Meet the People of Darlinghurst
A place that has always been the sum of its people.
Meet some of them here.
Explore the Streets of Darlinghurst
Wander down memory lane then cross over to the streets of today.
See what’s changed, and what hasn’t.
Viewers Are Advised
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following
content contains images of people who have died.
Indigenous occupation
Darlinghurst’s traditional owners are the Gadigal people. It has been home to them and other First Nations individuals from the earliest human history of this place through to the present day. Even after colonisation increasingly encroached on the suburb from the 1840s, First Nations peoples, cultures and archives have maintained an active and visible presence.
Indigenous occupation
credits & Acknowledgements
Content for the ‘Faces’ and ‘Streets’ exhibitions was developed with our partners, the Australian Centre for Public History at UTS, City of Sydney Archives and the State Library of New South Wales, with additional research from Kylie Andrews, Edward Scarlett and Jessica Thomas. Many thanks to those institutions and individuals who also shared their archival collections: New South Wales State Archives, the National Library of Australia, Sydney Living Museums, National Archives of Australia, National Portrait Gallery, University of Tasmania Special and Rare Collections, Mark Tedeschi and C. Moore Hardy. The contemporary Darlinghurst portraits were produced by Susan Papazian.
These images are a fascinating and valuable window into the city’s past, although they only tell part of its story. History has been made in the place we now call Darlinghurst for at least 50,000 years. Questions about what records to keep and who’s stories to tell are ongoing.
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