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NSW State Archives

Locality: Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9673 1788

Address: 161 O'Connell Street 2747 Kingswood, NSW, Australia

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25.01.2022 UPDATE: We are loving all your guesses! In our catalogue, the photo is titled "Group of men standing beside train observing land to be submerged at Burrinjuck". In the replies below Colin McDonald has given us the name of the locomotive "...and the locomotive is 'JACK', built by Krauss & Co. in München-Sendling, Germany in 1908." ... And "....three other, mostly-identical locomotives, worked the railway: DULCE, ROBIN and ARCHIE, built in 1907, also by Krauss. They were named after the railway surveyor's three children, the latter two were twin boys. JACK is believed to have been named after Barren Jack, the peak overlooking Burrinjuck Dam" We've added the tags 'burrinjuck' 'jack' 'narrow gauge' 'steam train' to the image in Collection Search http://ow.ly/nj3W50BQDq6 ====================== It's time for #captionthis Help make our photos more discoverable - what search term would you use to find this photo? There's no word limit but if you're hooked on a #oneword answer we're hoping to add the most popular as tags to our catalogue. We know #whereisthis - can you guess?

25.01.2022 It's time for #captionthis Help make our photos more discoverable - what search term would you use to find this photo? There's no word limit but if you're hooked on a #oneword answer we're hoping to add the most popular as tags to our catalogue.

25.01.2022 Please make room, it's Jigsaw Thursday! Make it as challenging as you like by choosing the number of pieces and/or test your speed with the in-built timer. Tell us in the comments how you go. https://www.records.nsw.gov.au//maga/jigsaw-railway-poster

24.01.2022 The latest issue of Now&Then is a bumper issue! We've got newly digitised records, new indexes, new Behind the Scenes, Histories from the Archives, webinars, Christmas hours and more. View / subscribe: http://ow.ly/Vri250CxA0o

22.01.2022 For NAIDOC Week we're revisiting this painting by artist Blak Douglas. Titled "Truism Australia" the artwork is his response to an image featured in our exhibition A Thousand Words. #ATWexhibition http://ow.ly/YZSE50CfZRg More works by Blak Douglas at blakdouglas.com.au... #NAIDOCWeek2020

22.01.2022 Join us this Friday for our next Mini Webinar - Researching Local History using Collection Search. Have you thought about using Collection Search when doing local history research? Collection Search is a powerful search tool that can really help to mine the archives for local history gold. This webinar will give you some tricks and tips to try. Register: http://ow.ly/e2kb50Bs22w... #learninminutes

21.01.2022 In the final countdown of the Top 10 most popular photos from our exhibition A Thousand Words we have: No. 9 - Passengers boarding the Canberra Express No. 10 - Child with her toys... If you'd like to add a response visit: www.atwonline.com.au #ATWexhibition

21.01.2022 Continuing our countdown of the Top 10 most popular photos from our exhibition A Thousand Words. Here we have: No. 7 - Undercover policewomen for Queen Elizabeth II No. 8 - Petersham station ... If you'd like to add a response visit: www.atwonline.com.au #ATWexhibition

20.01.2022 From our Digital Gallery is a #TrueCrime story about ferry captain George Dean who was found guilty of "administering poison with the intent to murder" his wife in April 1895. Despite a lack of evidence Dean was sentenced to death. A public outcry against the verdict was followed by a Royal Commission which resulted in Dean being granted a free pardon in June 1895. The story, however, was not over and George Dean was subsequently tried and sentenced to 9 years for "perjury with intent to procure acquittal". He was released from prison #OnThisDay in 1904. Read all about it: http://ow.ly/13fW50BX48v

19.01.2022 We're crashing through on our countdown of the Top 10 most popular photos from our exhibition A Thousand Words. Here we have: No. 5 - Car over bridge No. 6 - Steam engine over cliff ... If you'd like to add a response visit: www.atwonline.com.au #atwexhibition

19.01.2022 Join us online Friday 9 Oct for our next Mini Webinar on Gaol Photographs. The Gaol Photos, c.1870-1930 are an extraordinary collection of images and information of men, women and children who were incarcerated in the NSW prison system. This webinar takes a look at the digitised photographs and how to find them. ... Register: http://ow.ly/lSSo50Bs0JX #learninminutes

17.01.2022 There's still time to register for today's Mini Webinar on Gaol Photographs. The Gaol Photos, c.1870-1930 are an extraordinary collection of images and information of men, women and children who were incarcerated in the NSW prison system. This webinar takes a look at the digitised photographs and how to find them. ... Register: http://ow.ly/lSSo50Bs0JX #learninminutes

16.01.2022 On this day in 1916 Taronga Zoo officially opened on the shores of Sydney Harbour in Mosman. Taronga Zoo was NSW's first public zoo and initially opened in 1884 at Billy Goat Swamp in Moore Park, on the site now occupied by Sydney Boys High and Sydney Girls High. The NSW Government granted 43 acres for the new bar-free zoo in Mosman. It was home to monkeys, seals, elephants and over 500 birds. https://www.records.nsw.gov.au//m/onthisday/7-october-1916

16.01.2022 At 11 am on 11 November 1918 the guns on the Western Front fell silent as the armistice was signed by the Allies and Germany to mark the end of the fighting in World War I. On this day we remember those who died in the war. After the end of World War I the people of NSW looked for ways to remember those who had died: http://ow.ly/exD850wXNxU

16.01.2022 Featuring one of the most popular images from the A Thousand Words exhibition, Sydney Living Museums has produced this exclusive new 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle. This photo was selected because it presents quite the challenge for puzzlers. Canine or clairvoyant? What do you see? Shop now https://slm.is/puzzle

14.01.2022 In this episode of Archives Behind the Scenes we’re talking about Divorce Case Papers. These are our main series of records relating to divorce in NSW and cover period 1873 up to about 1976 (with a few gaps around the 1960s and 1970s). We hold about 188,000 files, that’s about 10,000 boxes of these records. See what you might find in a file. https://www.records.nsw.gov.au//archives-behind-the-scenes

13.01.2022 There's still time to register for our FREE WEBINAR next week: Women in the archives Join us online (Oct 16 at 10am) for tips for finding women in the archives - at work, in family life, in the care of institutions & in death. REGISTER: http://ow.ly/uMjQ50xUFbc

13.01.2022 Gather your friends and cook along at home with our very own colonial gastronomer Jacqui Newling! Join our live-streamed event and see how to prepare a traditio...nal Christmas pudding using a Mrs Beeton's recipe from 1861. Participants will receive the recipe ahead of time and can ask Jacqui questions throughout the online event through the live Q&A function. Details: Saturday 12 December, 10.30am-11.30am Cost: $20 (Members receive a 20% discount) Find out more: slm.is/puddingdemonstration

11.01.2022 It's all about breakfast for this #MenuMonday We've got the lot! Who wants Iced Grapefruit? Granose Biscuits? Smoked N.Z Blue Cod? Eggs to order? Or how about some Corn Flakes? This menu is from the NSW Railways. It is undated but the series covers c.1938 to c. 1957... NRS-16410-1-5-[4A]-69 View in Collection Search > http://ow.ly/24cJ50Ahau2

11.01.2022 One of the wonderful artworks from a past @sculpturebysea exhibition that we are storing here while they await their next installation Our partnership sees works from past festivals on display for visitors to enjoy. 'Pink Eggplant - Share' is by artists @TataOota and Akiho Tata.

11.01.2022 There's still tine to register for tomorrow's FREE WEBINAR - Records of the Higher Courts. These records include the Court of Quarter Sessions, District Court & the Supreme Court. Join us online to explore these Court records & how to find them.... Register: http://ow.ly/DayL50Bs2gK

11.01.2022 The post horn is one of the commonest watermarks found across Europe in the 17th century, generally in the lighter weight papers suitable for letters. This beautiful example is enclosed within a crowned shield and the initials relate to the name of the paper mill from which it was produced. #WatermarkArt #artinthearchives#paperart #nswarchives

10.01.2022 Paper marbling patterns are produced by combining colours onto a liquid bath and then raking special combs and other tools through the paint. Paper is then laid over the design to transfer the pattern and dried. This unique process means that no two patterns are ever the same. #nswarchives #papermarbling #abstract #marblingartaustralia #marbledendpapers #marbledmonday

08.01.2022 From our A Thousand Words exhibition we have a written artist's response to this popular image. Ethan Bell, a Wallabalooa man from the Ngunawal Nation, is an emerging poet, artist and student based in Campbelltown, Sydney. http://ow.ly/o3nj50CfZIk #NAIDOCweek2020 #ATWexhibition

08.01.2022 We're flying into Summer today! This beautiful #artwork is from the album of Illuminated Addresses presented to Lord Carrington by the Municipal Association of New South Wales near the end of his tenure as Governor of NSW (1885-1890). The elegance of the detail is amazing, especially considering the short amount of time the artist had to complete the work. According to the Association "..plentifully surrounded and interspersed with ferns, waratahs, and native flowers, the col...ours being most admirably blended, and the whole reflecting the greatest credit upon the artist, Mr. Charles Turner, who, considering that he had but very short notice of the committee's requirements, has turned out a work that will, we feel certain, be prized by Lord Carrington, and will do honor to the colony wherever exhibited..." https://www.records.nsw.gov.au///galleries/the-carringtons #thecarringtons #artinthearchives #nswarchives #illuminatedmanuscripts #manuscripts #archives #1880s #art #design

07.01.2022 We all love a long weekend and next Monday is the Labour Day public holiday - a day celebrating the eight-hour work day. The eight-hour work day was a long time coming - a working day could be up to 16 hours a day and six days a week. Sydney stone masons won the first eight-hour day in the State in 1855 and celebrated with a victory dinner on 1 October. It wasn't until 1916 that it came into affect across all industries. On Monday 4 October 1915, with Australia in the midst... of war, Sydney-siders took to the streets in holiday mode. Newspapers described the day as being an "unclouded dome of blue" under which 90 trade and industry unions, about 250,000 people, marched through the streets. This moving image shows some of the crowds watching the processions in George St Sydney. In the background you can see St Andrews Cathedral, the Town Hall and huge crowds watching the eight-hour day procession passing up park street in from of the Queen Victoria building NRS 20499 http://ow.ly/Y43j50BCBZV

07.01.2022 #OnThisDay in 1889 Sydney Town Hall officially opened. The Town Hall was built throughout the 1880s on the site of an old cemetery using local Sydney sandstone. Thousands of Sydneysiders flocked to the opening as the day had been declared a public holida: https://www.records.nsw.gov.au//magazine//27-november-1889

06.01.2022 Update: Can you believe this is Pennant Hills Road! The photo is dated 3 Jan 1930. Here's the link to the original photo in the catalogue, you can zoom in quite a way with it. The building at the back left is a Hotel http://ow.ly/m1s850Ci7I9 .. A couple of photo-sleuths here and on Twitter have identified the hotel as Hotel Hampden, now Pennant Hills Hotel. ======... This morning we're on the road to... #captionthis Help make our photos more discoverable - what search term would you use to find this photo? Does this look road familiar? (we know the name of this road, do you know #whereisthis? )

06.01.2022 Are you ready for Jigsaw Thursday! Make it as challenging as you like by choosing the number of pieces and/or test your speed with the in-built timer. Tell us in the comments how you go. http://ow.ly/Y7u450AbQBb

06.01.2022 We're flying into another Jigsaw Thursday! Make it as challenging as you like by choosing the number of pieces and/or test your speed with the in-built timer. Tell us in the comments how you go. http://ow.ly/bYUF50A5Epd

05.01.2022 #OnThisDay 13 October 1933 Australia's first traffic lights began operating in Sydney. The lights were installed at the intersection of Market and Kent Streets in Sydney's CBD. They were switched on by the then Minister for Transport, Colonel Michael Bruxner at 11am: http://ow.ly/1WsF50BMMtJ From the The Sydney Morning Herald article on Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17015287 : "Motorists took to the innovation surprisingly quickly and a number of policemen ...had little to do. The lights worked automatically, and streams of traffic halted or moved on rapidly in compliance to the red and green lights. Between each movement of traffic, the lights were amber, indicating a breathing-spell for the clearing of traffic from the intersection." Railway Square, Sydney in 1927 before traffic lights

05.01.2022 Take a deep breath, it's Jigsaw Thursday! Make it as challenging as you like by choosing the number of pieces and/or test your speed with the in-built timer. Tell us in the comments how you go. http://ow.ly/D5fg50AbQvP... This image is part exhibition, A Thousand Words > https://atwonline.com.au/image/atw007

03.01.2022 In the latest issue of our e-newsletter, Now&Then, find out what's new in Collection Search, who's doing what in the Reading Room, index update and more. Read / subscribe: http://ow.ly/HTQ950BKij7

02.01.2022 #OnThisDay 26 November 1879 the mugshot of AG Scott aka Captain Moonlight was taken at Darlinghurst Gaol. Captain Moonlight was a notorious #bushranger who "who committed various crimes bank-robbery, passing false cheques, stealing gold and led a gang of outlaws until he was eventually caught by police, tried in Sydney in 1879 and subsequently executed in Darlinghurst Gaol in 1880." http://ow.ly/5iTK50wWXcS

02.01.2022 There's still time to register for today's Mini Webinar - Stamp Duties Deceased estate files. Deceased estate files, 1880-1958 are the companion to our Probate packets. This webinar looks at how to find deceased estate files and what you can find in them. Register: http://ow.ly/PbXx50Bs2iX... #learninminutes

02.01.2022 #OnThisDay 8 October 1906 the Free Education Act No. 12 was passed. The Act abolished fees in primary and superior public schools and gave a greater number of children access to education. Rates of student attendance in the years following 1906 in ‘Post Primary’ classes jumped from 708 in 1906 to 10,833 in 1910 http://ow.ly/x72D50wlN4E ... 15051_a047_006285_1

01.01.2022 This #MapMonday happens to coincide with National Gardening Week. Which is prime time to show off this beautiful plan of the Botanic Gardens in Sydney, dated 1921. It's very detailed: you can see the Government House near the top left, the Con is centre left with the Domain / Garden Palace Grounds underneath. Directly under the Beach Walk is the pond in the Lower Garden, palms and aviary of the Middle Garden and the various buildings and propagating ground of the Upper Gard...en. So much to see! View a larger version on Flickr > http://ow.ly/P7MI50AhdNa NRS 7951 [10-13981] 21_1806