#OTD 23 September 1938 Opening night of the "Hollywood Hotel Revue" at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, by Sam Hood. Uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre...

The Garden Palace in the Domain Sydney was completely destroyed by fire #OTD 22 September 1882. Among the items destroyed were irreplaceable First Nations artifacts collected from NSW. Images uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_...

Department of Postwar Reconstruction, Town planning with centers free of through traffic and gardens, Sydney, Alec Iverson, 1944, Uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_p...

Born #OTD 18 Sept 1861 Australian philanthropist Dame Eadith Campbell Walker. Portrait by Harold Cazneaux 1924 uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadith_...

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning actor, director and godfather for independent cinema as Sundance founder, dies at 89.

#OTD 16 Sept - Papua New Guinea celebrates 50 years of independence - photo of Michael Somare at Sydney Uni, Sept 1968. Somare was PNG's first Prime Minister. CC 4.0 @StateLibraryNSW courtesy SEARCH Foundation ON 161/item 368 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9yM6a... #PNG50, #50PNGIndependence

##HistoryWeek2025 (6-14 Sept) Water Stories - Day 7 - Surfers, North Bondi, 20 October 1938, photographed for PIX magazine by Ivan Ive @StateLibraryNSW collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNWQ...

#HistoryWeek2025 (6-14 Sept) Water Stories - Day 6 The first Japanese whaling fleet to visit Sydney arrived on 19 October 1935 on its way to Antarctica. Photo, 1935 by Norman Herfort. Uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling...

#HistoryWeek2025 (6-14 Sept) Water Stories - Day 5 Climbing a tower to look for sharks, Blackhead Beach, Victoria, Australia, 1938, by Max Dupain @StateLibraryNSW collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9arGv...

#HistoryWeek2025 (6-14 Sept) Water Stories - Day 4 Children at the beach, Watson’s Bay (?), Sydney, c. 1935, by Sam Hood, from vintage glass negative, @StateLibraryNSW collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9arGv...

#HistoryWeek2025 (6-14 Sept) Water Stories - Day 3 - the SS Coolebar, washed ashore Bellinger Point, NSW, 16 April 1917. Refloated 12 May 1917. Sydney Underwriters' Association, @StateLibraryNSW collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AJd...

#HistoryWeek2025 (6-14 Sept) Water Stories - 2 Crustaceans caught dredging in the Antarctic Ocean on Mawson's Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14. Photo by Frank Hurley @StateLibraryNSW ttps://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/digital/Djp62QmVK4zpv

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

Today - 1 September is National Wattle Day in Australia. This photo was taken by Ray Olsen in Sydney in 1938 and uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_...

HMS 'Black Prince' in a storm, 1880, by Oswald W. Brierly, bequeathed to the State Library of New South Wales by D.S. Mitchell in 1907. Uploaded to Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bla...

Scene in pouring rain, Central Station, Sydney, c.1932, by Sam Hood, vintage negative, @StateLibraryNSW collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9qoZ0...

#OTD 18 August 1949, people gathered around Harry's Cafe de Wheels, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, by L. Bartholomew added to @Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%2...

What a difference a date makes - Rodius' Sydney View 1831-46 Article on a series of artistic works based on a single view of Sydney Harbour by Charles Rodius, but reworked by engravers, printers, and even Rodius himself, between 1831 and 1846. geoffbarker.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/w...

Violinist Ginette Neveu was born #OTD 11 August 1919. In 1948 she visited Sydney where she was photographed by Max Dupain. She died the following year in a plane crash while flying from Paris to New York. Uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginette...

#InternationalCatDay Siamese kitten in a tree, Hazelbrook, Blue Mountains, Sydney, 29 November 1950. Uploaded to #FlickrCommons by @StateLibraryNSW flic.kr/p/2rkwk7e

Born #OTD 7 August 1920, Reginald Walter Saunders, MBE. Gunditjmara man & first Aboriginal Australian to be commissioned as an officer in the Australian Army. Uploaded to Wikipedia by State Library of NSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_Sau...

Sarah Stone watercolour of Ashton Lever's private natural history and ethnographic collection. Opened 250 years ago, in 1775, it was noted for content acquired from the voyages of Captain James Cook. Uploaded to Wikipedia by State Library NSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveria...

Damien Parer, Bungan, New South Wales, 1938. Born #OTD 1 August 1912, photo by Max Dupain, uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_...

Taken #OTD 30 Jul 1957, architect Jorn Utzon discussing his plans for the #SydneyOperaHouse at Bennelong Point, in front of the old tram sheds. State Library of New South Wales, collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YRlDE...

George Fife Angas helped establish the Province of South Australia. In 1840, he represented Newcastle upon Tyne, at the World Anti-Slavery Convention. Photo The Adelaide Photographic Co., Jan 1870. Uploaded to Wikipedia by Library of New South Wales, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

#OTD 24 July 1907 David Scott Mitchell died. His unrivalled Australiana collection of books, letters, paintings and manuscripts were bequeathed to @StateLibraryNSW Portrait by J. Hubert Newman, c.1875 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/digital/44x7...

Taken #OTD photo of Australian ballerina Kathleen Gorham (1928 - 1983), cover for Woman magazine, 23 July 1951, uploaded to Wikipedia by State Library of New South Wales en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathlee...

Car being filled with petrol outside Biden and Roberts, agents for the Indian motorcycles, Corner of Pitt and Hay Streets, Sydney, c. 1935, by Hall and Co., vintage nitrate negative, State library of New South Wales, collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nvgpv...

Was sick with covid over most of last week but last two days had a chance to do some painting & am was surprised how summery it turned out.

Post and Telegraph Department, Christchurch, New Zealand, taken #OTD 18 July 1942, vintage film negative, State Library of New South Wales uploaded to Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christc...

Myra Ellen Roper, principal of University Women's College, University of Melbourne, 3 May 1952 by Gordon F. De Lisle. Roper was a British-born Australian educationalist, author, broadcaster, and expert on China. Uploaded to wikipedia by @statelibrarynsw en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_Roper

Miners working a Talc (talcum) mine (Tumby Bay?), Australia, c. 1950, uploaded to Wikipedia by State Library of NSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talc

The Australian, British, Indian and NZ Occupation Force (BCOF) began deployment to Japan in February 1946. Ray Olsen visited in November 1945 where he took this photo on the streets of #Tokyo. @StateLibraryNSW uploaded to Wikipedia collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YzOml...

Australian architect Roy Grounds, Melbourne, 3 April 1953, photo by Gordon F. De Lisle. Uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Gro...

Naturalist William Saville-Kent born #OTD 10 July 1845. In 1884 Kent came to Australia & his experiments culturing pearls led to the modern-day spherical cultured pearl industry. An online copy of his book The naturalist in Australia is @StateLibraryNSW collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvg...

Aerial view of Macquarie Street, Botanical Gardens and Domain, Sydney, c. 1935, by Milton Kent, vintage glass plate negative, Uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macquar...

Zoe the white Alsatian police dog (with radio strapped to her back) carries out the orders of constable Denholm at the NSW Police department demonstration in Alexandria, Sydney, 1939. Australian Consolidated Press Archive, Uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_...

Titania's Palace of the Fairies is a dollhouse in the form of a miniature castle. it has 18 rooms and is incredibly ornate. There are 3000 tiny works of art and miniatures from around the world on display inside. theblacktent.substack.com/p/titanias-p...

Portrait of James Clark, Scottish physician who was Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria, 1863 by Ernest Edwards. Uploaded to #wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Jam...

BHP shipbuilding and freight wharves, Whyalla, South Australia, c. 1950, uploaded to Wikipedia by State Library of NSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whyalla#2

Unloading supplies at Cape Denison, Mawson's Antarctic Expedition, January 1913. Gelatin silver print, uploaded to Wikipedia by State Library of NSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral...

#OTD 21 June 1919 Admiral Adolf von Trotha scuttled the German fleet being held by the British at Scapa Flow, Scotland. The Hindenburg pictured here was the last to sink. Photo held by @StateLibraryNSW and uploaded to Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Hin...

‘Poyntzfield’ house, Killara, Sydney, ca. 1947, by Max Dupain. In 1945 architect Sydney Ancher won the Sulman Award for this house which was an open-planned structure orientated to fit the environment. State Library of NSW collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/digital/0dL0Jw…#architecturedesigngn

OJ Williams building, corner Pacific Highway and Willoughby Road, Crows Nest, c. 1939, photo by Sam Hood, vintage nitrate negative, added to Wikipedia list of Flatiron buildings by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

El Dorado Motel which opened in Surfers Paradise in 1954. It was the first motel in Australia to have parking in front of every room. Photo taken June 1956 by Marcia AM Clark whose collection is held by the State Library of NSW collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n7ord...

Leichhardt Lodge, owned by tobacconist, William H. Aldis, Surry Hills, (opposite old 'Shakespeare Hotel), Sydney, 1st March 1862, vintage albumen print, State Library of New South Wales, SPF/702 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n7oVZ... #architecturedesign

Arcade off Linden Court leading to 'Her Majesty's Arcade,' in Castlereagh Street, Sydney, 23 April 1950. State Library NSW collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YK5r5... #Architecturedesign

Photo kiosk in the Royal Arcade Sydney which ran between George and Pitt streets across from the Queen Victoria building, 23 April 1950. State Library of NSW collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YK5r5...

The Sandgate Murder 1890 ...from the low hills behind you look out upon a world that is dead, in which everything is hideous and horrible with a fascinating hideousness, in which vegetation chokes itself and water runs sullenly... open.substack.com/pub/theblack...

This photo of French Maquis resistance fighters was taken at the end of World War II, in Chandres during a parade honouring 42 Maquis killed in battle. Le Courrier Australien collection @statelibrarynsw uploaded to #wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquis_...