1847, moving to the top of King Street beside Hyde Park Barracks in May 1857 and remaining there until late 1886 when the Barracks were redeveloped. 

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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.