Caroline Simpson Collection

Panoramic view of Sydney and the harbour from the North Shore, around 1871 / photographer unknown

[c1871]

1 photoprint : sepia toned ; 8 x 13.5 cm.

Albumen print pasted onto page and captioned: Sydney and the harbour, from North shore. In the distance Balmain to the right; Miller's Point to the left.

McMahons Point (N.S.W.)
Millers Point (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
Darling Harbour (N.S.W.)
terrace houses
city streets
waterfronts
warehouses
paling fences
shingle roofs
gable roofs
Spencer Lodge, Millers Point, Sydney, NSW

Visitors' guide to Sydney (1872)

Blues Point Road, with horse and cart, and McMahons Point are in the foreground, looking across Port Jackson to Millers Point and the entrances to Darling Harbour and Johnstone's Bay. Pyrmont is in the middle distance and East Balmain is to the right.Spencer Lodge, a twelve-room brick and shingle colonial townhouse with a verandah looking westwards across Darling Harbour towards Balmain and another verandah looking across the Harbour to the north shore, is partly visible on the western side of Miller's Point. It was built in 1835.

This photograph is one of 6 albumen prints pasted into a special edition of the Visitors' guide to Sydney, comprising description of the city, its institutions, parks, excursions, and other information ... with plan of the city, published by the Sydney stationer William Maddock in 1872.

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; RB 919.441 VIS facing p. 4

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