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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.

  • Predator Falling Prey

    The Tasmanian Tiger Found Near Dubbo

    Wired for Power

    Evidence of a 1930s Ministerial Privilege?

    Pick Up A Pint

    A Dairy Bottle Sealer From Cochrane’s Bomaderry Grocery

    Practice Makes Perfect

    Learning a Trade on the Railways

    A Brand New Law

    Making the Mark of Ownership

    The Uiver Incident

    The Landing of a Civic Friendship

    sepia photograph of figures gathered outside a propeller plane labelled ROYAL DUTCH AIR LINES

    Fanciful Fossicking

    Sapphires and Black Panthers in the Glen Innes Highlands

    The Fathers of Australian Country Music

    A Journey Commenced in Childhood

    Concealed Contributions

    Red Cross Volunteers on the Home Front

    Personal Effects

    WWI Portrait and Notebook of Lake Macquarie’s Leslie Clouten

    A Sisterhood of Song

    Scrapbooks of the Babaneek Women’s Choir

    Assortes yellowed pages with handwritten cursive and postcards with illustrations of flowers.

    Third Time Unlucky

    Documenting the Rise and Fall of Maitland’s Philharmonic Society

    Rosy Cheeks

    The Toy for Healthy Little Bodies

    Pulling Down to Pick Up

    Lightening the Load at the Historic Berry Wharf

    Recognising Wonderful Women

    The Games' 1934 Visit to Lightning Ridge

    Land of Mine

    Expressions of Self with John Morris

    Moulding with Clay

    Three Generations of Fieldsend Pottery at East Maitland

    Ghantown Cameleers

    Crossing Country and Cultures

    wooden spike beside four wooden nose pegs which look like cylinder with a flared base and a conical top

    Two Legacies

    The Murray River Performing Group

    En Route

    Clouten’s Troopship Journey Postcards to Lake Macquarie

    Never Knocked Out

    Mementoes of Darcy v McGoorty

    A Royal Invoice

    Tiny Town Sparks a Global Fascination

    First in Line

    The Beginnings of Rail in NSW

    Fifty Pounds Worth of Silver

    A Remnant of Banking in Berry

    Land of Milk

    A Taiwanese Screen for the Hunter Valley Dairy Company

    Saving Life Savers

    Swansea-Caves Beach Lifesavers in their Life Vests

    Narelle’s Call

    Getting the Phone Connected in 1950s West Wallsend

    black rotary telephone with a spiral-corded earpiece

    User Pays?

    Unwelcome Gas Rates for Lighting Up Maitland

    Clicking Shears

    Wolseley’s Woolly Invention

    Made Within

    Crafting Children’s Toys at Morisset Hospital

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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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