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The Photographic Collection We hold tens of thousands of archival photos from the late 19th Century to the present, capturing life in New South Wales in much of its richness and diversity. The original formats of these images vary widely, from glass plates and lantern slides to 35mm negatives, colour transparencies and prints. More images from our photographic collection can be searched for from the Homepage on our website.

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Old Sydney Girls High School Castlereagh St, Sydney

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  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • Highranger said:
    What a perfect place to put the 'David Jones' flagship department store.
  • Highranger said:
    A cemetery headstone supplier next door
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Underneath all those later additions is a Francis Greenway 1820s building ...
    " ... The building chosen [in 1883] as the site of the new schools was a two- storeyed building on land now occupied by David Jones, surrounded by a high wall. It had been commissioned in 1820 by Governor Macquarie and designed by Francis Greenway and in the meantime it had been St James Church of England Primary School. The boys entered from Castlereagh Street and occupied the ground floor, the girls entered from Elizabeth Street and occupied the first floor. These conditions prevailed until 1892 when the boys moved to a new school at Mary Ann Street, Ultimo and thereafter the girls had the whole building to themselves. Trams travelling along both Castlereagh and Elizabeth Streets made the site very noisy and very dirty so eventually it became necessary to move to a new site. ... "
    From - www.sghs.nsw.edu.au/About_Us/History.html
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Lionel Lindsay was slightly lower and to the left - cs.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=93122
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245788527 - the Daily Telegraph, 9th September, 1922...interesting item by 'Old Scholar'

Central Railway Station, Sydney

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  • 18 older comments, and then…
  • Aussie Big Bob said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historic Sydney, and we'd love to have all of your old Sydney photos added to the group.
  • Bankstown Babyboomer said:
    You've put the wrong date in; should be 04/10/1890 (from your photo investigator).
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    Thanks for pointing that out, opsbooks, I've amended the date above.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Arthur Streeton "The railway station, Redfern" 1893 - www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/work/7209/

    And another photo of the same view from the Tyrrell collection -


    The old Redfern Station seems to have been a popular subject.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    4 October was a SATURDAY in 1890
    www.easycalculation.com/date-day/day-of-year.php . And judging by the shadow directions and length, I would guess it was about 5 PM. Saturday evening rush hour!

Sydney Girls High School - Elizabeth St Sydney NSW

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  • Highranger said:
    'David Jones' sits here now
  • Tony Rodd said:
    My mother (born 1907) spent her first 2-3 years of high school there, then they all moved to the new school in Moore Park.
  • covid convict said:
    The Castlereagh St side
  • covid convict said:
    Note that DJs occupies only part of the former Sydney Girls' High School site...

    DJs acquired the site for the Elizabeth St store over a period of years...the Elizabeth/Market/Castlereagh St component of the site appears to have been purchased in 1914...the former Girls' High School site between Castlereagh & Elizabeth Sts was purchased in 1920...

    DJs appear to have subsequently subdivided the old Girls' High School site...and in 1922 they sold the larger part of the site to Sir Benjamin and John Fuller, who then built the St James Theatre complex there...

    See comments/links here...

    ...and here...

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