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Sydney city centre in the 1850s

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23 historic photos of Sydney city centre from the 1850s, oldest first. They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.

1820s 1 1830s 3 1840s 1 1850s 23 1860s 13 1870s 141 1880s 78 1890s 42 1900s 276 1910s 88 1920s 132 1930s 551 1940s 202 1950s 85 1960s 59 1970s 31 1980s 19 1990s 16
Sydney Market 1857, 18501850James Robert Wilshire A-00006275, 18561856Sydney Botanic Garden - Avenue Approach - 18561856Town of Adelong, 1858, c. 1858c. 1858Government House Sydney (1857-1858) Matthew Fortescue Moresby1858Macquarie Street South (1859) (Taken from corner of Hunter & Macquarie Streets, looking south. St. Stephens Presbyterian Iron Church on left), c. 1858c. 1858Wiley and Son's (basket wholesale warehouse, Park Street, Sydney), 1858, by William Blackwood1858Blackwood's panorama of Sydney and Harbour from Government House, (1858)1858Fort Macquarie Sydney, 1858-1859 William Hetzer, 1858–591858–59Campbell's Wharf, Sydney, 1859, slnsw1859Fort Macquarie and Bennelong Point slnsw, c. 1859c. 1859Scots Church Sydney (1859) (Looking west along Jamieson Street, past Scots Church to Petty’s Family Hotel)1859Bent St. Sydney (1859) (Hand coloured view from Phillip Street looking west down Bent Street, past the three storey Pulteney Hotel on left to the Macquarie fountain, demolished1859A1621003h, 18591859A1621001h, 18591859A1621006h, 18591859A1621005h, 18591859A1621004h, 18591859A1621002h, 18591859Exchange Building, Bridge Street, Sydney, 1858 - 1860, 1858–601858–60Macquarie Place Sydney, 1858 - 1860, 1858–601858–60George Street Sydney, 1858 - 1860, 1858–601858–60Locomotive No. 1, Sydney, 1858 - 1860, 1858–601858–60

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