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Training for the new decimal currency - a display of giant coins at the Channel 10 studio in Sydney 1965

The Artists' Ball: this flashlight glimpse in the basement of Sydney Town Hall speaks for itself September 1924

View of old Government House - Sydney - N.S.W. as it appeared when vacated by Sir George Gipps in 1845

Vase de Rimini, presented to the people of Sydney by the French government after the International Exhibition in 1879

Ticket for the Third Annual Artists' Masquerade Ball 'Grand Pageant of Youth', Sydney Town Hall, 29 August 1924

Detail of 'Sydney Cove, Port Jackson 1788' showing the first Government House under construction on the extreme left

Detail of map of Sydney showing buildings running between George and Pitt Streets, between King and Market Streets 1880

Part of the reef in Sydney Bay, Norfolk Island, on which the Sirius was wreck'd, 19 March 1790

Mary Allen at the Sydney Observatory using astrographic plates to calculate the relative distances between stars February 1941

Lesley Osborne's model of the first Government House and kitchen buildings, c1836, at the Museum of Sydney 2010

Mrs Edith Fitzpatrick recalls the Sydney Water Board cottage of her childhood in the early 20th century, interviewed 1986

Mrs Edith Fitzpatrick was born in 1899. She was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960' project. Here she recalls the circumstances of her birth and the remote Sydney Water Board cottage of her…

'The Spirit of Youth' plaster panel designed by Vic Cowdroy for the 1924 Artists' Ball at Sydney Town Hall

Irish dancers parading past spectators at the St Patrick's Day Sports held at Sydney Sports Ground, 14 March 1965

Cover of 'Report on the proposed electric railways for the City of Sydney' by JJC Bradfield, published in 1916

Her Majesty's mails being helped across Sydenham Road during the late heavy rains and floods in Sydney June 1889

Miss Buttel and Miss Kellarman (Kellerman) during the Ladies High Diving at the East Sydney Swimming Carnival 7 December 1902

Sydney Port Jackson, New South Wales, taken from the Rocks on the western side of the Cove, c1803

Detail showing Goat Island from 'A view of Sydney N.S.Wales on entering the Heads the distance of Seven Miles' 1809

A view in Port Jackson taken from Sirius Island; the Sirius lying of [sic] the entrance of Sydney Cove, 1788

Section of Aboriginal meeting in Australian Hall, Sydney, organised by Aborigines' Progressive Association mourners 26 January 1938

From magazine: President Patten (right) reads resolution, 'We, representing the ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA ... on the 150th Anniversary of the whitemen's seizure of our country, HEREBY MAKE PROTEST against the callous treatment of our people ... AND WE APPEAL to the Australian…

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