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Somewhere in Sydney in the 1940s

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JC Williamson props 19411941Steinback 19411941King George VI statue, JC Williamson's prop store, 19411941Muriel Steinbeck, Sydney, Australia, 2 April 19411941Embassy Theatre Ushers 1941 V1-FL95986621941Arthur Varley, 19411941Morts Dock 19411941Bus depot Pittwater Road 19411941Maxwell, Derhan, Broadbent, Moyes Sydney Feb 1941 AWM0055171941USS Chicago (CA-29) enters Sydney habour in 19411941USS Portland (CA-33) at Sydney in 19411941USS Clark (DD-361) at Sydney in 19411941USS Conyngham (DD-371) at Sydney 19411941USS Cassin (DD-372) at Sydney in 194119412GB Palmolive Star Parade Youth Show Trocadero taken for Mr Oswald Anderson George Paterson Ltd, 19411941A modern brick and tile bungalow with porch taken for Building Publishing Co, 1925–571925–57Edwards Dunlop machine Woodward, 19411941Flats taken for Building Publishing Co, 1925–571925–57French curves of the saloon bar the Century Hotel taken for Building Publishing Co, 19411941House taken for Mr Ashton Building Publishing Co, 19411941Houses taken for Mr Ashton Building Publishing Co, 19411941Interior new Lyceum Theatre, 1925–571925–57Part of the dining room the new Civic Hotel taken for Building Publishing Co, 19411941Presentation of hospital cheques, 19411941Salvation Army rally in tent at Prince Alfred Park, 19411941Sammy Gardiners cricket team South Sydney cricket juniors, 1941–421941–42St Stephens Church Sydney, 1925–571925–57Sydney Grammar School football team (rejected photo), 1925–571925–57Sydney Grammar School groups The Army Cadet Corps, 1925–571925–57V for victory Garrys Gowns window display, 19411941Wirth Circus parade Lord Mayors Fund, 19411941Youth show and star parade Trocadero for George Patterson Pty Ltd, 19411941Gas Co ball, Trocadero, July 194119412GB Palmolive "Star Parade and Youth Show", Trocadero (taken for Mr Oswald Anderson, George Paterson Ltd), 29 July 19411941Max Factor cosmetics, Her Majesty's Arcade, Sydney (taken for M.G.M.), c. 1941, by Sam Hoodc. 1941Wirth Circus parade (Lord Mayor's Fund), 1941 - Sam Hood1941Wirths' Circus, 1941 - Sam Hood1941Wirth Circus parade (Lord Mayor's Fund), 1941 - Sam Hood19412-19th Australian Infanry Battalion embarking Sydney Feb 1941 (AWM photo 005472)19412-8th Australian Infantry Battalion reinforcements in Sydney 1941 (AWM photograph 010348)1941P02547.001SiffleetPortrait, c. 1941c. 1941Borovansky and Ann MacKintosh, c. 1941c. 1941AWM, 19421942Sydney ferry KUTTABUL wrecked after Japanese torpedo strike 31 May 19421942Former Sydney ferry KUTTABUL the day after being sunk by Japanese midget submarine 19421942Portrait of Alderman Reginald James Bartley, Lord Mayor of Sydney (1943-1944, 1946-1948), 19421942Sydney Oddities, 15 December 19421942Mitchell Contortionist 19421942USS Whipple (DD-217) at Sydney 1942, c. 1942c. 1942Joy Nicholls 19421942William Dobell Max Dupain, 19421942Mactan—AWM303558, 19421942Country Press Conference Sydney Dr Evatt, 19421942Exterior Public Library of NSW showing the bronze entrance doors embossed with heads of explorers, 19421942Kitchen in new post office taken for Building Publishing Co, 19421942Public Library of NSW and Mitchell Library, 19421942Section of the laundry Rachel Forster Hospital, 19421942Rachel Cameron and Henry Legerton in the Kirsova Ballet Les Sylphides, Max Dupain Studio, Sydney, between 1941-1944 - photographer Max Dupain, 1941–441941–44Patriotic concert, WW II - by Sam Hood, 19421942Ald.William Neville Harding 19421942
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