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Found slide: Willis Street, looking north towards Lambton Quay, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, 15 August 1946. Photo by a visiting USAF personnel member

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National Sorry Day: “From little things big things grow…”: Found slide: Gate to the Wave Hill cattle station, Kalkarindji, Gurindji Country, Australia, taken in mid 1962, about four years before the Wave Hill walk-off sparked a successful legal challenge to the post-colonial denial of the Gurindji people’s land rights. Photo taken through a CinemaScope™️ lens by John W Smith

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Found slides: Two views from a South Brisbane-bound train: passing a Southport-bound train near Fruitgrove Station and crossing Nathan Road, just north of Runcorn Station, Chepara Country, Queensland, circa October 1961. Photos taken through a CinemaScope™️ lens by John W Smith

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Found slide: Sightseers at Bulli Lookout, overlooking the City of Wollongong, Dharawal Country, Australia, 1958. Photo by a member of the Down or Tyler families. It’s a warm day and tea room at right is selling Parkinson’s drinks, “the Toast of the Coast”: the tie-wearing man just left of the centre is finishing off a bottle

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I’ve been quiet this year, for reasons, but today let’s celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the newspaper article which gave this account its name… ‘Slides worth seeing’, The Argus [Melbourne], 19 March 1955, page 2, image c/o Trove Australia

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Found slide: A steam locomotive (a non-streamlined C38 class), heading from Sydney to Newcastle, crosses the Pacific Highway at Lisarow, Darkinjung Country, New South Wales Central Coast, circa 1962. Photographer unknown. Digitally filtered due to fading

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Found slide: View of Capital Hill and Galambary Black Mountain, from the Hotel Wellington, Barton, Canberra, Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, 6 October 1958. Photo by a member of the Down or Tyler families

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Found slide: Woman waiting in King’s Hall, Parliament House, Canberra, Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, circa 1953. Photo by a member of the Down or Tyler families

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Found slide: Formwork for the new tram interchange, part of the Queens Road underpass project, St Kilda Junction, Naarm Melbourne, August 1968. Photo by Don Allison

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An Emperor penguin and three Adélie penguins, near Mawson Base, Antarctica, 1965. Photo by Don Allison

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Found slide: Getting the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) Volkswagen Beetle ready for glaciologist Gunter Weller (kneeling, left) to set out to get ice core samples, Mawson Base, Antarctica, 1965. The ANARE member standing at right is probably electrical engineer Don Allison (photographer unknown)

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[insert “I think I can see the problem…” joke here] Found slide: Stopping for fuel and supplies at Umoona Coober Pedy, Arabana Country, and taking a moment to stage the “Volkswagen Beetle’s engine is missing” gag to keep the slide night audience amused, 1959 (photographer unknown)

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Found slide: Happy (late) 60th anniversary, Goldfinger. Poster for Goldfinger (and a partial view of another poster for From Russia with Love) outside a cinema in Tokyo, Japan. Slide developed November 1965 (photographer unknown)

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Found slide: Looking towards the Sydney Harbour Bridge from the construction site of the new Gladesville Bridge, which opened sixty years ago this week, Huntleys Point, Wallumedegal Country, March 1962. Photo by a member of the Tyler family

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Found slide: City Hall, Footscray, Naarm Melbourne, decorated in team colours for the Footscray Bulldogs’ first Victorian Football League Grand Final appearance, against the Melbourne Demons, September 1954. Photo by John W Smith. “Ah, optimism. There they were yesterday at the Footscray Town Hall working busily, putting up the premiership decorations…” - The Argus [Melbourne], 23 September 1954 (optimism justified: Footscray beat Melbourne 102/51)

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Happy 170th Birthday, Flinders Street Station! Found slide: Flinders Street Station decorated and lit up at night for its centenary, Naarm Melbourne, September 1954. Photo by John W Smith

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Found slide: Gawler Place, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, 1958. Photo by FGK Bahra