Image: Free Public Library, corner of Bent and Macquarie Sts, Sydney, 1877 - New South Wales Government Printing Office (2965687490)
Description: Free Public Library, corner of Bent & Macquarie Sts, Sydney, 1877, from Sydney - photographs of streets, public buildings, views in the Harbour, and suburbs, chiefly pre 1885, New South Wales, Government Printing Office, State Library of New South Wales, SPF/193 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.
Title: Free Public Library, corner of Bent and Macquarie Sts, Sydney, 1877 - New South Wales Government Printing Office (2965687490)
Credit: State Library of New South Wales, SPF/193
Author: Photographed by New South Wales, Government Printing Office
Permission: Please acknowledge the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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