Old Sydney

1850 1 photo

Sydney Market 1857, 1850

1853 2 photos

City of Sydney, 1853Monument to la Perouse, 1853

1854 1 photo

Wentworth leaving Sydney 1854

1855 5 photos

Rose Bay Lodge circa 1855, c. 1855Rose Bay circa 1855, c. 1855Fountains at Rose Bay Lodge circa 1855, c. 1855Rose Bay Lodge circa 1855 2, c. 1855Lindsay circa 1855, c. 1855

1856 2 photos

James Robert Wilshire A-00006275, 1856Sydney Botanic Garden - Avenue Approach - 1856

1857 9 photos

Woodcut of Liverpool Weir, 1857The rescue of Johnson from his perilous position - Illustrated Times 1857Sydney harbour Bridge 1857James Johnson, seaman and only survivor of 122 persons upon the wreck of the ship "Dunbar" taken afterward at Sydney in 1857 - (hand coloured ambrotype attributed to Thomas Glaister) (cropped)Untitled, 1857Untitled, c. 1857Painting of champion racehorse Veno 1857Looking south from Dawes Point past ships at Campbell’s wharf to Circular Quay,ca1857James Johnson, survivor of the wreck of the Dunbar, Sydney, 1857 - (hand coloured ambrotype attributed to Thomas Glaister)

1858 8 photos

Garden Island ca. 18581858 Woodlands on the North Shore, c. 1858Town of Adelong, 1858, c. 1858Millers Point - Parramatta River from the Flagstaff (1858) (Handcoloured view, looking across Millers Point to Lord Nelson Hotel on right, with Whalers Arms in centre and Albion House beyond)Government House Sydney (1857-1858) Matthew Fortescue MoresbyMacquarie Street South (1859) (Taken from corner of Hunter & Macquarie Streets, looking south. St. Stephens Presbyterian Iron Church on left), c. 1858Wiley and Son's (basket wholesale warehouse, Park Street, Sydney), 1858, by William BlackwoodBlackwood's panorama of Sydney and Harbour from Government House, (1858)

1859 21 photos

William Denison 1859Campbell's Wharf, Sydney, 1859, slnswSlnsw 397b, 1859Fort Macquarie and Bennelong Point slnsw, c. 1859EW Ward 1859Scots Church Sydney (1859) (Looking west along Jamieson Street, past Scots Church to Petty’s Family Hotel)Sydney Cove No.3 Dawes Battery from Fort Macquarie (1859) (Looking west across Sydney Cove to Campbell’s wharf on left and Dawes Battery on right)Bent St. Sydney (1859) (Hand coloured view from Phillip Street looking west down Bent Street, past the three storey Pulteney Hotel on left to the Macquarie fountain, demolishedNorth Head Entrance of Port Jackson (1859) (Group of two women and three men, including one with telescope, at the Gap, South Head, looking out to sea)Sydney Cove no.2 from Fort Macquarie (1859) (Looking south-west across Sydney Cove to The Rocks, with Mariners Church, north George Street, in centre)A1621012h, 1859A1621010h, 1859A1621007h, 1859A1621011h, 1859A1621003h, 1859A1621008h, 1859A1621001h, 1859A1621006h, 1859A1621005h, 1859A1621004h, 1859A1621002h, 1859

Sometime around the 1850s 8 photos

The library dates these to a span of years that takes in this decade. Each shows its span.

Fort Macquarie Sydney, 1858-1859 William Hetzer, 1858–591858–59Exchange Building, Bridge Street, Sydney, 1858 - 1860, 1858–601858–60Macquarie Place Sydney, 1858 - 1860, 1858–601858–60George Street Sydney, 1858 - 1860, 1858–601858–60Locomotive No. 1, Sydney, 1858 - 1860, 1858–601858–60Garden Island from the Domain (Looking east across Woolloomooloo Bay to Garden Island), 1850–701850–70Military Barracks Paddington (Looking south east from the Greens Road wall past the Garrison Hospital to the main Barrack Block), 1850–701850–70Rouse family and others, Rouse Hill House, 1859 - photographer Major Thomas Wingate, 1859–651859–65

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57 historic photos of Sydney from the 1850s, by year, then those the library dates to a span of years. They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.