Surry Hills Kids 1920

Ship stoker 1922

Percy Branton, presumably a Wrigley's Doublemint salesman

1925

Jolly Swagman in Sydney's Domain 1925

When the working day is done in Darling Harbour 1926

Billycart racers raring to go 1928

Gone droving 1928

The burnt-out remains of a coal-fired steam engine boat 1929

J J Hammond and his Boxkite plane, Ascot Racecourse, Botany 1911

Aviation

Maurice Guillaux & his Bleriot XI monoplane first mail and cargo flight 1914

Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm 10 June 1928

Joyceln Howath and

Nancy Bird, 1930-33

Nancy Bird, London, 1939

Nancy-Bird Walton

Nancy-Bird Walton with her new Leopard Moth

Nancy Bird

Coogee 1930

Forward Drive 1930

Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction 1929

Sydney Harbour Bridge September 1929

Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction 1930

Sydney Harbour Bridge 1930

Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction 1930

Sydney Harbour Bridge_1930

Sydney Harbour Bridge Opening, school children walk across the day before the opening ceremony March 1932

Opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Police rush to seize Francis De Groot after he cut the ribbon 1932

Sydney Harbour Bridge, Police seise Captain Francis De Groot immediately after he cut the ribbon

Sydney Harbour Bridge official opening, NSW Premier Jack Lang cuts the ribbon

Circular Quay in 1932

Toll barriers in 1932

Toll barriers in 1932

Lithgow Vale Colliery miner with his crude lamp and coil of dynamite 1932

Harvesting wheat Central NSW 1936

Record Pilchard catch 1936

Helping Dad at work 1936

Don Bradman lashes out in 1937

Worth's circus in Surry Hills 1937

HMAS Sydney off Jervis Bay in April 1939

Life boat drill for the crew of HMAS Sydney in Jervis Bay, April 1939

Hitler-friendly slogans daubed at Walsh Bay 1940

The partly submerged Royal Australian Navy accomodation ship Kuttabul in Sydney Harbour damaged by a Japanese midget submarine 1942

The wreckage of a Japanese midget submarine blown apart by a depth charge 1942

One of the Japanese midget submarine used in the attack 1942

Sir Laurence Oliver and Lady Oliver better known as Vivien Leigh arrive in Sydney in 1943

Wartime Larbor Party rivals John Curtin and Herbert 'Doc' Evatt

Kings Cross milkshake bar 1946

A new Year's Day hailstorm hospitalised 350 with concussion in 1947, this was the scene at Rose Bay's Flying Boat Base

Birth of the Bikini, 1947

Holiday at Manly's Far West Childrens Home 1947

Rabbit Plague near Warren 1949

Abe Saffron poses donating to the flood relief in 1951

Life on the edge Sydney Harbour Bridge Lookout 1957

Smoky Dawson 1957

Trainee fireman reherses 1959

Dick Charteris bucks night at Kings Cross 1960

Australia's longest serving prime minister Robert Menzies with Douglas Jardine the English cricket captain

who devised the bodyline tactics of 1932-33 in 1954

King and Castlereagh Streets 1955

Cooling off in January 1960

Frank Sinatra is mobbed at Sydney airport in 1961

Anzac Day march 1963

Looking down William Street to Kings Cross1960's

The Sydney Opera House under construction 1963

Dawn Frazer at home one year after she became the first woman to swim 100 meters in less than a minute 1963

The brothers and sisters of Marianne Schmidt who was raped and murdered alongside her friend Christine Sharrock at Wanda Beach 1965,

The murderer has never been identified

A jaded Mick Jagger before the Rolling Stone's Sydney Showground concert in January 1965

A country Pub at Dunedoo Hotel NSW 1966

Ladies Hairdressing salon, 1966

A police woman contemplates the scene at the Broad Arrow Cafe the site of the Port Arthur shooting by Martin Bryant in 1996

Sydney's first female taxi driver 28 year-old Judith Lake of Cremonne

1966

A young man burns his Vietnam War call-up card 1968

Priminister John Gorton dancing with Ruby Langford Ginbil's daughter Pearl at a foundation for Aboriginal Affairs ball

1968

Evonne Goolagong (later Crawley) is welcomed home to Narrandera after winning Wilbledon in 1971

The beginning of late night shopping, Sydney December 1971

Australia's first Aboriginal Paster Sir Douglas Nicholls with wife outside Buckingham Palace after being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II,

November 14 1972, Fitzroy footballer, sprinter, former Governor of South Australia

Barry Crocker at the premiere of Barry Mackenzie Holds His Own in

1974

Bob Hawke, then ACTU leader and Labor party president, on route for a charity ball in 1975

British comedian Benny Hill was one of Australia's most popular entertainer when he toured in 1977

The devastation at Granville 30 years ago, January 18 1977

Granville Train disaster January 18 1977

Granville Train disaster January 18 1977

Saturday night fever at the Pitt Street Gardens disco 1980

Clayton Cooling tries out a half tube at a new North Ryde skateboard park

1980

Sydney Punks 1980

Princess Diana wowed Alice Springs when she and Prince Charles visited Australia in

1983

Ross Bengaro, 6th Platoon during the first Vietnam Veterans March through Sydney 1987

Cathy Freeman on her victory Lap after winning her 400m gold at the Sydney Olympics 2000

Cathy Freeman at the Olympic Games Australia September 2000