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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.

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    The Discovery of Tin in Northern NSW

    Beeswax and Bullocks

    The Delicate Craft of Wax Modelling

    A Long Time Coming

    Cotton Farming on the Namoi

    Two Legacies

    The Murray River Performing Group

    An Important Event in the Circles of Jindera

    Capturing the Wedding of Gus Wagner and Tilly Schmidt in 1907

    Wired for Power

    Evidence of a 1930s Ministerial Privilege?

    Smoke Without Fire

    Morpeth Furniture Craftsman White’s Smoking Cap

    Sweet Survival

    Handmade Furniture of the Great Depression

    Art Teacher Nurtured Local Talent

    May the Mentor

    An Unusual Token of Esteem

    A Retirement Gift for Constable Herbert Norman Palmer

    Daily Drudgery Gone?

    The Promise Behind the Maytag Washing Machine

    Swimming From Scratch

    Bill Walker’s Stoney Creek 1933 Championship Trophy

    ‘Ye Old Bastards’

    The Senior Boat Crew of Caves Beach

    Blue Skies and Dusty Ground

    Anna Culliton’s Real Deal Rodeo

    User Pays?

    Unwelcome Gas Rates for Lighting Up Maitland

    Goodbye, Goodluck, and God Bless

    A Treasured Letter from a Friend

    The Jangling Envelope

    Recompense for Dirty and Dangerous Work

    The Bowerbird

    Kerrie Lester’s Early Artmaking

    Carving for the Screw

    Twelve Trinkets Made of Bone

    Pencilled In

    Dance Card for the 1899 Independent Order of Oddfellows Annual Ball

    Shaped by the Bush

    The Australian Quart Pot

    The Beating Heart of the Marching Band

    West Wallsend's Dandy Drum

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

    The Yellow Brick Road

    Suzanne Archer, Levee Hunter 2006

    Through the Eye of Ella’s Needle

    What’s Behind This Humble Handkerchief?

    A Life of Service

    Nurse Irene Stoddart’s War Medals

    A Fitting Outfit

    Tex Morton’s Moose Hide Jacket

    Idle Hands Busy

    Work, Escape and Free Matchsticks at Maitland Gaol

    Springs of Joy

    Recalling Australia's 1960s Playground Revolution

    In Memory of Maurice O’Shea

    Garry Shead’s Homage to His Uncle

    Echoes of Elegance

    The Narrabri Hospital Ball of 1914

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The Storyplace newsletter has updates on new stories and other news about museums, galleries and cultural centres, and the people, who support Storyplace.

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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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