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Australia's first composer
size-medium wp-image-6068Isaac Nathan, Australia's first composer, 1820. Contributed by National Library of Australia [nla.pic-an2292675]http://trust.dictionaryofsydney.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/IsaacNathan-226x300.pngIsaac Nathan, Australia's first composer, 1820. Contributed by National Library of Australia [nla.pic-an2292675]226300/> Isaac Nathan, Australia's first composer, 1820. Contributed by National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an2292675 This morning on…
John York and the Sydney Brass Instrument Factory
John York’s shop at 52 George Street West, Chippendale c1906 A new issue of the Sydney Journal, the Dictionary of Sydney's peer-reviewed scholarly publication, has just been released - it's a special issue edited by Matthew Bailey and Paul Ashton based…
Corroboree Sydney
Corroboree Sydney 2013, 14-24 November Celebrating culture and connecting people From the 14-24 November, Sydney will be hosting the inaugural Corroboree Sydney festival of Indigenous arts and culture. Directed by Hetti Perkins, the festival features leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists,…
Bennelong's story
Portrait of Bennelong, signed "W.W." , courtesy Dixson Galleries, State Library of NSW a1256013 / DGB 10, f13 Corroboree, a new Sydney Indigenous cultural festival kicks off on the 14th November (this Thursday) so this morning on 2SER Breakfast with Tim…
An early cartoon celebrity
This morning on 2SER with Tim Higgins, I reached into my bag of tricks and pulled out another great Sydney story - the origins of the cartoon character Felix The Cat. Pat Sullivan and his wife, Marjorie with entries for the…
Celebrating Sydney's oral histories
40 – 44 Buckland St, Chippendale, 1915. Image courtesy of the City of Sydney This morning on 2SER breakfast, Tim and I talked about oral history in anticipation of today's launch of the City of Sydney's Sydney Oral Histories website. Oral…
40th anniversary of Sydney's iconic Opera House
Construction of the Sydney Opera House 1966. By Michael Jensen. Contributed by National Archives of Australia (C500, S66/2190) This weekend the Sydney Opera House turns 40. It's hard to imagine a building of this magnitude being commissioned by a government today,…
Community radio
Radio mast and Sir Ernest Fisk's home Lucania, Wahroonga 1918. By Sam Hood. From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales (hood_07681 / Home and Away 7681) Earlier this year the Dictionary of Sydney teamed up with 2SER…
Lucien Henry
size-medium wp-image-5723Lucien Henry design for wall paper, 1915.http://trust.dictionaryofsydney.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/LucienHenry_wallpaperdesign_71693-197x300.pngLucien Henry design for wall paper, 1915. Contributed by Internet Archive [The Australian flora in applied art (1915)] (The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden)197300/> Lucien Henry design for wall paper,…
HMAS Sydney
Gun turrets of HMAS Sydney II showing blistered paint on the barrels after the battle of Cape Sparda, Crete 19 July 1940. By Eric Charles Evens. Contributed by Australian War Memorial P02571.006 The International Naval Fleet Review starts tomorrow, so this…