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First Officer Paul Kause on board the SEETEUFEL.

First Officer Paul Kause on board the SEETEUFEL.

This photograph depicts First Officer Paul Kause on board the two-masted schooner SEETEUFEL. According to the secret files kept on the von Luckners by the Commonwealth Investigation Branch (CIB), Kause was desc... More

Crew posing on board the four-masted steel barque JOHN ENA

Crew posing on board the four-masted steel barque JOHN ENA

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

HMAS Goulburn on trials - Australian navy photo

HMAS Goulburn on trials - Australian navy photo

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio Collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 72-year career spanned the romantic... More

HMAS AUSTRALIA I in Farm Cove, Sydney

HMAS AUSTRALIA I in Farm Cove, Sydney

This image depicts the first flagship of the newly formed Royal Australian Navy, HMAS AUSTRALIA I, in Sydney Harbour from starboard side. Canvas awnings are covering the midship and poop decks, and torpedo-net ... More

MOOLTAN under steam in harbour. Date specified as June 14th 1934

MOOLTAN under steam in harbour. Date specified as June 14th 1934

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio Collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 72-year career spanned the romantic... More

Unidentified crew member cleaning brass on board SEETEUFEL

Unidentified crew member cleaning brass on board SEETEUFEL

This photograph depicts an unidentified crew member cleaning brass on board the two-masted schooner SEETEUFEL...For more information on Count von Luckner's visit see our blog post 'Espionage and paranoia: The S... More

Passenger vessel off Walsh Bay, Sydney

Passenger vessel off Walsh Bay, Sydney

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Count Felix Graf von Luckner holding a life belt on SEETEUFEL

Count Felix Graf von Luckner holding a life belt on SEETEUFEL

This photograph depicts Count Felix Graf von Luckner holding a life belt on board the two-masted schooner SEETEUFEL...For more information on Count von Luckner's visit see our blog post 'Espionage and paranoia:... More

Aerial view of Hyde Park, Sydney

Aerial view of Hyde Park, Sydney

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio Collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 72-year career spanned the romantic... More

SS Triadic engine room, Australian National Maritime Museum

SS Triadic engine room, Australian National Maritime Museum

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio Collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 72-year career spanned the romantic... More

Royal Navy sailors and officers disembark from a tug at Woolloomooloo Bay in Sydney

Royal Navy sailors and officers disembark from a tug at Woolloomooloo ...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Crew members of the SS STRATHGARRY, posed with the captain's terrier and two cats

Crew members of the SS STRATHGARRY, posed with the captain's terrier a...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio Collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 72-year career spanned the romantic... More

Image of three men and a woman seated on a verandah possibly on board SS TANDA

Image of three men and a woman seated on a verandah possibly on board ...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Captain Lorenz Peters addressing his officers on board MAGDALENE VINNEN

Captain Lorenz Peters addressing his officers on board MAGDALENE VINNE...

This image depicts officers on board MAGDALENE VINNEN. The man in white is Captain Lorenz Peters. The vessel sailed into Sydney Harbour on 27 February 1933, under the command of Captain Peters. The barque was l... More

“Australia's March to Nationhood” Australian 150th Anniversary Celebration

“Australia's March to Nationhood” Australian 150th Anniversary Celebra...

Crowds dispersing at the conclusion of the “Australia's March to Nationhood” 150th Anniversary Celebration in Driver Avenue, Moore Park.

Image of a Japanese man in elaborate costume flanked by two men in an urban setting possibly in Nagoya

Image of a Japanese man in elaborate costume flanked by two men in an ...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Group of radio producers in a studio, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood

Group of radio producers in a studio, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood

Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 153570 ( http://153570 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From th... More

Saint Patrick's Day parade, Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, 1930s by Sam Hood

Saint Patrick's Day parade, Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit So...

Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 35577 ( http://35577 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )

Circus worker prepares to hoist the "big top", n.d., by Sam Hood

Circus worker prepares to hoist the "big top", n.d., by Sam Hood

Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 153437 ( http://153437 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From th... More

Children's birthday party at the home of Mrs Lucy Jane Moran, Todman Ave, Kensington, Sydney, 1930s / Sam Hood

Children's birthday party at the home of Mrs Lucy Jane Moran, Todman A...

Format: Silver gelatin photograph..Find out more about this photographic collection: 402398&amp... ( http://402398&itemID=846035 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// )... More

Saint Patrick's Day parade, Irish National Foresters, 1930s by Sam Hood

Saint Patrick's Day parade, Irish National Foresters, 1930s by Sam Hoo...

Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 129181 ( http://129181 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )

Chorus girls in swimsuits, New South Wales

Chorus girls in swimsuits, New South Wales

From Hood Collection part II : [Theatrical, Live theatre], c. 1920-1950..Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 153809 ( http://153809 ) ..From the collection of ... More

GENERAL BAQUEDANO leaving Farm Cove, Sydney Harbour, 31 July 1931

GENERAL BAQUEDANO leaving Farm Cove, Sydney Harbour, 31 July 1931

The GENERAL BAQUEDANO moored at East Circular Quay on 16 July 1931 and the crew spent two weeks in Sydney. The ship had previously visited Sydney in 1903. In 1931, the vessel was considered obsolete as a fighti... More

Chilean sailors posing on the deck of GENERAL BAQUEDANO, July 1931

Chilean sailors posing on the deck of GENERAL BAQUEDANO, July 1931

The GENERAL BAQUEDANO moored at East Circular Quay on 16 July 1931 and the crew spent two weeks in Sydney. The ship had previously visited Sydney in 1903. In 1931, the vessel was considered obsolete as a fighti... More

Chilean naval crew working the sails of the GENERAL BAQUEDANO, July 1931

Chilean naval crew working the sails of the GENERAL BAQUEDANO, July 19...

The GENERAL BAQUEDANO moored at East Circular Quay on 16 July 1931 and the crew spent two weeks in Sydney. The ship had previously visited Sydney in 1903. In 1931, the vessel was considered obsolete as a fighti... More

Three Chilean Navy officers and the Consul General for Chile on the deck of the GENERAL BAQUEDANO, 17 July 1931

Three Chilean Navy officers and the Consul General for Chile on the de...

This group portrait depicts from left to right, Flag-Lieutenant Beecher, Captain Luis Alvarez, the Consul General for Chile, R Dundas Smith and Lieutenant Raul Braun on the deck of the Chilean naval vessel GENE... More

Crew of Chilean training ship GENERAL BAQUEDANO, July 1931

Crew of Chilean training ship GENERAL BAQUEDANO, July 1931

The GENERAL BAQUEDANO moored at East Circular Quay on 16 July 1931 and the crew spent two weeks in Sydney. The ship had previously visited Sydney in 1903. In 1931, the vessel was considered obsolete as a fighti... More

Portrait of a Chilean naval officer from the GENERAL BAQUEDANO, July 1931

Portrait of a Chilean naval officer from the GENERAL BAQUEDANO, July 1...

The GENERAL BAQUEDANO moored at East Circular Quay on 16 July 1931 and the crew spent two weeks in Sydney. The ship had previously visited Sydney in 1903. In 1931, the vessel was considered obsolete as a fighti... More

SS CATHAY in Sydney Harbour, 1932-1939

SS CATHAY in Sydney Harbour, 1932-1939

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

SS CATHAY II departing from West Circular Quay with spectators and streamers, 1932-1939

SS CATHAY II departing from West Circular Quay with spectators and str...

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Passengers on board the ferry SS KIANDRA at Circular Quay, 1932-1939

Passengers on board the ferry SS KIANDRA at Circular Quay, 1932-1939

This image depicts passengers on board the Sydney ferry, SS KIANDRA, departing the wharf in West Circular Quay. The ferry was launched in 1911 as the sister vessel to SS KIRRULE and KUBU. On 30 April 1930, KIAN... More

Group of waving passengers on board the ferry SS KIANDRA at Circular Quay, 1932-1939

Group of waving passengers on board the ferry SS KIANDRA at Circular Q...

This image depicts waving passengers on board the Sydney ferry, SS KIANDRA, departing Circular Quay. The ferry was launched in 1911 as the sister vessel to SS KIRRULE and KUBU. On 30 April 1930, KIANDRA collide... More

Two sailors possibly on board the French warship BELLATRIX in Sydney, 1930-1932

Two sailors possibly on board the French warship BELLATRIX in Sydney, ...

This image possibly depicts two French sailors on board the naval sloop BELLATRIX. The vessel visited Sydney in December 1929, December 1930 and July 1932 and was commanded by Commander Jells, Captain M Bastard... More

Dutch mail packet New Zeeland ship passing under Sydney Harbour Bridge, 19 March 1932

Dutch mail packet New Zeeland ship passing under Sydney Harbour Bridge...

Searle, E. W. (Edward William)..Part of the collection: Official air views of the opening celebrations of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 19 March, 1932.; Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription below photo... More

Sydney Harbour Bridge from Dawes Point, 19 March, 1932

Sydney Harbour Bridge from Dawes Point, 19 March, 1932

Searle, E. W. (Edward William)..Part of the collection: Official air views of the opening celebrations of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 19 March, 1932.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet vn3... More

Extending Martin Place, New South Wales

Extending Martin Place, New South Wales

Extending Martin Place, c. 1933.Call Number: PXE 789/14/28.Format: Photoprint.Find more detailed information about this photograph: www.acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/itemDetailPaged.cgi?i... ( http://www.acms... More

Japanese sailors probably on board naval vessel TAISEI MARU, 1906-1934

Japanese sailors probably on board naval vessel TAISEI MARU, 1906-1934

This image depicts Japanese sailors probably on board the Japanese naval training vessel TAISEI MARU. The four-masted steel barque was built in 1904 by Kawasaki Dockyard Company for the Japanese Imperial Govern... More

USS ASTORIA in Farm Cove, Sydney, August 1934

USS ASTORIA in Farm Cove, Sydney, August 1934

Arrival of the warship USS ASTORIA into Farm Cove, Sydney. USS ASTORIA, a New Orleans class heavy cruiser, visited Sydney in August 1934 during its shakedown cruise of the Pacific after its commissioning...This... More

Olga Spessiva, prima ballerina, and the Dandre-Levitoff Company, Sydney, 1934 / photographer Sam Hood

Olga Spessiva, prima ballerina, and the Dandre-Levitoff Company, Sydne...

Spessivtzeva was billed as Spessiva for "phonic simplicity" in Australia, despite being the greatest ballerina of her time. During her tour she showed the first real signs of her later mental illness...Format: ... More

Olga Spessiva, ballerina, Central Station, Sydney, 1934 / photographer Sam Hood

Olga Spessiva, ballerina, Central Station, Sydney, 1934 / photographer...

Spessivtzeva was billed as Spessiva for "phonic simplicity" in Australia, despite being the greatest ballerina of her time. During her tour she showed the first real signs of her later mental illness...Format: ... More

Country voters check at absentee table, 17 Sept 1934, by Sam Hood

Country voters check at absentee table, 17 Sept 1934, by Sam Hood

Format: Photograph.Find more detailed information about this photograph: 52656 ( http://52656 ) .From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )

Five male swimmers - Noel Ryan on left, Domain Baths, Sydney, [ca. 1934] / photographer Sam Hood

Five male swimmers - Noel Ryan on left, Domain Baths, Sydney, [ca. 193...

Format: Glass negative..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 7786 ( http://7786 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )

Five small boys and two girls walking along a brick wall, Sydney / ca. 1934 / photographer Sam Hood

Five small boys and two girls walking along a brick wall, Sydney / ca....

Format: Glass negative..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 43506 ( http://43506 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )

Billie Samuels leaving to ride to Melbourne on a Malvern Star bicycle, 4 July 1934, by Sam Hood

Billie Samuels leaving to ride to Melbourne on a Malvern Star bicycle,...

"Miss Billie Samuels started on her attack on the women's record iiom Sydney to Melbourne, held by Miss Valsa Barbour, at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. She will ride to a schedule which will bring her to the Me... More

Ship's captain playing a deck game with a child, 1920-1935

Ship's captain playing a deck game with a child, 1920-1935

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic... More

Portrait of Captain Lorenz Peters and Sydney shipping agent Harold Crofton Sleigh on board MAGDALENE VINNEN, March 1933

Portrait of Captain Lorenz Peters and Sydney shipping agent Harold Cro...

The four-masted steel barque, MAGDALENE VINNEN, was built in 1921 in Kiel, Germany for F A Vinnen and Company in Bremen. On 27 February 1933, under the command of Captain Lorenz Peters, MAGDALENE VINNEN sailed ... More

MAGDALENE VINNEN departing Sydney with pilot boat ASTERN, 29 March 1933

MAGDALENE VINNEN departing Sydney with pilot boat ASTERN, 29 March 193...

The four-masted steel barque, MAGDALENE VINNEN, was built in 1921 in Kiel, Germany for F A Vinnen and Company in Bremen. On 27 February 1933, under the command of Captain Lorenz Peters, MAGDALENE VINNEN sailed ... More

Mast of MAGDALENE VINNEN, 1933, Sydney, Australia

Mast of MAGDALENE VINNEN, 1933, Sydney, Australia

The four-masted steel barque, MAGDALENE VINNEN, was built in 1921 in Kiel, Germany for F A Vinnen and Company in Bremen. On 27 February 1933, under the command of Captain Lorenz Peters, MAGDALENE VINNEN sailed ... More

Crew member seated on board MAGDALENE VINNEN

Crew member seated on board MAGDALENE VINNEN

This photograph depicts a crew member on board the four-masted steel barque MAGDALENE VINNEN at number 2 wharf in Woolloomooloo, Sydney. The vessel sailed into Sydney Harbour on 27 February 1933, under the comm... More

Captain Lorenz Peters with crew members near the ship's wheel on MAGDALENE VINNEN

Captain Lorenz Peters with crew members near the ship's wheel on MAGDA...

This photograph depicts crew members and Captain Lorenz Peters (centre) on board the four-masted steel barque MAGDALENE VINNEN at number 2 wharf in Woolloomooloo, Sydney. The vessel sailed into Sydney Harbour o... More

Francis Birtles, his wife of less than two months, Nea, and his touring car in front of the Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 May 1935 / photographer Sam Hood

Francis Birtles, his wife of less than two months, Nea, and his tourin...

Format: Negative..For a biography of Francis Birtles, who had been married to Nea for less than two months in this photograph, see: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/birtles-francis-edwin-5244 ( http://adb.anu.edu.au/bi... More

Unemployed carpenters in Phillip Street wait to hear succesful applicant for one position, 17 June 1935, by Sam Hood

Unemployed carpenters in Phillip Street wait to hear succesful applica...

Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 28165 ( http://28165 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From the collection of... More

Start of a relay race showing five swimmers diving in, Colleges swimming at Drummoyne, 13 March 1935, by Sam Hood

Start of a relay race showing five swimmers diving in, Colleges swimmi...

Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 14369 ( http://14369 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From the collection of... More

W.Plummer wins the 16 lb. shot-put (45 feet 5 & 3/4 inches), 1935 / photographer Sam Hood

W.Plummer wins the 16 lb. shot-put (45 feet 5 & 3/4 inches), 1935 / ph...

Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 430692 ( http://430692 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )

High jump at the men's athletics at the Sports Ground, 1935 / photographer Sam Hood

High jump at the men's athletics at the Sports Ground, 1935 / photogra...

Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photograph:.acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/staff/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID... ( 43621 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )

Declaration of the poll at the Town Hall 5 August 1935, by Sam Hood

Declaration of the poll at the Town Hall 5 August 1935, by Sam Hood

Format: Photograph.Find more detailed information about this photograph: 81856 ( http://81856 ) .From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )

Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander December 17 1936

Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander December 17 1936

Photographer: unidentified..Location:..Description:Caption: It is easier to type than write - own a Corona. MacDougalls (Q'land) Pty Ltd., Queen St., Brisbane...The cover of christmas issue of the Queenslander ... More

A carnival of great events!! South Australia centenary celebrations

A carnival of great events!! South Australia centenary celebrations

Public domain photograph of an advertising poster, advertisement - Picryl description

Qantas flying boat 'Coolangatta', Rose Bay, Sydney, 20 June 1936 / Sam Hood

Qantas flying boat 'Coolangatta', Rose Bay, Sydney, 20 June 1936 / Sam...

Format: Black & white photoprint..From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales ( ) ..Information about photographic collections of the State Library of New South Wales:. ( ht... More

Departure of Kangaroos rugby team on AWATEA

Departure of Kangaroos rugby team on AWATEA

This image relates to the departure of the Kangaroos rugby team onboard AWATEA, July 1937, and shows two men in Kangaroo team jackets, standing in front of a grandstand. The man on the left wearing glasses is R... More

Australian actor Brian Abbot and his wife Grace Rikard Bell on board SS MORINDA at no. 10 wharf Walsh Bay

Australian actor Brian Abbot and his wife Grace Rikard Bell on board S...

This photograph depicts Australian actor George Rikard Bell, whose screen name was Brian Abbot, and his wife Grace Rikard Bell. He boarded the Burns Philp liner SS MORINDA on 5 September 1936. The cast and crew... More

Coronation decorations; illuminations of Sydney, 12/5/1937, Sam Hood

Coronation decorations; illuminations of Sydney, 12/5/1937, Sam Hood

Format: Film photonegative..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 19283 ( http://19283 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )

Corner and front facade of W.C. Penfold, showing Eastern Trading Co's building (later headquarters of the Opera Australia), Surry Hills, Sydney, March 1937 / Sam Hood

Corner and front facade of W.C. Penfold, showing Eastern Trading Co's ...

Notes: From this complex, Opera Australia runs the third busiest opera company in the world (after the Met and the Royal Opera)..Format: Negative..From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of ... More

Spectators at Tennis, 16/12/1937, White City, Rushcutters Bay, N.S.W., Sam Hood

Spectators at Tennis, 16/12/1937, White City, Rushcutters Bay, N.S.W.,...

Call number: Home & Away 16459.Format: Photonegative.Find more detailed information about this photograph: www.acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/itemDetailPaged.cgi?i... ( http://www.acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/sear... More

Royal Agricultural Show, 1937, by Sam Hood

Royal Agricultural Show, 1937, by Sam Hood

Format: Photographic negative. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 36030 ( http://36030 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From the co... More

Group in evening dress at the box office of the Theatre Royal for "Lights of London" (taken for J.C. Williamson), Sydney, 8 July 1937 / photographer Sam Hood

Group in evening dress at the box office of the Theatre Royal for "Lig...

Format: Negative..Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 22190 ( http://22190 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales : / ( / )

SS MORINDA departing no. 10 wharf Walsh Bay

SS MORINDA departing no. 10 wharf Walsh Bay

This photograph depicts the cast and crew members of the Australian film Mystery Island (1937) on board SS MORINDA. The cast and crew were sailing from Walsh Bay, Sydney to Lord Howe Island to shoot the film. .... More

Group of People at Camp Cove - Sesquicentenary Celebrations

Group of People at Camp Cove - Sesquicentenary Celebrations

Crowds at Camp Cove, Sydney Harbour, during the Sesquicentenary Celebrations in 1938.

Sesquicentenary Celebrations - George Street, Sydney

Sesquicentenary Celebrations - George Street, Sydney

Horse and carriage in George Street near the Queen Victoria Building as part of the Sesquicentenary Celebrations on Australia Day, 1938

Mary ("Molly") Fraser and son John having lunch in a cafe, Sydney, ca. 1938 / photographer unknown

Mary ("Molly") Fraser and son John having lunch in a cafe, Sydney, ca....

Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 910200 ( http://910200 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From th... More

Jim and Nancy Davenport, Albury, NSW, 11 December 1938, by by - J E N Davenport

Jim and Nancy Davenport, Albury, NSW, 11 December 1938, by by - J E N ...

Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 388670 ( http://388670 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) ..From the collection of the St... More

Antal Dorati on the Australian tour of the Russian Ballet, ca. 1938 / photographer Nanette Kuehn

Antal Dorati on the Australian tour of the Russian Ballet, ca. 1938 / ...

Format: Silver gelatin photograph..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 421962 ( http://421962 ) ..Format: Photograph..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:/... More

Ford V8 float: “Australia's March to Nationhood” Australian 150th Anniversary Celebration

Ford V8 float: “Australia's March to Nationhood” Australian 150th Anni...

Image 21806152 - A Ford V8 float, which formed part of the "Australia's March to Nationhood" parade on January 26th, 1938. This image was taken in Driver Avenue, Moore Park...This image is part of a collection ... More

“Australia's March to Nationhood” Australian 150th Anniversary Celebration

“Australia's March to Nationhood” Australian 150th Anniversary Celebra...

Image 21806140 - A float in the "Australia's March to Nationhood" parade on January 26th, 1938. This image was taken in Driver Avenue, Moore Park...This image is part of a collection entitled ‘Australia Day 193... More

"The Women" company: arrival in Sydney from Melbourne, January 1939 / photographer Sam Hood

"The Women" company: arrival in Sydney from Melbourne, January 1939 / ...

Clare Booth Luce's all female play was daring for its day and was cast in Sydney with a Broadway star, Irene Purcell. The cult movie starring Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford was made in the same year...Format: ... More

Saint Patrick's Day Pageant, 11/3/1939, by Sam Hood

Saint Patrick's Day Pageant, 11/3/1939, by Sam Hood

Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 24625 ( http://24625 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )

Royal Australian Navy officers and Prime Minister Menzies on board TSS ORANJE II

Royal Australian Navy officers and Prime Minister Menzies on board TSS...

This image depicts unidentified Royal Australian Navy officers along with Australia's prime minister at the time, Robert Gordon Menzies (far right), on board TSS ORANJE II. On 28 June 1941, after a refitting at... More

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

6th Division boards the troopships, 9-10 January 1940, by Sam Hood

6th Division boards the troopships, 9-10 January 1940, by Sam Hood

This photo is from a collection depicting the wartime departure of the 6th Division for the Middle East, 9-10 January 1940. ..Format: Photograph..Find out more about this photographic collection: 153835 ( http:... More

Lipstick production at Colgate-Palmolive, c. 1940s, by unknown photographer

Lipstick production at Colgate-Palmolive, c. 1940s, by unknown photogr...

Colgate-Palmolive, a New York based company, opened a soap factory at East Balmain in 1923. In 1924 Palmolive soap was launched in Australia. By 1925 there were 144 people employed at Balmain by Colgate-Palmoli... More

St Patrick's Day sports at Showground, March 1940, by Sam Hood

St Patrick's Day sports at Showground, March 1940, by Sam Hood

Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 25729 ( http://25729 ) ..From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales ( )

Beach sports under summer skies

Beach sports under summer skies

ID number: 002195.Photographer: Damien Parer.Date: July 1940.Place: British Mandate of Palestine: Ascalon..2/1 Battalion taking recreation in beach sports at Eskelon [sic] Beach...Rights Info: No known copyrigh... More

Australian Army soldiers, possibly on board RMS QUEEN MARY, in West Circular Quay, May 1940

Australian Army soldiers, possibly on board RMS QUEEN MARY, in West Ci...

This photograph, depicting Australian Army soldiers, possibly on board RMS QUEEN MARY, in West Circular Quay, was taken when the Cunard Line's RMS MAURETANIA and QUEEN MARY had sailed from New York to Sydney in... More

Australia and the war / Pollock.

Australia and the war / Pollock.

Poster showing a map of Australia and the face of Hirohito(?).

Beach sports under summer skies

Beach sports under summer skies

ID number: 009906.Photographer: George Silk.Date: September 1941.Place: Gaza Beach..The start of the sprint race at the surf lifesaving carnival. ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions..This photograph ... More

Movie-making - Australia in World War Two

Movie-making - Australia in World War Two

ID number: 061837.Photographer: Colin Thomas Halmarick.Place: Kokoda Trail, New Guinea.. Preparing to film sequences for Chauvel’s film “The Rats of Tobruk”. ..Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions..Thi... More

Norma Bissaker and Frank Bissaker on their wedding day, 1941

Norma Bissaker and Frank Bissaker on their wedding day, 1941

Studio portrait of the wedding party at the marriage of NX57392 Lieutenant Frank Sherral Bissaker and Norma Sherrie Bissell. The attendants are Horrie Bissell and Nita Bissell and an unnamed flower girl. ..Lt B... More

Empire Air Training Scheme Airmen leave by "Awatea" for Canada, 22/2/1941, by Sam Hood

Empire Air Training Scheme Airmen leave by "Awatea" for Canada, 22/2/1...

The Empire Air Training scheme was a programme implemented during the Second World War to train aircrew from the nations of the Commonwealth for service with Britain's Royal Air Force. Realising it did not have... More

Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber rear fuselage and tail sub-assembly plant. Specially constructed container and truck for transporting major components from sub-assembly plants to main assembly plant

Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber rear fuselage and tail s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Two men working on a model of a plane. Office of War Information Photograph

Two men working on a model of a plane. Office of War Information Photo...

Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A man kneeling down petting a small dog. Australia black and white 1942.

A man kneeling down petting a small dog. Australia black and white 194...

A young man feeding a baby kangaroo / A man kneeling down petting a small dog / Animals public domain photography.

K. Davis - Tramwoman at work [and other tram photographs], 1933-1942

K. Davis - Tramwoman at work [and other tram photographs], 1933-1942

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HM Troopship Queen Mary in Sydney, World War II / photographer unknown

HM Troopship Queen Mary in Sydney, World War II / photographer unknown

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De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. The ladies sewing circle has a grim meaning in De Land, Florida these days. Here's one of its daily sessions, sewing fabric on airplane wings they hope will be flying over Germany some day soon. Nearest the camera is Joyce Newsom, instructor in De Land's vocational school, giving lessons in the new art of sewing to two grandmothers. Left is Mrs. Gussie Ryals, who has an invalid husband and five grandchildren. Right is Mrs. Ruth Klug, whose husband fought through the first World War, who has two grandchildren, and a boy in a bombing squadron in Australia. Both grandmothers soon will take their places on the assembly line of an aircraft factory

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. The ladies sewing circle has a...

Public domain photograph related to Germany in World War One, military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Australia in the war. Dispatch riders of an Australian armored division lined up for review. These are American motorcycles, furnished under the lend-lease program

Australia in the war. Dispatch riders of an Australian armored divisio...

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A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washing... More

Australia in the war. Testing the light guns on American tanks at an Australian armored unit's camp somewhere in Australia. The corporal in the foreground keeps contact between the tank crews and the men at the targets

Australia in the war. Testing the light guns on American tanks at an A...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Australia in the war. Months of training under field conditions contribute to the building up of Australia's armored forces. The American tank shown here is part of the fighting equipment furnished United Nations under lend-lease

Australia in the war. Months of training under field conditions contri...

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Christmas in the Ramu Valley, 1943

Christmas in the Ramu Valley, 1943

ID Number: 062771 .Maker: Stuckey, Norman Bradford ..Ramu Valley, New Guinea. NX103434 Captain F. D. Smith, dressed as Father Christmas, arriving at one of the wards of the main dressing station, 2/6th Au... More

Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Exterior view of hospital. Towering high above the city is Australia's newest and finest medical structure, built as a civic enterprise as the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Today, renamed the United States Army Fourth General Hospital, it is a healing place for American soldiers and sailors.  A three million dollar lump sum of reciprocal lend-lease was handed over to the United States before it ever had a civilian occupant

Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Exterior view of ho...

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