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Dancers at the Tivoli Theatre, Sydney, September 1942
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- Date taken: 1942-09
- Date uploaded: 2022-08-04
- Tags: tivoli, theatre, dancing, fun, sydney, 1940s, ww2, worldwartwo, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, filmnegatives
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Madame (Ada) Senyah, trapeze artist, c.1865
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- Date taken: 1865
- Date uploaded: 2022-07-27
- Tags: trapeze, circus, vaudeville, shows, performers, women, theatre, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Joannet Island canoes, in the Louisiade Archipelago, ca. 1848, by Oswald W. B. Brierly
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- Date taken: 1848
- Date uploaded: 2022-07-24
- Tags: pasifika, pacific, canoesnavigation, history, sailboats, sailing, islands, traditional
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Men working on locomotives in railway workshops, November 1941
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- Date taken: 1941
- Date uploaded: 2022-07-18
- Tags: locomotives, railways, workers, worldwartwo, ww2, newsouthwales
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Truck running on gas, Sydney, 1942
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- Date taken: 1942
- Date uploaded: 2022-06-22
- Tags: gas, transport, fuel, trucks, rationing, petrol, ww2, worldwartwo, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Speaker manufacture, AWA, Sydney, c. 1946, Max Dupain
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- Date uploaded: 2022-06-07
- Tags: awa, electronics, manufaturing, business, early, vintage, sydney, australia, maxdupain
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Filming the Burns-Johnson boxing fight 1908
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- 21 favorites
- 9,547 views
- Date taken: 1908-12-26 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2022-05-20
- Tags: boxing, worldchampionship, jacktommy, burnsjohnson, hughmcintosh, sportinghistory, sportingevents
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Underground Commonwealth Savings Bank and Post Office, Coober Pedy, South Australia, ca. 1925
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- Date taken: 1925
- Date uploaded: 2022-05-15
- Tags: banks, commonwealthbank, coober, pedywalkaboutsouth, australia, underground
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Nolene Maclean, diving champion, Sydney {attrib.], 1949
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- Date uploaded: 2022-05-08
- Tags: diver, sportswomen, womeninsport, australia
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Sydney Oddities, 15 December 1942
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- Date uploaded: 2022-04-26
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Newcastle County Council electricity supply truck with ladder and body by Oldin, ca. 1940
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- 11,629 views
- Date uploaded: 2022-04-19
- Tags: oldin, newcastlecountycouncil, trucks, automobiles, infrastructure, electricity, vintage, old, sydney, australia, state, library, new, south, wales, 1919
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Redfern Railway Station, (the first one), Sydney, May 1871
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- 35 favorites
- 9,030 views
- Date taken: 1871
- Date uploaded: 2022-04-08
- Tags: railways, railwaystations, redfern, sydney, early, vintage, 1870s, c19th, nineteenthcentury, architecture
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Wet weather, St James Station, Elizabeth Street, Sydney, 14 March 1939
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- Date taken: 1939-03-14 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2022-03-31
- Tags: wetweather, rain, rainy, sydney, streets, streetscenes, elizabethstreet, stjames, umbrellas, people
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Two fashion models in front of a hand drawn backdrop, ca. 1948
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- Date uploaded: 2022-03-30
- Tags: fashion, sydney, models, fashionshoots, 1940s
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Group at a beach party Western Australia, 1947
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- Date uploaded: 2022-03-15
- Tags: beaces, party, portraits, westernaustralia
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Angus Brand, Aorangi’s third engineer and supervisor the refitting of ocean liner, 26 June 1947
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- 8,071 views
- Date taken: 1947-06-26 09:04:17
- Date uploaded: 2022-03-02
- Tags: ships, passengerships, oceanliner, engineering, refitting, aorangi, australian, vintage
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Robertson Royal Menagerie, 9 The Strand, London, ca. 1820
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- Date uploaded: 2022-02-27
- Tags: menagerie, animals, animalcruelty, zoos, zoologicalgardens, london, england, uk, elephants, emus, kangaroos
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Norco fire, 379 Sussex Street, Sydney, July 1928 by Sam Hood
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- Date uploaded: 2022-02-24
- Tags: norco, fires, buildingfires, sydney, architecture, old, sydneystate, library, new, south, wales
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Demolition of Glebe Island abattoirs, Sydney, 1926
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- Date uploaded: 2022-02-13
- Tags: demolition, abattoirs, sydney, glebeisland, buildings, historic, architecture
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Portrait of aviator John Robertson Duigan, Bendigo, Victoria 1911
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- Date uploaded: 2022-01-27
- Tags: aviationinaustralia, duigan, 1911, bendigo, pioneer, aviators, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, aviation, aircraft, airplane, biplane, johnrobertsonduigan
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Portrait of General MacArthur and General Thomas Blamey, New Guinea, October 1942
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- 9,653 views
- Date taken: 1942-10
- Date uploaded: 2022-01-13
- Tags: generalmacarthur, generalthomasblamey, newguinea, worldwartwo, ww2, engagements, australian, army
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Fitzroy iron works, Mittagong, c. 1873 a
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- Date uploaded: 2021-12-21
- Tags: fitzroy, iron, works, australian, industry, heavy, early, victorian, metal, engineering, mining, factories, vintage
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Wallandra weir under construction, Lachlan River, New South Wales, c.1895, by W. H. Maguire
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- 34 favorites
- 9,140 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-12-08
- Tags: weirs, newsouthwales, floods, wallandra, lachlanriver, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, engineering
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'Pattowatto' Granite Boulder (Perrys Haystack) Victoria, Australia
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- Date uploaded: 2021-11-30
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Nina Verchinina, from Colonel de Basil's "Original Ballet Russe", 1939-1940, copied from Karl and Emilie Romaine Studio photograph
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- Date uploaded: 2021-11-25
- Tags: ballerina, ninaverchinina, balletrusse, australia, 1930s, russianballet
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Stationery, ca. 1953, by Max Dupain
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- 10,497 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-10-31
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Studio Portrait of Henry Morton Stanley, (famous for his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone), ca. 1890
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- Date uploaded: 2021-10-24
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Loading fruit onto a goods train, Pennant Hills Railway Station, Sydney, 1911-1916, Rex Hazlewood
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- 10,991 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-10-19
- Tags: fruitgrowing, orchards, sydney, good, packing, railwat, trains, shipment, pennanthills, early
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Two female performers sitting back to back reading, 1925-1935
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- Date uploaded: 2021-10-13
- Tags: performers, stage, female, theatre, capitol, state, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, 1920s, 1930s
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Trucks transporting goods, Hickson Road, Sydney, 26 August 1935, by Ray Olson
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- Date uploaded: 2021-10-03
- Tags: sydneyharbourbridge, sydney, truck, transportation, waterfront, rayolsen, lorries, early, vintage, 1930, 1935
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Xavier Mertz Bringing in a box of Ice through the Catacombs, Antarctica, 1912, by Frank Hurley
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- Date taken: 1912
- Date uploaded: 2021-10-01
- Tags: antarctica, australianantarcticexpedition, waviermertz, frankhurley, 1912, capedenison, exploration, antarctic, explorers, goldenageofexploration, mawson, australia, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, librarycollections
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Children exercising at the Womens League of health and beauty, 1940
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- Date uploaded: 2021-09-26
- Tags: health, exercise, 1940s, activities, ivanives, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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James Heron, Builder outside the Sash & Door Maker, Steam Saw Mill & Timber Yard, Auckland, New Zealand, ca. 1865
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- 9,677 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-09-15
- Tags: industry, timber, new, zealand, sawmills, 1860s, auckland, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, builders
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Judy Canty, schoolgirl Olympic representative, 27 May 1948
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- 72 favorites
- 12,171 views
- Date taken: 1948-05-27 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2021-07-29
- Tags: olympics, australian, london1948, longjump
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Water polo series at Olympic pool, 19 January 1941
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- 88 favorites
- 11,475 views
- Date taken: 1941-01-19 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2021-07-26
- Tags: waterpolo, sports, athletes, australia
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Margo Lee, television story, 1951, by Eric Francis
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- Date uploaded: 2021-07-22
- Tags: radio, television, film, actors, performers, abc
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Cyclist Hubert Opperman poses next to an REO Speed Wagon truck advertising at Peters Ice Cream Factory, Redfern (taken for Bruce Small Ltd), Australia, 19 July 1938
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- 87 favorites
- 16,352 views
- Date taken: 1938-07-19 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2021-07-19
- Tags: cyclist, sportsmen, australian, peters, icecream, truck, automobiles, vintage
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Pearl divers, Australia, 23 March 1939
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- 60 favorites
- 13,473 views
- Date taken: 2018-04-07 12:03:30
- Date uploaded: 2021-07-14
- Tags: pearldiving, divers, vintage, early, australia, divingbell
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Sydney fashion, street photography, 10 October 1945, photographed by Norman Herfort
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- 15,173 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-07-11
- Tags: fashion, sydney, 1940s, herfort, pix, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Vestibule of Victory cinema George Street, 1946
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- 35 favorites
- 11,486 views
- Date taken: 1941-08-30 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2021-06-30
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Expressions at Luna Park, Sydney, c. 1940
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- 81 favorites
- 14,325 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-06-29
- Tags: lunapark, fairground, rides, sydney
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Laying tram tracks, St Andrews and George Streets, Dunedin, New Zealand, c. 1900
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- Date uploaded: 2021-06-27
- Tags: trams, dundein, newzealand, gleebonerainbowhotel
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Jim Gerald, Melbourne, 2 June 1951, by Gordon F. De Lisle
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- 21 favorites
- 9,592 views
- Date taken: 1951-06-02 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2021-06-18
- Tags: australian, comedians, 1951, portraits, actors, jimgerald
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Balloon Ascent, Wonderland theme park, Tamarama Beach, Sydney, c. 1908
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- 28 favorites
- 10,493 views
- Date taken: 1908
- Date uploaded: 2021-06-16
- Tags: wonderland, themeparks, ballons, aviation, history, australia, sydney, tamarama, leisure
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Sydney University, 1869-1873, by Walter Chaffer
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- 59 favorites
- 11,643 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-06-06
- Tags: sydneyuniversity, albumen, print, vintage, early, quadrangle, chaffey, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Antonia, merchant ship, by M. Cooper
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- 30 favorites
- 9,455 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-05-27
- Tags: antonia, merchant, ships, australia
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Gasson's Cheap Book Stall and Lending Library, 178 Elizabeth Street South, 1900
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- 23 favorites
- 8,531 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-05-23
- Tags: book, sellers, retail, libraries, lendinglibrary, sydney, elizabeth, street
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