Blasts from the past: Inside the Sydney Morning Herald’s photo archive
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Fascinating images of life in Australia’s oldest city reveal the way we were … not so long ago. The source: the vast photographic archive of The Sydney Morning Herald, now 190 years old.
Sydney Lives is a 160-page photographic book celebrating the extraordinary people and places that have helped shape the city over more than a century. Curated by SMH photo editor Mags King.
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Sharp looks, hearty tucker and carefree revelry make for lively scenes at Harry’s Café De Wheels, Woolloomooloo, in 1949.Credit:John Mulligan
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Throngs of sunbathers in the beach attire of the time at Bondi, circa 1930.Credit:Herbert Fishwick
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Acrobat Eleanor Gunter performs a death-defying balancing act on the roof of the John Fairfax Building on Broadway in 1958.
Credit:Bob Rice
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Before the start of the Black and White Ball, committee members at Vaucluse compete in all their finery for the Derby Cup in 1960.Credit:Frank Burke
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Passengers on the daily commute hang precariously from the rear platform of a double-decker bus
in Newtown in 1971.
Credit:Mervyn Bishop
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Shoppers, trams and traffic converge in the surging hustle and bustle of Pitt Street in 1954.
Credit:Peter Leyden
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Strolling down the north end of Pitt Street in 1932, with the Harbour Bridge in the backdrop.Credit:Staff photographer
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Schoolgirl tennis players take part in a mass practice at White City Stadium in Rushcutters Bay for the opening of Tennis Week in 1957. Credit:Ronald Stewart
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