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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.

  • Shocking Times

    The Mr Safety Pin Campaign

    Making a Scene

    Cooke & Collingridge’s Bird’s Eye View of Bathurst

    The Price We Pay

    Reporting on the Hunter’s Floodplain

    From Mortar to Monoliths

    The Making of Community Legend, John Tregurtha

    Those Were the Days

    Keeping the Personal Archive of Maitland’s Magistrate

    She’ll Be Right, Mate

    Promoting Cockle Creek Smelter

    Safety in Numbers

    Measuring Explosive Methane in the Teralba Colliery

    The Peculiar Print

    Three Royals in One

    Writing Home

    Frank Brown's WWI Letters

    handwritten letter

    Pieces and Patience

    Morpeth’s Important Bridge Modelled in Miniature

    Well Kept

    An Heirloom from Childhood in Nineteenth Century Morpeth

    lace baby bonnet on wooden stand

    Anna Maria’s Legacy

    The Eales Family Bible from Morpeth

    From Rattle to Whistle

    How Joseph Hudson Changed Policing

    Automation Sensation

    Industrial Cordial-making in Narrabri

    William’s Pitiful Plight

    A Boy Servant’s Indenture to Mudie of Maitland

    Get One While It’s Hot

    An Explosive Fuel Iron from Ulladulla

    The Club with No Beer

    The Bowlo’s Long Road to Legitimacy

    Carried Away

    Tracks to Transport West Wallsend’s Ancient Coal

    Pick Up A Pint

    A Dairy Bottle Sealer From Cochrane’s Bomaderry Grocery

    A Good Fit

    James Dalton's Top Hat

    Cheque, Please!

    A Promise Written in Stone

    Anonymous Australiana

    The Art and Craft of Pokerwork

    Four wooden napkin rings with gumnuts and black bands burned into them

    Keeping Time

    The Old Morpeth Courthouse Clock

    The Scarlet Cloak

    A Resurrected Remnant of the Macarthur’s Colonial Clip

    back of damaged red cloak

    Playing for Laughs

    Rodney Walker’s Unique One-Man Band Ensemble

    colourful assemblage of many instruments, the bass drum is labelled RODNEY WALKER 2012

    Handsome Gifts

    A Woods’ Ivory Dinner Set from Singleton

    Colonial Medicine at Carcoar

    A Chest of Cures

    Time for Change

    A Comment on Loss with Michael Cook

    An ‘Afghan’ Cameleer’s Life and Times

    Shamroze Khan's Colourful Story

    detail of gold detailing on collar

    Johanna Rosler’s Locket

    A Symbol of Love, Family and Friendship

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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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