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Works by amateur naturalist, author and erratic entrepreneur in late colonial Sydney.

Colonial artist (1796–1862) who arrived in Sydney as a free settler in 1819. 

Colonial artist (c1765?–1829) who arrived in Sydney as a convict in 1813.

Writer and broadcaster who helped foster Australian drama in Sydney from the 1930s.

Early settler in North Sydney and director of the Australian Gas Light Company.

One of the first women active in the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts.

English actor  who appeared in Sydney on several occasions between 1903 and 1913.

Nineteenth century photographer who captured many images of Sydney and the Blue Mountains.

Pastoralist and politician with extensive landholdings and investment properties in and around Sydney.

Free settler who was granted land on Sydney's upper north shore in 1823.

Television series based in a Sydney apartment block which ran from 1972 to 1977.

Circus proprietor and horse breeder who toured remote areas around Sydney and interstate.

Wife of early Sydney mayor Thomas Broughton, with whom she had 15 children.

Ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist who established the first marine research station in Sydney.

Painter who recorded the rapidly changing landscape of the inner suburbs of Sydney.

Ship's officer and privateer who was based in Sydney from 1798 to 1802.

Irish-born draper and businessman who became Mayor of Sydney and a member of parliament.

Wooden ship of 808 tons used for convict transport to Hobart and Sydney.

Publican who managed several hotels in central Sydney late in the nineteenth century.

Group house that became part of lesbian culture in Sydney in the 1970s.