My favorite things

• 2012-02-01

  

  Stewart House boys looking at comics from a Sunday paper, South Curl Curl Beach, by Sam Hood, 10 January 1935 by State Library of New South Wales collection on Flickr.

• 2012-01-28

  

  Anne Barrett from Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney / photographed by Brian Bird c. 1948-1951 by State Library of New South Wales collection on Flickr.

  The Lincoln Coffee Lounge is said to be the birth place of the “Sydney Push” movement in its early days, just after the war. A popular meeting place for artists & writers, it comprised a mixture of university students, lecturers, Bohemians & Libertarians.

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  Dulcie Deamer in leopardskin costume, 1923 / Swiss Studios by State Library of New South Wales collection on Flickr.

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  Brownie (Muriel Long) with bicycle decorated for street procession - Deniliquin, NSW, n.d. by State Library of New South Wales collection on Flickr.

• 2012-01-26

  

  A sculpture exhibit of a bust, #236 “Theseus” (probably a Rayner Hoff), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, September 1934 / photographer Sam Hood by State Library of New South Wales collection on Flickr.

• 2012-01-25

  

  Salvation Army in the Domain, c. 1930s by Sam Hood by State Library of New South Wales collection on Flickr.

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  Children in Sydney slums, mainly Surry Hills, Woolloomooloo, Redfern, 1949 by Ted Hood by State Library of New South Wales collection on Flickr.

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  ACTU Conference, n.d. by Ted Hood by State Library of New South Wales collection on Flickr.

• 2012-01-21

  

  Australia’s first women Olympians, Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie, 1912 by State Library of New South Wales collection on Flickr.

• 2012-01-05

  Gotye- Bronte- official film clip (HD) (from gotyemusic)

  Source: youtube.com