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Sam Hood's Sydney

6,370 photos1857–1987

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.

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1930s60 photos

WhitneyFriend wedding couple leave the church, 19341934WhitneyFriend wedding St Johns Church Darlinghurst, 19341934Widening Elizabeth Street Workman demolishing building opposite legal chambers, 19341934Will Correy, 19341934Will McDougal driving off 8th tee, 1930s1930sWilliam Holmans cortege Harbour Bridge, 19341934William Holmans funeral lined up beside Milsons Point Railway Station, 19341934William Roberts an original Anzac and his family evicted from their Redfern home into the street during the Depression, 19341934Willys utility, 1930s1930sWilma Whitelaw Elsie Wooley, 1930s1930sWine judging at the Royal Agricultural Show, 19341934Woman, 1930s1930sWoman admires the spring flowers in the Botanic Gardens, 19341934Woman fabric worker stitching linen onto aircraft wings, 1930s1930sWoman hockey official, 19341934Woman in swimsuit, 1930s1930sWoman modelling Jantzen swim suit, 1930s1930sWoman passenger, 1930s1930sWoman runner starting at Eight Hour Day sports, 19341934Woman swimmer, 1930s1930sWoman taking lessons in deportment, c. 1934c. 1934Woman tennis player in action, c. 1934c. 1934Woman viewing works of art at Art Gallery, 1930s1930sWoman with a baby, c. 1934c. 1934Women huddled up against the cold, 1930s1930sWomen spectators, 1930s1930sWomens class at the BjelkePetersen School of Physical Culture, c. 1934c. 1934Womens Cricket Moore Park, 1930s1930sWomens fours unidentified winners, 1930s1930sWomens string trio, 1930s1930sWomens vigoro team at The Domain, 19341934Woodfull and Richardson take the field, 1930s1930sWorkmen stacking undumped wool bales, 1930s1930sWorld War I Memorial in Wellington NSW Park, 1930s1930sWrestlers working out in the gymnasium, 1930s1930sYacht, 1930s1930sYacht, 1930s1930sYacht race, c. 1934c. 1934Yachts at start of race, 1930s1930sYachts on the harbour, 1930s1930sYachts passing in foreground, 1930s1930sYachts racing on Sydney Harbour, 1930s1930sYearling horse sales at Inglis Newmarket Auction, 1930s1930sYoung girl performer Jean Smith at Eisteddfod, 19341934First woman Presbyterian cleric in Australia, 1930s1930sA woman in large hat and a man writing, 1930s1930sA line of cyclists coming through the arch of the railway bridge at Picton, 19341934Championship tennis (Miss Evelyn Dearman), 1934, White City, Rushcutters Bay, NSW, by Sam Hood1934The two captains shake hands, in the final, League football, Wests v Easts, 8 September 1934, by Sam Hood1934Sportsground, c. 1934, by Sam Hoodc. 1934Rugby league, c. 1934, by Sam Hoodc. 1934(A "Kangaroo" (Australian Rugby League Football Team member) and an official hold the team flag) SCG, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood1930sDandre-Levitoff Ballet Company, starring Olga Spessivtzeva, in the foyer of the Theatre Royal, Sydney, October 1934 - Sam Hood1934Country voters check at absentee table, 17 Sept 1934, by Sam Hood1934Absent voters at the Town Hall. Erecting polling booth beside Town Hall with galvanised pipe and Downee fittings, 13 Sept. 1934 by Sam Hood1934A woman voter at a How-to-Vote table, 17 Sept, 1934, by Sam Hood1934Balmain cinema cum dance hall featuring "Sam Lands Dance Band" and an election meeting by Hon Jim Beasley. 31 August 1934, by Sam Hood1934Group of five women in Elizabethan costumes (ball or eisteddfod), Sydney Town Hall, 193- - photographer Sam Hood, 19341934Five male swimmers - Noel Ryan on left, Domain Baths, Sydney, (ca. 1934) - photographer Sam Hood, c. 1934c. 1934Three Bonnie Highland lassies (Hazel Hunt, Hazel Hughes and Jean Gillies) in full regalia at Six Hour Day sports, 1st October 1934, by Sam Hood1934
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