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Treasures from the archives of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

03/12/2025

In a flap. Shopping for Christmas dinner goes awry for Joseph Fiorillo and Brian Milgate at Sydney’s City Markets in December, 1962.
Photograph by Ronald Stewart for

30/11/2025

Vale. US-based Australian entertainer Toni Lamond, back in Australia for a short season at Rosa's Restaurant, pictured rehearsing at the venue in September, 1984.
Photograph by Robert Pearce for

28/11/2025

Spring visit. A leopard seal swims ashore at Shelly Beach, Manly in September, 1962.
Photograph by George Lipman for

26/11/2025

Jantzen Swimwear celebrates 30 years in Australia at Bondi Beach in November, 1958.
Photograph by David Beal for

25/11/2025

Hard times. Homeless men at Mission Harbourlight in the city of Sydney in May, 1959.
Photograph by Fred Murray for

24/11/2025

Warm work. Two boys with sugar bags collect bottles for pocket money in Ultimo, Sydney in December, 1962.
Photograph by George Lipman for

20/11/2025

Cricket’s on! Locals play a game in Sydney's inner-city suburb of Redfern in 1948. Today, on the other side of the country, Australia and England commence hostilities in the battle for the Ashes.
Photograph by Norman Brown for

17/11/2025

American novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs, pictured in Sydney in January 1943, while working as a war correspondent for United Press. Rice Burroughs, writer of the Tarzan series, said he was hoping to get a south-west Pacific area posting.
Photograph by a staff photographer for

13/11/2025

Australian actor Robyn Nevin, South African-born, British film, stage and television actor and writer Moira Lister and Australian actor Rosemary Pile attend the opening of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Kensington, Sydney in February 1959.
Photograph by Barry Newberry for

11/11/2025

The fatal claw. Artist and critic Robert Hughes works on a poster for the Elizabethan Theatre Trust's production of Charley's Aunt at his Rose Bay studio in November 1960, with assistance from his cat, Oedipus.
Photograph by James Hopwood for

09/11/2025

Broadcaster John Laws and composer Henry Mancini plan the first stages of recording an album of Laws’ poetry at EMI Studios in Sydney in November, 1976.
Photograph by Anton Cermak for

08/11/2025

Vale. Prime Minister Bob Hawke with Senator Graham Richardson, Minister for the Environment, inspecting dead black box trees at Disher Creek in Renmark, South Australia in July, 1989. "We have taken too much from the earth and have given too little back," the PM said at the time.
Photograph by David Bartho for

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