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Somewhere in Sydney in the 1940s

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1790s 2 1800s 9 1820s 1 1830s 5 1840s 8 1850s 10 1860s 13 1870s 57 1880s 59 1890s 47 1900s 152 1910s 222 1920s 152 1930s 527 1940s 309 1950s 75 1960s 62 1970s 65 1980s 52 1990s 47
Sydney ferry KALANG as converted to AEME floating workshop AB97 during WW2, 1942–451942–45Darcy Dugan Fahy scrapbook slnsw, 1937–491937–49Eleanor Roosevelt in Sydney, Australia - NARA, 19431943Joe E Brown 19431943USS Reid (DD-369) and Mugford (DD-389) at Sydney c1943, c. 1943c. 1943USS Smith (DD-378) and Dunlap (DD-384) at Sydney c1943, c. 1943c. 1943While Parents Sleep, 19431943Girls sic football Sydney Sportsground for Mr Geo Nathan, 19431943Roy Jones Mexican Band, 19431943Sydney Grammar School football team, 19431943War loans displays Lyric Capitol Victory theatres, 19431943Australian sailors leave on a troopship, Sydney, ca. 1943 - Sam Hood, c. 1943c. 1943Packing comforts, 25-10-1943, by Sam Hood1943"While Parents Sleep", 20 October 1943 - Sam Hood1943Portrait of Bee Miles, 1940–461940–46Remove once loaded, 19431943William-Henry-Beveridge-1st-Baron-Beveridge (3x4 crop), 1940s1940sAustralian Army paratroopers assembling a Short 25-pounder, 19441944Toy koalas, 1944–451944Town planning 19441944HMAS Yaromma, 19441944Anzac Day March 19441944Chinese Seamens Union, 19441944Entrance hall and CPS booths of new unidentified suburban court house taken for Building Publishing Co, 19441944Entrance to flats taken for Building Publishing Co, 19441944Main entrance foyer and doors taken for Building Publishing Co, 19441944Methodist Church rally at the Lyceum Theatre YMCA Centenary, 19441944Part of the annexe leading to the auditorium 2UWs new radio theatre State Office Block, 19441944Rachel Forster Hospital, 19441944Rachel Forster Hospital, 19441944Section of flats lining culdesac taken for Building Publishing Co, 19441944Sydney Grammar School football team, 19441944The 2UW radio station library of records plays and scripts, 19441944The entrance foyer 2UWs new radio theatre State Office Block, 19441944The producers viewing box where he sat with advertising agents and sponsors watching audience 2UWs new radio theatre State Office Block, 19441944Truck tipping its load Australian Blue Metal Co trucks for Mr Freeman Ford News, 19441944Workers in a clothing factory using power sewing machines Barton Boys or Bays, 19441944Women volunteer workers doing up clothing parcels at the ACF rooms (taken for Australian Comforts Fund), Sydney, 1944 - photographer Sam Hood1944Clark Gable and Tilly Shelton-Smith, Sydney journalist, c.1940s, by Ted Hood1940sGrace Bros shoe department, Broadway, Sydney, 26 September 1944, by Sam Hood1944"Let's face it for Australia", c. 1940s - by Sam Hood1940sAlbert Donovan is welcomed home by his wife and family, 19441944Bombo-awm-300444, 19441944Museum Station, Sydney, 1940s1940sPatricia Delaney ABC Announcer 19441944HMAS Lolita 3945798, 19441944William-Henry-Beveridge-1st-Baron-Beveridge, 1940s1940sSydney ferry KARRABEE 1940s1940sHMAS KURAMIA, 1940s1940sSydney Ferry BALGOWLAH late 1940s1940sSydney ferry KAREELA between 1930 and 1959, 1930–591930–59Sydney ferry BURRA BRA as converted to anti-submarine training ship in WW2, 19451945HMCS Prince Robert on V-J Day, 19451945HMS Glory (R62) at Sydney 19451945John Antill - Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (FL16328718), 19451945Percy Code, c. 1945c. 1945Street fashion, Sydney 19451945Chinese Seamen's Union c .1945, c. 1945c. 1945A submariner at the controls of a Royal Navy midget submarine in Sydney, Australia, 1945. A3057019452SM broadcast from British Centre, 19451945
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