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Sydney in the 1940s

1,802 photos

1,802 historic photos of Sydney from the 1940s, by year, then those the library dates to a span of years. They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.

1942 8 photos

Art Gallery of New South Wales (set for a patriotic concert), October 1942 - Sam Hood

Sydney torpedo, 1942

Sydney shell damage (AWM 012593), 1942

False bow being fitted to USS New Orleans, 1942

Sentinel (AWM 101156), 1942

Ald.William Neville Harding 1942

LONG NOSE POINT Jetty damage after struck by Sydney ferry KOOKOOBURRA 3 March 1942

Munitions worker, NSW, Australia, WW2, c. 1942

1943 52 photos

W.A.A.F.s at Ultimo Technical College, Sydney, 1943

Eleanor Roosevelt in Sydney, Australia - NARA, 1943

Peter H Burnett hull damage at Sutherland Dock, February 1943

Joe E Brown 1943

View of picnic ground at Fullers Bridge, Lane Cove National Park (NSW), c. 1943

3-7 inch AA gun on Kensington Golf Links in May 1943

USS Reid (DD-369) and Mugford (DD-389) at Sydney c1943, c. 1943

USS Smith (DD-378) and Dunlap (DD-384) at Sydney c1943, c. 1943

HMT Queen Mary arriving in Sydney Harbour on 27 February 1943

La Basilisque des Invalides Paris WB Gaston Architects exhibition at Blaxland Gallery taken for Mr Ashton Building Publishing Co, 1943

While Parents Sleep, 1943

For Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Ltd Gissing and Co Ltd Wilson Street Newtown, 1943

Airman Title in Hood Register American gridiron game at Sports Ground Army v Navy, 1943

American gridiron game at Sports Ground sic Army v Navy, 1943

Anzac Day Domain 2GB Uncle Frank, 1943

Backyard legal job for Mr Hall, 1943

Ballet for Anzac House, c. 1943

Ballet girls taken for Rod Gurr, c. 1943

Broken Lidcombe swing Harold T Morgan, 1943

Cahills property, 1943

Car smash Abercrombie Street taken for Mr Cowell, c. 1943

Conference of master printers or movie picture distributors, 1943

Country press conference taken for Newspaper News, 1943

Dalwood Homes Mr Fitzpatrick, 1943

Fighting French Joan of Arc celebration Cenotaph, 1943

Girls sic football Sydney Sports Ground for Mr Geo Nathan, 1943

Girls sic football Sydney Sportsground for Mr Geo Nathan, 1943

Grace Bros Staff Ball, 1943

Grave of late Mr George Walker Manly cemetery, 1943

House taken for Building Publishing Co, 1943

Houses at Waverley or North Parramatta, 1943

Lehmann Ball Town Hall Mr George Nathan, 1943

Liberty Loan march, 1943

Loan Council Martin Place for Rod Gurr, c. 1943

Maritime Workers Conference, 1943

Maritime Workers Conference, 1943

Marsh Pty Ltd 2SM session, 1943

Munitions procession AWA transmitter type AT13C, 1943

Munitions procession AWA wireless set no 19 manufactured during World war II, 1943

Munitions procession AWA, 1943

Munitions procession AWA, 1943

National Displays lorries Mr Wilson, 1943

Naval officer Title in Hood Register American gridiron game at Sports Ground Army v Navy, 1943

North Bondi Surf Life Saving Team wins NWhitehead Trophy InterClub Relay 19421943

North Bondi Surf Life Saving Team wins NWhitehead Trophy 19421943

Nossiters yacht returned, c. 1943

Nossiters yacht returned, c. 1943

Penfolds Wines trucks, 1943

Penfolds Wines trucks, 1943

Penfolds Wines trucks, 1943

Penfolds Wines trucks, 1943

Penfolds Wines lorry block out background, 1943

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