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  • Explore old and new stories from all over NSW, Australia.

    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.

  • Goodbye, Goodluck, and God Bless

    A Treasured Letter from a Friend

    The City of Levees

    Joe Frost, View of Maitland, 2006

    Tally Tokens

    Fair Payment for Miners in the Hunter Collieries

    eight circular, aged leather tags attached together by twine

    Springs of Joy

    Recalling Australia's 1960s Playground Revolution

    From Mortar to Monoliths

    The Making of Community Legend, John Tregurtha

    Wired for Power

    Evidence of a 1930s Ministerial Privilege?

    No Dough Needed

    Bread tokens from the West Wallsend Co-op

    A Canny Risk

    The Legacy of Good Fortune

    ‘Needled Spires Point the True North…’

    Michael Fitzjames, View of Maitland from the Riverbank (With Apologies to Jan Vermeer and View of Delft), 2006

    Merle’s Little Black-out Curtain Dress

    Make Do and World War Two

    Links to the Land

    Using Gunter's Chain to Survey Rockley

    An Embarrassment of Riches

    Opal Buyers Jostle in the Winner’s Circle

    Poetic Injustice

    Moved by Murder at Moonbi

    Musical Memories

    Kate Campbell-Pope’s Grass Guitar

    The Beating Heart of the Marching Band

    West Wallsend's Dandy Drum

    Silver, reflective top of a black drum with silver fittings.

    A Charming View

    Jessie McGeachie’s Wedding Photograph at Craig Royston, Toronto

    Learning The Australian Way

    Migrant Education at Bonegilla

    Leafing Through History

    Mary White’s Passion for Crafty Carving

    Wetting the Baby’s Head

    Beginning a Life of Faith

    Keeping It In The Families

    One Bible, Two Families, and Three Generations

    Madeira, my dear?

    Identifying the Snake in the Glass

    Broken Hill’s Kind-hearted Grocer

    Trading on Compassion

    aged hardcover book

    An Important Event in the Circles of Jindera

    Capturing the Wedding of Gus Wagner and Tilly Schmidt in 1907

    Watching the Game

    Comments on Motherhood with Michael Cook

    Getting A Handle On It

    How Farm Workers Eased Their Heavy Load

    Bowling Over Their Critics

    Mereah Austen, Women’s Cricket, and ‘The Rockley Game’

    Christmas at War

    The Australian YMCA in WWI

    Black Gold and White Satin

    Col Hardy’s Performance Outfit

    Detail shot of the belt of a country performer's outfit; belt buckle is metal and rectangular with a floral design

    Armed to Defend

    Maitland’s Citizen Soldiers Sign Up

    Cuts Both Ways

    Prepared for Attack and Defence at Maitland Gaol

    wooden baton/club covered in leather with wrist strap
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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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