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Area of Sydney's central business district that surrounds the quays built on reclaimed land from the 1830s.

Large park between the University of Sydney and City Road, which contains a lake and a public swimming pool.

Two storey sandstone police lock-up constructed in what was once one of the toughest areas of Sydney.

Fountain built to commemorate the first piped water supply in Sydney from Lachlan Swamps, now Centennial Park.

Illustrated book of eleven coloured plates by Margaret Flockton published in Sydney in 1912 by NSW Bookstall.

Bay in Sydney Harbour adjacent to Rozelle and Balmain, dominated by the former White Bay Power Station.

Synagogue established in a former Baptist church on Macquarie Street after the Sydney congregation split in the 1850s.

Possibly the first animated celebrity, drawn by Pat Sullivan, born Patrick O'Sullivan in Sydney.

Sydney is Australia's advertising capital and the relationship between the city and the advertising industry stretches back to the earliest years of European settlement. Advertising helped propel commercial activity in Sydney and the advertising industry has helped shape…

Photographer who was working in Sydney between 1890 and 1894 predominantly as a portraitist to Sydney's elite. Examples of her landscape, architectural and group photographs also survive including her earliest known works which feature exterior and interior views of the…

Residential home in Stanmore for country girls who had to come to Sydney to further their education.

National park in Sydney's north created in 1894 largely because of the work of Eccleston du Faur.

Golf course established in an area at Kingsford which had formed part of Sydney's water supply scheme.

Many Sydneysiders think that Māori contact with and migration to Sydney is a recent phenomenon, but in fact Māori people have been in Sydney from the earliest days of the colony, and have contributed to the city's growth and diversity and enriched its cultural and economic…

Opera written by Eugene Goossens which premiered in Sydney in 1951 with Joan Sutherland in the title role.

Aboriginal man living close to Sydney Town in the 1820s who was the son of Carangarang and Yuwarry

Ship of 450 tons which made several voyages between England, Hobart and Sydney in the 1820s and 1830s.

Sydney's Korean community is an aggregate of distinct groups, who have come to Sydney at different times, and for different reasons. While they are predominantly Christian, they assert a strong Korean ethnic and cultural identity, and maintain close ties with their homeland.…

209 ton ship owned by John Lord that sailed between India, Sydney and Hobart in the late 1820s. She was hired in 1827 by the government for an expedition to establish a new settlement at Port Essington (north of Darwin). She also transported four military convicts to Sydney…

Indonesians arrived in Sydney in great numbers after the dismantling of the White Australia policy in the 1970s, and with strong community organisations have added richly to Sydney's cultural and culinary life.