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![australianflorai00bake_0087_smlr Lucien Henry design for wallpaper, from The Australian Flora in Applied Art by Richard T Baker , 1915, from The Internet Archive, australianflorai00bake_0087](https://s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/slnsw.dxd.dc.prod.dos.prod.assets/home-dos-files/2011/12/australianflorai00bake_0087_smlr.jpg)
![King Street in the rain, c1900 by Frederick Danvers Power, courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (a422001 / ON 225, 14) King Street in the rain, c1900 by Frederick Danvers Power, courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (a422001 / ON 225, 14)](https://s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/slnsw.dxd.dc.prod.dos.prod.assets/home-dos-files/2011/12/SLNSW_a4220011.jpg)
![Manly_Girl Detail from DH Souter's cartoon 'On the Ocean Beach 'Them as wants the womanly woman can have her - the Manly girl is good enough for me' ', The Bulletin. 20 April 1905 p 25 http://dictionaryofsydney.org/image/76948](https://s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/slnsw.dxd.dc.prod.dos.prod.assets/home-dos-files/2011/12/Manly_Girl1.jpg)
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