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372 photos1840–1979

372 historic photos for Homes and gardens, taken between 1840 and 1979, gathered from across the suburbs by what their catalogue titles say. They span 14 decades, with the most from the 1930s (139). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.

1840s 1 1850s 1 1860s 3 1870s 5 1880s 4 1890s 6 1900s 23 1910s 28 1920s 23 1930s 139 1940s 92 1950s 31 1960s 9 1970s 7

1910s11 photos

Inside a Daceyville house, 19141914Virgin country showing type of land before building Dacey Garden suburb, 19151915Daceyville houses, 19151915City of sydney - Circular Quay, Colonial Secretary's Office, Custom's House, Lands Office, Hotel Australia, 19151915Daceyville, garden suburb, from Randwick Road, August 1915 - photographer unknown1915Erection of the light house off Bradleys Head 1, c. 1916c. 1916Erection of the light house off Bradleys Head 2, c. 1916c. 1916Erection of the light house off Bradleys Head 3, c. 1916c. 1916Engine House (Botany, NSW) Building Vol.23, No.138, 12 Feb 1919, page 851919Bandstand in Hyde Park, Sydney, 19191919Welcome Home for returning World War I soldier Fred Tippett, 19191919

1920s23 photos

Grantham Soldiers Settlement Estate - Grantham Stud Poultry Farm, incubator house, 19211921Managers house, 19211921Women and ruins of house after bushfire, by Sam Hood c. 1920s - 59386780531920sGarden Party at Admiralty House, 1920s1920sHouse destroyed by bushfire, New South Wales, late 1920's - photographer Sam Hood, 1920s1920sWomen reading on the veranda of their home in Cremorne - Sydney, NSW, Photographed by - Ella Hammond. Hannah Hammond and granddaughter Barbara Hammond, c. 1920s1920sWomen and girls at a function, Vaucluse House, late 1920s, by Sam Hood1920sWomen reading on the veranda of their home in Cremorne - Sydney, NSW, Photographed by - Ella Hammond. Hannah Hammond and granddaughter Barbara Hammond, c. 1920s1920sAllambie House, 19251925Sydney Botanic Garden - 19251925Dalley house, 19261926Cooking at Scheyville, c. 1926c. 1926Smiling royal couple cheered by crowds at the Sydney Cricket Ground, 19271927Man surveys his vegetable garden in the Narrabeen flood, April 1927, by Sam Hood1927Amico House The AM I Company Ltd, c. 1928c. 1928A demonstration of 'Colour Music' at the inventor's Greenwich home, c. 1928, by Sam Hoodc. 1928Poppy seller pins the flower on cricketer Don Bradman's lapel outside the State Theatre, Sydney, Remembrance Day, early 1930s - photograph by Sam Hood, 1927–301927–30Children drink milk from a cow being milked Dalwood Home, 19291929Children watch a cow being milked Dalwood Home, 19291929Ted Hood holds the cow while children watch it milked Dalwood Home, 19291929Drinking milk fresh from the cow, Dalwood Home, 1929 - Sam Hood1929Woollahra House 19291929Woollahra House stables 19291929

1930s26 photos

'Tree Fringed Home' RAHS-Osborne Collection, 19301930'Roslyn Gardens' RAHS-Osborne Collection, 19301930'Home' RAHS-Osborne Collection, 19301930'Harbour Bridge from Gardens' RAHS-Osborne Collection, 19301930'Flower Sellers at Martin Place' RAHS-Osborne Collection, 19301930'Commerce' RAHS-Osborne Collection, 19301930Unidentified women sitting on stool in garden with black cat, 1930s, Sam Hood, c. 1930c. 1930Singlestorey slate roof mansion Danmark home of WJ Smith between 19271936, 1927–361927–36The dining room Danmark home of WJ Smith between 19271936, 1927–361927–36The massive staircase leading up from the entrance hall Danmark home of WJ Smith between 19271936, 1927–361927–36The ornate gallery at top of staircase Danmark home of WJ Smith between 19271936, 1927–361927–36Top of the staircase Bronze statue of Lovers figurines of nymphs a rambling lion Paintings on the walls A Mountain Waterfall A Picnic and An Aviator in Danmark home of WJ Smith between 19271936, 1927–361927–36Photographic portrait of Roland Kitson, vice-chairman of Dorman Long, in Sydney for the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, taken by Monte Luke, published in The Home (2 May 1932)1932Toll Bar and Toll House, c. 1932c. 1932The old Kensington golf club house at Tunstall Avenue before it was burnt down in 1932, c. 1932c. 1932Vaucluse House Cinesound, 19321932Vaucluse House Cinesound, 19321932Workmen forming new garden beds, c. 1932c. 1932Toll House Sydney Harbour Bridge, c. 1932c. 1932Far West Childrens Home Manly, 1933–341933–34DeHavilland DH.88 Comet, "Grosvenor House" G-ACSS, in Martin Place, Sydney 12 November 19341934DH 88 Comet Grosvenor House G-ACSS moved into Martin Place, 19341934A derailed MarrickvilletoCircular Quay tram runs into house at Redfern, 19341934A voluntary labour home building project, c. 1934c. 1934A woman tending her garden at Happy Valley, 1930s1930sAero Pageant at Hargrave Park aerial bombing of a dummy house, 1930s1930s
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