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Cooperative organisation formed by Aboriginal artists, central to the development of Sydney's modern urban Aboriginal art scene.

Built as the library, hall and rooms for the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, and long a centre of cultural life in Sydney, the Arthouse Hotel was converted into a pub in the 1990s.

Nursing museum and archives at Sydney Hospital housed in the Nightingale Wing, the oldest remaining building on the hospital site. The building originally housed Australia's first school of nursing and was run by Lucy Osburn who arrived in Sydney in 1868 and was a protegee of…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

Harriett Biffin was a pioneer Sydney woman doctor. One of the second group of women to graduate in medicine at the University of Sydney in 1898, she was the first to establish a women’s joint medical practice in Sydney and a suburban general medical practice, and founded both…

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

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

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

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.

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

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…