Photographs of Sydney, 1916-1935

PXA 1642

series

1916-1935

Graphic Materials, Photographs

1008813

Digitised

159 negatives - 11.6 x 15.8 cm or smaller
5 photographic prints - 8.2 x 10.5 cm

COUNTRY AND SUBURBAN HOUSES

ITEM 01
'Athole', Parramatta, 1929
1. Main gates
2. 'Athole'
3. Sundial at 'Athole'
4. Old Gasworks, near 'Athole'

ITEM 02
'Barnstaple Manor', Five Dock
1. Family vault
2. Windmill
(Negative of house is missing)

ITEM 03
'Campbell Fields', Minto, 1927
1. Private road
2. & 3. The house
4. The kitchen
5. & 6. Cellar, and entrance to it
7. Dr. Redfern

ITEM 04
'Canterbury House', Canterbury, 1927
1. & 2. Side, front and back of house
3. Side passage
4. Main entrance
5. and 6. Morning room
7. Library
8.-10. Drawing room
11. First floor corridor
12. Stables
13. Coach house

ITEM 05
'Carabella', North Sydney, 1935
1. & 2. Views of 'Carabella House'

ITEM 06
'Cromlea', Roseville, 1924
Built for Mr. John Campbell, a produce merchant, Sussex Street, Sydney, who eventually lost his money and also this house
1. Showing water storage on right
2. 'Cromlea'
3. The well
4. Stone plaque with information about wall

ITEM 07
'Crows Nest House', Lane Cove, North Sydney, 1930
1. Entrance
2.-4. 'Crows Nest House'
5. Hall, Lady Hays' portrait on wall
6. Sample of the fine stitching by Jessy Hay.
7. Kitchen dresser with chinaware over 100 years old
8. Coach house
9. One of the six pillars from old George Street Post Office

ITEM 08
‘Elizabeth Bay House’, Elizabeth Bay, 1927
1. North east side
2. South side
3. Hall, from vestibule
4. & 5. Library
6. Looking from first floor
7. Looking east from first floor

ITEM 09
'Elizabeth Farm House', Parramatta, 1926
1. Front verandah
2. The 'Farm House' and Mrs. Wm. Swann
3. Hall
4. Dining Room
5. & 6. Drawing room
7. An early Parramatta bedroom
8. Boundary stone between Granville and Parramatta on the grounds. This tree near bridge was blown down a few years ago.

ITEM 10
Lord Stonehaven at 'Elizabeth Farm, Parramatta, March, 1926
5 photographs

ITEM 11
‘Eynesbury’, Edgecliff, March 1934
1. Corner of Edgecliff Road and Albert Streets
2. ‘Eynesbury’, looking north
3. Main entrance
4. Looking south
5. Front of rounded window, looking east
6. From interior, looking east
7.-9. Interior views
10. Lookout from first floor
11. A garden pathway

ITEM 12
'Greystanes', 1927
1. Entrance gates and lodge
2. & 3. Front and steps
4. Verandah near steps
5. Entrance hall
6. & 7. Drawing room
8. Library and billiard room from hall
9. End of same room
10. Bedroom
11. Entrance gates to stables
12. Stables and pond
13. Looking from stables
14. Back of 'Greystones'

ITEM 13
'Helene', Meadowbank, 1931
1. Ryde punt
2. 'Helene'
3.-5. Stables
6. Courtyard at back
7. Original residence

ITEM 14
Houses in Blacktown and Rooty Hill, 1923
1. First house built at Blacktown, west line. This was taken from moving train.
2. & 3. A Macquarie Government House at Rooty Hill
4. 'Hillend', Doonside
5. 'Bungarabee', Rooty Hill
6. An outbuilding built of convict made bricks

ITEM 15
'Ingleside' and 'Powdermill', Narrabeen, 1924
Built in the 1820s as 'The Australasian Powder and Explosives Manufacturing Company, by Carl Von Bieren
1. & 2. The ruins of 'Ingleside'
3. Stone pillar with a German face carved on it
4. This has a powder barrel with 'Advance Australia' on it
5. Ruins of the 'Powder Mill'
6. Supposed 'Gunpit', in front of the mill
7. Looking down at the mill
8. Looking into the mill

ITEM 16
'Macquarie Fields House', 1924
1. Entrance
2. & 3. Front of house
5. View from railway
6. Cave on grounds
7. & 9. Dining room
10. One of many cellars
11. School house
4. 'Denham Court'
12. Church of England built on the grounds
13.-15. House of Dr Throsby at Casula

ITEM 17
'Mamre', St. Mary's, 1933
Farm of Rev. Samuel Marsden
1.-3. Views of 'Mamre'

ITEM 18
Margaret Houison's home, 54 Macquarie Street, Parramatta, 1931
1. & 2. Front and back views
3. & 4. Circular stone stairway with iron railings
5. Old pump
6. Supposed to be the home of John Batman (erected in 1804)

ITEM 19
'Menevia', Ballast Pt., Balmain, 1928
1. 'Menevia' from the Harbour
2. The entrance gates from ferry
3. The walk to house
4. A walk in the grounds looking north
5. Looking towards Goat Island
6. The house
7. Entrance
8. Verandah
9. Hall
10. Ground floor
11. Cellar stairs
12. Courtyard, looking north

ITEM 20
'Oatlands', Dundas, 1927
1. & 2. Front of house
3. Entrance hall
4. Door on left leads to the original home
5. A room in old house
6. Drawing room
7. Dining room
8. & 9. Back of 'Oatlands', showing water storage and old pump
10. Windmill

ITEM 21
‘Ormond House’, 'Rose Hall' and 'Queens Court'
1.-3. ‘Ormond House’, (originally called Juniper Hall), Paddington
4. ‘St. Kilda House’, Wolloomooloo Street, Sydney, 1925
5. ‘Rose Hall’, Darlinghurst, 1929
6. Forbes Street, frontage
7.-8. ‘Queens Court’, Dalley Street, Sydney, 1920 (First home of Henry and Clarinda Parkes)

ITEM 22
'Osgathorpe', Victoria Road, Ryde
1. 'Osgathorpe', old and new, at bend of road
2. Front of original home
3. Fence where portion of old was resumed
4. Old stone water filter
5. Present 'Osgathorpe'

ITEM 23
'Regentville', Penrith, 1929
1. Ruins of 'Regentville'
2. The Russell brothers. Grandsons of Sir John
3. Members of the Royal Australian Historical Society at 'Regentville' on 18th May, 1929

ITEM 24
'Roslyn Hall, Darlinghurst, 1935
1. The house from Roslyn Avenue
2. Original entrance from Maclay Street
3. Looking towards Maclay Street
4. Main entrance
5. Back stone stairs, showing to left entrance to basement, servants quarters in early days
6.-8. Dining room
9. First floor, head of stairs
10.-12. Drawing room

ITEM 25
'Shaftesbury', Vaucluse
1.-2. Views of 'Shaftesbury'
3. Memorial to Robert Watson at Watsons Bay

ITEM 26
‘Ultimo House’, 1923
1.-2. ‘Ultimo House’, front and entrance
3. ‘Hereford House’, main gates
4. Front of ‘Hereford House’, members of Royal Australian Historical Society on verandah

ITEM 27
'Vaucluse House', Vaucluse, 1920
1. Main gates
2. & 3. Drawing room
4. & 5. Council room
6. & 7. Dining room
8. Stairway
9. Wooden stairs to roof (now removed)
10. 'Tusculum', Potts Point (1835-1928, built by William Long)

SYDNEY STREETS

ITEM 28
Bathurst Street, 1923-1924
1. & 2. Looking east from Pitt Street
3. East side, looking west from George Street, showing original fire brigade station
4. 'Aspinals Mill'. Foot of Goulburn Street

ITEM 29
Bent Street, 1923
1. Mrs. Hills', south side
2. Bent Street, looking west

ITEM 30
Bligh Street, 1926
1. East side, showing 'Union Club'
2. West side, looking south

ITEM 31
Castlereagh Street, 1921-1925
1. Looking south to King Street from Martin Place
2. Girls High School, between King and Market Streets
3. Schoolmaster's house
4. Doorway to schoolmaster's house, facing north
5. Northwest corner Bathurst and Castlereagh Streets
6. Southeast corner Bathurst and Castlereagh Streets
7. 'The Little Theatre', also known as 'The Play House', and Royal Standard Theatre
8. Two cottages, and terrace of two storied houses. Facing the fire station, down to Liverpool Street
9. Looking north to Goulburn Street
10. The 'Tivoli Theatre', west side, now the 'Mayfair'

ITEM 32
Circular Quay, 1923-1924
1. East side, looking south
2. Looking east
3. Looking west, from Albert Street
4. Looking east, from Pitt Street
5. West side, looking south
6. Taken from 'Shore Ferry'
Plus one photographic print of Quay looking from P.F.A. site, North Sydney, showing last P&O boat to berth at Quay (PXA 1642)

ITEM 33
Darlinghurst Road
1. Alberta Terrace, looking south, now Kings Cross, shopping area
2. 'Springfield'

ITEM 34
Dawes Point, 1924
1.-4. [Fort]
5. View of Dawes Point House
6. Harbour View Hotel, George Street north
Plus one photographic print of Dawes' Point (PXA 1642)

ITEM 35
Elizabeth Street
1. Looking north to Hunter Street, 1923
2. West side, looking towards King Street, 1923
3. East side looking south to King Street, 1926
4. West side, showing resumed area for Martin Place, 1933
5. West side near Bathurst Street, 1925
6. Girls' High School, between Market and King Streets, 1919
7. Wentworth Court, site of Sun Office

ITEM 36
George Street, Sydney, 1923-35
1. Fire station, the Quay
2. East side looking north to Quay
3. Southeast corner Bridge and George Streets, looking south
4. West side looking south from Hunter Street, site of Wynyard Station
5. Royal Hotel, being demolished
6. York Chambers, northwest corner George and Market Streets, which was built of bricks from 'The Infirmary', Macquarie Street
7. From Blaxland Galleries looking south
8. West side Wynyard to Barrack Street
9. Park Street, intersection of George Street
10. Liverpool to Bathurst Street, looking north
11. Old 'Alhambra Theatre', corner Campbell and George Streets
12. Wilmott and George Streets, Riley Bros. Drapers. Side entrance to A.J. Riley's residence in the early eighties
13. Looking north, from City Road
14. Looking south from Abercrombie Street

ITEM 37
Glebe Island, 1926
4 views of abattoirs, during demoliton

ITEM 38
Hunter Street
1. Looking east from George Street, 1926
2. Empire Hotel, corner Pitt and Hunter Streets, 1919
3. Site of Henry Parkes' shop, Parkes House
4. Looking west, showing the 'Herald Office', 1923
5. Looking east from Elizabeth Street, 1923

ITEM 39
Kent Street, 1923
1. Southeast corner Grosvenor and Kent Streets
2. Northeast corner Kent and Grosvenor Streets
3. Kent Street, looking north, below Flag Staff Hill
4. Old stone cottage, Kent Street north, Millers Point

ITEM 40
King Street, 1923-1926
1. Southwest corner York and King Streets (Opera House)
2. Northeast corner York and King Streets
3. King Street, looking east from York Street
4. Southeast corner George and King Streets
5. Northeast corner Castlereagh and King Streets
6. Southwest corner King and Elizabeth Streets
7. Supreme Court

ITEM 41
Liverpool Street, 1916-1927
1. Recruiting Depot, 1914-1918. Hyde Park, corner Liverpool and Elizabeth Streets
2. Unitarian Church, now demolished
3. Looking east from College Street
4. Northeast corner Bourke and Liverpool Streets, Darlinghurst
5. John Rae's, now Marist Brothers' High School, near Forbes Street
6. John Rae's house, back. Showing the stairway from the P.N. Russell Works

ITEM 42
Macquarie Street, 1917-1933
1. West side, looking towards Albert Street
2. West side between Bent and Hunter Streets
3. Mitchell Library, east side
4. Site of new Public Library
5. Houses to be demolished, looking towards Hunter Street
6. Houses to be demolished, looking towards King Street
7. & 8. Parliament House
9. The Mint
Plus one photographic print of Hyde Park Barracks from Macquarie Street (PXA 1642)

ITEM 43
Macquarie Place, Young Street, 1923
1. Simeon Lord's House
2. Loftus Street
3. Young Street, looking north
4. Corner Young and Bridge Streets

ITEM 44
Market Street, 1923
1. Northeast corner of Castlereagh and Market Streets. Now David Jones.
2. Looking west from Hyde Park
3. Northeast corner Pitt and Market Streets, 1926. Taken this year by J.C. Williamson Ltd. for office, also includes show windows for Grace Brothers
4. 'Evening News' Office, now 'State Theatre'
5. This small block of land, next to George Hotel, was owned by a strict church woman, who would not sell to J.C. Williamson Ltd. So an Italian made an excellent living selling fruit and tickets to Theatre patrons

ITEM 45
Oxford Street, Paddington, 1923
1. Looking east from Victoria Barracks, showing the railways
2. Corner Oxford Street and Green Road, and the Barracks wall
3. Entrance to Victoria Barracks

ITEM 46
Park Street, Sydney (before widening)
1. Elizabeth and Park Streets
2. Southeast corner Pitt and Park Streets
3. George and Park Streets
4. Showing old and new alignment. Southeast corner Pitt and Park Streets

ITEM 47
Phillip Street, 1921-1933
1. Looking south, from Albert Street
2. Wool stores 1867. West side, near Sydney
3. Wool stores, looking south
4. Blue Bell Inn, looking towards Metropole Hotel
5. East side looking north from Hunter Street
6. Grocers shop. Northeast corner Hunter and Phillip Streets
7. Looking north from St Stephen's, showing old houses with overhanging balconies
8. Similar view looking south, showing houses with balconies removed
9. Looking south, resumed area for Martin Place, extension, 1933
10. Same view looking north, from 'Sun' office
11. 'Wentworth Court'. Site of 'Sun' office, 1926

ITEM 48
Phillip Street, August 1925
1. Old buildings in Phillip Street

ITEM 49
Prince Street (The Rocks), 1925-1927
1. Looking north from St Phillips
2. Northwest corner Prince and Grosvenor Streets, looking towards Kent Street
3. A cottage typical of the period
4. Wesleyan Church and parsonage (missing)
5. Essex and Prince Streets, from Fort Street, school grounds
6. No. 115, home of father of Sir George Reid (sold for £15). Showing fountain on left (missing)
7. Looking south from 'The Beehive'
8. The 'Beehive Hotel'
9. No. 39, 'Goodenough House', early Naval Home
10. Looking south, from end of Prince Street
11. Last house, facing Prince Street, believed to be built by Captain Joe Moore in the 1820s
12. The back of No. 11. Showing Flagstaff Hill, in distance on the right
13. Bradfield Highway in the making
Plus one photographic print of Prince Street (PXA 1642)

ITEM 50
Redfern Tunnel, 1924
1. & 2. Views - the widening of the 'bottle neck'
3. & 4. Views from overhead bridge, Eveleigh, now Redfern, Station

ITEM 51
The Rocks, 1923-1927
1. & 2. View of the Quay, from Argyle Steps
3. Gloucester Street, east side looking south
4. The 'Ship & Mermaid', east side
5. 'Susannah Place' (A.D. 1844), terrace on left, Gloucester Street
6. West side, looking north
7. [Not identified]
8. &. 9. West side, from intersection of Gloucester Street
10. The same during demolition [from?] Harrington Street
11. East side, Joseph Fowles house (author of 'Sydney' in 1848). Near Grosvenor Street
12. Same street looking south
Plus one photographic print of Upper Fort Street (PXA 1642)

ITEM 52
St James Road, 1920-1930
1. Looking west, 1920
2. St. James Station, Queens Square, 1926
3. St. James Road, looking east, 1930

ITEM 53
William Street, Sydney, 1921
1. Looking east
2. Looking west

ITEM 54
Wynyard Street, 1924
1. Southeast corner of Park and Wynyard Streets
2. Wynyard Street, Bank of New South Wales on right
3. Martin Place, looking east from Pitt Street

ITEM 55
York Street, 1924-1930
1. 'Greystanes', looking south
2. Margaret Street, west from York Street
3. Looking south from Margaret Street
4. Looking towards York street, from Margaret Street
5. 'Pfahlert's Hotel', corner Margaret and Carrington Streets
6. Site of Wynyard Station, 1927

CHURCHES

ITEM 56
Baptist Church, Sydney
1. The Church, St. Andrews Place
2. Church and school
3. Looking north, from Bathurst Street

ITEM 57
Church of the Plymouth Brethren, Norton Street, Leichhardt, April 1930
1. Original road, looking east, now closed
2. & 3. Church of the Plymouth Brethren
4. Interior. Now used as Store by Bebarfalds
5. Portion of pulpit, incorporated in adjoining house
6.-8. Understood to be portraits of the ‘Johnson Family’, Annandale. Engraved on glass doors of church.
9. The old road, looking west

ITEM 58
Methodist Church, North Sydney, April 1929
1. Junction Street
2. Corner Walker and Junction Streets
3. Corner Walker and Blue Streets
4. Blue Street, looking east

ITEM 59
St Andrew’s Cathedral, 1924
1.-2. George Street
3. Facing St. Andrews Place

ITEM 60
St James Church, King Street, 1924
Three views of Church

ITEM 61
St Paul’s, Cobbity, August, 1931
1. Exterior
2. Interior
3. & 4. Heber Chapel
5. Rectory

ITEM 62
St Mary Magdalene Church, St Mary’s, 1924
1. & 2. Two views of St Mary Magdalene Church
3. Ebenezer Church, Riley Street, Sydney (1849). East side, near Oxford Street
4. & 5. Two views of St Andrews, Church Street, Parramatta

ITEM 63
St Matthews, Manly, and St Peters
1.-3. St Matthews, exterior and interior
4.-6. St Peters Anglican Church, Cook’s River Road, St Peters, June 1928. Before and during the resumption of portion of the cemetery

ITEM 64
St Stephen’s Church, Phillip Street, Sydney, 1935
1. St Stephens, from Martin Place
2. Main entrance
3. & 4. Vestibule
5.-7. The vestry
8. Interior, looking west
9. Interior, looking east

ITEM 65
Scots Church, Jamison Street, Sydney, July 1926
1. Scots Church and Rectory
2. Rev. H.R. Glassick
3. Vestibule
4. Stone steps to gallery
5. Interior looking south. Under the gallery is the tablet in memory of George Lang aged 23 years, brother of Dr. Lang who was buried under the pulpit of Scots Church
6.-8. The pulpit
9. Interior, looking north
10. Looking from gallery
11. Final service, 18 November
12. Leaving after final service. On pathway to left are Mr. W. Welch, behind him is Mrs. Welch, also Mrs. A.G. Foster, at lamp standard Capt. J.H. Watson and Mr. K.R. Cramp.
13. Memorial tablet for George Lang

ALSO INCLUDES:

ITEM 66
City Railway, Hyde Park, 1923
1. Open cut looking towards Macquarie Street
2. Open cut, Park and Bathurst Streets section
3. A midway covered section
4. Partly covered section, looking towards Liverpool Street
5. Railway building at Devonshire, demolished in 1923 making way for the subway and railway extension

ITEM 67
Hyde Park, 1925
1. East side College Street, looking towards Oxford Street
2. 'University Row', east side. Yurong Street, between William and Stanley Streets
3. Francis Street, looking east from College Street, Sydney

ITEM 68
Governor Gipps' bath house, Botanical Gardens
1. Entrance
2. The bath
3. New Zealand Grass Tree, or Ti Tree

ITEM 69
Wreck of the M.V. Malabar at Long Bay, April 1931
1.-3. The wreck
4. & 5. Ship's boat which landed passengers

ITEM 70
Ogilvie Castle, Clarence River

ITEM 71
More Sydney streets, 1925:
Cambridge Lane at corner of Argyle Street
Government Architects building, corner of Bent and Elizabeth Streets, showing place where first church was built
Old buildings in Phillip Street
Old houses in Gloucester Street
Old houses in Macquarie Street between Australian Club and Wyoming building
Sirius Anchor, Macquarie Place
St. James Church of England, King Street and St James Square (two different views)

ITEM 72
Sydney scenes, 192-
1. Fire station, Circular Quay
2. Mona House, Margaret Street, Wynyard
3. Goldsbrough Mort, Circular Quay
4. Museum Station under construction
5. Paragon Hotel, Circular Quay
6. St James Station under construction
7. Museum Station under construction
8. Admiralty House
9. East Circular Quay
10. Marie van Brakkel, hairdresser, 147a King Street; aslo King Street Studios, Institute de Beaute, Penfolds wine shop
11. St James Station under construction
12. Mrs P. Kirby & Son, undertakers, 265 Elizabeth Street, to 259 Elizabeth Street
13. Polson's Car Service, Kent (Pitt? Bent?) Street
14. Unidentified five storey, corner, sandstone building

Alphabetical by property name

Original nitrate negatives destroyed after copying, 2013

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Contents lists from original typescripts with negatives

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