Old Sydney

1940s60 photos

Presentation of cheque to Mr Clarence Moss by Mrs Grace, 19401940Soldier taken for Commonwealth Bank, 19401940Staff School group at Victoria Barracks, 19401940Tiled bathroom with elevated bath Burnham Thorpe Gordon home of Mr Woolcott Forbes, 19401940A group of VADs, 19 Oct 1940, by Sam Hood1940Billy and Graham Green from the Salvation Army Camp practise a little deceit, Collaroy Beach, ca. 1940 - photographer unknown, c. 1940c. 1940Policeman helps woman with group of girls to cross a city street, ca. 1935, from Hood Collection part II - (Children in groups and with adults, social functions, etc.), ca. 1925-ca. 1955 - Sam Hood, 1925–551925–55Mother (i.e. Margaret Trimnell-Ritchard) 1940 Sydney1940K. Davis - Tramwoman at work (and other tram photographs), 1933-1942, 19401940K. Davis - Tramwoman at work (and other tram photographs), 1933-1942, 19401940Eleanor Dark, c. 1940c. 1940Woman sitting on bumper bar of a car at Warwick Farm racecourse from The Powerhouse Museum, 1930–501930–50Billy Hughes, Sydney, 19411941Billy Hughes, Sydney, 1941 (cropped)1941Steinback 19411941Muriel Steinbeck, Sydney, Australia, 2 April 194119412GB Palmolive Star Parade Youth Show Trocadero taken for Mr Oswald Anderson George Paterson Ltd, 19411941Arrival of General Sir Thomas Blamey from Middle East at Rose Bay air base, 19411941AWA baseball team taken for Mr Fleming, 19411941Bags taken for Mr Selby Goldseal, 19411941Bob Benson and cricket team, 1925–571925–57Bondi team in march past, 1925–571925–57Cattle show committee man, 1925–571925–57Cecil Shannon Mr Rydge Gordon Ellis, 1925–571925–57Champion Blood Stallion Sion, 1925–571925–57Cine club MGM theatrette Mrs Sadie Parker, 19411941Country Womens Association fete at Mrs Ruth Fairfaxs house Elaine Seven Shillings Beach Double Bay Miss Clark, 19411941Cricketer Morrie Sievers, 1925–571925–57Dead baby taken for Medcalf, 1925–571925–57Fortress Signals group, 1925–571925–57George Capel, 1925–571925–57Grace Bros staff from toy department taken for Mr Hull, 19411941Group, 1925–571925–57Group of cattle judges outside the RAS office at the Showground, 1925–571925–57Group outside radio station 2SM, 1925–571925–57House taken for Mr Ashton Building Publishing Co, 19411941Houses taken for Mr Ashton Building Publishing Co, 19411941Houses Five Dock taken for Mr Ashton Builder magazine, 19411941Hygeia Dissolvenator Co taken for Mr Black, 1925–571925–57Improvements Timbrell Park area Drummoyne electorate taken for Mr Jack Lee MLA, 19411941Interior of the Consulate the study, 1925–571925–57JC Williamson dancers, 1925–571925–57Judge and Mrs Stewart Pettys Hotel raider victims, 19411941Miss Dinah Hordern on her hack, 1925–571925–57Mrs Megnuss ie Magnus funeral St Marys Cathedral, 19411941Portrait of a man copied for Thompson Wilson, 19411941Portrait of the Chief Justice Sir Gavin Duffy, 1925–571925–57Residence Mr Whittingham Rickard Avenue Mosman, 1925–571925–57Returned soldiers 8th Field Ambulance taken for Miss Coxon AIF, 19411941Saddle ponies event Mrs Audrey Manchee, 1925–571925–57Sam Hordern and Sir Philip Game at the official opening, 1925–571925–57Sammy Gardiners cricket team South Sydney cricket juniors, 1941–421941–42Sir Philip Game ties on ribbon to champion Clydesdale, 1925–571925–57Sydney Grammar School football team (rejected photo), 1925–571925–57Taxi Mr SAB Jones, 19411941The winning Clydesdale team of four, 1925–571925–57Throsby wedding, 1925–571925–57Unidentified golfer driving down fairway to 2nd green, 1925–571925–57Unidentified player makes a practice swing, 1925–571925–57Vesta Batteries sales convention Mr Percy Lovett deputy to Chairman and GM on the left, 19411941

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1,825 historic photos for Portraits and groups, taken between 1836 and 1998, gathered from across the suburbs by what their catalogue titles say. They span 17 decades, with the most from the 1930s (791). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.