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Training Ship Sydney cadets form up as Commander Australian Fleet, Rear Admiral Tim Barrett, AM CSC RAN, departs Spectacle Island after ceremony, November 2013

Plan of 12 allotments part of Mr F Girard's estate, Sydney to be sold by auction by Mr S Lyons, on Wednesday Feby, 12th 1840

The shop and dwelling of Mr Holmes at the corner of lower George and Alfred Streets, formerly the offices of the Sydney Gazette,1848

Number of radiometric ages in each millennium (cal BP) in Sydney region Aboriginal archaeological sites (N=164 ages from 164 sites)

Women pilots Florence (Bobby) Terry, Phyllis R Arnott and Freda Deaton, who took part in Amy Johnson's welcome to Sydney, May 1930

Sentences handed down to Thomas Berington and Elizabeth O'Brien by W Broughton, the magistrate in the Sydney Court of Criminal Jurisdiction on 29 June 1814

Transcription: Thomas Bevington, a carpenter, between 70 and 80 years of age, was next convicted of stealing several carpenter's tools, the property of Samuel Haslam, of the Parramatta Road. Sen-tenced six months confinement in Parramatta gaol.

Elizabeth O…

Letter from Richard Dawson, Australian Foundry to the Chairman of the City of Sydney Lighting Committee offering to supply cast iron lamp posts 17 March 1843

Cover 'Souvenir Handbook of Cronulla and district, issued to commemorate the Opening of the Direct Electric Railway from Sydney to Cronulla 16th December, 1939'

Commanding Officer Leonard E Forsythe and Prime Minister Joseph Lyons at the opening of the Navy League's Sydney Training Depot on Snapper Island 26 November 1938

Iron stanchion on McElhone steps, Woolloomooloo, Sydney which was used as a hiding place for message container by Ivan Fedorovich Skripov, First Secretary, Russian embassy 1962

Artists Rosaleen Norton, Roy Dalgarno and Eric Maguire during rest period of drawing class at Sydney's Studio of Realist Art (SORA), in George Street 1948

Plan of the New Gaol for Sydney to contain 400 prisoners in solitary cells, by G Barney, Captain, Royal Engineer, and Mortimer Lewis, Colonial Architect c1836

Tally board with the results of the 1901 Australian federal election outside the Sydney Morning Herald building on the corner of Pitt and Hunter Streets, March 1901

Sketch of Sydney Cove, Port Jackson in the County of Cumberland New South Wales July 1788, T Medland sculp, coastline by W Dawes, the soundings by Capt Hunter

Detail showing Farm Cove and Bennelong Point from Woolcott & Clarke’s Map of the City of Sydney, with the environs of Balmain and Glebe, Chippendale, Redfern, Paddington & Co 1854

Artists Rosaleen Norton, Roy Dalgarno and Eric Maguire during rest period of life drawing class at Sydney's Studio of Realist Art, in George Street, March 1948

The Stranger's guide to Sydney: in a series of walks with a map of the city and directory of the various streets and public buildings

Travel guide by book seller James Waugh that was arranged as a series of walks with maps and suggested excursions, first published in 1858, and an enlarged second edition in 1861.

Christmas Bells, Milkmaids, Everlasting Daisy and Lemon-scented Tea-Tree specimens from the plant collection of Helena Scott, collected in Sydney, Newcastle and Ash Island 1862-63

Detail from view of the west side of Sydney Cove, showing the rear of the Orphanage building and Underwood's house along the mouth of the Tank Stream 1809

Gumbery Jah (Harry’s Song) and Cooee (Guwi), sung by Matthew Doyle and Clarence Slockee, recorded by Kevin Hunt at the Conservatorium of Music, Sydney 2010

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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