Old Sydney

1900s5 photos

"Give this to the youngest boy who sells papers in Sydney" ; A Merrie Xmas and a Happy New Year, Nellie Melba, 1908-19091908Birchgrove Public School - Florrie (Freeman) giving salute with clubs, c. 1908c. 1908Australia's sweetheart-2, c. 1908c. 1908Jack Johnson Boxer Sydney c 1908, c. 1908c. 1908Amy Castles, soprano, as Madama Butterfly, between September 1909-January 1910 - photograph by Talma, Sydney1909

1910s55 photos

Portrait of Annie Besant (1847 – 1933), c. 1910c. 1910Sid Long, by L. W. Appleby, 19101910Mrs. T. H. Kelly photographed by H Cazneaux, c. 1910c. 1910Group around a bar, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood, 1880–19401880–1940Jessie Street, ca. 1910, c. 1910c. 1910Glendon was the Sutherland property - Glendon, Lockhardt's Creek (now Charleroi, VIC), 1880–19401880–1940Niels Nielsen FL1825793, c. 1911c. 1911Ada Reeve crop, ca. 1910-1913 May Mina Moore, 1910–131910–13John R. Duigan, 19111911Giuseppe Angelini, conductor to the Melba-Williamson Opera Company, Sydney, 25 October 1911 - photograph by Melba Studio1911Francesco Zeni, Italian dramatic tenor, as Lohengrin, Sydney, 1911 - May Moore1911Anafesto Rossi, baritone, as Rigoletto, 1911 - photographer May Moore, Sydney1911Eleonora de Cisneros, American contralto, as Amneris in Aida, Sydney, 1911 - May Moore1911The Dantes (Frank Eliason and his wife Kathleen), 19111911Miss Marcelle Boivin, daughter of the head chef at the Paris House, on the veranda of Ewenton, Balmain, ca. 1912 by Sam Hood, c. 1912c. 1912Jacob "Yarka" Lewis, 1912, photographed by Rudolph Buchner1912Mary Gilmore 19121912Oxford Fall and Bathing Pool Brookvale, 1900–271900–27Mina Wylie (cropped), 19131913EY Mills caricature on a menu card for the complimentary dinner for Dr WG Armstrong test cricketer, 19131913EY Mills caricature on menu card of the complimentary dinner for test cricketer Dr WG Armstrong, 19131913Mina Wylie, Coogee, 19131913Adeline Genee, premiere danseuse, 1913, May Moore, c. 1913c. 1913Ada Reeve 19141914Ed E. Ford, comedian, at the Tivoli Theatre, Sydney, ca. 1914 - photographer unknown, c. 1914c. 1914In the Trenches, Henry Charles Marshall, 1914–151914–15"577" (Shaving) (portrait of Henry Charles Marshall), 19151915John Spencer Brunton, c. 1915c. 1915Richard Hagon, 19161916Portrait of Alderman Michael Burke, Municipal Council of the City of Sydney, 1916, Unique ID A-000411911916Spencer Gordon Tucker, c. 1916c. 1916Trumpeter Mulready by J.F. Smith of the 7th Light Horse in Egypt and Palestine, c. 1914-1918, 1914–181914–18Uniformed keeper with spotted animal (quolls), Taronga Zoo, c. 1916, by Sam Hoodc. 1916Joseph Bradley, Teacher, New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music, 19161916Mary Gilmore 19161916I1664, 19161916Lawrence Joseph O'Hara. 1889 –1919. City of Sydney Archives, 1917–181917–18Edward H. Watts, c. 1917c. 1917NSW servicemen portraits 191819 Adam Sutherland, 1918–191918–19Mackellar as a "Grace" (1918)1918William George Wall, c. 1918c. 1918Henry Michal Tyrell, c. 1918c. 1918Sydney Thorn, c. 1918c. 1918Reginald Squires, 19181918Irving Neil Shannon, c. 1918c. 1918William James Potter, 19181918Alfred Reginald Miller, 19181918Duncan Hugh Murphy, 19181918Arthur McCosker, 1918–191918–19John Desmond Mustchin, 19181918Henry William Mier, 19181918Sidney McGowan, 19181918Sidney Victor Minnock, 19181918Donald Roy McKinnon, 19181918Albert May, 19181918

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1,825 historic photos for Portraits and groups, taken between 1836 and 1998, gathered from across the suburbs by what their catalogue titles say. They span 17 decades, with the most from the 1930s (791). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.