Vintage photos capturing moments of Australian children from the early 1900s to 1945 _ UK & Au historical

   

Australian children, happy and sad, in good times and bad. These photographs are from the collections of the State Library of New South Wales.

Schoolchildren line up for free issue of soup and a slice of bread in the Depression, Belmore North Public School, Sydney, 2 August 1934
Fort Street schoolboys being shown rabbit fur felt hat-making, 1927

 

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

 

Gaymour-Ackerman wedding at Penshurst, Sydney, 1936

 

Two young schoolboys wave their flags, 1934

 

On the see-saw at kindergarten, Alexandria, Sydney, 1934

 

School on Maidenhead Station - Bonshaw, NSW

 

Scrub School - Tenterfield area, NSW, 1923

 

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

 

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

 

Anzac Day, 25 April 1917, Belubula School

 

Views in Sydney and New South Wales, 1930-40

 

Boy with pigeons at [Circular] Quay, Sydney, 1935

 

Child performers, Sydney, c. 1930s

 

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

 

Child performers, c. 1920s-30s

 

Patriotic concert, WW II

 

Cary Bay Zoo, Lake Macquarie, NSW, 1954

 

Adelaide Boys' Band at Koala Park, 15 January 1937

 

Cats' food didn't come out of a can and it was nothing but the best fish - Pt Perpendicular, c 1936

 

Bow Wow Parade (taken for Acme Theatres), 1946

 

Little cowboy on horse, 1935

 

Margaret Shaffhauser with bull terrier dog at the Canine Association Show, 3 Nov 1934

 

Study of a small girl with a prize Scottish terrier dog, c. 1935

 

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

 

Baby elephant, Taronga Zoo, ca. 1925-ca. 1945

 

Kangaroo & girls, ca. 1925-ca. 1945

 

Santa Claus, Grace Bros, Broadway, Sydney, 27 November 1946

 

Christmas party at works, 1937

 

Kids with their presents, ca. 1934

 

Methodist Mission's Christmas visit to poor, Woolloomooloo, 1938

 

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

 

 Methodist Mission's Christmas visit to poor, Woolloomooloo, 1938

 

RPA Hospital Christmas, December 1944

 

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Christmas tree and party, Matron Dunn, 1940

 

Radio station 2CH's Children's Christmas party, Trocadero, Sydney, 1936

 

Norland Nursing Home Christmas tree, 1939

 

Santa Claus and children at the I.O.O.F. Christmas party, Bexley, 22 Dec 1934

 

Four unemployed men of Randwick and Coogee with toy wooden aeroplanes made for Christmas 1934, 18 Dec 1934

 

Children's Christmas party and Christmas tree, St. Anthony's House, Croydon, 15 Dec 1934

 

Lucky customers, 25 December 1934

 

Santa in a jalopy

 

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

 

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

 

Fancy dress Christmas party

 

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

 

Armistice at the Cenotaph, Martin Place, Sydney, 1934

 

Armistice at the Cenotaph, Martin Place, Sydney, 1934 

 

Bridesmaid and two flowergirls enter the church, St. Marks, Darling Point, c. 1930s

 

Spectators on the lawn of Government House view the arrival of the first Royal Australian Navy, Sydney, Oct 1913

 

Perier family in de Dion voiturette, c.1903