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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Clubs and Societies

Subject
A Short History of the Black and White Artists' Club
Aisling Society
Australian Arts Club
Club Marconi Fairfield
Collegium Musicum
Dutch Australian Society Neerlandia
Irish National Association
Ku-ring-gai Tree Lovers' Civic League
Russian Club Strathfield
Transcript: Mr George Bates remembers a carnival held to raise money for a local orphanage
Transcript: Mr George Bates talks about the Ancient Order of Foresters during the Great Depression
Transcript: Mr Pat Cullen recalls the life saving club that patrolled the Georges River in the early 1930s
Transcript: Mr Peter Serovich remembers the Austral Progress Association
Transcript: Mr Walter John Ferguson recalls the dangers of swimming in the Georges River in the late 1920s
World War I and the Peace Society in Sydney
Act to incorporate and otherwise promote the objects of the Society for the Relief of Destitute Children 1857
EAW Cookery Book
Works by Members of the Amateur Photographic Society of NSW August 1886
Artarmon Mosque
Australian Hall
City Tattersalls Club building
Coogee Surf Club
Field Botanists' Society of New South Wales
Gallipoli Club
Goon Yee Tong's meeting rooms
Korean Society of Sydney hall
Mount Colah Guide Hall
Neerlandia Clubhouse
New South Wales Club building
New South Wales Railway and Tramway Recreation Club
Oddfellows Hall Newtown
Oddfellows Hall Ryde
Oddfellows Hall Woollahra
Tattersalls Club building
Wigram House
1st Artarmon Guide Company
1st Artarmon Scouts
2nd Artarmon Scouts
A-League
APIA Club
Abbotsford 12ft Sailing Club
Aisling Society
All Nations Club
Amateur Fishermen's Association
Amateur Photographic Society of New South Wales (1)
Amateur Photographic Society of New South Wales (2)
American Australian Association
American Women of Sydney
An Comunn Gaidhealach
Anthropological Society of New South Wales
Arncliffe Scots Sports and Social Club
Artarmon Bowling Club
Artarmon District Tennis Club
Artarmon Progress Association
Arts Club
Asquith Bowling Club
Asquith Golf Club
Association St Maria from the Island of Cres
Association of Australian National Advertisers
Association of Croatian Folkloric Groups
Athletics NSW
Atlanta Club
Atlas League
Austral Progress Association
Australasian Trained Nurses' Association
Australia China Friendship Association
Australian Arts Club
Australian Cartoonists' Association
Australian Celtic Association
Australian Chinese Community Association
Australian Club
Australian Consumers' Association
Australian Coptic Association
Australian Cricket Club
Australian Croatian Cultural and Educational Association
Australian Federation of Employers and Industries
Australian Forest League (NSW)
Australian Golf Club
Australian Historical Skiff Sailing Association
Australian Holy Catholic Guild
Australian Jewish Welfare Society
Australian Jockey Club
Australian Kfarsghab Lebanese Association
Australian Latvian Welfare Society
Australian Lebanese Association of NSW Ltd
Australian Malaysian Singaporean Association
Australian Massage Association
Australian Mauritian Association
Australian Mothercraft Society
Australian Navy Cadets
Australian Painter-Etchers' Society
Australian Peace Council
Australian Philosophical Society
Australian Racing and Jockey Club
Australian Railway Historical Society
Australian Syrian/Lebanese Association
Australian Tibetan Society
Australian Turf Club
Australian Volunteer Coast Guard Association
Australian Watercolour Institute
Australian Women's Flying Club
Australian-Croatian Association
Australian-German Welfare Society
Balgowlah Heights and Clontarf Progress Association
Balgowlah Progress Association
Balmain Association
Balmain Sailing Club
Bankstown Soldier Settlement Progress Association
Beecroft Progress Association
Benevolent Society of New South Wales
Beverley Park Golf Club
Black Power
Blakehurst Progress Association
Bondi Amateur Swimming Club
Bondi Icebergs
Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club
Bondi-Waverley Music Club
Bonnie Doon Golf Club
British Medical Association (New South Wales Branch)
Bronte Splashers
Bronte Surf Club
Brookvale Chamber of Commerce and Industry
CabraVale Diggers Club
Caledonian Society
Camden Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Camden Golf Club
Camden Historical Society
Camden Residents' Action Group
Campbelltown Aboriginal Men's Group
Canterbury League Club
Canterbury Park Race Club
Canterbury Trotters, Owners & Trainers Association
Canterbury and Western Suburbs Cricket Association
Carnarvon Golf Club
Castellorizian Club
Catholic Young Men's Societies
Chameleons social club
Chinese Australian Historical Society
Chinese Masonic Society
Chinese Womens Association of Australia
Christian Endeavour Union
Chung Shan Society
Church Missionary Society
Circolo Isole Eolie
City Tattersalls Club
Clover Businesswomen's Club
Club Italia
Club Marconi Fairfield
Club Orjen
Club Uzor
Co.As.It.
Cobbitty Narellan Cricket Club
Collegium Musicum
Commercial Travellers Association of New South Wales
Concord and Ryde Sailing Club
Concordia Club
Confederation of Bushwalking Clubs NSW Incorporated
Contemporary Art Society
Coogee Beach Dolphins Sports Association Inc
Coogee Surf Life Saving Club
Copains Social Club
Coptic Orthodox Society
Credo
Croatian Club Jadran Hajduk
Cromer Golf Club
Cromer Youth Club
Cronulla-Sutherland District Rugby League Football Club
Croydon Park Bowling Club
Cruising Yacht Club of Australia
Cumberland Baseball Association
Cymmrodorian Society of New South Wales
Cymmrodorion Society of Sydney
Cyprus Community Club Stanmore
Cyprus Hellene Club
Daceyville Preservation Society
Dalmacija Sydney Croatian Club
Dalmatinac
Danica club
Dante Alighieri Society
Darlinghurst Liberal Club
Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation
Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
Daughters of Temperance
Dee Why RSL club
Dee Why Surf Life Saving Club
Deewhy Improvement League
Drummoyne Sailing Club
Dutch Australian Society Neerlandia
Early Closing Association
East Roseville Bowling Club
Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club
Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club
Eastern Suburbs Motor Cycling Club
Eastwood Progress Association
Electrical Association for Women
Engadine Progress Association
Engineering Association of New South Wales
Engineers Australia
Epping Returned Services League Club
Feminist Club
Foresters Friendly Society
French-Australian Chamber of Commerce
Friends of Lane Cove National Park
Friends of Rodd Island
Gaelic Club
Gaelic Society
Gaiety Athletic Club
Garden Clubs of Australia
Gladesville Progress Association
Glebe Local Distress Society
Glebe Ratepayers and Property Owners' Association
Glebe Rugby League Club
Glebe Soccer Club
Glenorie Progress Association
Goat Island Social Club
Good Film League of New South Wales
Gould League
Grand Orange Lodge of New South Wales
Grand United Order of Oddfellows
Granville & Districts Soccer Football Association
Granville Progress Association
Greenwich Flying Squadron
Greenwich Sailing Club
Greenwich Sports Club
Greenwich Tennis Club
HSNK Zora club
Hakoah Club
Hawkesbury Benevolent Society
Hebrew Philanthropic Society
Hellenic Club
Hellenic Lyceum
Hermis-Ilion Association of NSW
Herne Bay Progress Association
Hibernian Association
Historic Sports Racing Car Association of New South Wales
Homebush Jockey Club
Hunters Hill Sailing Club
Hunters Hill Trust
Independent Order of Oddfellows
International Order of Co-Freemasonry Sydney Lodge
Irish National Association
Istra Social and Sports Club
Italian Benevolent Society
Italo-Australian Club
Italo-Australian Welfare Association
Ithacan Brotherhood
Jazz Action Society
Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community of New South Wales
Khmer Youth Association of New South Wales Inc
Killara Progress Association
King Tomislav Croatian Club
Kingsford Chamber of Commerce
Kirkham Country Golf Club
Kirribilli Club
Kissing Point Progress Association
Kogarah Historical Society
Koorie United
Korean Chamber of Commerce in Australia
Korean Judo Association of Australia
Korean Society of Sydney
Korean Vietnam Veterans' Association of Australia
Ku-ring-gai Historical Society
Ku-ring-gai Tree Lovers' Civic League
La Caravelle
La Perouse United Junior Rugby League Club
Ladies' Sanitary Association
Lakes Golf Club
Lane Cove Progress Association
Lao Community Advancement Cooperative Ltd NSW
Lao Sport Association (Kila Lao)
Latvian Club
Latvian Relief Society
Laval Charity Group
Lawson Bowling Club
Lawson Mechanics' Institute
Lebanese Community Council
Leppington Bowling Club
Lesbian Space Project
Lettish Association of Sydney
Lidcombe Baseball Club
Lidcombe Catholic Workmen's Club
Lin Yik Tong
Lindfield Progress Association
Liverpool City Bowling Club
Lola football club
Macedonian-Australian People's League
Malaysian Chinese Association
Maltese Community Council of New South Wales
Maltese Guild of Australia (NSW)
Maltese Rugby League Association
Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows
Manly Golf Club
Manly Warringah District Cricket Club
Manly lawn tennis club
Manly-Warringah Rugby League Football Club
Marconi Stallions Football Club
Marne Park Baseball Club
Maroubra Surf Club
Master Builders Association of New South Wales
Master Tanners and Curriers Association of New South Wales
Matraville Sailors' and Soldiers' Garden Village Welfare Association
Mauritian Chinese Circle of Sydney
Mekong Club
Military Union
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Australia
Mosman Theatre Guild
Mount Colah Progress Association
Mount Kuring-gai Progress Society
Mountain Trails Club
Musical Association of New South Wales
NRMA
Narellan and District Progress Association
National Alliance of Russian Solidarists
National Trust of Australia (NSW)
Naturalists' Society of New South Wales
New South Wales 18-Footers League
New South Wales Ad Men's Institute
New South Wales Chinese Chamber of Commerce
New South Wales Club
New South Wales Cricket Association
New South Wales Federation of Soccer Clubs
New South Wales Institute of Hospital Almoners
New South Wales Medical Women’s Association
New South Wales National Coursing Association Ltd
New South Wales Nurses' Association
New South Wales Premier League
New South Wales Rowing Association
New South Wales Rugby League
New South Wales Rugby Union
New South Wales Swifts
New South Wales Temperance Society
New Zealand Warriors
Newtown Rugby League Club
North Brighton Golf Club
North Ryde Golf Club
North Ryde Progress Association
North Sydney Civic Heart Action Group
Northbridge Progress Association
Northmead Bowling Club
Noxious Traders Association
Old Age Pensions League
Old Sydneians' Union
Orpheus Club
PCYC Parramatta Eagles
Paddington Society
Pan-Korinthian Association of NSW Apostle Paul Ltd
Pan-Macedonian Association
Pan-Rhodian Benevolent Society
Panepirotic Federation of Australia
Parramatta & District Historical Society
Parramatta Benevolent Society
Parramatta District Cricket Club
Parramatta Golf Club
Parramatta Melita Eagles Sports Club Ltd
Parramatta RSL club
Partisan
Pastoral Association
Pennant Hills Progress Society
Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales
Phoenician Club
Playgoers' Club
Plunket Nurses Association
Poihakena Society
Political Association
Pollynesians
Pontian Cultural and Educational Association
Pontian Foundation Panagia Soumela of Australia & NZ
Port Botany Tin Dinghy Club
Presbyterian Debating Society
Pride of Warringah Lodge of Ancient Order of Druids
Princes Regent Swimming Club
Putney Progress Association
Putney-Tennyson Bowling and Recreation Club
Quota Club
Quranic Society
Randwick & Coogee Amateur Swimming Club
Randwick Botany Harriers
Randwick and Coogee Ladies Amateur Swimming Club
Reading Society
Redfern All Blacks Rugby League Club
Rembrandt Dutch Club
Rembrandt Male Choir
Returned and Services League of Australia
Riviera Co-operative Country Club
Rookwood Bicycling Club
Roseville Golf Club
Roseville Memorial Club
Roseville Progress Association
Rotary
Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales
Royal Art Society of NSW
Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Royal Australian Historical Society
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia
Royal Life Saving Society
Royal Philharmonic Society of Sydney
Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club
Royal Sydney Golf Club
Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron
Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol
Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Russian Club
Russian Historical Society in Australia
Russian Social Club
Ryde-Parramatta Golf Club
SDN Children's Services
Samian Brotherhood
Save Boy Charlton Committee
Shakespeare Society of New South Wales
Showmen's Guild of Australasia
Singer Car Club
Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia
Society for the Relief of Destitute Children
Society for the Suppression of Cattle-Stealing
Society of Artists
Society of Arts and Crafts
Soroptimist Club
South Sydney Rabbitohs
South Sydney Rugby League Club
South West Metro Waratahs
Souths Sydney Junior Rugby League Club
St Andrew's Club
St Andrew's Society of New South Wales
St Benedict's Young Men's Society
St George Illawarra Dragons
St George Sailing Club
St Ives Fruit Growers' Association
St Johns Park Aboriginal Woman's Group
St Johns Park Bowling Club
St Johns Park Progress Society
St Patrick's Total Abstinence Society
Stanmore Lady Wheelers
Steel Park River Patrol Life Saving Club
Strathfield Golf Club
Sunlight Soccer Club
Surf Life Saving Australia
Swimming New South Wales
Sydney Amateur Sailing Club
Sydney Austral soccer club
Sydney Bicycle Club
Sydney Bush Walkers
Sydney Chamber of Commerce
Sydney Collier Owners' and Stevedores' Association
Sydney Cruising Club
Sydney Dorcas Society
Sydney Female Refuge Society
Sydney Filmmakers' Cooperative
Sydney Flute Club
Sydney Flying Squadron
Sydney Football Club
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
Sydney Journalists' Club
Sydney Kings
Sydney Latvian Society
Sydney Latvian Workers' Association
Sydney Liedertafel
Sydney Lodge of Mark Master Masons No 25
Sydney Lyceum Club
Sydney Repertory Theatre Society
Sydney Rescue Work Society
Sydney Roosters
Sydney Rowing Club
Sydney Sandpipers
Sydney Spirit
Sydney Strangers' Friend Society
Sydney String Quartet
Sydney Super 8 Film Group
Sydney Swans Football Club
Sydney Total Abstinence Society
Sydney Turf Club 1825
Sydney Turf Club 1943
Sydney United Football Club
Sydney University Dramatic Society
Sydney University Evangelical Union
Sydney University Graduates of Malaysia Association
Sydney University Ladies Lawn Tennis Club
Sydney University Medical Society
Sydney Yacht Club
Tamarama Surf Life Saving Club
Tattersall's Club
Tennyson Swimming Club
The American Club, Sydney
The American Society of Sydney
The Dawn Club
The Glebe Society
The Rocks Residents Action Group
Theosophical Society
Tibetan Buddhist Society
Tipperary Association
United Associations of Women
United Pontian Benevolent Brotherhood Pontoxeniteas
United Volunteer Fire Brigade Association
University Women's Society
Vietnamese Community in Australia
Vietnamese Women's Association of New South Wales
Voluntary Workers Association
Wahroonga Progress Association
War Widows' Guild
Waratahs
Waverton Progress Association
West Lindfield West Killara Progress Association
West Pennant Hills Progress Society
West Pymble Residents Action Group
Western Suburbs Soccer Club
Wests Tigers
Wilson Crescent Richardson Road Area Residents' Group
Wireless Institute of Australia
Woman's Fire Auxiliary
Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales
Women's Anti-Conscription Committee
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Women's Club
Women's Electoral Lobby
Women's Federal League of New South Wales
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Women's Literary Society
Women's Loyalty League
Women's Peace Army
Women's Progressive Association
Women's Voluntary Services
Workers' Educational Association Sydney
Working and Factory Girls Club
Young Women's Christian Association
Yugal social and soccer club
Yugoslav Immigrants Association of Australia
Yui Ming Hung Fook Tong
Agishev, Nick
Bagatella, Rino
Crane, WG
Rose-Soley, Agnes
Sartor, Provino
Sartor, Ruben
Killara Golf Club
The YMCA Building, Pitt Street c1930
A New Society: the establishment of the Australian Society of Black and White Artists July 1924
APIA Club dance at the Trocadero March 1958
Afternoon-tea time at the Electrical Association for Women's rooms, Violet McKenzie at piano c1936
Agricultural Society's Exhibition at Moore Park April 1882
Agricultural Society's Exhibition at Moore Park April 1882
Agricultural Society's Exhibition at Moore Park April 1882
Agricultural Society's Exhibition at Moore Park April 1882
Agricultural Society's Exhibition at Moore Park April 1882
Aims and objectives of the Electrical Association for Women 1936
Austral Club public bar c1925-55
Australian Lebanese Club 1953
Building plans for School of Arts and Working Men's Institute, Bridge Rd Glebe 1923
Children in the Odeon National Cinema Club at Randwick's Odeon Theatre 15 February 1947
Children in the Odeon National Cinema Club, Kingsford 1947
Club Marconi, Fairfield May 1982
Coffee jug and stand awarded to the Reverend S Marsden by the agricultural society of New South Wales 1825
Coffee jug awarded to the Reverend S Marsden by the agricultural society of New South Wales 1825
Commonwealth Club members including John Sulman 1927
Coogee Life Saving Club c1915
Cover of Tattersall's Club Magazine, October 1929
Cover of the photographic album 'Works by Members of the Amateur Photographic Society of NSW' August 1886
Cruising Yacht Club of Australia at Rushcutters Bay, c1980
Electrical Association for Women Cookery book 1936
Electrical Association for Women Cookery book 1936
Electrical Association for Women should like YOU to become a member, 1936
Estonian Club, 141 Campbell Street, Surry Hills 1953
German Club, Phillip Street, Sydney c1900-10
Group of tennis players made up of students and staff, University of Sydney 1891-2
Headquarters of the Electrical Association for Women at the corner of Clarence and Grosvenor streets 1936
Invitation to Washington H Soul from The Highland Society of NSW to their Annual Highland Gathering on 2 January 1901
Italian Club on deck c1936
Judging at the Agricultural Society's Exhibition at Moore Park April 1882
Kandy and friends performing at Ken's Karate Klub, Kensington 1981
Lawn bowlers at the opening of the Beecroft Bowling Club House, 6 April 1964
Legacy club members march past the Cenotaph 1930
Meeting of the Lebanese Maronite Society 1934
Mitchell Library in course of construction March 1907. Australian Club in foreground.
Odeon Cinema Club for children at Randwick 15 February 1947
Odeon Cinema Club poster, Drummoye, February 1947
Phoenician Club members reading the Maltese Herald, 1975
Pikelets being made at the Electrical Association, 1936
Royal Agricultural Society's Show Grounds, Moore Park 1934
Steel Park River Patrol Lifesaving Club 1932
The Dutch Australian Society Neerlandia clubhouse, Frenchs Forest April 2012
The Dutch Australian Society Neerlandia clubhouse, Frenchs Forest April 2012
The Dutch Australian Society Neerlandia clubhouse, Frenchs Forest April 2012
The Dutch Australian Society Neerlandia clubhouse, Frenchs Forest April 2012
The Glebe District Silver Band 1936-1937
The National Trust of Australia (NSW) 1947
The Peace Society : its origin, work, difficulties and mistakes : a paper read at the XIV annual meeting of the Peace Society, N.S.W. Branch, ... by Mrs. Septimus Harwood. 1921
The all electric cookery book compiled by Mrs FV McKenzie for the Association for Electrical Development 1949
Trotting on the track at the Agricultural Society's Exhibition at Moore Park April 1882
Mr George Bates talks about the Ancient Order of Foresters during the Great Depression, interviewed in 1986
Mr Pat Cullen recalls the life saving club that patrolled the Georges River in the early 1930s, interviewed in 1986
Mr Peter Serovich remembers the Austral Progress Association, interviewed in 1986
Mr Walter John Ferguson recalls the dangers of swimming in the Georges River in the late 1920s, interviewed in 1986