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The Australian National Maritime Museum. We share stories of the sea. Australia’s centre for maritime collections, exhibitions, research and archaeology. Find out more.

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Australian troops boarding a ferry at a wharf in Sydney

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  • Nev said:
    Great historical capture.
  • covid convict said:
    Possibly the same occasion

    Also see (duplicate)

Brisbane in the 1890s

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  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Thanks Quasymody :)
  • sccart said:
    Parliament House on the right with the Treasury Building on the left .

Acrobat and magician Long Tack Sam with his company of artists

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  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Woah QM!! Very cool. So exciting when these discoveries are made and we can put names to faces! :) Good luck with the narrowing down! ;)
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    Check out this great graphic novel style film made by Sam's great-granddaughter! youtu.be/5S13dnw_sLU
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/246729820 - they're reading the Sydney Daily Telegraph, 23rd March, 1936...
  • Flickr Foundation said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tack_Sam

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