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Depression "bread wars", corner store on Bourke & Fitzroy Streets, Surry Hills, Sydney, 21 August 1934 / Sam Hood

Boris Neville plays with the cannon in front of the new clubhouse at the Royal Motor Yacht Club of NSW, Rose Bay, Sydney, at the start of the motor boat season, 19 Septemeber 1936 / Sam Hood

Note: The shop still stands, worn step included, but the area has gentrified since its...

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Format: Negative From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South...

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Tamara Toumanova & Serge Lifar, Swan Lake, Sydney, 1939-1940 / photographed by Max Dupain

Hollywood director William Reed directs his wife Eva Novak in the Australian movie "The Romance of Runnibede", Sydney, 1927 / Sam Hood

Note: Serge Lifar's ballet Suite en blanc was first performed by the Paris Opera Ballet in...

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Note: Robert Dexter, Sydney editor of 'Everyone's Magazine', defended the importing of overseas...

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William Reed filming "The Romance of Runnibede", Sydney, 1927 / Sam Hood

The Roxy, Parramatta, 1930's / Sam Hood

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William Reed filming "The Romance of Runnibede", Sydney, 1927 / Sam Hood

Fitzroy Vale Station, Rockhampton 1904

Note: American actress Eva Novak rehearses under the watchful eye of her husband William Reed, as he...

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Despite several years of drought, the Central Queensland Meat Exporting Company still managed to run...

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Melbourne Cup, Flemington, 3 November 1903

Melbourne CBD, November 1903

Three-year-old Sydney stayer Lord Cardigan surprisingly won Australia's premier horse race and was...

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This view of the intersection of Collins and Queen streets was taken from the roof of the Bank of...

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Stony Creek Falls 1903

Harvesting wheat, Brundah Station, Grenfell, December 1903

Stony Creek Falls on the Cairns – Kuranda railway is still a spectacular scenic stop. When the...

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A procession of horse drawn strippers harvest a record crop from the 5000 acres under cultivation on...

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Harvesting wheat, Narramine Station, Narromine, December 1903

Government Stud Farm, Coolangatta Estate, Berry, 1904

A convoy of five stripper harvesters and 10 strippers make short work of 5500 acres of wheat grown...

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Situated at the mouth of the Shoalhaven River, the Coolangatta Estate was the first area settled on...

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Blue Mountains scenery, Leura, November 1903

Katoomba from atop a pole, 25 November 1903

This location has been identified as the cliff face just south of Leura Falls, looking westward...

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Vaniman's antics to take this photograph were described in the Blue Mountains Gazette 27 November...

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Newcastle from the Dyke, 1904

Manly water chute and toboggan, November-December 1903

This view from above the Bullock Island railway shows colliers being loaded along Dyke wharf...

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Built on the corner of Ashburner Street and South Steyne Road, the Manly water chute and toboggan...

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