COLONIAL CHRISTMAS COLLECTION Trove Tuesday 21st Dec 2021

 

Earliest surviving oil painting of Sydney Cove, 1794, by Arthur Thomas Watling. Picture: Courtesy State Library of NSW

Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1881 - 1894), Friday 7 January 1887, page 14  National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63620436

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Image source: State Library Victoria

Manilla Express (NSW : 1899 - 1954), Saturday 22 December 1900, page 1 National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article194681598

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A Charles Henry Hunt Christmas card (1881) shows a worker in the bush being offered tea by a young girl.(National Library of Australia: nla.pic-an8929097-1)

Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909), Saturday 28 December 1901, page 6 National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228282706

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 A drawing of Christmas celebrations on the diggings – from the National Library of Australia

NOTE:

This was published earlier ..my error ..

trying to get organised ahead .. apologies. 

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