Old Sydney

1941 16 photos

Grace Brothers fruit counter, Broadway, Sydney, May 1941, by Sam HoodWirth Circus parade (Lord Mayor's Fund), 1941 - Sam HoodWirths' Circus, 1941 - Sam HoodWirth Circus parade (Lord Mayor's Fund), 1941 - Sam HoodCarmen, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 1941 - Sam Hood2-19th Australian Infanry Battalion embarking Sydney Feb 1941 (AWM photo 005472)2-8th Australian Infantry Battalion reinforcements in Sydney 1941 (AWM photograph 010348)A388005h, 1941Clyde aircraft shops with workmen at their benche, 1941Double Bay Public School - Air raid drill, c. 1941P02547.002Siffleet1941P02547.001SiffleetPortrait, c. 1941HMAS Sydney at Circular Quay, 1941Len Siffleet and his fiancee Clarice Lane, c. 1941Borovansky and Ann MacKintosh, c. 1941Redfern post office 1941. Australia

1942 44 photos

AWM, 1942Sydney ferry KUTTABUL wrecked after Japanese torpedo strike 31 May 1942Former Sydney ferry KUTTABUL sunk after Japanese midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour 1942Former Sydney ferry KUTTABUL the day after being sunk by Japanese midget submarine 1942Former Sydney ferry KUTTABUL at Garden Island with two navy anti-submarine trawlers, including HMAS SAMUEL BENBOW, c. 1942Portrait of Alderman Reginald James Bartley, Lord Mayor of Sydney (1943-1944, 1946-1948), 1942USS Portland (CA-33) in a drydock at the Cockatoo Island Dockyard, circa in late 1942 (NH 81992), c. 1942John Curtin austerity speech SLNSW 1942Sydney Oddities, 15 December 1942Ship and Tugs Sydney 1942 slnswJapanese attack Sydney WW2, 1942Harry Hay 1942Launching of HMAS Warramunga. Mrs F. M. Forde and Mr Norman Fraser, managing director of Cockatoo Docks and Engineering, 7 February 1942Vera Forde, wife of Frank Forde, 1942GPO Christchurch 1942Mitchell Contortionist 1942Beanham 1942Chinese community at Burwood, 1942USS Whipple (DD-217) at Sydney 1942, c. 1942Joy Nicholls 1942Apprentices at Eveleigh Workshops, c. 1942William Dobell Max Dupain, 1942USS Chicago (CA-29) in May 1942Mactan—AWM303558, 1942A Chinese Kuo Min Tang political luncheon taken for Stanley Quon, 1942A group of eighteen men in bowling whites City Bowling Club, 1942A printing press copy from French newspaper for Mr Saurdin, 1942A twostorey old style villa No 44 taken for Building, 1942Aerodynamic School, 1942Aerodynamic School, 1942Air Force dental mechanics at Ultimo WO Trulove, 1942An amateur male drag ballet at Hibberd Meters Christmas party, 1942Army captain Victoria Park, 1942Art Gallery of NSW, 1942Auburn Civic view to stage, 1942Buckinghams Department Store Oxford Street Darlinghurst with V for Victory sign taken for Building Publishing Co, 1942Burwood Palatial view to stage curtains closed, 1942Chapel in newly built Catholic Church at Northbridge taken for Building Publishing Co, 1942Children hold posters advertising Walt Disneys Reluctant dragon Enmore Theatre, 1942Childrens party at Premier Theatre Surry Hills, 1942Confessionals in the newlybuilt Catholic Church at Northbridge taken for Building Publishing Co, 1942Country Press Conference Sydney Dr Evatt, 1942Dinner to Sir Keith Smith, c. 1942Efco Co, c. 1942

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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.