Watercolour on Paper. The watercolour shows the 1804 convict rebellion at Castle Hill. Continue reading
Objects Through Time: convicts
The Greg Ritchie Negative Collection is a collection of over 3000 negatives featuring buildings and other sites in the City of Canterbury. Between 1990 and 1998 Canterbury City Council staff documented their day-to-day duties through photographs. Continue reading
Discover the history behind the City of Sydney’s headstone, in memory of Eliz Steel who died in 1795. It was uncovered at Sydney Town Hall during excavations. Continue reading
The 1831 convict brinks are historically significant because Horsley House is the only Australian colonial house that can be directly related to Anglo-Indian architecture. Continue reading
The wood staved pipe has historical value as evidence of the development of water supply technologies and the introduction of essential infrastructure to Sydney suburbs. Continue reading
The letter from Frenchman Francis Barrallier to Governor King in 1802 during an expedition seeking a route across the Great Dividing Range is historically significant as a rare document describing and interpreting a French view of the pre-1788 Sydney Aboriginal people’s environment and culture. Continue reading
The Order-in-Council has historical significance as evidence of the 1840 Order-in-Council and its aftermath represented the turning point when, 50 years after its foundation, New South Wales ceased to be a penal colony. Continue reading
The watercolours have historical significance as rare portraits and objects related to probably the most important figures from the early colonial period who brought civil administration, arts and architecture and a humanising and egalitarian influence that transformed New South Wales from a gaol to a colony. Continue reading
Discover the collection of tools, shingles and convict made bricks and nails from the early township of Liverpool NSW. Continue reading
Discover the sandstone sculptured wheat sheaf from Macquarie Fields House near Liverpool that was built by Samuel Terry in 1838. Continue reading
Discover the Liverpool Scar Tree. There are many Aboriginal scar trees surviving. Most of them are in the rural areas surrounding the city and suburbs, but many still exist in urban areas. Continue reading
Discover the 1787 convict love token made for Thomas Tilley a convict on the First Fleet. Continue reading
Discover the cast iron bow anchor and cannon from HMS Sirius (1780 – 1790). HMS Sirius escorted the British First Fleet on their historic journey to Botany Bay in 1787- 1788. Continue reading
Discover the Convict Cap dated 1850, two years before convict transportation ended on the east coast of Australia. Continue reading
Discover the long sleeved woollen convict jacket made of ‘Parramatta cloth’, c.1855. Continue reading
Discover the brass button from the work clothes of a convict assigned to the Australian Agricultural Company at Newcastle in the 1830s. Continue reading
Discover the portrait miniature of Eber Bunker c.1810 founder of the New South Wales colonial whaling and livestock industries and builder of Collingwood House at Liverpool. Continue reading
This lithographic print of King Bungaree attributed to Augustus Earle and dated 1826 is evidence of early interactions between Ruopeans and Aboriginal people. It is a significant object from the State Library of NSW Collection.
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