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Interior of E. W. Watts chemist shop, Epping, c. 1911-1929, by Rex Hazlewood
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- Date taken: 2009-11-02 14:22:20
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-02
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Photographer Lethington Maitland in a new panama from City Hatters in Pitt Street, during Panama and Straw Hat Week, 1 November 1934, by Ernie Bowen
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- 8,998 views
- Date taken: 2009-11-02 14:29:49
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Shopping crowds, Hunter Street, Newcastle, 12 December 1953, by Sam Hood
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- Date taken: 2006-06-05 12:57:08
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-02
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Shop window display of underwear - Glen Innes, NSW, c. 1930
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- Date taken: 2009-11-02 15:39:09
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Brisbane schoolgirls at David Jones (Sydney), 22 June 1935, by Sam Hood
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- 14 favorites
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- Date taken: 1935-06-22 15:44:11
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-02
- Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, women, four, hats, uniform, school, koala, plush, 1935, davidjonesstoreguide, somervillehousebrisbanequeenslandaustralia, schooluniform, privateschool
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Wiley & Son's [basket wholesale warehouse, Park Street, Sydney], 1858, by William Blackwood
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- Date taken: 2009-11-02 14:17:15
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Window display for "Strike up the Band" (taken for M.G.M.), c.1941, by Sam Hood
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- 14 favorites
- 12,165 views
- Date taken: 1941
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-02
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Holeproof hosiery display, 7 September 1948, by Sam Hood
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- Date taken: 2006-09-27 15:18:47
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-02
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Mobilubrication pit, Penrith, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood
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- 26 favorites
- 10,559 views
- Date taken: 2009-11-16 12:45:58
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-16
- Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, mobil, técalemit, servicestation
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Beautiful Bondi [Ladies Dressing Rooms], c. 1900-1927, Broadhurst Post Card Publishers
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- Date taken: 2009-11-16 12:50:50
- Date uploaded: 2009-11-16
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6th Division boards the troopships, 9-10 January 1940, by Sam Hood
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- Date taken: 2009-12-11 14:30:24
- Date uploaded: 2009-12-11
- Tags: ship, troopship, australianarmy, secondaustralianimperialforce, 2ndaustralianimperialforce, 2ndaif, australianimperialforce, aif, sixthdivision, 6thdivision
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Picture news: Clyde Cook, commissionaire, July 1940, by Sam Hood
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- 12,462 views
- Date taken: 1940-07
- Date uploaded: 2009-12-18
- Tags: parisbombed, commissionaire, newsreel, theatrette
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War loans displays, State Theatre, 20/10/1943, by Sam Hood
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- 7 favorites
- 10,178 views
- Date taken: 2006-03-22 12:04:27
- Date uploaded: 2009-12-18
- Tags: australia, worldwarii, wwii, soldiers, warloans, warbonds, warstamps
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Drinks!, c. 1930s by Sam Hood
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- 10,970 views
- Date taken: 2009-12-31 12:26:36
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Ball, c. 1920s by Sam Hood
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- 21 favorites
- 8,793 views
- Date taken: 2009-12-31 12:27:19
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LesDarcy and Eddie McGoorty, 1916 / photographer unknown
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- 4 favorites
- 9,353 views
- Date taken: 2010-01-12 12:43:45
- Date uploaded: 2010-01-12
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Les Darcy, left, and Eddie McGoorty, 1916 / photographer unknown
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- 9 favorites
- 11,007 views
- Date taken: 2010-01-12 12:49:47
- Date uploaded: 2010-01-12
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Telephone exchange, Anthony Hordern & Sons department store, ca. 1933-1938
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- 26 favorites
- 11,726 views
- Date taken: 2003
- Date uploaded: 2010-01-15
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Black Prince 1880 SLNSW_FL14266743
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- 24 favorites
- 837 views
- Date uploaded: 2025-06-15
- Tags: ships, hmsblackprince, storms, royalnavy, brierly, painters
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Morris van and Messerschmitt KR200, Kings Cross, Sydney, c. 1955
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- 38 favorites
- 1,181 views
- Date taken: 2018-03-20 11:12:10
- Date uploaded: 2025-06-13
- Tags: bubble, car, micro, kingscross
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Sydney Free Shelter for Woman and children in Surrey Hills, Sydney, 1939
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- 49 favorites
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- Date uploaded: 2025-05-27
- Tags: womensshelter, shelter, refuge, women, sydney, 1930s, domesticviolence
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Max Afford, Australian playwright and novelist, Sydney, February 1954
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- 44 favorites
- 2,891 views
- Date uploaded: 2025-04-03
- Tags: maxafford, australian, playwrights, novelists
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Railway Station, Wellington, New Zealand, January 1947
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- 31 favorites
- 2,683 views
- Date uploaded: 2025-03-26
- Tags: newzealand, wellington, 1940, 1947, railways, stations, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Lizard - James Stuart, Natural history drawings, mainly of reptiles, Linnean Society of New South Wales ca. 1831-1841
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- 49 favorites
- 3,034 views
- Date uploaded: 2025-03-17
- Tags: handcoloured, lithograph
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Penguins - Cherry-Garrard Apsley, Sketchbooks containing drawings made during the British Antarctic Expedition, 1912-1913
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- 29 favorites
- 2,524 views
- Date taken: 1912
- Date uploaded: 2025-03-17
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Portrait of Mary Gilmore Australian writer and journalist, Sydney, 1912, by Rudolph Buchner
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- Date uploaded: 2025-01-23
- Tags: portrait, marygilmore, australian, writers, women, twentiethcentury, c20th
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Lynda Adams diving in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1938
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- 65 favorites
- 5,866 views
- Date taken: 1938-01-31 09:34:47
- Date uploaded: 2024-12-12
- Tags: sydneyharbourbridge, divers, canadian, swimmers
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Pix magazine photographer Alec Iverson, 1944
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- 63 favorites
- 5,223 views
- Date uploaded: 2024-12-10
- Tags: aleciverson, pressphotographers, 1944, 1940s, pix, australia, magazine
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Eastern sledging party, 1912
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- Date uploaded: 2024-12-03
- Tags: antarctica, mawson, hoadley, australasianantarcticexpedition, sleging, snow
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Woman in a bottle, trick photography, Sydney, 1938 - State Library of New South Wales
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- 5,642 views
- Date uploaded: 2024-10-15
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Bill Onus’s boomerang, New South Wales, 1941 - State Library of New South Wales
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- Date uploaded: 2024-10-13
- Tags: boomerang, firstnationsaustralians, training, war, soldiers, billonus
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Sydney Harbour Bridge opening, 1932 - State Library of New South Wales
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- 70 favorites
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- Date taken: 1932-03-19 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2024-09-27
- Tags: sydneyharbourbridge, celebrations, sydney, portjackson, crowds, 1930s, 1932
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Portrait of Stefan Haag, theatre director and singer, Australia, 1952
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- Date uploaded: 2024-09-10
- Tags: haag, theatre, austrakian, opera, 1950s, viennaboyschoir, migration
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Diver, Rose Bay, Sydney Harbour, 1938 SLNSW_FL19114501
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- 61 favorites
- 5,054 views
- Date taken: 1938
- Date uploaded: 2024-08-20
- Tags: diving, sea, deepsea, rosebay, sydneyharbour, 1930s, hardhatdiver, diver
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Fire fighters on aircraft carrier HMS Theseus, 1947
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- 79 favorites
- 6,809 views
- Date taken: 1947
- Date uploaded: 2024-07-30
- Tags: ships, royalnavy, hms, pacific, warships, aircraftcarriers, war, koreanwar, suezcrisis, british, firefighters, hmstheseusr64, hmstheseus, r64, colossusclass, warship, aircraftcarrier, sailor, sailors, flightdeck, rn, firefighter
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Sinking of the naval destroyer 'Stalwart,' 22 July 1939
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- 24 favorites
- 5,083 views
- Date uploaded: 2024-07-24
- Tags: hmasstalwart, royalaustraliannavy, ran, hmasstalwarth14, sclassdestroyer, destroyer, ship, warship
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Sinking of destroyer 'Stalwart,' Sydney Heads, 22 July 1939
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- 35 favorites
- 4,816 views
- Date uploaded: 2024-07-24
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Japanese whale-chaser, Sydney, 1935
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- 55 favorites
- 5,523 views
- Date taken: 1935
- Date uploaded: 2024-07-18
- Tags: ships, whaling, japan, sydney, portjackson, 1930s, 1935
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Donkey steam engine, Wilson's Reef, Marong, NSW, c.1872
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- 30 favorites
- 4,835 views
- Date uploaded: 2024-07-11
- Tags: steamengine, goldmining, newsouthwales, nsw, 1870s, americanandaustralasianphotographiccompany
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Dennarque, Mt Wilson, 1925, by Monte Luke
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- 43 favorites
- 5,071 views
- Date uploaded: 2024-07-07
- Tags: cameracircle, monteluke, professional, photographers, australia, mt, wilson, sydney
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Gas strike, 29 April 1941
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- 35 favorites
- 6,525 views
- Date taken: 1941-04-29 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2024-04-30
- Tags: strikes, gas, worldwartwo, ww2, sydney, 1940s
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Woman with BSA motorbike, Sydney, 1943
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- 104 favorites
- 10,253 views
- Date uploaded: 2024-04-10
- Tags: motorcycle, motobikes, bsa, 1940s, balmain, nsw
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Bomb testing series, 1940, by B. Rice
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- 65 favorites
- 20,885 views
- Date uploaded: 2024-03-21
- Tags: ammunition, bomb, ww2, worldwartwo, sydney, munitions
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Rose Soady, 1919 by Harold Cazneaux
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- 76 favorites
- 7,203 views
- Date uploaded: 2024-03-17
- Tags: cazneaux, soady, artists, australian, photographers, normanlindsay, 1910s
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Carsten Borchgrevink and The Southern Cross, Antarctica, 1899
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- 1 comment
- 87 favorites
- 7,858 views
- Date taken: 1899
- Date uploaded: 2024-03-07
- Tags: antactica, southerncross, first, explorers, winter, mainland, theodolite, ships
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Moto Morini 500 Sei-V, Motobike, Sydney, 1984-85
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- 43 favorites
- 6,262 views
- Date taken: 1983
- Date uploaded: 2024-03-03
- Tags: motorboke, motocycles, motomorini
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Midnight to dawn shift, Sydney, 1949
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- 53 favorites
- 6,317 views
- Date taken: 1949-08-18 16:31:31
- Date uploaded: 2024-02-29
- Tags: afterdark, night, nightime, photos
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