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Sydney city centre in the 1930s

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551 historic photos of Sydney city centre from the 1930s, oldest first. They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.

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Amicus statue on top of the Australian Mutual Provident Society Head Office, Pitt Street, Sydney (c.1930), c. 1930c. 1930Shakespeare Memorial Sydney, c. 1930c. 1930Hyde Park without the fountain, c. 1930c. 1930T&G Building V1-FL1639382, c. 1930c. 1930Wynyard Station old2, c. 1930c. 1930Installing escalators at Wynyard, 19301930View over the Botanic Gardens, 1930, c. 1930c. 1930Wynyard Station - Erecting Escalators, c. 1930c. 1930William Street, Sydney, 19301930Building Town Hall station - QVB in the background, 19301930Large wall advertising sign for Fitform Menswear advertising Oskosh overalls and workshirts, 19301930Advertising billboard at Wynyard Railway Station promoting trade between Australia and Canada, 1930 - 19391930Wynyard Station - Pouring Roof Slab, c. 1930c. 1930Anzac Day in the Domain, Sydney, 25 April ca. 1930 Sam Hood, c. 1930c. 1930A Junior Red Cross girl lays a wreath on the Cenotaph, 25 Apr 1930, by Sam Hood1930Colonel Sommerville leads WWI veterans past the Cenotaph, 19301930Marchers pass the Conservatorium leaving Government House grounds, 19301930A five piece jazz band in their "music shell', probably Wentworth Hotel, Sydney, 192- - photographer Sam Hood, 19301930The T and G Building from Hyde Park, Sydney, ca. 1930 - photographer Sam Hood, c. 1930c. 1930The Sydney Town Hall illuminated for the Radio and Electrical Exhibition, ca. 1930 - photographer Sam Hood, c. 1930c. 1930Lyceum theatre tableau float n.d. by Sam Hood, 19301930The Jewel Curtain, State Theatre, n.d. by Sam Hood, 19301930Looking east down Grosvenor Street, at night, with no. 4 Bridge street and the Union Line Building lit up, n.d. by Sam Hood, 19301930The Grace Building, Sydney, 1930 - Max Dupain1930The Grace Building, Sydney, ca. 1930 - Sam Hood, c. 1930c. 1930Grand organ, Town Hall, Sydney, between 1928-1932 - Samuel Wood, 1928–321928–32Minties van of H.Bear near the Conservatorium - W.A. Webber, c. 1930c. 1930'William Street' RAHS-Osborne Collection, 19301930'Pitt Street 2' RAHS-Osborne Collection, 19301930'Pitt Street' RAHS-Osborne Collection, 19301930'Mark Foys' RAHS-Osborne Collection, 19301930'Liverpool Street' RAHS-Osborne Collection, 19301930Hood 02581r, 19301930The T & G Building from Hyde Park, Sydney, ca. 1930 - photographer Sam Hood, c. 1930c. 1930Palace Theatre, Sydney, lit at night, showing "Dracula" with Nat Madison, between 1927-1931 - photographer Sam Hood, 19301930The Jewel Curtain, State Theatre, n.d. by Sam Hood, 19301930Women's clothing store 'des Notions', 19301930Gallipoli Legion of Anzac dinner at Sydney Town Hall, 19301930Archibald Fountain in Hyde Park, Sydney, 19301930The Australian Museum, Sydney, c. 1930c. 1930Rostrum Club 1 August 1930 Pilgrimage to Speaker's Rock1930Wynyard Station escalators, 19311931Demolishing Princes St Stone Arch over Argyle Street, 19311931Wynyard Station - Escalators completed, York St. entrance, 19311931Argyle Street Arch, 19311931St James' Church, Sydney organ (1931)1931Anzac Day March, King Street, Sydney, 25 April ca. 1931 Sam Hood, c. 1931c. 1931Pitt Street looking south from King Street, 1930–321930–32Crowded dais in the Domain, c. 1931, by Sam and Ted Hoodc. 1931Flag bearers lower their Standards at Cenotaph, c. 1931, by Ted Hoodc. 1931Marching up King Street, c.1931, by Sam Hood, c. 1931c. 1931Jocelyn Howarth and Nancy Bird, ca. 1930-33 - by unknown photographer, 1930–331930–33Marching up King Street, c.1931, by Sam Hood, c. 1931c. 1931Norman "Wizard" Smith and Don Harkness and two other men (on steps of Sydney Town Hall?), 1926 - 1936, 1926–361926–36George Street from Grosvenor Street looking north, November 1931 - unknown photographer1931Joyce Allan sketching a shark at the Australian Museum, Sydney, 26 August 1931, 11931Joyce Allan examining a specimen under a microscope at the Australian Museum, Sydney, 26 August 19311931Town Hall station 19321932Wynyard Station - General View of Concourse, c. 1932c. 1932HMAS Canberra Farm Cove Sydney, 19321932
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