Tram tracks at Crows Nest Junction Dated: early 1920s Digital ID: 17420_a014_a0140001115 Rights: www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions This image is part of our "Moments in Time" blog series where we ask you to help us date the photos or identify the location where the photo was taken. If you can help with this image please head over to the post at our Archives Outside blog. We have included the larger version here on Flickr to help show more detail. We'd love to hear from you if you use our photos. Many other photos in our collection are available to view and browse on our website using Photo Investigator.
These historic Australian postcards dating back to the 1880s provide a nostalgic glimpse to our nation's past.
Known for her soft capturing of tonal shifts and poignant moments, painter Clarice Beckett’s legacy was almost lost to time and decay. Now her work is being celebrated in a major exhibition.
View of Newcastle beach Dated: c.1930s Digital ID: 12932-a012-a012X2443000061 Rights: www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions We'd love to hear from you if you use our photos. You can use this image for research and study. If you wish to reproduce it for other purposes please contact State Records NSW. This image is part of our "Moments in Time" blog series where we ask you to help us date the photos or identify the location where the photo was taken. If you can help with this image please head over to the post at our Archives Outside blog. We have included the larger version here on Flickr to help show more detail. Many other photos in our collection are available to view and browse on our website using Photo Investigator.
When ships came to dock in Circular Quay labourers would congregate waiting to be chosen as part of a ‘gang’ to unload cargo 1. In this photograph, Cazneaux has captured a motley line-up of expectant labourers against the railings of ...
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Harold Cazneaux was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1878. His parents, Pierce Mott Cazneau and Emma Florence (née Bentley) worked in commercial studios in New Zealand before returning to settle permanently in Adelaide during the early 1890s. At the ...
King Street - Caledonian Hotel and Burwah Tea Room can be seen on the right Dated: 4 April 1900 Digital ID: 4481_a026_000997 Rights: www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions This image is part of our "Moments in Time" blog series where we ask you to help us date the photos or identify the location where the photo was taken. If you can help with this image please head over to the post at our Archives Outside blog. We have included the larger version here on Flickr to help show more detail. We'd love to hear from you if you use our photos/documents. Many other photos in our collection are available to view and browse on our website using Photo Investigator.
1. A Collection of Rare Photos of Men in the 1800s in Surprisingly Intimate Embraces In 2008, Columbia University librarian Herbert Mitchell passed away, bequeathing a trove of curios to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring daguerreotypes, tintypes and ambrotype
Title: George Street, Redfern Dated: No date Digital ID: 4481_a026_000912 Rights: www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions This image is part of our "Moments in Time" blog series where we ask you to help us date the photos or identify the location where the photo was taken. If you can help us date or identify where at Central Station this photo was taken please visit our Archives Outside blog post Can You Date This Photograph and add your comment. We'd love to hear from you if you use our photos/documents. Many other photos in our collection are available to view and browse on our website using Photo Investigator.
Featuring Edward Jenks Previously on Gold Discovered in Australia. And now Edward Jenks. Time: February 12, 1851 Place: Lewes Pond Creek A gold nugget from the Australian gold fields dug up in 1872. Public domain image from Wikipedia. The Governor at once ordered all the available military force to Ballarat; but, before reinforcements arrived, the coolness and promptitude of Captain Thomas--the officer in command of the troops on the Ballarat gold-field when the riot of November 30th took place—had nipped the insurrection in the bud. Captain Thomas saw that, while the Eureka Stockade threatened to become a serious obstacle to the Government if its completion were allowed, in its uncompleted state it was really a source of weakness to the insurgents. By collecting their forces in one spot, and thus rendering them more exposed to a crushing attack, and by drawing off the men who threatened the government camp, it really left the commander of the troops free to act with decision. Accordingly, Captain Thomas at once determined to attack the position. Assembling his forces (somewhat fewer than two hundred men) at three o'clock on the morning of December 3d, he moved toward the stockade. At about one hundred fifty yards from the entrenchments he was perceived by the scouts of the insurgents, who promptly fired on the advancing troops. Thomas himself, Pasley (his aide-de-camp), Rede (the resident commissioner), and Racket (the stipendiary magistrate), all of whom were present at the attack, positively assert that the insurgents fired before a shot was discharged by the troops. Upon this reception Captain Thomas gave the order to fire, and the entrenchments were carried with a rush after about ten minutes of sharp fighting. Captain Wise was fatally wounded, and three privates were killed outright; one officer and eleven privates were wounded. Of the insurgents, about thirty were known to have been killed, and many more wounded. Nearly one hundred twenty prisoners were taken. The effect of the victory was, so far as local disturbances were concerned, instantaneous. Even before the reinforcements under General Nickle appeared, all resistance to the authorities had died away; and, though the Governor at once proclaimed a state of martial law, he was able to recall the proclamation in less than a week. In other districts of the colony the effect was, for a while, doubtful. The extreme reluctance of Englishmen to admit the necessity for military interference by the Government told strongly in favor of the rioters. There was some danger that Melbourne and Geelong, left almost entirely unprotected by the concentration of troops and police at Ballarat, would be taken possession of by rioters from the country districts, and Sir Charles Hotham made hasty application to Sir William Denison, the Governor of Tasmania, for military assistance. Very soon, however, the feelings of orderly citizens asserted themselves. Special constables were sworn in at Melbourne and Geelong, marines from two men-of-war stationed at Port Phillip guarded the prisons and the powder stores, wealthy men volunteered to serve as mounted police, and the arrival of the Ninety-ninth Regiment from Tasmania on December 10th dealt a final blow to the hopes of the insurgents. Even before this event, all the respectable classes in the community had rallied round the Governor, and he felt himself in a position to defy further outbreaks. But the ugliest feature of the whole affair was yet to be revealed. Out of the large number of prisoners taken at the capture of the stockade, only thirteen were committed for trial, the magistrates being instructed to commit only when the evidence was of the clearest nature. It being considered impossible to obtain an impartial trial by a local jury, the prisoners were brought down to Melbourne, and, after various delays, the charges were proceeded with on February 20, 1855. A Boston negro, named John Joseph, and a reporter for the Ballarat Times, named Manning, were first tried. The latter may have been merely led away by professional ardor in the pursuit of "copy," though the fact that he had been openly drilled and instructed in the use of a pike by the insurgents would seem to show that his zeal was somewhat excessive. In the case of Joseph, the evidence was overwhelming; he had actually been seen to fire upon the troops, and he was captured in a tent which had been used as a guard-room by the insurgents. No counter-evidence was offered, the prisoners' counsel relying entirely on the alleged absence of treasonable intention. Nevertheless both prisoners were speedily acquitted, and, although the Government wisely withdrew the remaining cases for the time, subsequent trials produced similar results. Ultimately, however, the difficulties of the situation were allayed by the reforms introduced on the recommendation of the commission appointed to consider the whole subject of the gold-fields. This body presented, on March 27, 1855, an extremely able report, in which it recommended the abolition of the license fee and the substitution therefor of a "miners' right" or Crown permission, lasting for a year, and granted for a nominal fee of one pound, to occupy for mining purposes a specific piece of Crown land. The deficiency in revenue anticipated from the abolition of license fees was to be met by the imposition of an export duty upon gold at the rate of a half-crown an ounce. The commission strongly recommended the granting of the political franchise to holders of "miners' rights," and the provision of liberal facilities for the acquisition of land by the miners. It also advocated the simplification of the existing complex system of government in the mining districts, whereby commissioners, police authorities, commissariat officials, and magistrates all worked independently of each other, and suggested the substitution therefor of experienced "wardens" at the head of elective boards, who should not only dispose, with the aid of skilled assessors, of disputes specially connected with mining operations, but who should have power to issue by-laws adapted to the special requirements of each district. These recommendations were for the most part carried out by legislation of the same year (1855), and, before his lamented death in December, 1855, Sir Charles Hotham had the happiness being able to report to the Home Government the almost perfect tranquility of the gold-fields. Moreover, the revenue had not suffered by the substitution of the export duty for the license fees; but the collector of customs was of opinion that the result of the change had been to throw the entire burden of the tax upon the importers of the colony instead of upon the mining population. The Government was not, however, disposed to concern itself with considerations of abstract justice so long as it could collect a sufficient revenue without serious opposition. This ends our series of passages on Gold Discovered in Australia by Edward Jenks from his book A History of the Australasian Colonies published in 1895. This blog features short and lengthy pieces on all aspects of our shared past. Here are selections from the great historians who may be forgotten (and whose work have fallen into public domain) as well as links to the most up-to-date developments in the field of history and of course, original material from yours truly, Jack Le Moine. – A little bit of everything historical is here. More information here.
North Queensland swept to victory in Australia's National Rugby League final, but it was one girl's dark-skinned doll which stole the limelight.
Note: The bright sign almost in the middle of the photograph is for the 2UW (Sydney radio station) Concert Hall Format: Photograph Notes: Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/albumView.aspx?acmsID=153431&... Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/SimpleSearch.aspx From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au
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Title: Lands Department, Sydney Dated: year only 01/01/1900 Digital ID: 4346_a020_a020000009 Rights: No known copyright restrictions www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions We'd love to hear from you if you use our photos/documents. Many other photos in our collection are available to view and browse on our website using Photo Investigator.
Welcome to the first ever episodes of the DEC4 Podcast. This two-part instalment, from June 2021, is a deep dive into the influential 1970 MGM concert documentary, Elvis That’s The Way It Is. …
Central Railway Station, Sydney - snack bar Dated: 1920s Digital ID: 17420_a014_a014000082 Rights: www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions This image is part of our "Moments in Time" blog series where we ask you to help us date the photos or identify the location where the photo was taken. If you can help us date or identify where at Central Station this photo was taken please visit our Archives Outside blog post Can You Date This Photograph and add your comment. We'd love to hear from you if you use our photos. Many other photos in our collection are available to view and browse on our website using Photo Investigator.
A tango for Pope Francis, Sydney under siege, California gets much needed rain, Maasai warriors jump high, and more.
View of Martin Place, Sydney Dated: c.1950 Digital ID: 12932_a012_a012X2451000094 Rights: www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions We'd love to hear from you if you use our photos. Many other photos in our collection are available to view and browse on our website using Photo Investigator.
A new collection of photographs by Rennie Ellis captures the excess of the '80s and '90s. Decadent documents the seedier side of life in an Australia that had not yet seen anti-binge drinking or skin cancer awareness campaigns.
