Free Public Library, corner of Bent & Macquarie Sts, Sydney, 1877 / New South Wales Government Printing Office
Format: Albumen photoprint
Notes: In 1845 the Australian Subscription Library moved to the corner of
Macquarie and Bent Streets. It was taken over by the Government in
1869 and renamed the Free Public Library of NSW. It was demolished for the Premier Wing of the State Office Block (1967). This in turn was demolished for the Aurora Place/Macquarie Apartments complex, which won both the Wilkinson and Sulman architecture awards in 2004.
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Free Public Library, corner of Bent & Macquarie Sts, Sydney, 1877 / New South Wales Government Printing Office
Format: Albumen photoprint
Notes: In 1845 the Australian Subscription Library moved to the corner of
Macquarie and Bent Streets. It was taken over by the Government in
1869 and renamed the Free Public Library of NSW. It was demolished for the Premier Wing of the State Office Block (1967). This in turn was demolished for the Aurora Place/Macquarie Apartments complex, which won both the Wilkinson and Sulman architecture awards in 2004.
Find more photographs of early Sydney on Discover Collections - Sydney Exposed: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/society_art/photog...
From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au
Information about photographic collections of the State Library of New South Wales: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/SimpleSearch.aspx
Persistent url: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=412478