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Bucket, turpentine bottle and funnel; presumably a Crown exhibit in the trial of the IWW Twelve, 1919

Taking Edinburgh by Storm - or the Prince cannonaded by Photographers 1867

Saturday night at Paddy's Market by our Topsy Turvey artist 1884

Selling the War Cry on Saturday night at Paddy's Market 1884

Drying green of the Lakeside Wool Scouring Works at Botany 1899

A new chance for the wayward girl 1936

Georges River in Flood: residents leave their homes, June 1950

Opening of Enmore Theatre 1911

Sutton, John

Builder John Sutton rose to alderman and mayor.

Neptune, one of three ships known as the 'death fleet,' was the largest ship of the Second Fleet. Chartered by slave traders, Neptune had the highest mortality rate of all the ships, with over 160 deaths. Many of those who survived the ordeal went on to prosper in the new colony…

Scarborough: Second Fleet

Scarborough sailed with the First and the Second Fleet and experienced an attempted mutiny both times. Charted by slave traders along with Neptune and Surprize, the Scarborough became part of the notorious 'death fleet', with around 73 of over 250 convicts dying on board and…

'The Kaffir's Flight', James Ashton's grand feat of horsemanship at Ashton's Circus, 1855

Fragment of medicine bottle and label found during archaeological dig at Hyde Park Barracks

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Fun on the beaches: surf-bathing in skirts October 1907

Fun on the beaches: surf-bathing in skirts October 1907

Bertha E Phelps c1900

Ultimo Uniting Church at the corner of Quarry St and Bulwarra Road 17 January 2009

Double decker and single decker buses on layover at Circular Quay East 14 December 1968