Old Sydney

1898 16 photos

H.M.S. Torch, Ringdove and Goldfinch, 1898General Post Office, Sydney 1898General Post Office, Sydney 1898, c. 1898Rose Bay tram in operation on New South Head Road, 1898Front of the Albion Hotel, Nicholson Street, Balmain (NSW), 1898In the Botanical Gardens, Sydney, 1898Bridge Street and The Exchange, Sydney, 1898Botanic Gardens, 1898QVB sculpture and domes (Perier), c. 1898Theodora Cowan (c.1898), c. 18988 Miles Franklin April 2nd 1898 18 yrsWaratah Rovers Bicycle Club (WRBC) 1898 - Sydney, NSWRose Bay electric tram, New South Head Road, 1898 - by Albert James Perier"Railway" (Central Station) tram, Wyly. Trenchard Produce Store and Macquarie Bond Store, Circular Quay, c.1898 - by Albert James Perier, c. 1898Single masted passenger vessel near shore, 1898Sydney ferry FAIRLIGHT in 1898

1899 17 photos

Bellevue 1899Venetia 18991 Venetia, 1899Technological College, Sydney, 1899First Glebe Island Bridge, Glebe (NSW), c. 1899Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney 1899, c. 1899Market Street showing site of Pyrmont Bridge before work started, 1899Circular Quay, c. 1899Abbotsleigh1899Palace Emporium Bicycle Club. Century riders - Sydney area, NSW, July 1899Annie Dawson Wallace with her bicycle. NB- Annie is wearing trousers - Sydney, NSW, 1899A852001r, 1899Studio photograph of Annie Dawson Wallace seated on a bicycle - Sydney, NSW, 1899Herald Office, Sydney, c. 1899Oscar Eliason and his wife, Juliana Edmunda Hammer, original photographer Talma c. 1899Oscar Eliason, 1899Edmunda Hammer, 1899

Sometime around the 1890s 27 photos

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

Cleveland St Public School ca 1880-1890, 1880–901880–90Australia Station Squadron (AWM 304426), 1880–901880–90No title from Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90Group of people from Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90Street scene from Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90Children in street from Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90Advertising hoarding for McLean, Rigg from Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90Manly Ferry Wharf from Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90Girl with pet duck on lead from Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90Street scene from Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90An aviary from Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90Advertising hoarding from Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90Children in Street from Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90Group of people from Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90A chimney sweep (?) walking across Pyrmont Bridge Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90Governor Bourke Hotel from Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90Farm scene from Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90People at Circular Quay Sydney, ca. 1885-1890 - photographed by Arthur K. Syer, 1885–901885–90Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson, 1885–901885–90Pyrmont Public School, c 1900, 1880–19001880–1900Manlyharbourside1880s, 1885–951885–95General Post Office Sydney, 1880–19001880–1900Sydney ferry BRIGHTON at Manly, 1883–19001883–1900Portrait of William Lane 1890-1894 slnsw pxa 1023, 1890–941890–94Gentleman paying street merchant, ca. 1880s-1900, 1885–19001885–1900Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson, poet, solicitor, journalist, war correspondent and soldier, ca. 1890 - photographer Falk, Sydney, 1885–19001885–1900Pieta, St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, 1892-3 - Fred Hardie, 1892–931892–93

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214 historic photos of Sydney from the 1890s, 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.