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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.

  • A Trunk Full of Memories

    Travelling From Bombay to Holbrook

    Wally’s West Maitland

    A Retired Dentist Promotes His Town

    Two, Four, Six

    Police Badge Numbers From Dudley

    A Measure of Time

    Percy Young, Pioneering Business Owner

    A Critical Crusade

    Maitland’s Register for the Notification of Infectious Diseases

    Crowning Glory

    An Australian Military Icon

    Dream Machine

    Remembering Headlie Taylor’s Agricultural Innovation

    Feminine Flourishes

    Mabell Kirwan’s Going-Away Gift

    Credit Crunch?

    W.J.A. Bryce’s Closing Gift

    The Silver City’s Folk Artist

    Sam Byrne's Style

    impressionistic, cartoonish painting of a building amidst colourful trees, under a blue cloudy sky

    The Many Faces of Ernest Dunton

    Jeweller, Piano Tuner, Photographer and Watchmaker

    Pitch Perfect

    The Barnes Family Sips Success

    A Sisterhood of Song

    Scrapbooks of the Babaneek Women’s Choir

    Assortes yellowed pages with handwritten cursive and postcards with illustrations of flowers.

    The Painted River

    Leo Robba, Between the Trees – The River, 2006

    Merry Go Round

    The Unrelenting Passing of Time

    Bucketing Down

    Community Spirit During the 1955 Narrabri Flood

    Made to Order

    Nursing at Morisset Psychiatric Hospital

    A Lucky Few

    Prolific Silversmith, Joachim Wendt

    Close up of simple silver mug, slightly oxidised, with an inscription "HERE'S LUCK"

    Pieces and Patience

    Morpeth’s Important Bridge Modelled in Miniature

    An Important Event in the Circles of Jindera

    Capturing the Wedding of Gus Wagner and Tilly Schmidt in 1907

    Writing Home

    Frank Brown's WWI Letters

    handwritten letter

    Harry’s Crescendo

    Eugowra's Town Band Devotee

    hexagonal. wooden concertina, it looks similar to a small accordian

    Seeing Herman Rosler

    Portrait of a German Pioneer

    An Interrupted Note

    The War Diary of Morpeth’s Harold Maynard

    Prestigious Dining

    The Rococo Style of William Edwards

    Ornate silver soup tureen embellished with petal shapes, scrolls, and floral fittings, photographed on an angle

    Forged in Faith

    A Legacy of Morpeth’s Close Family

    Out of the Wreckage

    Photographing the 1910 Killingworth Colliery Explosion

    The Bowerbird

    Kerrie Lester’s Early Artmaking

    Hidden at the Back of the Fridge

    Reproduction Kelvinator Advertising Poster

    Crank Calling

    The Innovative Ericsson Skeletal Telephone

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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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