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The Roxy, Parramatta, 1930s / Sam Hood
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- 4 comments
- 14 favorites
- 13,941 views
- Date taken: 2009-07-01 14:15:54
- Date uploaded: 2009-07-01
- Tags: cinema, theatre, spanishmission, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Her Majesty's Theatre re-opened after the fire, Sydney, 1903; with Governor Sir Henry Rawson in the top left box / A.J. Perier
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- 4 comments
- 19 favorites
- 11,693 views
- Date taken: 1903
- Date uploaded: 2009-07-20
- Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Helene Kirsova stars in the De Basil Ballet Russe Petrouchka, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 11 January 1937 / Sam Hood
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- 4 comments
- 31 favorites
- 43,241 views
- Date taken: 2009-04-17 12:46:17
- Date uploaded: 2009-08-10
- Tags: russianballet, originalballetrusse, montecarlorussianballet, petruchka, stage, petrushka, foaf:depicts=httpnlagovaunlaparty1456356, xmlns:foaf=httpxmlnscomfoaf01, foaf:depicts=httpnlagovaunlaparty578082, dc:creator=httpnlagovaunlaparty587349, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, balletacrossthecommons
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Leo Franklin and Madge Aubrey in dress rehearsal for "The gay divorcee", Sydney, 1930's / Sam Hood
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- 4 comments
- 54 favorites
- 22,467 views
- Date taken: 2009-08-12 09:51:29
- Date uploaded: 2009-08-11
- Tags: jive, jitterbug, comedian, stage, theatre, silkstockings, shoes
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Bronte Beach, c. 1900-1910, by Star Photo Co.
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- 4 comments
- 12 favorites
- 17,863 views
- Date taken: 2009-11-19 12:42:57
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-19
- Tags: electric, tram, sydney, australia, nsw, brontebeach
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Giles's Hot Sea Baths, Coogee, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood
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- 4 comments
- 11 favorites
- 16,093 views
- Date taken: 2009-11-19 12:47:34
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-19
- Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Probably Arch Tuckett's Midget speedcar with Henderson motorcycle engine, having engine work, in lane behind William Street, East Sydney/Woolloomooloo, next to C.A. Martin, decorator, late 1934 / Sam Hood
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- 4 comments
- 50 favorites
- 12,930 views
- Date taken: 2009-12-09 12:10:21
- Date uploaded: 2009-12-09
- Tags: dunlop
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Empire Air Training Scheme Airmen leave by "Awatea" for Canada, 22/2/1941, by Sam Hood
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- 4 comments
- 19 favorites
- 14,350 views
- Date taken: 2006-03-10 10:40:14
- Date uploaded: 2009-12-18
- Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, bede, sutton
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Postcard photonegative of Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1 Oct 1930 / Samuel Wood
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- 4 comments
- 41 favorites
- 19,394 views
- Date taken: 2007-11-16 10:49:29
- Date uploaded: 2010-01-07
- Tags: sydney, ferry, sydneyharbourbridge, construction, arch
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Rita Trudget [Trudgett ?], wicket keeper, Moore Park, 1930s by Sam Hood
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- 4 comments
- 109 favorites
- 32,128 views
- Date taken: 1930
- Date uploaded: 2010-01-15
- Tags: sydneyboyshighschool, cricket, woman, wicketkeeper, australia, 1930s, dc:creator=httpnlagovaunlaparty587349, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
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Weirdo's Magic Shop Piccadilly Arcade, Sydney, 1950
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- 4 comments
- 33 favorites
- 2,808 views
- Date uploaded: 2025-04-28
- Tags: magic, retail, shops, sydney, royalearcade, 1950s
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Show window of E.R. Snow Ltd, Sydney, c. 1935
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- 4 comments
- 24 favorites
- 2,421 views
- Date uploaded: 2025-03-11
- Tags: displays, shopfronts, shopping, window, show, sydney, 1930s, corsets
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Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, 25 July 1945
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- 4 comments
- 61 favorites
- 3,465 views
- Date uploaded: 2025-02-02
- Tags: india, tajmahal, night, photogrpahy, black, white
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Lane off George Street North, Sydney, c. 1906,
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- 4 comments
- 40 favorites
- 4,238 views
- Date taken: 1906
- Date uploaded: 2025-01-14
- Tags: georgestreet, oldsydney, vintagesydney
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Gladys Moncrieff selling poppies, 'Remembrance Day', Sydney, 11 November, 1930
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- 4 comments
- 43 favorites
- 5,992 views
- Date uploaded: 2024-11-10
- Tags: remembranceday, gladysmoncrieffthe, maid, mountains, sydney, theatre, 1930s
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Extension to Wollongong Harbour, 1868 - State Library of New South Wales
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- 4 comments
- 38 favorites
- 4,951 views
- Date taken: 1868
- Date uploaded: 2024-09-25
- Tags: wollongong, degotardi, itzehoe, engravers, lithographers, sydney, 1860s
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Moruya Quarry, New South Wales, 25 July 1929
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- 4 comments
- 28 favorites
- 4,199 views
- Date taken: 1929-07-25 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2024-09-13
- Tags: moruya
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Mary Poppins author Pamela Lyndon Travers, 1922
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- 4 comments
- 68 favorites
- 7,424 views
- Date uploaded: 2024-06-05
- Tags: marypoppins, disney, authors, female, women, childrens, travers
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Young ballerina, Pamela Bromley-Smith, 1947
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- 4 comments
- 93 favorites
- 9,018 views
- Date taken: 1947
- Date uploaded: 2024-02-04
- Tags: balletrusse, ballet, maxdupain, 1940s
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Mary George (Georgiadi’s),Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Sydney, July 1950
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- 4 comments
- 77 favorites
- 8,619 views
- Date taken: 1950-07
- Date uploaded: 2024-01-09
- Tags: bohemians, sydney, 1950s, lincolncafe, brianbird, portraits, cafe
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Tinker Harold Wright with his Chevy truck, 1953
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- 4 comments
- 80 favorites
- 8,766 views
- Date taken: 1953
- Date uploaded: 2024-01-07
- Tags: tinkers, travellingsalesmen, outback, australia, jeffcarter, 1950s, tu454, nsw
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Smithy’s Lockheed Altair, Sydney, 1934
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- 4 comments
- 58 favorites
- 8,296 views
- Date taken: 2023-07-20 15:19:24
- Date uploaded: 2023-11-07
- Tags: photographygallery, photogallery, shotexhibition, lockheed, altair, andersonpark, samhood, vintage, aircraft, planes, sydney, aviation, airplane, vhusb, cn152, ladysoutherncross, gadus, lockheedaircraft, lockheedaltair8dspecial, altair8dspecial, lockheedaltairspecial, altairspecial, lockheed8daltair, lockheed8d, lockheedaltair, lockheedaltair8d, altair8d, nr118w, nc118w, x118w, lockheedsirius8, sirius8, lockheed8asirius, lockheed8a, lockheedsirius, lockheedsirius8a, sirius, sirius8a, lockheedsirius8special, lockheedsiriusspecial, sirius8special, prattwhitney, pw, prattwhitneyr1340waspc, prattwhitneyr1340, prattwhitneywasp, prattwhitneywaspc, waspradial, r1340, r1340wasp, r1340waspc, waspc, sydneyharbor, sydneyharborbridge, sydneyharbour, sydneyharbourbridge
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Joan Waddell and Bradley Ryrie at the races, Yass, 1936
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- 4 comments
- 60 favorites
- 8,982 views
- Date taken: 1936-03
- Date uploaded: 2023-03-15
- Tags: 1936, 1930s, fashio, yass, regionaltownsnswraces
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Art deco window display of Nada toothbrushes, 1939
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- 4 comments
- 35 favorites
- 22,874 views
- Date uploaded: 2023-02-14
- Tags: artdeco, display, shops, sydney, 1930s, design, samhood
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Jimmy Bancks creator of Ginger Megs, 1940
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- 4 comments
- 27 favorites
- 8,036 views
- Date taken: 1940-02-13 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2023-01-02
- Tags: cartoonists, gingermegs, artists, australian, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Tug 'Pluvius' carrying ferry passengers due to Sydney ferry strike, 1910
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- 4 comments
- 47 favorites
- 7,622 views
- Date taken: 1913
- Date uploaded: 2022-10-30
- Tags: tugs, ships, ferries, sydney, harbour, portjackson, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Female skier, Kosciuszko, New South Wales, c. 1925, by Sam Hood
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- 4 comments
- 41 favorites
- 11,518 views
- Date taken: 1925
- Date uploaded: 2022-10-13
- Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, skiing, sports, newsouthwales, nsw, fun, australia, snow, gatherings, smile, vintage, ski
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Building a small wooden-framed station wagon body, 17 December 1947
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- 4 comments
- 58 favorites
- 10,311 views
- Date taken: 1947-12-17 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2022-07-26
- Tags: cars, automobiles, construction, manufacture, australia, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, stationwagonsvintage, old, woody
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SS 'Seagull', stranded at Ulladulla, New South Wales, 1913
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- 4 comments
- 40 favorites
- 7,764 views
- Date uploaded: 2022-06-17
- Tags: ships, shipwrecks, wreck, ulladulla, nsw, newsouthwales, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, freighter, ssseagull
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Tattooed man, Tahuata, Polynesia, 1839, James Addison
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- 4 comments
- 155 favorites
- 20,436 views
- Date taken: 1839
- Date uploaded: 2022-06-09
- Tags: tahuata, santachristina, tattoos, polynesia, 1800s, jamesaddison, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, pacificislands
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The Carroll family from Manchester on board the Georgic, 1949
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- 4 comments
- 54 favorites
- 11,133 views
- Date taken: 1949
- Date uploaded: 2022-04-05
- Tags: migration, british, 1940s, postworldwartwo, migrants, georgic, cunard, shippinglines
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Ernest Shackleton & Frank Worsley watching the ice breaking up around the Endurance encased in ice 1915
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- 4 comments
- 95 favorites
- 10,525 views
- Date uploaded: 2022-03-12
- Tags: shackleton, hurley, photos, antarctica, weddell, sea, exploration, explorers, ships, disasters, shipwrecks, crushed, ice, south, endurance
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Probably Arch Tuckett's Midget speedcar with Henderson motorcycle engine, Sydney, 1934
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- 4 comments
- 80 favorites
- 14,849 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-12-14
- Tags: australian, motor, vintage, early, sydney, newsouthwales, nsw, 1934, racing, car, speedcar, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Ants' nest oven on W.R.H. Scott's property, 35 miles from Walcha, New South Wales, c 1925
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- 4 comments
- 35 favorites
- 11,714 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-11-28
- Tags: cooking, ovens, early, strange, weird, walcha, newsouthwales, chefs, sydneymailpic, sydneymail12thnovember1913
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Family with car, Sydney, 1890-1910,
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- 4 comments
- 51 favorites
- 12,229 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-11-11
- Tags: vintage, antique, cars, automobiles, early, families, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, daimler
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British sailor on leave in Regional New South Wales, 1944
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- 4 comments
- 84 favorites
- 20,113 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-11-08
- Tags: movember, moustache, sailors, worldwartwo, ww, leave
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Patrick Fahy's Steam Engine Hotel, Orange, 1870-1875
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- 4 comments
- 34 favorites
- 11,859 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-10-28
- Tags: hotels, pubs, publicans, historic, early, colonial, orange, steamenginehotel, fashion, 1870s, australia
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Mick Phelan, operating the signals, King and George Streets, Sydney, c. 1900, Albert James Perier
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- 4 comments
- 25 favorites
- 10,334 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-09-16
- Tags: trams, sydney, early, vintage, signals, electric, cable, work, georgestreet
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John Martin display for Telefunken, Bloch & Gerber electronics and Savage washing machines, Australia, April 1939
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- 4 comments
- 42 favorites
- 20,181 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-08-26
- Tags: radio, electronics, vintage, telefunken, displays, expos, expositions, 1930s, phonographs, australia, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Professor Curtain's Barber's Saloon, Hill End, c. 1872
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- 4 comments
- 46 favorites
- 11,039 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-05-27
- Tags: colonial, mining, towns, barbers, vintage, early, new, south, wales, australia, gold, shopfronts
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Crew, Southern Cross, British Antarctic (Southern Cross) Expedition, 1898-1900, William Colbeck
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- 4 comments
- 48 favorites
- 9,918 views
- Date taken: 2015-10-09 10:39:38
- Date uploaded: 2021-04-21
- Tags: antarctica, antarctic, exploration, colbeck, southerncross, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Barbara Blane, shadow-ballet dancer at the Tivoli, 5 January 1939, by Ray Olson
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- 4 comments
- 96 favorites
- 34,695 views
- Date taken: 1939-01-05 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2021-02-24
- Tags: (untagged)
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Heat wave in Sydney, 4 January 1946
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- 4 comments
- 75 favorites
- 21,430 views
- Date taken: 1946-01-04 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2021-02-02
- Tags: sydney, heatwave, summer, city, icecream, ice, cream, cones, portraits, australia, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, icecreamcones
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Gold surveying camp near Trunkey, New South Wales, 1872-1874
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- 4 comments
- 36 favorites
- 13,971 views
- Date taken: 1873
- Date uploaded: 2020-10-12
- Tags: surveying, australia, newsouthwales, goldrush, gold, mining, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, theodolite, machattie, camping, 1870s, victorian
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Elizabeth and Emily Macarthur, Camden, Sydney, ca. 1858
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- 4 comments
- 41 favorites
- 12,901 views
- Date uploaded: 2020-09-09
- Tags: australian, portraits, elizabethmacarthur, emilymacarthur, sydney, 1850s, macarthuronslow, albumen, prints, early, vintage, photography
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Royal Navy sailors with anchors, Nelson Dock, English Harbour, Antiqua, West Indies, 1863, [attrib. Arthur Onslow]
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- 4 comments
- 139 favorites
- 24,873 views
- Date taken: 2020
- Date uploaded: 2020-09-04
- Tags: ships, royalnavy, nelsondock, englishharbour, antigua, westindies, stattions, 19thcentury, albumen, prints, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, warships, arthuronslow
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Stan Giddings, maintenance worker painting Sydney Harbour Bridge, 18 September 1945, photographed by Alec Iverson
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- 4 comments
- 119 favorites
- 24,336 views
- Date taken: 1945-09-18 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2020-06-24
- Tags: sydneyharbourbridge, sydneyharbour, portjackson, 1945, painting, painters
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HMS Torch at anchor, [attrib. Sydney], 27 August 1855, watercolour sketch by Conrad Martens
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- 4 comments
- 33 favorites
- 16,579 views
- Date uploaded: 2020-06-14
- Tags: steamship, williamchimmo, tenders, australiansquadron, hms, torch, ship, sydney, colonial, australia, shipping, paddlesteamer
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Soldier and dog, departure of the 6th Division for the Middle East January 1940, Sam Hood
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- 4 comments
- 141 favorites
- 19,441 views
- Date taken: 1940-01
- Date uploaded: 2020-05-04
- Tags: worldwarii, ww2, samhood, wartime, departures, australianarmy, 6thdivision, littledoglaughednoiret
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Angle on photographer, ANZAC Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney, 29 November 1937, by Ray Olson, Pix Magazine
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- 4 comments
- 63 favorites
- 14,582 views
- Date taken: 1937-11-29 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2020-04-28
- Tags: photography, trick, photographer, angles, rayolsen, pix, australian, magazines, anzac, memorial, artdeco
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