Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Vintage New South Wales

 In Gibberagong Creek, from Big Wattle Point 
Station. Kuring-gai Chase National Park
  
 Kuring-gai Trustees' house-boat
  
 Manly Harbour pool, 1930s
  
 Trustees oil launch, Kuring-gai Bay, Kuring-gai Chase National Park
  
The Upper Causeway, Royal National Park
 

Friday, September 16, 2016

Sam Hood

 "Let's face it for Australia" Camp Roosevelt Recreation Center "Big camp show" 
by 2nd Infantry Regiment; wartime show featuring Don Nicol and Rex Dawe, 1940s
  
Girl on a pier, Sydney area, 1930s
  
Girls jump over boys seated on a sportsground, ca. 1935
  
Helen Twelvetrees at Taronga Park Zoo, ca. 1935
[Helen Twelvetrees was an actress in the early days of sound films]
  
Women's jazz band, The Ingenues, on a ship, 1928
[The Ingenues were an all-female vaudeville band.
Here is a short film of them in action.]
 

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Australian War Memorial Collection

 A pilot (left) and observer (right), in front of a Bristol 
aircraft of No 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps, 1918
  
 A wounded AIF soldier receives an affectionate welcome 
home at the Anzac Buffet in The Domain, Sydney, 1919
  
 An Australian nurse at No 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital 
about to feed their pet kangaroo Jimony, 1916
   
Eileen Ive and John Bagot on their wedding day, 1915
 
 The first female doctor to win the Military Medal, 1917
Though Phoebe Chapple was recognised as a skilled doctor, the Australian government’s policies precluded her from military service. Undaunted, the Adelaide-born Chapple travelled to Britain in 1917 and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, becoming one of the first two woman doctors sent to France. During a bombing raid near Abbeville in May 1918, her care for those wounded around her, regardless of personal danger, led to her being awarded the Military Medal – the first woman doctor ever to receive this decoration for bravery.

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Saturday, February 27, 2016

Samuel J. Hood Studio

Car on a wooded road
  
 Children drink soft drinks at a picnic, 1940's-1953
  
Chorus girls, 1920s
  
Cutter and seamstresses in a clothing factory
  
Film actor Helen Twelvetrees and her 1935 
Pontiac, Cinesound Studios, Sydney, 1936


Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Vintage New South Wales

Harris family, Sydney, ca. 1877

Bob Dangar & Miss Stephen, ca. 1885
  
 Cyrus Moss: Woman with her new Maxwell 
car and dog, Shoalhaven, ca. 1920
  
 
Float in Sesquicentenary parade "Australia's March to Nationhood", 26 January 1938
 
Float in Sesquicentenary parade "Australia's March to Nationhood", 26 January 1938
 
Source: State Library of New South Wales

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Oz at War

World War II photos from Australia.

A female from the crowd, carried away with excitement, kisses a member of the 9th Australian Division during the unit march through the city streets, 31 March 1943
  
 A section of the crowd in Martin Place, Sydney during 
the Victory Pacific celebrations, 15 August 1945
  
Air raid practice, Melbourne, 1942
  
Christmas on HMAS Benalla, 1944
  
 Craftsman A R Bennett, motor trimmer of the 110th Brigade 
Workshop, Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, using 
a heavy duty "Singer" sewing machine to stitch canvas bags, May 1944
  
 During celebrations in the city for VJ (Victory over Japan) Day, 
an enthusiastic digger is at the front of the crowd lining 
Swanston Street, waving flags amid streamers, 15 August 1945
  
 Labuan, North Borneo. Peace at last - airmen of First Tactical Air Force RAAF 
celebrate the end of the Pacific War with a campfire singsong. 11 August 1945
    
Members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) give "eyes right" as they pass the saluting base during the Service Womens march through the city, 28 Sept 1942
  
Private Albert George Denovan, of Sydney NSW, 2/3 Pioneer Battalion, a former prisoner of war (POW) is reunited with relatives at the showground, 19 November 1944
  
 Six women sit around an aircraft tank sewing on the final cover by hand. 
They were involved in the manufacture of Beaufort and Beaufighter aircraft, 1944
  
Wewak Point, New Guinea. Some members of no. 8 platoon, A company, 2/8 infantry battalion, reading victory news and viewing the celebration pictures from home, 29 August 1945

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Vintage Tasmania

Savings Bank and Masonic Hall, Murray Street, Hobart, ca. 1892
  
Steamship 'India', Dunn St Pier, Hobart, ca. 1900
  
Tasmanian Juvenile Industrial Exhibition Building at New Market, ca. 1900
  
Warmer & Co Engineers display near Trinity, 
Lord's Place Elizabeth Street, Hobart, ca.1900
 

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Samuel J. Hood Studio

Salvation Army in the Domain, ca. 1930s
  
Salvation Army, Newtown, 15 March 1942
  
Skiing, 7 July 1934
  
Surfoplane riding at a Sydney beach, 1930s
  
Truck with caterpillar tread pulls skier through the snow, Kosciusko, 1930s