Developing Sydney: 1900 – 1920

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 03/08/2025

The City Building Surveyor’s Department used photography to document the city’s profound transformation in the first two decades of the 20th century. These photographs inadvertently capture the largely working class neighbourhoods and people being displaced by commercial and government redevelopment.

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Title Developing Sydney: 1900 – 1920
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/151f2ce8-65a4-470b-b620-9ee280e23f02
Remote Last Updated 02/08/2025
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Reference Period 26/03/2025
Geospatial Coverage New South Wales
Data Portal DataNSW

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This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Developing Sydney: 1900 – 1920". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-5-cityofsydney-developing-sydney-1900-1920