Slides Worth Seeing

Found slide: Looking north along Elizabeth Street and Hyde Park, Warrane Sydney, from the furniture branch of Mark Foy’s department store, September 1944. Photo by a visiting member of the US service personnel stationed in the South Pacific

Found slide: Pen-blwydd hapus i’r Rheilffordd Talyllyn yn 75 oed! Happy 75th preservation anniversary Talyllyn Railway! Steam locomotive 4, the Edward Thomas, prepares to run around a collection of narrow gauge open and enclosed carriages, in order to carry summer holiday passengers to Abergynolwyn, on the Talyllyn Railway, Cymru Wales, 1957. Photo by Graham J Habbin

Found slide: Two Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force personnel passing statues and poppies on their way back to the underground RAAF operations room in a disused railway tunnel under the Botanic Gardens, Warrane Sydney, September 1943. Photo by US Army Sgt C E Stannard

Found slide: Looking from a garden bed outside the Parnell Rose Garden towards Waitematā Harbour, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, January 1947. Photo by William F Herlikofer

Found slides: For the 70th anniversary of Naarm Melbourne’s Harris Trains: Following a seven car Harris set, led by 504M, as it passes through the Jolimont rail yards into Flinders Street Station, June 1956. Photos, taken from the top of the SEC Building, by John W Smith

On 23 February 1976, AC/DC, the Rats of Tobruk Pipe band and an Australian Broadcasting Commission film crew set off down Swanston Street… we salute you… Found slide: Swanston Street, Naarm Melbourne, looking north from Collins Street, circa March 1976 (photographer unknown)

Found slide: St Kilda Road, Naarm Melbourne, looking south from from the Linlithgow Avenue intersection, January 1947. Photo by William F Herlikofer

Found slide: Hand operated paddle boats on the Nerang River, near Jubilee Bridge, Main Beach, Kombumerri Country, Gold Coast, 1955. Photo by a member of the Down or Tyler families

Happy 51st anniversary @triple_j ! Found slide: Looking from the Gresham Hotel towards the intersection of outside the Sydney Town Hall, Gadigal Country, circa September 1976. At lower right the bright yellow and red radio 2 Double Jay (later Triple J) van is turning from George Street into Druitt Street, while, at lower left, one of Sydney’s experimental “Mr Whippy” buses (named for their resemblance to a local ice cream truck) from 1964 is waiting at the lights [photographer unknown]

Found slide: 79 years ago: Two views of Martin Place, Warrane Sydney, 16 January 1947, looking westward towards the Cenotaph and Elizabeth Street respectively. Photos by William F Herlikofer, a visiting American tailor [caption corrected]

Found slide: Pōhutukawa in bloom, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, January 1947. Photo by William F Herlikofer

Found slide: A Midland bound ADX two car rail motor stopped at Maylands Railway Station, Boorloo Perth, slide developed September 1974

Found slide: El Dorado Motel, Surfers Paradise, Kombumerri Country, at the end of a school holiday road trip from Western Sydney to the Gold Coast, 28 August 1956 [photographer unknown]

Found slide: Celebrating the 90th anniversary of the opening of Sydney’s Luna Park, here’s a 127 format slide of children on a ride below the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Cammeraigal Country, circa 1968 [photographer unknown]

Happy 175th anniversary to the University of Sydney, founded on Gadigal Country in 1 October 1850. Found slide: Students and family members approach the Main Building of the University of Sydney quadrangle, circa 1954. Photo by a member of the Down family

Found slide: Two children watching the tugboat James Paterson making its way along the Birrarung Yarra River through the Docklands of Naarm Melbourne, circa 1958. Photo by Greta Martin