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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.

  • Pure Water Drinkers

    Temperance in a Mining Town

    Through the Eye of Ella’s Needle

    What’s Behind This Humble Handkerchief?

    The Height of Fashion

    Beau Brummell and the Bow Tie

    Pride of Place

    Robin Goodall Puts Sheep in the Picture

    Made Within

    Crafting Children’s Toys at Morisset Hospital

    Felt a Little Bit Country

    Lucy Culliton’s Fibre Guitar

    Keeping His Cool

    Leslie Crawford’s Dairying Cream Cooler from Berry

    corrugated metal device with pins used for attaching

    From White Clay Mountain

    A Sandstock Brick Made on the Berry Estate

    Chipped, dusty red, sandstone brick

    Old Time, Good Time

    Mastering the Masonic Ball

    Giving and Marching

    Raising Money for the Glen Innes Salvos

    two pale, rectangular wooden boxes attached to paddle shapes which act as a handle. They are labelled "BAND"

    A Commanding Presence

    Portrait of Commander Norman Holbrook V.C.

    In Memory of Bridget

    A Legacy of Cruelty and Love at Mulla Creek

    The Club with No Beer

    The Bowlo’s Long Road to Legitimacy

    Swimming Season Over

    Bill Walker Collects Another Stoney Creek Swimming Trophy

    Talkies Come to Town

    The Diary of a Projectionist

    Fanning the Retail Flames

    Broken Hill's Novel Advertising Campaign

    hand fan with twelve circular, black and white portraits of babies surrouded by floral designs, it has text which reads 'BROKEN HILL'S BONNIE BABIES'

    Badges of Honour

    Belonging to the Union

    collection of eight multi-coloured, circular badges

    Argumentative Arches

    Bridging the Macquarie River by Rail

    In His Likeness

    Unveiling the Headlie Taylor Statue

    Thirsty Business

    Narrabri Cordial Maker, Septimus Faulkner

    What Rhymes with Porringer?

    A Georgian Jest to Bowl you Over

    Slightly oxidised, silver bowl with small circle handles

    Echoes of Elegance

    The Narrabri Hospital Ball of 1914

    Sprig From the Shores

    The Hickey Family in Iluka

    Making Washing Day A Pleasure

    A Laundry Mangle from Morpeth

    An Alchemical Ornament

    How Silver is Refined

    Silver goblet etched with a placid illustration of a refinery

    Those Were the Days

    Keeping the Personal Archive of Maitland’s Magistrate

    Gateways to Waterways

    Emma Lohmann, A view of Maitland (after Vermeer) 2006

    ‘The Unfortunate Man, Alexander Dick…’

    A Pair of Silver Spoons

    A Surprising Victory

    The Junior Champions of Caves Beach

    A Most Important Accessory

    An Escape Map Scarf From WWII

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acknowledgement statement

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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