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Theatre, film and radio

848 photos1840–1993

848 historic photos for Theatre, film and radio, taken between 1840 and 1993, gathered from across the suburbs by what their catalogue titles say. They span 15 decades, with the most from the 1930s (450). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.

1840s 1 1860s 2 1870s 1 1880s 7 1890s 7 1900s 14 1910s 13 1920s 93 1930s 450 1940s 213 1950s 34 1960s 7 1970s 1 1980s 4 1990s 1

1930s60 photos

2CH party at Trocadero, 23 April 19371937Astor, Burwood, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood, c. 1937c. 1937Fred Harris Tattoo Studio slnsw, 19371937Tex Morton, country & western singer, recording in A.B.C Studio - Sydney, NSW, 19381938Hollywood Hotel girls at Luna Park taken for Fullers Theatres Ltd, 19381938Hollywood Hotel Revue Company girls at Kembla Races taken for Fullers Theatres Ltd, 19381938Snow White placard at Stanmore Theatre, 193819382CH business girls lunch, 193819382CH Old Time Dance at the Town Hall Highland dancing display, 193819382CH Womens League tour to Coolangatta leaving railway, 193819382UW artists onboard French ManoWar taken for Grace Bros Ltd, 193819382UW Deanna Durbin competition at Bon Marche, 193819382UW Palmolive Session, 193819382UW Personality Girl contest, 193819382UW Players at stables Randwick, 19381938A queue in the foyer of the State Theatre Prices front stalls 16 stalls and back circle 2 and reserved stalls 26, c. 1938c. 1938Actor George Gee and family, 19381938Baby at Rose Bay taken for radio station 2UW, 19381938Ballet Balalaika Co at Nielsen Park, 19381938Ballet dancer and JCW theatre curtain, 19381938Ballet dancer in A JCW theatre, 19381938Broadcasting at Wirths Circus, 19381938City of Sydney Eisteddfod taken for The Labor Daily, 19381938Civic Theatre queue taken for Columbia Pictures Ltd, 19381938Cocktail party at George Edwards home taken for radio station 2UW, 19381938Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation Network Conference taken for radio station 2UW, 19381938Crowd of dancers on the floor at Mascot Town Hall taken for Mascot Council, 19381938Dress rehearsal of Okay for Sound, 19381938Dudley Cantrell Band and 2UW Palmolive Session, 19381938Eastwood Duke of York Theatre, 19381938Enmore Theatre lorry free Christmas cake to each child Sat matinee 24 Dec 19381938Entertainers male dressed as cossack backstage in a JCW theatre, 19381938Fred Nelson taken in studio for Bruce Small Ltd, 19381938Group taken in studio, 19381938Horse on Balalaika stage, 19381938Kings Theatre Lindfield, 19381938Kings Theatre Lindfield, 19381938Kriesler radio display at Embassy Theatre for Radio Retailer Usherette demonstrates Projectographic Kriesler radio, 19381938Kriesler Radio display at Mark Foys, 19381938Kriesler radio display at Mick Simmons Ltd Haymarket Store, 19381938Leo Numa on stage with Joe E Porter taken for Stadiums Ltd, 19381938Majestic Theatre Newtown, c. 1938c. 1938Majestic Theatre Newtown, c. 1938c. 1938Mrs McCabe in studio, 19381938Opening night Hollywood Hotel Revue taken for Fullers Theatres Ltd, 19381938Opening of new radio telephone service, 19381938Poster advertisement for Following Fathers footsteps sponsored by McWilliams Wines taken for radio station 2UW, 19381938Premiere of Broken Melody day night Embassy taken for British Empire Films, 19381938Radio speaker showing magnet, c. 1938c. 1938Streetfront view Lyceum Theatre owned by Central Methodist Mission, 19381938Studio portrait of Regent Theatre boy, 19381938Victoria Barracks magnesium flashlight photograph of a combined Army and Scottish Highland mass pipe and brass band rehearse for the Sesquicentenary celebrations, 19381938View from the stage of the Theatre Royal showing crowded stalls dress circle and gods for the last night of Ruth Draper, 19381938Vogue Theatre, 19381938Vogue Theatre, 19381938Women ballet dancers on a JCW stage, 19381938World Radio Convention, 19381938World Radio Convention, 19381938World Radio Convention, 19381938World Radio Convention, 19381938
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