Old Sydney

1940s60 photos

JC Williamson dancers, 19411941Jersey cow, 1925–571925–57Jewel boxes, 1925–571925–57JimaeHaswell wedding, 1925–571925–57JimaeHaswell wedding, 1925–571925–57JimaeHaswell wedding, 1925–571925–57Judge and Mrs Stewart Pettys Hotel raider victims, 19411941Lady Wakehurst, c. 1941c. 1941Lanyon homestead, 1925–571925–57Layby department David Jones, 19411941Long shot, 1925–571925–57Loyal Orange Lodge Choir Town Hall celebrations and procession, 19411941Machining in the bands, 19411941Malcolm T Rea automotive electrical specialist premises taken over by Ministry of Munitions for War production, 1925–571925–57Mans shirt, 1925–571925–57Mans shirt, 1925–571925–57Military School Georges Heights taken for Major Hussey, 19411941Miss Dinah Hordern on her hack, 1925–571925–57Moodie putting as Rymill looks on at 6th green, 1925–571925–57Mrs Megnuss ie Magnus funeral St Marys Cathedral, 19411941New fourstorey building hospital Parramatta, 1925–571925–57NSW Corps of Commissionaires Government House parade, 19411941NSW Premier BSB Stevens farewells Governor Game, 1925–571925–57Orange Lodge debutantes The Blue Ball Farmers Oak Hall, 19411941Parade at Chatswood oval North Sydney AIF day boys taken for Corporal Ramsay, 1925–571925–57Part of the dining room the new Civic Hotel taken for Building Publishing Co, 19411941Patricia and Pat Minchin, 19411941Penfolds truck, 19411941Penfolds truck, 19411941Penfolds truck JRogers Waverley, 19411941Penfolds Wines shops, 19411941Peters Ice Cream cows, 1925–571925–57Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Police Carnival, 1925–571925–57Politicians pallbearers carry coffin from church WM Billy Hughes ot front on right, 1925–571925–57Portrait of a man copied for Thompson Wilson, 19411941Portrait of the Chief Justice Sir Gavin Duffy, 1925–571925–57Presentation of ambulance by the staff of Standard Telephone Cables, 19411941Presentation of hospital cheques, 19411941Presentation ambulance Wallacia Lord Mayors Fund, 19411941Prisoners of war, 19411941Production at Theatre Royal, 1925–571925–57Queen of Harbour, 1925–571925–57Queen of Harbour, 1925–571925–57Quilts copied for Paterson Laing Bruce, 19411941Radio publication job, 19411941Radio station 2CH, 1925–571925–57Rear view of march past at a surf carnival Manly, 1925–571925–57Regatta on the Sydney Harbour Naval destroyers in background, 19411941Residence Mr Whittingham Rickard Avenue Mosman, 1925–571925–57Returned soldiers 8th Field Ambulance taken for Miss Coxon AIF, 19411941Returned soldiers of the Second AIF at the RAS, 19411941Rickard House for Hookers, 1925–571925–57Riders and horses taken for Capitol Theatre, 19411941

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6,370 historic photos for Sam Hood's Sydney, taken between 1857 and 1987, gathered from across the suburbs by what their catalogue titles say. They span 9 decades, with the most from the 1930s (3938). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.