Old Sydney

1930s2 photos

Saint Patrick's Day Pageant, De La Salle College Ashfield, 11-3-1939, by Sam Hood1939Saint Patrick's Day Pageant, St Gabriel's School for Deaf Boys, 11-3-1939, by Sam Hood1939

1940s58 photos

1940111B Sydney Grammar School1940AIF Day boys Willoughby Drill Hall taken for Corporal Ramsay, 19401940AIF Day boys Willoughby Drill Hall taken for Corporal Ramsay, 19401940Boys doubles Country Week tennis White City, 1940?1940?Builtin cupboards in the childrens day nursery Burnham Thorpe Gordon home of Mr Woolcott Forbes, 19401940Engineering school at Georges Heights for Captain Johnson, 19401940IID Sydney Grammar School, 19401940IVC2 Sydney Grammar School, 19401940IVD Sydney Grammar School, 19401940St Josephs College, 19401940St Josephs College, 19401940St Josephs College, 19401940St Josephs College, 19401940St Vincents College, 19401940Staff School group at Victoria Barracks, 19401940St John's Ambulance parade. The Governor takes the salute from the Red Cross girls, 19 October 1940, by Sam Hood1940Playing school, 1940 - Harold Reed1940Policeman 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, 1925–551925–55JoeysChapel, 19401940An unidentified small girl with a boy holding a white background behind her, 1925–571925–57Captain Bell Navy League childrens Christmas Party at Taronga Park, 19411941Children at play Dalwood Homes Balgowlah, 19411941Dead baby taken for Medcalf, 1925–571925–57Girls in fancy dress taken for Grace Bros, 1925–571925–57Military School Georges Heights taken for Major Hussey, 19411941Parade at Chatswood oval North Sydney AIF day boys taken for Corporal Ramsay, 1925–571925–57Salvation Army Newtown Childrens exhibition of work Commissioner Harewood, 19411941Staff School at Victoria Barracks, 1925–571925–57Sydney Grammar School football team (rejected photo), 1925–571925–57Sydney Grammar School groups The Army Cadet Corps, 1925–571925–57Children at play, Dalwood Homes, Balgowlah, 20 July 1941, by Sam Hood1941Double Bay Public School - Air raid drill, c. 1941c. 1941Aerodynamic School, 19421942Aerodynamic School, 19421942Children hold posters advertising Walt Disneys Reluctant dragon Enmore Theatre, 19421942Childrens party at Premier Theatre Surry Hills, 19421942Officers Artillery School, 19421942Salvation Army tableaux at College, 19421942St Anthonys Childrens Home Croydon, 19421942St Josephs Christian Bros High School Rozelle, 19421942St Peters School Surry Hills Brother Gregory, 19421942W.A.A.F.s at Ultimo Technical College, Sydney, 19431943Ballet girls taken for Rod Gurr, c. 1943c. 1943Girls sic football Sydney Sports Ground for Mr Geo Nathan, 19431943Girls sic football Sydney Sportsground for Mr Geo Nathan, 19431943Sydney Grammar School football team, 19431943A movie set three women and a man take morning tea scene from These Children BritishAustralian production, 19441944An actress lighting an actors cigarette scene from These Children BritishAustralian production, 19441944Baby for Far West Home, 19441944Childrens first communion St Francis de Sales Surry Hills taken for Sister Mary Irene, 19441944Father mother and son scene from These Children BritishAustralian production, 19441944Father mother and son scene from These Children BritishAustralian production, 19441944Honorary life governorship of the AIF Wives and Childrens Welfare Association conferred on Bob Hope Furlough House job, 19441944St Catherines School Waverley girls, 19441944St Catherines School Waverley Prefects, 19441944Sydney Grammar School football team, 19441944Three male actors scene from These Children BritishAustralian production, 19441944Two actors holding the arm of an actress scene from These Children BritishAustralian production, 19441944

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702 historic photos for Schools and children, taken between 1825 and 1986, gathered from across the suburbs by what their catalogue titles say. They span 14 decades, with the most from the 1930s (337). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.