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Surry Hills Kids 1920. Ship stoker 1922. Percy Branton, presumably a Wrigley's Doublemint salesman 1925. Jolly Swagman in Sydney's Domain 1925. When the working day is done in Darling Harbour 1926. Billycart racers raring to go 1928. Gone droving 1928.
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Percy Branton, presumably a Wrigley's Doublemint salesman 1925
The burnt-out remains of a coal-fired steam engine boat 1929
Aviation J J Hammond and his Boxkite plane, Ascot Racecourse, Botany 1911
Maurice Guillaux & his Bleriot XI monoplane first mail and cargo flight 1914
Joyceln Howath and Nancy Bird, 1930-33
Sydney Harbour Bridge Opening, school children walk across the day before the opening ceremony March 1932
Opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Police rush to seize Francis De Groot after he cut the ribbon 1932
Sydney Harbour Bridge, Police seise Captain Francis De Groot immediately after he cut the ribbon
Sydney Harbour Bridge official opening, NSW Premier Jack Lang cuts the ribbon
Lithgow Vale Colliery miner with his crude lamp and coil of dynamite 1932
Life boat drill for the crew of HMAS Sydney in Jervis Bay, April 1939
The partly submerged Royal Australian Navy accomodation ship Kuttabul in Sydney Harbour damaged by a Japanese midget submarine 1942
The wreckage of a Japanese midget submarine blown apart by a depth charge 1942
One of the Japanese midget submarine used in the attack 1942
Sir Laurence Oliver and Lady Oliver better known as Vivien Leigh arrive in Sydney in 1943
Wartime Larbor Party rivals John Curtin and Herbert 'Doc' Evatt
A new Year's Day hailstorm hospitalised 350 with concussion in 1947, this was the scene at Rose Bay's Flying Boat Base