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Exhibition - Our City: 175 Years in 175 Objects

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Plans of Sydney (Doves), 1880

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Unique IDAS-0150DateBetween 1st January 1879 and 31st December 1879Date qualifieryear onlyFormatMapShort descriptionThis series includes the Dove's Plans of Sydney (which are actually maps) executed by licenced surveyor H. Percy Dove in 1879.DescriptionThis series includes the Dove's Plans of Sydney (which are actually maps) executed by licenced surveyor H. Percy Dove in 1879.

The main focus of the survey was to provide an accurate physical description of the City’s buildings. Dove’s survey work was encouraged by City insurance companies, who used his plans for rating insurance risks – particularly fire. The plans cover the Sydney CBD area from Circular Quay and Millers Point in the north to the Haymarket in the south, Macquarie and Elizabeth Streets in the east, to Darling Harbour to the west. They provide complete wharf, street, and building plans showing street numbers, business names, ground floor plans, outhouses and rights of way.

The number of storeys in a building is also provided and appears on each allotment as a circled number. When SH is added to this number it indicates a shingle roof, otherwise the roof is of slate or metal. The plans were prepared at a scale of 40 feet to the inch (1:480).

Dove also utilised the standard colours to denote different building materials:
- pink for brick or stone,
- blue for iron, and
- yellow for wood.

This plan appeared in the City of Sydney's 2017 exhibition "Our City - 175 Years in 175 Objects" - Item 92 - Building - Develop - Plans of Sydney by H Percy Dove, 1880 (page 112 in exhibition catalogue)Relationship summaryRELATED TO: Surveying AY-0046 (01/01/1880 to 01/01/1880) LanguageEnglish (eng)

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Public access statusOpen to public access

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Source system ID150System of arrangementSingle number

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Digitisation statusFully digitised

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Authenticity & integrityThese are the original plans from H. Percy Dove. The records have been held in the Council’s custody and have a high level of authenticity.

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CollectionExhibition - Our City: 175 Years in 175 ObjectsOrganisationSydney City CouncilRelated activitiesSurveying

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Plans of Sydney (Doves), 1880