Old Sydney
Sydney ferry Kanimbla, 1934Sydney ferry Kanimbla1934

1,874 historic photos of Sydney whose records name no suburb, taken between 1793 and 1999. They span 20 decades, with the most from the 1930s (527). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.

Somewhere in Sydney by decade

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Streets and landmarks in Somewhere in Sydney

A sample across the years

Convicts in New Holland, 17931793An account of the English colony in New South Wales, from its first settlement in January 1788 to August 1801 BHL459244721801Sydney Heads Augustus Earle ca. 1826, c. 1826c. 1826Vue de l'entrée de Sydney- Cove. (Nouvelle Galles du Sud.) (NYPL b13624459-1266797), 18331833Meyer’s Universum Bd. 7. 18401840City of Sydney, 18531853Alderman George Thornton, c. 1860c. 1860Walter Renny, c. 1870c. 1870Portrait of Professor Max Müller, c. 1880 slnsw pxa 1023c. 1880Wr Studio Portrait of Henry Morton Stanley, ca. 1890, published by L Herbst, c. 1890c. 1890Eva Mylott c1900, c. 1900c. 1900Sydney ferry CONQUEROR as a tug, c. 1900c. 1900Sydney ferry BELLUBERA on her trials, 19101910Mrs. T. H. Kelly photographed by H Cazneaux, c. 1910c. 1910Jessie Street, ca. 1910, c. 1910c. 1910Stanley Llewellyn Cole, c. 1920c. 1920Sydney Long, c. 1920c. 1920Dee Why ferry, c. 1930c. 1930Shakespeare Memorial Sydney, c. 1930c. 1930AWA valve display, 19301930Looking east down Grosvenor Street, at night, with no. 4 Bridge street and the Union Line Building lit up, n.d. by Sam Hood, 19301930The Grace Building, Sydney, ca. 1930 - Sam Hood, c. 1930c. 1930Trying on shoes, ca. 1930 - by Sam Hood, c. 1930c. 1930'Young Australia' RAHS-Osborne Collection, 19301930