7,480 Historic Sydney Images and Stock Photos

Sydney city Inner West suburbs of Balmain in view of CBD high-rise towers and barangaroo - aerial landscape in morning sun light.

This picture was taken by my grandfather in 1929 while on holiday in Sydney, Australia. Construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge commenced in 1923 and was completed in 1932. Also known locally as “the coat hanger” and simple “the bridge”, the Sydney Harbour Bridge carries rail, vehicle and pedestrian traffic between the Sydney central business district and the North Shore. The view of the bridge, harbour and nearby Sydney Opera House is now an iconic image of Sydney. The graininess of the photo only adds to the history, age and romance of this image.

Antique photograph of the Circular Quay harbour (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) in a late 19th century picture. The waterfront with the pedestrian area and the harbour buildings and docks.

"Sydney, Australia - April 6, 1966: Cranes on the Sydney Opera House under construction on Bennelong Point. The Australian icon was completed and opened on the 28th of September 1973 by Queen Elizabeth !!."

Sydney, Australia - October 1998:Anchor in honor of The Dunbar wreck. Watsons Bay, The Gap, Sydney. Friends holding up the anchor

Sydney, Australia - 1924: Detail of old photo from 1924 of horse carriage with rider standing on street of Sydney Australia

Sydney Town Hall in the Evening.

Sydney, Australia - 1961: Detail of black and white photo from 1961 of Sydney George Streeet in sixties with cars and people crossing the George Stree in rush hour

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Aerial urban landscape view of Sydney Harbour Bridge at sunset with North Sydney and The Rocks in Sydney New South Wales, Australia.

The Parramatta Town Hall, opened in 1883 and located in the centre of the Parramatta CBD.

Sydney, Australia - September 5, 2013: Beautiful Opera house view at twilight time with vivid sky and illumination on the bridge.

Sydney Australia - August 18, 2018: Looking down the historic alley known as Suez Canal in the Rocks District of Sydney, Australia.

People walking in George St on a sunny day with the Sydney Town Hall building in the background.

Sydney, Australia - April 16, 2022: Chinatown light rail stop with people waiting for tram on a bright day in Sydney City

The Rocks, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - November 14 2020: Cadmans Cottage - former water police station and sailor's home. Now a heritage-listed tourist attraction

Black and white landscape view of Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney New South Wales, Australia.

At St Mary's Cathedral , Sydney ,Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - October 16, 2025: A historic terrace house in The Rocks heritage precinct with laundry hanging from a Victorian-style balcony.

Fragment of the Sydney Harbour bridge from The Rocks in glorious morning soft light at sunrise.

A wide view over Sydney Harbour in Sydney, capital of New South Wales in Australia, during the late 19th century. From “The Cottager and Artisan 1890”. Published by The Religious Tract Society, London.

Detail of Sydney Hospital on Macquarie Street, the oldest hospital in Australia dating back to 1788, and at its current location since 1811, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Sydney, Australia - March 25, 2017: Brown stone historic monumental clock tower of City Hall surrounded by tall modern office buildings seen from York Street with facade of Queen Victoria Shopping Mall.

Old warehouses at Campbell's Cove Jetty in Sydney - Australia, New South Wales

Fragment of majestic steel arch of the Sydney Harbour bridge in soft warm sunrise morning lights.

Sydney, Australia - April 22, 2018: Crowd of people in the china town area of Sydney.

This picture was taken by my grandfather in 1929 while on holiday in Sydney, Australia. Construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge commenced in 1923 and was completed in 1932. Also known locally as “the coat hanger” and simple “the bridge”, the Sydney Harbour Bridge carries rail, vehicle and pedestrian traffic between the Sydney central business district and the North Shore. The view of the bridge, harbour and nearby Sydney Opera House is now an iconic image of Sydney. The graininess of the photo only adds to the history, age and romance of this image.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 4 2023: The Sydney CBD and surrounding harbour, including Circular Quay and The Rocks on a clear autumn day in Sydney, Australia

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Parramatta river mixing with Sydney Harbour in aerial view towards city CBD waterfront.

Elevated view of Hyde Park with Anzac War Memorial at dusk, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - October 11, 2022: pedestrians walk past Sydney Town Hall and a flowering jacaranda tree on George St on a sunny spring day

Sydney, Australia - 29 May 2022: Sydney city landmarks at Vivid Sydney light show.

Sydney, Australia - June 19. 2022: Arial view of The Rocks with Harbour Bridge

Australian flag waving in the wind in front of the St Andrew's Anglican Cathedral (Saint Andrew's Cathedral) in Sidney in Australia.

Sydney, Australia - March 9, 2017. The Coca-Cola Billboard in Kings Cross, Sydney, with commercial properties and people, at night.

Victorian Architecture, Sydney, Australia

The Rocks Sydney Heritage buildings April 2020

Sydney, Canada, - July 29, 2016: People gather around the world’s largest fiddle, a monument to the Celtic heritage of Cape Breton installed at the Sydney Marine Terminal in 2005. Cape Breton was settled by many Scottish Highlanders and still has a living Gaelic speaking population.

Tourists are enjoying Sydney Harbour and the Opera House scene at dusk in Sydney, Australia.

Millers point and the Rocks before Sydney city CBD in aerial sunrive cityscape over Darling Harbour.

The Sydney Opera House at dawn on Australia Day, with the sails being illuminated with a display. This image was taken from Dawes Point before sunrise on 26 January 2024.

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Sydney, Australia - January 22, 2015: Passengers on a green-and-gold Sydney Ferry pass Waterview Wharf Workshops, a historic shipyard on the Parramatta River.

The familiar skyline of Sydney appears ghostly and obscured, shrouded in dense, orange-grey smoke from the devastating bushfires of 2019. The summer sun struggles to penetrate the haze, casting an eerie glow over the city and serving as a stark reminder of the environmental crisis.

The ghostly and obscured sun shrouded in dense, orange-grey smoke from a devastating forest fire. The summer sun struggles to penetrate the haze, casting an eerie glow.

Mamre House, a historic residence located at St Marys, western Sydney. Built circa 1820, it was the former home of a colonial chaplain, and now operates as a cafe and plant nursery.