• Title
  Album: Old Sydney, being a collection of drawings of old buildings and streets, 1907-1908 / Sydney Ure Smith
• Creator
  Sydney Ure Smith, 1887-1949
• Call number
  DL PXX 37/vols. 1-2
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1907-1908
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  861301
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : DL PXX 37/vols. 1-2
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  1 album (17 drawings) - various sizes - 2 ink, 2 ink & watercolour, 8 pencil, 5 ink & wash
  
• Scope and Content
  DL PXX 37
  
  F.1 Frontispiece : tree
  F.2 Doorway no.17, Lang Street
  F.3 Front of old convict barracks
  F.4 [Title page] Old Sydney being a collection of drawings of old buildings
  F.5 Palisade Hotel & old houses ... near Dalgety's wharves, old Sydney
  F.6 Old House in Trinity Avenue, " The Rocks "
  F.7 Cumberland Street, " The Rocks "
  F.8 Old cottage drawn from Hotel Australia
  F.9 Old building, Hamilton Street, Sydney
  F.10 Hamilton Street, Sydney
  F.11 View looking up Hamilton Street, showing Post Office Tower
  F.12 At rear of Dawes Battery
  F.13 Old Stores, Dalley Street
  F.14 A relic of the old whaling days, Mosman's Bay
  F.15 Simeon Lord's Mill, Botany
  F.16 Town's stores
  F.17 The Rangers. Mosman
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
• General note
  
  Three sketches were found loose in the back of the album, and have been placed in a separate portfolio to be shelved with the album. Four sketches have been done directly onto the leaves of the album and 10 are pasted in.
  
  Transferred from 339p
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  15 of the sketches are signed, 5 are dated and 16 are titled.
• Subject
  Art, Australian--20th century.
  
• Topic
  book illustrations
  trees
  doorways
  houses
  hotels & taverns
  streetscapes
  terrace houses
  
• Place
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  Hyde Park Barracks (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Palisade Hotel (Hickson Road, Millers Point, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE10885684

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