Women cricket and tennis teams in 1890, photo G3_224_0005, University of Sydney Archives.

A group of women students in front of the Women's Common Room in 1892, photo G3_224_0255, University of Sydney Archives.

Women students at tea outside the Women's Common Room in 1892, photo, University of Sydney Archives.

The Women's Common Room - far right - behind the Main Building in 1893, photo by Edward Hufton, University of Sydney Archives.

A group of women students in academic dress in 1900, photo G3_224_0328, University of Sydney Archives.

The first tennis team match between Sydney and Melbourne universities in 1909, photo G3_224_1433, University of Sydney Archives.

The Women's Common Room in front of the old Fisher Library in 1910, photo G3_224_MF374_0224, University of Sydney Archives.

Women students walking to the Women's Common Room c1915, photo G3_224_0834, University of Sydney Archives.

Scene from the cafe chantant held on 13 September 1916 and organised by the women students in aid of the War Chest and of the fund for providing Christmas comforts for soldiers, photo HP87-19-38 by photographer Ellice E P Dart (nee Hamilton), courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney.

The Women's Common Room in the Quadrangle, with the completed South range in the background, photo G3_224_0824, University of Sydney Archives.

The Women's Undergraduate Association Committee in 1917, photo G3_224_0575, University of Sydney Archives.

The Women's Union Board of Directors in 1917, photo from 'Hermes' November 1917.

Women running on the oval below Manning House in 1917, photo G3_224_0836, University of Sydney Archives.

Undergraduates at Manly Beach in 1919, photo G3_224_1292, University of Sydney Archives

The Women's Union's Manning House in 1920, photo G3_224_MF374_0210, University of Sydney Archives.

'Here he comes!' Following conferral of the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws upon His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on 23 June 1920, there was great excitement amongst the students as the royal visitor approached the Quadrangle for the presentation of an address by the President of the SRC, photo, The Sydney Mail, 30 June 1920, Google News Archive.

Some of the committee and women helpers at the fair held in the Quadrangle by the University Women's Social Service Society, photo, The Sydney Mail, 1 June 1921, Google News Archive. It was founded in 1891 in 1891 with the object of providing a field of social work in the Chippendale and South Sydney area.

The Sydney University Women's Hockey Team in 1921 - from left: E Pratton, J Ballantine (capt), G Jones, D Berry, K Ogilvie, H Jamieson, P McEwen, L Baird, T Datson, K Southall and V Sams, photo, The Sydney Mail, 31 August 1921, Google News Archive.

Women undergraduates signing Commem songs, which contained many witty allusions to university life and public questions, following the students' procession on 19 May 1922, photos, The Sydney Mail, 24 May 1922, Google News Archive.

The Women’s Hockey A Team, 1925, published in Hermes Volume 32, Number 3. Michaelmas 1926, photo, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Sydney Library.

Women students on the stairs of the Women's Union's Manning House in 1927, photo by Harold Cazneaux, University of Sydney Archives.

'Girl graduates of the University', photo, The Sydney Mail, 4 May 1927, Google News Archive. On Saturday 30 April 1927, the Deputy Chancellor conferred degrees on 400 graduates, including many women.

'Students of the future' from the University's pageant and mask held in the Great Hall between 8 and 12 May 1928, which raised £1,000 for the University's 75th Anniversary Appeal, photo, The Sydney Mail, 9 May 1928, Google News Archive. The students were all women except for William Jackson in the centre.

Members of the Sydney University women's basketball team who arrived in Melbourne on 22 August 1929 to take part in the annual Intervarsity basketball matches, photo, The Register News-Pictorial, 23 August 1929, National Library of Australia.

Kathleen Commins became the first woman editor of 'Hermes" magazine, photo, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 March 1931, National Library of Australia.

At the Inter-University swimming contests held in Melbourne in early 1930, standing: B Hillier (Melbourne) and M Moore (Sydney), and O Sangwell (Sydney) and E Small (Sydney, captain), photo, Chronicle, 16 January 1930, National Library of Australia.

At the Inter-University swimming contests in early 1931: F Lee, S Taylor, R Hill and D Goldie (captain), photo, The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 January 1931, National Library of Australia.

Women students training for ballet dancing in the annual Commem celebrations in 1931, Western Mail, 9 July 1931, National Library of Australia.

In the Manning House reading room in 1934, photo, The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 June 1934, National Library of Australia.

Women undergraduates in the Quadrangle in 1934, photo, The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 June 1934, National Library of Australia.

On 12 April 1934, Betty Christie, a Science I student, made her debut at the University Settlement Ball (first held in 1933), the proceeds of which went to the University Settlement at Chippendale, photo, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 April 1934, NLA. The 14 debutantes included a number of undergraduates & were presented to the Governor and Lady Game in the Great Hall, with dancing and bridge afterwards in the Union Refectory.

Graduation Day, Sydney University, photo from Sydney Morning Herald, 18 May 1937, National Library of Australia.

A newspaper article in 1938 proclaimed that women students were no longer nicknamed "bluestockings", photo, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 July 1938, National Library of Australia.

Sydney University women students practising for their rugby match against men students at University Oval on 14 August. The men would play without boots and would be restricted in their tackling, photo, Townsville Daily Bulletin, 12 August 1946, National Library of Australia.

During the football match, photo, The Daily News, 14 August 1946, National Library of Australia.

After the referee ruled that the women won the match 26-15, dissatisfied supporters of men put him under a water cart, photo, Examiner, 17 August 1946, National Library of Australia.

Seventy debutantes were presented to the Governor-General, the Duke of Gloucester, at the University Settlement Ball in 1946, which had not been held since 1941, photo, The Australian Women's Weekly, 27 April 1946, National Library of Australia.

Sydney University women undergraduates Joan Holliday (left) and Mary Fox who took part in competitive rowing at University regatta on Parramatta River in May 1947, photo, The Australian Women's Weekly, 10 May 1947, National Library of Australia.

Margaret Champion, Lois Joseph and Helen Paton, women members of the Sydney University Fencing Club, which was holding the annual intervarsity fencing competition against a team from Melbourne that week, photo, The Sunday Herald, 31 August 1952, National Library of Australia.

Diana Snider (Arts II) was the first woman to be one of the Orientation Week organisers, in 1953, photo from 'The Sydney Morning Herald', 11 March 1953, National Library of Australia.

Shirley Byatt, Judy Van-Denberg, Jancis Sibbit and Margaret Christie, members of Sydney University Baden-powell Club, pictured cleaning windows at the University for the "Willing Shilling Drive" in 1953, photo, The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 April 1953, National Library of Australia.

After enrolling during the week, Elisabeth Delamore (Physiotherapy), Jenny Mayes (Arts) and Leigh Burgess (Medicine) spent some time learning where to find their new lecture theatres, photo from the SMH, 4 March 1954, National Library of Australia.

Dancing at the annual University Settlement Ball in the Great Hall c1955 where debutantes had been presented to the Governor, Sir John Northcott, photo, University of Sydney Archives.

Helen Moss curtsies to the Chancellor, Sir Charles Bickerton-Blackburn, at the University Settlement Ball in 1956, where 53 girls made their debut, photo, The Australian Women's Weekly, 27 June 1956, National Library of Australia.

Freshers Gillian Caley (left) and Felicity Kades find their way round the University with help from Jim Friend during Orientation Week in 1957, photo from The Australian Women's Weekly, 20 March 1957, National Library of Australia.

Among the 37 debutantes presented to Rear-Admiral and Mrs Oldham in the Great Hall at the University Settlement Ball in June 1961 were Christine Eastment and Carol Reye, photo, The Australian Women's Weekly, 28 June 1961 National Library of Australia.

Students in front of Fisher Library in 1974, photo G3_224_0933_1, University of Sydney Archives.