Sydney
Bayliss photographed the transformation of Sydney over more than two decades. Although he advertised himself as a landscape photographer, his specialisation included the built environment. His subjects were the major city buildings, civic projects and engineering feats of the colonial period.
He recorded Sydney’s footpaths, roads, new buildings (including St Paul’s College at the University of Sydney and Sydney Technical College) and the Royal Botanic Gardens. And frequently he was drawn to record Sydney’s waterside.
Sydney
Sydney Harbour with MacBeth boat builder in
foreground and Fort Denison in the distance, 1880s
albumen print; 16.6 x 21.2 cm nla.pic-vn4236855
Sydney from Pyrmont 1880s
albumen print; 15.0 x 20.7 cm
In ‘Charles Bayliss Collection of Photographs of
New South Wales, c. 1876–1897’ nla.pic-vn4217758
A classroom with a display of machinery at Sydney Technical College, 1889
albumen print 23.4 x 29.2 cm
In the album ‘Photographs of premises occupied by the Board of Technical Education of New South Wales,
1889’ nla.pic-an24664655
Botanic Gardens 1880s
albumen print; 15.8 x 20.5 cm
From the album ‘New South Wales Photographs,
1880–1897’ nla.pic-vn4278251
Two ships seen from Darling Harbour with Balmain and Millers Point in the background, c. 1874–1875
albumen print
22.8 x 28.8 cm
Merlin and Bayliss
Collection of Photographic Prints
National Library of Australia
Looking west along
Bridge Street from Lady
Young Terrace, Sydney,
c. 1874–1875
albumen print
22.6 x 27.0 cm
Merlin and Bayliss
Collection of Photographic Prints
National Library of Australia
