Slides Worth Seeing

Found slides. The Twentieth Century, as seen by other people

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Found slide: Pen-blwydd hapus i’r Rheilffordd Talyllyn yn 75 oed! Happy 75th preservation anniversary Talyllyn Railway! Steam locomotive 4, the Edward Thomas, prepares to run around a collection of narrow gauge open and enclosed carriages, in order to carry summer holiday passengers to Abergynolwyn, on the Talyllyn Railway, Cymru Wales, 1957. Photo by Graham J Habbin

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Found slide: Two Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force personnel passing statues and poppies on their way back to the underground RAAF operations room in a disused railway tunnel under the Botanic Gardens, Warrane Sydney, September 1943. Photo by US Army Sgt C E Stannard

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Found slide: Looking from a garden bed outside the Parnell Rose Garden towards Waitematā Harbour, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, January 1947. Photo by William F Herlikofer

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Found slides: For the 70th anniversary of Naarm Melbourne’s Harris Trains: Following a seven car Harris set, led by 504M, as it passes through the Jolimont rail yards into Flinders Street Station, June 1956. Photos, taken from the top of the SEC Building, by John W Smith

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On 23 February 1976, AC/DC, the Rats of Tobruk Pipe band and an Australian Broadcasting Commission film crew set off down Swanston Street… we salute you… Found slide: Swanston Street, Naarm Melbourne, looking north from Collins Street, circa March 1976 (photographer unknown)

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Found slide: St Kilda Road, Naarm Melbourne, looking south from from the Linlithgow Avenue intersection, January 1947. Photo by William F Herlikofer

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Found slide: Hand operated paddle boats on the Nerang River, near Jubilee Bridge, Main Beach, Kombumerri Country, Gold Coast, 1955. Photo by a member of the Down or Tyler families

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Happy 51st anniversary @triple_j ! Found slide: Looking from the Gresham Hotel towards the intersection of outside the Sydney Town Hall, Gadigal Country, circa September 1976. At lower right the bright yellow and red radio 2 Double Jay (later Triple J) van is turning from George Street into Druitt Street, while, at lower left, one of Sydney’s experimental “Mr Whippy” buses (named for their resemblance to a local ice cream truck) from 1964 is waiting at the lights [photographer unknown]

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Found slide: 79 years ago: Two views of Martin Place, Warrane Sydney, 16 January 1947, looking westward towards the Cenotaph and Elizabeth Street respectively. Photos by William F Herlikofer, a visiting American tailor [caption corrected]

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Found slide: Pōhutukawa in bloom, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, January 1947. Photo by William F Herlikofer

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Found slide: A Midland bound ADX two car rail motor stopped at Maylands Railway Station, Boorloo Perth, slide developed September 1974

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Found slide: El Dorado Motel, Surfers Paradise, Kombumerri Country, at the end of a school holiday road trip from Western Sydney to the Gold Coast, 28 August 1956 [photographer unknown]

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Found slide: Celebrating the 90th anniversary of the opening of Sydney’s Luna Park, here’s a 127 format slide of children on a ride below the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Cammeraigal Country, circa 1968 [photographer unknown]

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Happy 175th anniversary to the University of Sydney, founded on Gadigal Country in 1 October 1850. Found slide: Students and family members approach the Main Building of the University of Sydney quadrangle, circa 1954. Photo by a member of the Down family

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Found slide: Two children watching the tugboat James Paterson making its way along the Birrarung Yarra River through the Docklands of Naarm Melbourne, circa 1958. Photo by Greta Martin

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Found slides for: Scenes from the centenary celebration of the opening of the Sydney to Parramatta Railway: the photographer’s daughter with locomotive 5805 and a general view of the crowd milling around the rolling stock on display, Sydney Terminal, September 1955. Photo by a member of the Down/Tyler families

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Found slides: Seventy years ago, the crowds gather around to cheer on the first drivers to cross the finish line (and, eventually, declared the winners) of the Redex Round Australia Reliability Trial in Park Avenue, Westmead, Burramattagal Country, Western Sydney, 11 September 1955. Photo by a member of the Down or Tyler families

1: Looking towards the Redex Round Australia Reliability Trial 1955 road race finish line, marked by banners over a street in Western Sydney. Among the crowd of spectators are a pair of police officers, reporters, photographers, newsreel camera operators on top of vans and several steel caravans

2: Spectators crowd around the garlanded and blue boiler-suited drivers of the first cars across the finish line. Almost everyone’s attention, however, is drawn to something happening to the right of the photo: from their expressions, one could assume that they’re listening to the announcement that the winners would not be finalised until the condition of the cars was examined (later ruled in these drivers’ favour)

3: Another view of the crowds in the street, watching as the two drivers, mostly obscured by the crowd, walk beneath a newsreel camera operator panning across the scene