Old Sydney

1940 60 photos

Bike riders at Sports Arena taken for Bruce Small Ltd Opperman prepares for attempt on the 24 hour unpaced world record, 1940Bore water at Kingsford Mr Dixons Mr Callans, 1940Boys doubles Country Week tennis White City, 1940?Builtin cupboards in the childrens day nursery Burnham Thorpe Gordon home of Mr Woolcott Forbes, 1940Cahors flats at Kings Cross, 1940Child and bore water at Kingsford Mr Dixons Mr Callans, 1940Chinese ball Trocadero, 1940Closeup of facade and entrance Bryant House taken for Mr Axtell 38 Wells St Redfern MX2067, 1940Col Barney Allen and family, 1940Conferring of honours and medals at Government House Sydney St Johns Ambulance parade, 1940Country Week tennis White City, 1940?Country Week tennis White City, 1940Cricket, 1940De Havilland hangars at Mascot, 1940Display promoting Gulbransen Living Tone radio and UBoat 29 for Columbia Pictures Ltd, 1940Don Turnbull South Australia on centre court B White City, 1940?Dr Clunies Ross, 1940Dramatic Society Rehearsal, 1940Dredge at Rockdale Reclamation job being done by Mr Albert Hood Taken for Kogarah Council, c. 1940Dress material and pattern department staff, 1940Edgells Asparagus factory Bathurst, 1940Eesti Maja Estonian House Sydney 1940, c. 1940EmmertonChinnery wedding, 1940EmmertonChinnery wedding, 1940EmmertonChinnery wedding, 1940EmmertonChinnery wedding, 1940Engineering school at Georges Heights for Captain Johnson, 1940Entrance foyer and stairs Kings Cross Theatre, 1940Exterior of the Australian Wool Products Ltd wool treatment fleecing works, 1940Exterior view of the whole building Waugh Josephsons new factory St Peters, 1940Facade showing protruding triangular windows Bryant House Pitt Street taken for Mr Axtell 38 Wells St Redfern MX2067, 1940First aid class, 1940FrenchLyons wedding Doncaster Ave Kensington, 1940Fruit barrow, 1940Funeral, 1940Funeral, 1940Funeral, 1940Gas producer on Ford car, 1940GE Crane and Sons building, 1940General view of the scouring and fleecing works Australian Wool Products Ltd wool treatment fleecing works, 1940General view of the whole yard, 1940General view of the whole yard crane lifting billet of timber, 1940Governor inspects St Johns Ambulance Brigade, 1940GowerGaltees flats Randwick, 1940GowerGaltees flats Randwick, 1940GPS Regatta at Penrith Nepean River, 1940Grace Bros Staff Ball at Trocadero, 1940Grace Bros Auditorium Band, 1940Grand Orange Lodge, 1940Grand Orange Lodge, 1940Grand Orange Lodge, 1940Ground floor lounge Kings Cross Theatre, 1940Group at Victoria Barracks, 1940Group of a cricket team, c. 1940Group of men at Sydney Cricket Ground, c. 1940Group of women on the porch of a mansion, 1940Guest bathroom with shower alcove Burnham Thorpe Gordon home of Mr Woolcott Forbes, 1940Hadfields Ltd, 1940Hadfields Ltd, 1940Hadfields Ltd, 1940

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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.