#warrane

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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]

[optikes]

Lindy Lee (b1954) Australian

Secret World of a Starlight Ember (2020)

stainless steel, LEDs, installed outside MCA, Sydney

photos: optikes

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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 slide: Looking towards the corner of Pitt and Hunter Streets from the top of the Australia Square tower, Warrane Sydney, February 1969 (photographer unknown)

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Found slide: Looking towards the Sydney Harbour Bridge from the construction site of the new Gladesville Bridge, which opened sixty years ago this week, Huntleys Point, Wallumedegal Country, March 1962. Photo by a member of the Tyler family

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Found slide: The Bodgie from Coogee versus the Queen: Looking towards the Queen Victoria Building from outside the Town Hall, Warrane Sydney, with a view of George Street’s decorations for the Royal Visit slightly photobombed by a brill-creamed, leather jacket-wearing “bodgie*” waiting for the next bus to Coogee, February 1954 (photographer unknown)

[*Bodgie = a rebellious young man in 1950s Australia and New Zealand]

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Found slide: Sydney Opera House and passing fishing boat, Warrane Sydney, slide developed October 1975 (photographer unknown)

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Found slide: Piccadilly Arcade, Warrane Sydney, circa April 1976. Photo by Keith Smith