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Starting for the Christmas picnic, December 1872

Starting for the Christmas picnic, December 1872

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State Library of Victoria

[Acc No: IAN23/12/65/9]

(Illustrated Sydney News, 21 December 1871 p4)

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Celebration of Anniversary Day to 1900

Still celebrated as Australia Day, the anniversary of the arrival of the European settlers at Sydney was called Anniversary Day during the nineteenth century. The convict origins of the colony were glossed over and present achievements were emphasised in official functions, but ordinary Sydneysiders marked the holiday with picnics, regattas, sports and fireworks, much as they do today.

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Illustrated Sydney News

Newspaper published by various publishers between 1853 and 1872 and again between 1881 and 1894.

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