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Warringah Shire Council Town Planning Scheme 1956 Report or plan
Water Rats Television program
Waterholes 2018 by Leanne Mulgo Watson Work of art
Wattles and wattle-barks of New South Wales, being hints on the conservation and cultivation of wattles, together with particulars of their value Book
Weekly Times Newspaper
Welcome Magazine or periodical
What We Saw in Australia Book
When It Comes Poem
While I live, I'll grow Saying
White Cloud Ship
Wicked Women Magazine or periodical
Width of Streets and Lanes Act 1881 Legislation
William & Mary Ship
William and Ann Ship
William Pitt Ship
William Shand Ship
Wilson's Sydney and Suburbs Street Directory and Blue Mountains Guide Book
Windsor and Richmond Gazette Newspaper
Wireless Weekly Magazine or periodical
Within Our Gates Film
Wogs out of Work Play
Woman Magazine or periodical
Women's Legal Status Act 1918 Legislation
Woodlark Ship
Works by Members of the Amateur Photographic Society of NSW August 1886 Photograph
Wrapped Coast – One Million Square Feet ExhibitionWork of art
Writers' Walk Document
Wuganmagulya (Farm Cove) Work of art
Xarifa Ship
Yurong Water Garden Sculpture

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Warringah Shire Council Town Planning Scheme 1956

Planning document designed to guide the development of the Warringah Shire.

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Report or plan

Water Rats

Television drama filmed and set on Goat Island 1995-2001

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Television program

Waterholes 2018 by Leanne Mulgo Watson

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Painting by Darug artist Leanne Mulgo Watson that was inspired by the lagoons around Ebenezer in the Hawkebury district, and all the life and nourishment they offered people. It was commissioned as part of the Dyarubbin: Real Secret River research project in 2018.

 

Work of art

Wattles and wattle-barks of New South Wales, being hints on the conservation and cultivation of wattles, together with particulars ...

Book on the conservation and cultivation of wattles published in 1890.

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Book

Weekly Times

North Shore newspaper which began publication in 1858.

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Newspaper

Welcome

Monthly bulletin of the All Nations Club.

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Magazine or periodical

What We Saw in Australia

Travel journal by Florence and Rosamond Hill, of their voyage to, and travels around Australia in 1873-4.

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When It Comes

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Dorothea Mackellar's first published poem, written when she was 15 and said to have been inspired by the death of her brother, Keith Kinnaird Mackellar, in 1900. Published in July 1903 in the American 'Harper's Monthly Magazine'. 

Poem

While I live, I'll grow

Advertising slogan, with a picture of a tree, used by Anthony Hordern's department store.

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Saying

White Cloud

Small vessel built by Burton Crossland and used by him to convey supplies between the settlement at Berowra Creek and Sydney.

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Ship

Wicked Women

Radical lesbian sex magazine.

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Width of Streets and Lanes Act 1881

Legislation to regulate the width of streets and lanes and for certain other purposes.

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Legislation

William & Mary

Ship of 536 tons which carried 166 female orphans from Plymouth to Port Jackson in 1849.

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William and Ann

Third fleet convict transport of 350 tons which converted to a whaling ship on the return journey in 1791.

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William Pitt

Ship transporting 120 female convicts (and one male).

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William Shand

Ship of 284 tons constructed in Sunderland, England in 1818.

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Wilson's Sydney and Suburbs Street Directory and Blue Mountains Guide

Map reference and pictorial guide to the city and suburbs which was published in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Windsor and Richmond Gazette

Newspaper published in the Nepean district.

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Wireless Weekly

Radio magazine founded by enthusiasts which later became a magazine for listeners to commercial broadcasts.

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Within Our Gates

Film made in 1915 by JC Williamson's, directed by English actor and playwright Frank Harvey, with over 1,000 men storming ashore at Obelisk Bay in Sydney Harbour to re-enact the landing at Gallipoli.

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Film

Wogs out of Work

Comedy play first performed in 1987.

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Play

Woman

Magazine largely devoted to women's interests.

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Women's Legal Status Act 1918

Legislation to provide that women should not be discriminated against by reason of sex from holding certain positions or to practising certain professions.

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Woodlark

Barque of 237 tons which operated from Port Jackson for over two decades.

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Works by Members of the Amateur Photographic Society of NSW August 1886

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Album of photographs by members of the Amateur Photographic Society of New South Wales and presented by the society to the Governor, Lord Carrington, at the opening of an exhibition or 'conversazione' of their work at the Sydney Town Hall on 5 August 1886.

Photograph

Wrapped Coast – One Million Square Feet

Artwork created in 1969 by artists Jeanne Claude and Christo, who wrapped a 2.5km portion of the coast of Little Bay in fabric and rope. The largest artwork every made, it was the first of their large scale environmental public artworks and the first work supported by Kaldor Public Art Projects.

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Exhibition

Writers' Walk

Walking trail along the waterfront at Circular Quay that commemorates 34 writers connected in some way with Sydney or New South Wales.

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Document

Wuganmagulya (Farm Cove)

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Mosaic by artist Brenda L Croft set into the path at Farm Cove which commemorates historical and contemporary presence of local Indigenous people who travelled great distances to attend ceremonies here. The figures depict Sydney rock carvings.

Xarifa

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Yacht designed and built in Australia.

Yurong Water Garden

Sculpture and environmental artwork by Anita Glesta inspired by the Yurong Creek that once ran from the edge of Cook and Phillip Park through the mangrove swamps down into Woolloomooloo Bay. Roughly hewn boulders of sandstone, reflecting its natural and cultural heritage, and original pavers from the former park have been arranged to form a course for the creek which flows down three terraces of gardens retracing the path of the original.

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Sculpture