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    Through photographing and telling stories about the objects and artworks cared for by small museums, galleries and Aboriginal cultural centres, Storyplace makes history and culture available to everyone.

  • Three Green Bottles

    Cordial Making in the Central West

    four glass bottles with beads held inside the sculpted neck

    The Ploughman’s Prize

    Cultivating Good Farming Practice

    detail of a ploughman using a single furrow plough drawn by two oxen

    Flying the Flag

    Inverell Celebrates the End of WWI

    Credit Crunch?

    W.J.A. Bryce’s Closing Gift

    Circling the Wagons

    Migration, Agriculture and Industry

    All the Necessary Points

    A Civil Defence Era First Aid Pack

    The Transfer of Knowledge

    One Book, Three Orchardists

    Between the Lines

    Reading Sheet Music From the Babaneek Ladies' Choir

    The Scarlet Cloak

    A Resurrected Remnant of the Macarthur’s Colonial Clip

    back of damaged red cloak

    Wicker and Gladioli

    Valuing Craft at Morisset Hospital

    Darn it!

    Mending Precious Hosiery

    Patience and Skill

    A Schoolgirl’s Needlework Sampler from Berry

    Hearing History

    Old-Fashioned Hearing Aids

    Industry Connections

    Carpentry in the City of Coal

    Rectangular tray of rusty, assorted drill bits.

    Seeing Herman Rosler

    Portrait of a German Pioneer

    Wetting the Baby’s Head

    Beginning a Life of Faith

    The House That Jack Found

    Convict-Made Bricks from Murramarang Point

    Under the Bonnet

    Martha Ann Cotterell’s Treasured Keepsake

    Scratch, Scratch, Squeak

    Alice Conway’s School Slate and Pencil from Berry

    Close up of a black writing slate which has a wooden frame with curved corners. The frame is inscribed in handwriting saying "RUBY"

    The Silent Witness

    Morpeth’s 1889 Railway Station Sign

    Waiting to Happen

    Mining Accidents and Compensation in 1920-30s Maitland

    Simple and Solid

    Headlie's Handy Tree Fork Bench

    I Got This One Second Hand

    Chad Morgan’s Gibson Guitar

    Memento Mori

    Mourning the Death of Mrs Mary Gibson

    Marking Time

    The Cookhouse Chimney at Maitland Gaol

    A Canny Risk

    The Legacy of Good Fortune

    Child’s Play and Women’s Work

    Examining the Journey from Girl to Mother

    Rock and a Hard Place

    Behind Maitland Gaol’s B-Wing Cell Doors

    Prickly to Pristine

    How Dairying Arrived at Woody Head

    Moustachioed Crockery

    Protecting Stiff Upper Lips Since the 1860s

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Museums & Galleries of NSW acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands that comprise the state now known as NSW.

We pay respect to them as First Nations people with a continuing connection to land, place, waters and community

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that this site contains stories, images, voices, and video of people who have died.

Some material may contain terms that reflect common usage of the period in which it was written or recorded but may not be considered appropriate today. Such terms do not reflect the views of Museums and Galleries of NSW and are provided only to reflect historical context.

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