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Italian soprano who toured Australia with Nellie Melba and was married in Sydney in 1928.

Landowner in Hurlstone Park area, whose album of sketches shows views from her Sydney home.

Naturalist and painter who painted Sydney and surrounds and worked on the Australian Museum collection.

Sydney branch of organisation founded in Rome in 1889 to promote Italian language and culture.

A co-educational public high school in a rural area of Sydney's north in a 9-hectare bushland setting.

Uniting Church day and boarding school for boys in Wahroonga, on Sydney's upper north shore.

Toolmaker who became a politician who served in various high offices including Lord Mayor of Sydney

Painter who exhibited locally and internationally and established the Notanda Gallery in Rowe Street, Sydney.

Merchant who was a prominent member of the Sydney Chinese community in the late nineteenth century.

Religion has had a profound influence on the geography, culture, politics, and artistic life of Sydney. While religion has mostly been a conservative force, preserving traditions transported from home societies, it has also reflected the setting and people of Sydney, its…

Built on Gadigal land in Sydney's east, Paddington has been one of Sydney's most desirable suburbs and one of its least, at different times.

Mark Howard is a Melbourne historian with a research interest in the Sydney whaling fleet

North Shore residential suburb built on Cammeraygal land in North Sydney local government area. Now containing the residences of the Prime Minister (Kirribilli House) and the Governor-General (Admiralty House), its uninterrupted views across the Harbour make it one of Sydney'…

Oil painting by Sydney Long of boys swimming at the junction of the Cooks River and Wolli Creek. It is held in Art Gallery of New South Wales and reproduced on the Dictionary of Sydney courtesy of the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia.

Performance venue constructed in 1913 by Sydney City Council on behalf of Wirth Bros circus.

Company which established Balmain Power Station to provide electricity to customers in Sydney's inner west.

Australia's oldest continually running art school which has trained and nurtured generations of Sydney artists.

Large teaching hospital on Sydney's north side, which grew from a cottage hospital established in 1887.

Organisation to support the Emperor in China which was established by Chinese merchants in Sydney.

Advertising agency established by Frank Goldberg in New Zealand before relocating to Sydney in 1927.