Beneath the State Library of NSW lies a massive collection of historic property porn: 40,000 subdivision maps with prices that will make any aspiring Sydney homeowner sick with envy today.<\/p>\n “It is like the Domain.com or the realestate.com of the late 19th century and early 20th century,” says Maggie Patton, chief curator of the\u00a0State Library, of the subdivision plans.<\/a>\u00a0The collection details the collective dreams of Sydneysiders from 1860 to the 1930s to own their own home and land, she says.<\/p>\n READ MORE VIA SMH<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BpsNHSKlNH_\/<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/picture><\/div>