Sydney Photos – Date Unknown

Sydney Photos – Date Unknown

These undated historic photographs of Sydney record harbour foreshores, Domain landmarks and city streets from The Rocks to Woolloomooloo and Bennelong Point. Subjects include Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, the Argyle Cut, early civic memorials and harbour shipping. This post gathers that set of Sydney views whose exact photograph dates are not stated on the page.

Argyle Cut and Argyle Place, The Rocks — carved roadway connecting Sydney Cove to Millers Point (date unknown).

Artillery at Mrs Macquarie’s Point, with Garden Island in the background — Sydney Harbour (date unknown).

Fishmarkets, Woolloomooloo — erected 1871 (photograph date unknown).

Fountain and entrance gates to the Botanical Gardens — Sydney (date unknown).

Governor Bourke’s statue, Domain and Botanical Gardens — Sydney (date unknown).

Grantham / Campbell Lodge, Potts Point, from Lady Macquarie’s Chair — Sydney (date unknown).

Large ocean liner, paddle steamer and clipper in Sydney Harbour (date unknown).

Looking down Jamieson Street to George Street — Sydney (date unknown).

Looking north from the Public Library, Macquarie Street — Sydney (date unknown).

Looking west from Farm Cove to Mrs Macquarie’s Road — Sydney (date unknown).

Looking west along Bridge Street from Lady Young Terrace — Sydney (date unknown).

Looking west down Bent Street from the Public Library — Sydney (date unknown).

Mrs Macquarie’s Chair with a warship and Fort Denison — Sydney Harbour (date unknown).

Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, Sydney (date unknown).

Observatory, Flagstaff Hill — Sydney (date unknown).

Oddfellows Hall, Sydney — erected 1871 (photograph date unknown).

Oriental Bank at the corner of Spring, Pitt and O’Connell Streets — Sydney (date unknown).

Prince Albert Memorial, Queens Square — Sydney (date unknown).

Shipyards at Millers Point looking across to Balmain — Sydney Harbour (date unknown).

Spectacle and Snapper Islands from Balmain — Sydney Harbour (date unknown).

St Philip’s Church, Church Hill — Sydney (date unknown; file ‘St Phillips’).

Wentworth House, Charlotte Place (later Grosvenor Street) — Sydney (date unknown).

Wharves near Fort Macquarie, Bennelong Point — Sydney (date unknown).

Lady Macquarie’s Chair / Mrs Macquarie’s Point area — State Library plate (SLNSW FL1249433); body closes on this subject.

Eastern Coastline – New South Wales

“Eastern coastline” is doing a lot of work in the title. Open the filenames and you’re mostly still inside Sydney’s eastern pocket: the Potts Point cliff mansions from Lady Macquarie’s Chair, Cranbrook at Bellevue Hill, Double Bay, Edgecliff, Watsons Bay houses and gun emplacements, Camp Cove, boats at La Perouse, a clipper at Campbell’s Wharf, omnibuses at Randwick. That is harbour edge and headland suburb, not a Tweed-to-Eden coastal survey.

So treat the post as a late-colonial eastern suburbs and harbour approaches album. The views are gold for before-and-after: Greenoaks Avenue before the towers, New South Head Road as a toll road, Watson’s Bay when the hotel and the weatherboard cottages still shared the point. Caption what the plate shows; don’t invent a north-coast steamer run because the title got ambitious.

When a mansion or wharf already has its own page on this blog, point there. This gallery is for the grain of the road and the foreshore — slab huts, boatsheds, horse buses — the bits that fall out of building biographies.

Bomerah, Grantham and other Potts Point mansions from Lady Macquarie’s Road — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Clipper ship Kingsbridge at Campbell’s Wharf, Sydney Harbour — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Cranbrook and lodge at the corner of Victoria Road and Bellevue Hill — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute, Sydney — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Double Bay foreshore and settlement, New South Wales — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Edgecliff Preparatory School for Boys — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Gun emplacement overlooking Camp Cove and Watsons Bay — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Hotel and houses at Watsons Bay — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Houses at Watsons Bay, looking along the settlement — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Longboat and boatshed at Watsons Bay — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Mansions Fairlight and Fernbank, Point Piper — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Foreshore mansions Heathfield, Ewenton and Shannon Grove — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Mansions on Ocean and Greenoakes Avenue, Edgecliff — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Spectators watching horse-drawn omnibuses at Randwick Racecourse — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

New South Head Road through Double Bay — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Ocean Street North (later Ocean Avenue), Double Bay — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Residence possibly Colebrook, corner of New South Head Road and Bellevue Hill Road — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Rowing boats and boatsheds near the La Perouse monument — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Slab hut on Village Point — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

St John’s Church of England, Glebe — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Toll road at Bayswater and New South Head Road — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Toll road on New South Head Road, looking west toward Darlinghurst — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Watsons Bay from Old South Head Road — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Clipper ship and Mort’s Building at Circular Quay — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Looking along Alison Road toward Randwick Racecourse — historic eastern-Sydney / harbour coastline view.

Photographs 1879–1892

One hundred plates is not a photographer’s autobiography. It is a view folder — harbour, civic pile, waterfall, railway, bore — the sort of stock the State Library still dates about 1879–1892 because that is when the Government Printer and the tourist bureaux were selling “NSW picturesque” by the yard. The Picturesque NSW post on this blog is the sampler. This is the same trade with the civic and the country left in.

Read it in bands. First the harbour: Hornby at South Head, Mosman and Double Bay, Garden Island still an island, Farm Cove, Circular Quay from Customs House. Then the town in stone — Government House, Lands, the GPO, Town Hall and the Centennial Hall interior, St Andrew’s, St Mary’s from the Domain, the university colleges, Redfern station. Then the streets. Then Audley in The National Park, Katoomba and Govetts Leap, the Zig Zag, Newcastle, the Clarence, Moree bores.

Two date traps. Ku-ring-gai Chase was not a national park until 1894 — those Pittwater titles are later naming or the folder window is loose. Centennial Hall opened in 1889, so that interior cannot be an 1879 negative. Garden Palace grounds after the 1882 fire is a ruin lawn, not Barnet’s palace in glory. Don’t pin one photographer on the whole hundred without a catalogue page.

 

PHOTOS - 1879 - 1892

Hornby (South Head) Lighthouse, Sydney Harbour — c.1879–1892.

South Head Lighthouse

Mosman Bay — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Mosman Bay 

Double Bay — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Double Bay 

naval Depot Garden Island — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Naval Depot - Garden Island 

Farm Cove — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Farm Cove 

Circular Quay From Customs House — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Circular Quay From Customs House 

Circular Quay — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Circular Quay 

Colonial Sugar Refining works, Pyrmont — c.1879–1892.

Colonial Sugar Refining - Pyrmont 

Government House — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Government House 

Statue of Queen Victoria — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Statue Of Queen Victoria 

Statue of Prince Albert, Royal Consort — Sydney, c.1879–1892.

Statue Of Prince Albert - Royal Consort To Her Majesty Queen Victoria

Captain Cook Statue — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Statue Of Captain Cook - Hyde Park 

Woolloomooloo From the Domain — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Woolloomooloo From The Domain 

Bent St Entrance To Outer Domain — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Bent St Entrance To Outer Domain

Sydney Harbour From Top of Library — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Sydney Harbour From the Top Of The Library 

Garden Palace Grounds — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Garden Palace Grounds 

Botanical Gardens — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Botanical Gardens 

Botanical Gardens — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Botanical Gardens

Botanical Gardens — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Botanical Gardens 

Chancery Square - Sydney — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Chancery Square - Sydney 

Chief Secretarys office — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Chief Secretary's Office 

Free public library — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Free Public Library 

Sydney Hospital — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Sydney Hospital 

Lands Office — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Lands Office

Customs House — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Customs House - Circular Quay 

Supreme Court — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Supreme Court 

General Post Office GPO — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

General Post Office - martin Place 

Museum - Sydney — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Australian Museum - College Street 

Government Printing Office — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Government Printing Office 

Town Hall - Sydney — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Sydney Town Hall 

Interior of Centennial Hall, Sydney Town Hall — c.1879–1892.

Interior of Centennial Hall 

St Andrews Cathedral — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

St Andrews Cathedral 

St Marys From the Domain — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

st mary's Cathedral From The Domain

The Exchange — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

The Royal Exchange 

Technological Museum and college buildings, Sydney — c.1879–1892.

Technological Museum & College 

university of Sydney — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

University Of Sydney 

St Pauls College - Uni Of Sydney — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

St pauls College - University Of Sydney 

St Andrews College - Uni Of Sydney — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

St Andrews College - University of Sydney 

St Johns College - Uni Of Sydney — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

St Johns College - University of Sydney 

Prince Alfred hospital — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Prince Alfred Hospital 

Deaf Dumb & Blind Institute — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Deaf Dumb & Blind Institute

Redfern Railway Station — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Redfern Railway Station 

Sydney Station — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Sydney Station 

Australian Joint Stock Bank — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Austrlian Joint Stock Bank 

Victoria Arcade - Sydney — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Victoria Arcade - Sydney 

Royal Arcade, Sydney, 1892 (view including Quong Tart’s premises per filename).

The Royal Arcade - 1892 - includes Quong

George St Looking South From Bathurst St — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

George Street Looking South From Bathurst St

York St - Looking South From Barrack St — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

York Street - looking South From Barrack Street 

Bridge St Looking East From George St — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Bridge Street Looking East From George Street 

Phillip St Looking East From Bridge St — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Phillip Street Looking East From Bridge Street 

O'Connell St Looking East From Bent St — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

O'Connell Street Looking East  From Bent Street

Loftus St Looking South From Circular Quay — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Loftus Street Lookiing South From Circular Quay 

Pitt St Looking South From Bridge St — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Pitt Street Looking South From Bridge Street 

Castlereagh St Looking North From King St — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Castlereagh Street Looking North From King Street 

Elizabeth St Looking South From hunter St — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Elizabeth Street Looking South From Hunter Street 

Head Of Freshwater River - National Park — Royal National Park area, c.1879–1892.

Head Of Freshwater River - National Park 

On The Freshwater River, Near Lady Carrington — Royal National Park area, c.1879–1892.

On The Freshwater River - Near Lady Carrington - Royal National Park

General View Of Audley - National Park — Royal National Park area, c.1879–1892.

General View Of Audley - The Royal National Park 

View On Freshwater River - National Park — Royal National Park area, c.1879–1892.

View Of The Freshwater River  - Royal National Park 

View Of upper Causeway - National Park — Royal National Park area, c.1879–1892.

View Of The Upper Causeway  - The Royal National Park

View From Bushrangers Hill - Looking South — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

View From Bushranger's Hill - Looking South 

Ku-ring-gai Chase - near head Of McCarrs Creek — Ku-ring-gai Chase / Pittwater, c.1879–1892.

Kuringai Chase - Head Of McCarrs Creek 

Bush Scene — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

A Bush Scnene

Ku-ring-gai Chase - pittwater - lovett's Bay Fresh Water Head — Ku-ring-gai Chase / Pittwater, c.1879–1892.

Kuringai Chase - Pittwater - Lovett's Bay - Fresh Water Head

Ku-ring-gai Chase - pittwater - Looking Down Jerusalem Bay — Ku-ring-gai Chase / Pittwater, c.1879–1892.

Kuringai Chase - Pittwater - Looking Down - Jerusalem Bay 

Ku-ring-gai Chase - Topham - Yeomans Bay NE — Ku-ring-gai Chase / Pittwater, c.1879–1892.

Kuringai Chase - Topham - Yeomans Bay - North East

The Weeping Rock - Wentworth Falls - Blue mountains — Blue Mountains region, c.1879–1892.

The Weeping Rock - Wentworth Falls - Blue Mountains

The Cascade - Katoomba — Blue Mountains region, c.1879–1892.

The Cascade Falls - Blue Mountains

Fitzroy Falls - Near Moss Vale — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Fitzroy Falls - Near Moss Vale - NSW

Katoomba Falls - NSW — Blue Mountains region, c.1879–1892.

Katoomba Falls - Blue Mountains 

Kangaroo Valley — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Kangaroo Valley 

View Of Katoomba — Blue Mountains region, c.1879–1892.

View Of Katoomba

Kangaroo Valley - NSW — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Kangaroo Valley - NSW

Nepean River — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Nepean River - NSW 

Nepean River — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Neapean River - NSW

govetts Leap Falls - Blue Mountains — Blue Mountains region, c.1879–1892.

Govetts Leap Falls - Blue Mountains 

The Zig Zag - Lithgow Valley — Blue Mountains region, c.1879–1892.

he Zig Zag Railway - Lithgow Valley - NSW

The Sisters - Katoomba — Blue Mountains region, c.1879–1892.

The Sisters - Katoomba - The Blue Mountains - NSW

Govetts Leap - NSW — Blue Mountains region, c.1879–1892.

Govett's Leap - Blue Mountains 

Explorer Tree - Near Katoomba — Blue Mountains region, c.1879–1892.

The Explorer Treet - Near Katoomba - Blue Mountains 

Saddle Cutting - Near Bargo Lagoons — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Saddle Cutting - Near Bargo Lagoons 

Newcastle East - Showing Nobby's — Newcastle, NSW, c.1879–1892.

Newcastle East  - Showing Nobby's Head 

Newcastle West - From Customs — Newcastle, NSW, c.1879–1892.

Newcastle West  - From Customs 

Albury Railway Station — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Albury Railway  Station 

A Miners hut - lithgow Valley — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

A Miner';s hut - Lithgow Valley - NSW

Coast Scene From Otford Tunnel - Illawarra District — Illawarra coast, NSW, c.1879–1892.

Coast Scene From Otford Tunnell - Illawarra - NSW

Coast Scene At Clifton - Illawarra District — Illawarra coast, NSW, c.1879–1892.

Coast Scene At Clifton - Illawarra - NSW

Coast Scene Pulpit Rock At Bombo Illawarra District — Illawarra coast, NSW, c.1879–1892.

Coast Scene - Pulpit Rock At Bombo - Illawarra District - NSW

Shoalhaven River Near Coolangatta — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Shoalhaven River - Near Coolangatta - NSW

Shoalhaven From Back Forest — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Shoalhaven From Back Forest 

Tree Ferns - Cambewarra Mountain — New South Wales, c.1879–1892.

Tree Ferns - Camberwarra Mountains - New South Wales

Clarence River At Moleville NSW — Clarence River district, NSW, c.1879–1892.

Clarence River At Moleville - New South Wales

Clarence River At Maclean NSW — Clarence River district, NSW, c.1879–1892.

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Clarence River At Maclean - New South Wales 

Smiths Falls On The Clarence River at Copmanhurst — Clarence River district, NSW, c.1879–1892.

Smiths Falls - On the Clarence River At Companhurst

On the Orara River NSW — Clarence River district, NSW, c.1879–1892.

On The Orara River - New South Wales 

Dolgelly Bore - moree District — Moree district artesian bore, c.1879–1892.

Dolgel;ly Bore - Moree District - New South Wales 

Wallon Bore - Moree District — Moree district artesian bore, c.1879–1892.

Wallon Bore - Moree District - New South Wales 

Moree Bore — Moree district artesian bore, c.1879–1892.

Moree Bore - New South Wales 

Woolabra Bore - Moree District — Moree district artesian bore, c.1879–1892.

Woolabrah Bore - Moree Dstrict - New South Wales 

Gil Gil Bore - Moree District — Moree district artesian bore, c.1879–1892.

Gil Gil Bore - Moree District - New South Wales 




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