Timeless Innocence: 19 Vintage Photographs of Australian Children_Au Memories

19 Vintage Photographs of Australian Children _ Aus

These photographs are from the collections of the State Library of New South Wales.

 

Fort Street schoolboys being shown rabbit fur felt hat-making, 1927

 

 
Uniformed Sydney Girl's High School girls singing near 2GB microphone, 1930s

 

School on Maidenhead Station - Bonshaw, NSW

 

Children's Day, Royal Easter Show, Sydney, 1935 

 

 
Children's Day, free milk straight from the cow! Royal Easter Show, Sydney, c.1930s

 

Child performers, Sydney, c. 1930s

 

 
 Child performers, Sydney Showground, c. 1920s-30s

 

Cary Bay Zoo, Lake Macquarie, NSW, 1954

 

 
Adelaide Boys' Band at Koala Park, 15 January 1937

 

Study of a girl with ringlets teaching her dog to sit up, 1930s

 

 
Baby elephant, Taronga Zoo

 

Christmas party at works, 1937

 

 
Kids with their presents, 1930s

 

Brownie (Muriel Long) with bicycle decorated for street procession - Deniliquin, NSW

 

 
Children in Sydney slums, mainly Surry Hills, Woolloomooloo, Redfern, 1949

 

Children in Hills Reserve (Frog Hollow),Surry Hills, 1949

 

 
Man and boys at the NSW-Victoria 2nd XI cricket, 1937

 

Armistice at the Cenotaph, Martin Place, Sydney, 1930s

 

 
Armistice at the Cenotaph, Martin Place, Sydney, 1930s