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Child performers, Sydney, c. 1930s / by Sam Hood
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 7 comments
- 84 favorites
- 24,392 views
- Date taken: 1935
- Date uploaded: 2009-02-12
- Tags: sydney, australia, theatre, samhood, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Projectors, Regent Theatre Sydney, 25 October 1938
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- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 13 comments
- 156 favorites
- 24,301 views
- Date taken: 1938-10-25 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2021-04-11
- Tags: theatres, projector, regenttheatre, sydney, entertainment, cinema, 1938
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Tattooing a mans head with a butterfly, Fred Harris Tattoo Studio, Sydney, 17 December 1937, photographer Ray Olson
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 85 favorites
- 24,240 views
- Date taken: 1937-12-17 14:40:30
- Date uploaded: 2019-04-02
- Tags: tattoo, 1937, artists, sydney, full, body
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Staff inside the Free Public Library (old State Library of New South Wales), c. 1885
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
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- 10 comments
- 207 favorites
- 24,175 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-11-23
- Tags: libraries, interiors, library, century, c19th, readingrooms, old, sydney, books, early, newsouthwales, vintage
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Tallying and inspecting, "War Chest" Sock Appeal, Sydney, May 1917 / photographer G. A. Hills
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
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- 1 comment
- 13 favorites
- 24,147 views
- Date taken: 1917-05
- Date uploaded: 2010-06-01
- Tags: socks, hampers, wareffort, comforts, wool, knitted, volunteer, warworker, hats, collectionfishing, ladies, women, bundling, appeal, may, 1917, gahills, dress, apron, australia, nsw, newsouthwales, sydney, vintage
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Anthony Hordern & Sons Palace Emporium, Brickfield Hill, Sydney, 1935
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 5 comments
- 15 favorites
- 24,112 views
- Date taken: 2009-06-18 11:54:16
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-02
- Tags: brickfieldhill, sydney
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Audience at a Jazz concert, Town Hall, Sydney, November 1948
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 15 comments
- 202 favorites
- 24,060 views
- Date taken: 1948-11
- Date uploaded: 2021-12-30
- Tags: jazz, sydney, 1940s, townhall, entertainment, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Conservatorium of Music, The Botanical Gardens, State Library of New South Wales Sydney from the air, 1920, by Frank Hurley
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 3 comments
- 14 favorites
- 23,907 views
- Date taken: 1920
- Date uploaded: 2014-04-08
- Tags: conservatoriumofmusic, thedomain, train, tunnels, sydney, circleline, track, excavations, aerial, photography, state, library, new, south, wales
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Sydney Grammar School's eight-oar-crew, Putney, Sydney, ca. 1932 / photographer Sam Hood
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 3 comments
- 26 favorites
- 23,780 views
- Date taken: 1932
- Date uploaded: 2012-04-20
- Tags: shell, row, firsteight, cox, oar, parramattariver, rowing, water, sydney, nsw, australia, grammerschool, putney, agl, gasworks, mortlake
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Antal Dorati conducts an orchestral rehearsal for Colonel de Basil's "Original Ballet Russe" (Russian Ballet) season, Theatre Royal, Sydney, December 1939 / Sam Hood
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 2 comments
- 6 favorites
- 23,594 views
- Date taken: 2009-04-21 10:06:07
- Date uploaded: 2009-08-11
- Tags: orchestrapit, theatreroyal, sydney, antaldorati, stage, steinway, piano, safetycurtain, conductor, balletacrossthecommons, musicalinstruments, orchestras, coloneldebasilsballetrusse, originalballetrusse
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Ship at anchor in Port Jackson, Sydney, c. 1870
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 48 favorites
- 23,303 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-03-09
- Tags: garling, watercolour, ships, sailingships, nineteenth, century, 1800s, portjackson, sydney, steamship, royalnavy, paintings
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Rural Bank, Martin Place, Sydney, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 12 comments
- 32 favorites
- 23,253 views
- Date taken: 2009-11-16 12:40:28
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-16
- Tags: sydney, australia, bank, architecture, skyscraper, commercial, artdeco
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'Hilton', John Rae's House in Liverpool Street, Sydney c.1880
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 10 comments
- 142 favorites
- 23,250 views
- Date uploaded: 2020-11-22
- Tags: architecture, sydney, johnrae, early, photographers, amateurs, australian
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Art deco window display of Nada toothbrushes, 1939
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 4 comments
- 35 favorites
- 22,874 views
- Date uploaded: 2023-02-14
- Tags: artdeco, display, shops, sydney, 1930s, design, samhood
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Men and women at the beach, filming with a hand wound camera, New South Wales, ca. 1935, Sam Hood
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 75 favorites
- 22,758 views
- Date taken: 1935
- Date uploaded: 2019-11-27
- Tags: cinema, movie, classic, vintage, sydney, australia, state, library, new, south, wales, sam, hood, photographer, professional
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- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 5 favorites
- 22,751 views
- Date taken: 1859
- Date uploaded: 2015-10-27
- Tags: sydney, macquariestreet, iron, church
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Motorcycle with mobile tank used by Union petrol, Sydney c. 1935
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 17 comments
- 233 favorites
- 22,656 views
- Date uploaded: 2022-11-13
- Tags: motorcycle, vintage, early, unionpetrol, sidecars, sydney, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Continental Sydney, 1940.
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 22 comments
- 256 favorites
- 22,505 views
- Date taken: 1940
- Date uploaded: 2023-11-19
- Tags: approved, walkabout, sydney, blackandwhite, artdeco, 1940s, wyldefel, onceuponatime
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Uniformed Sydney Girl's High School girls singing near 2GB microphone, 1930s / Sam Hood
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 2 comments
- 12 favorites
- 22,471 views
- Date taken: 2009-05-19 11:34:23
- Date uploaded: 2009-05-19
- Tags: martinplace, sydney, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, singing, girls, uniform
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HRH the Duke of Gloucester opened the War Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney, November 1938 / photograph by Sam Hood
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 7 favorites
- 22,449 views
- Date taken: 1934-11-24 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2008-11-05
- Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, armisticeday, warmemorial, remembranceday, hydepark, sydney, dukeofgloucester, 1930s, hood, samhood, silvergelatin, flags, australia, ceremony, memorial
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The Young Australia League marching across Sydney Harbour Bridge, February 1931 / photographed by Sam Hood
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 2 comments
- 12 favorites
- 22,440 views
- Date taken: 1931-02
- Date uploaded: 2008-09-18
- Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, young, australia, league, 1932, bw, flags, band, sydney, harbour, bridge, samhood, hood, 1931, australialeague
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General Motors Holden Factory, Pagewood, Sydney, 1940
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 10 comments
- 150 favorites
- 22,379 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-03-07
- Tags: holden, generalmotors, factory, pagewood, easternsuburbs, sydney, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, industry, 1940s
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The ANZAC War Memorial, Sydney, 1934 or 1937 / photograph by Sam Hood
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 18 favorites
- 22,279 views
- Date taken: 2006
- Date uploaded: 2008-11-05
- Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, armisticeday, anzac, warmemorial, sydney, 1930s, hood, samhood, silvergelatin, nightscene, memorial, ww1, remembranceday
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Stan Giddings, maintenance worker ascending Sydney Harbour Bridge, 18 September 1945, by Alec Iverson
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 7 comments
- 314 favorites
- 22,033 views
- Date taken: 1945-09-18 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2020-06-26
- Tags: sydney, harbour, bridge, port, jackson, 1945, painting, painters
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Traffic and line of telegraph poles approach the Gladesville Bridge, Oct 1966
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
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- 1 comment
- 23 favorites
- 21,922 views
- Date taken: 1966-10
- Date uploaded: 2012-03-20
- Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, australia, nsw, sydney, gladesville, drummoyne, huntleys, point, victoria, road, bridge, concrete, arch, dmr, department, main, roads, holden, cars, automobiles, advertising, shelleys
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"Horrie Dargie and his boys", c. 1950
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 8 comments
- 135 favorites
- 21,827 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-05-19
- Tags: horriedargie, band, musicalgroups, music, sydney, australia, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, harmonicas
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- 0 comments
- 3 favorites
- 21,733 views
- Date taken: 1901
- Date uploaded: 2015-11-25
- Tags: stereograph, sydney, commonwealthcelebrations, 1901, federationofaustralia
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Saint Patrick's Day parade, c. 1930s by Sam Hood
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 2 comments
- 4 favorites
- 21,594 views
- Date taken: 1939-03
- Date uploaded: 2011-03-16
- Tags: australia, sydney, newsouthwales, 1936, austrolasian, holycatholicguild, catholic, stpatrick, est, established, 1845, parade, saint, patrick, shamrock, blackwhite, bw, samhood
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Portrait of a man in checked cardigan, Sydney telephone exchange, August 1946
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 12 comments
- 139 favorites
- 21,478 views
- Date taken: 1945-08
- Date uploaded: 2021-10-05
- Tags: patterns, telephone, exchange, clothing, fashion, 1940s, 1940, war, years, australia, sydney, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth, Macquarie Street, Sydney, 1st January 1901 / W. A. Gullick, Government Printer
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 7 comments
- 27 favorites
- 21,471 views
- Date taken: 1901-01-01 21:23:08
- Date uploaded: 2008-09-19
- Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, 1901, newsouthwales, sydney, federation, celebrations, macquariestreet, bw, parade, celebration, inauguration, silvergelatin, gullick, newyear
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Heat wave in Sydney, 4 January 1946
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 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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Miss Annie Burbury, Sydney, ca. 1895 / photographer Freeman & Co.
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 31 favorites
- 21,399 views
- Date taken: 1895
- Date uploaded: 2012-08-14
- Tags: woman, portrait, standing, shirtwaist, tie, belt, buckle, legomuttonsleeves, suit, tailored, 1890s, sydney
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Roses in Gullick family garden, Killara, NSW, c.1909
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 69 favorites
- 21,349 views
- Date taken: 2008-03-03 14:42:22
- Date uploaded: 2014-10-02
- Tags: statelibraryofnsw, spring, colour, flowers, sydney, roses
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Iron screw steamer the Helen Nicoll after collision with SS Kielawarra, 1886
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 10 comments
- 129 favorites
- 21,304 views
- Date uploaded: 2022-04-12
- Tags: shipwrecks, ships, passengervessels, sydney, newsouthwales, nsw, vintage, old, historic, vessels, helennicoll, collisions
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Fruit merchant stores, Barker Street, Sydney, 1900, John Degotardi jnr.
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 40 favorites
- 21,296 views
- Date uploaded: 2020-10-27
- Tags: fruit, merchants, business, sydney, bananas, barkerstreet, 1900, chinese, china
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St James Station under construction, by E.G. Shaw
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 9 comments
- 230 favorites
- 21,266 views
- Date taken: 1925
- Date uploaded: 2023-02-02
- Tags: railwaystattions, railways, sydney, stjames, nitrate, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Reactions to women wearing slacks, Sydney, 1946 SLNSW_FL9454644
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 14 comments
- 196 favorites
- 21,229 views
- Date uploaded: 2023-08-01
- Tags: slacks, vintagefashion, 1940s, australia, sydney, 1946
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Breathing apparatus, by Robert Donaldson, 1941
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 12 comments
- 263 favorites
- 21,206 views
- Date taken: 1941
- Date uploaded: 2024-02-25
- Tags: ww2, worldwartwo, breathing, apparatus, sydney, fire, brigade, 1940s, gasmasks, firemen, firefighters, respirators, proto, wartime
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Two couples, Australian Paper Mills Picnic, Clifton Gardens, Sydney 1935 / by Ernie Bowen
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 6 comments
- 10 favorites
- 21,195 views
- Date taken: 2009-02-12 17:44:55
- Date uploaded: 2009-02-12
- Tags: couples, cliftongardens, picnic, 1935, sydney, australianpapermills, husband, wife, bench, erniebowen, labordailynewspaper, industrialpicnic, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Children playing in demolished houses, urban renewal, Surry Hills, photographed by Harry Freeman
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 36 favorites
- 20,984 views
- Date taken: 1950-04-07 21:47:15
- Date uploaded: 2019-03-28
- Tags: slums, architecture, house, clearance, suburbs, surrey, hills, sydney, 1950s, poor, dwellings, estates, council
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Empress of Britain, Sydney Harbour, 1938, Milton Kent, State Library of New South Wales ON 447/Box 159
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 3 comments
- 58 favorites
- 20,976 views
- Date taken: 1938-04-02 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2018-10-26
- Tags: countyclasscruiser, liners, ocean, australia, 1938, sydney, harbour, boats, celebrations
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Female motor cyclist, Railway Square, Sydney, n.d., by Ted Hood
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 8 comments
- 45 favorites
- 20,938 views
- Date taken: 2009-11-26 15:01:40
- Date uploaded: 2010-02-26
- Tags: tedhood, ajs, motorcycle, model, 18, sydney, tram, biker
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Tattooed man from the front, Australia, 25 December 1937
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 2 comments
- 69 favorites
- 20,899 views
- Date taken: 1937-12-25 16:10:22
- Date uploaded: 2019-04-02
- Tags: tattoo, 1937, artists, sydney, full, body
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Bomb testing series, 1940, by B. Rice
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 65 favorites
- 20,885 views
- Date uploaded: 2024-03-21
- Tags: ammunition, bomb, ww2, worldwartwo, sydney, munitions
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Assembling Sydney's first double-decker bus bodies onto AEC bus chassis, 1937
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 29 favorites
- 20,804 views
- Date taken: 1937-11
- Date uploaded: 2008-09-22
- Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, bus, transport, sydney, nsw, australia, 1937, 1930s, doubledecker, aec, factory, workmen
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Wirths' Circus elephants, Royal Easter Show, Sydney, before 1940 / photographer Sam Hood
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 3 comments
- 40 favorites
- 20,802 views
- Date taken: 1935
- Date uploaded: 2011-09-05
- Tags: elephants, elephant, sydney
- Visibility: public
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Bondi Beach, c.1930, Milton Kent
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 0 comments
- 25 favorites
- 20,748 views
- Date taken: 1930
- Date uploaded: 2018-10-24
- Tags: aerial, photographs, bondibeach, milton, kent, sydney, australia, beach
- Visibility: public
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Group from the coupon department, Bushells Tea Factory, Sydney, 1936-1937
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 1 comment
- 8 favorites
- 20,606 views
- Date taken: 1936
- Date uploaded: 2019-10-08
- Tags: bushells, tea, manufacturing, sydney, 1930s, coffee, workers, harrington, atherton, street, therocks, kismet, wylde, demolished, houses
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Anthony Horderns delivery cart, during mid-yearly sale, c. 1912
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 14 comments
- 309 favorites
- 20,497 views
- Date uploaded: 2024-03-26
- Tags: hordern, department, stores, sydney, shopping, transport
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Armistice Day ceremony at the Cenotaph, Sydney, 11 November 1938 / photograph by Sam Hood
- Uploaded by: State Library of New South Wales
- License: No known copyright restrictions
- 3 comments
- 10 favorites
- 20,481 views
- Date taken: 1938-11-11 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2008-11-05
- Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, armisticeday, military, film, november, 11, 1938, sydney, samhood, hood, cenotaph, uniforms, crowd, monument, tomb, lestweforget, war, australia, old, photos
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