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Small-pox! : a treatise

Sydney's smallpox epidemic in 1881

'Small-pox! : a treatise' by D. Kinnear Brown. Sydney: J.G. O'Connor, 1881, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW (DSM/614.473/B) As we stare down the barrel of an unknown pandemic, we remember that the city has seen quite a few epidemics in…

StrandArcade1982

David Bowie's Sydney film clips

Scene in the Strand Arcade 1982. Contributed by National Archives of Australia [A6180, 13/12/82/18] Well, it's a sad opening to 2016 for music fans with the gob-smacking announcement of the death of David Bowie on Monday night. So I thought we…