Old Melbourne

1942 20 photos

May Day, Melbourne 1942John Reed living room Heidelberg Jan 1942Joy Hester in Fitzroy Gardens, Melb '42, 1942V.D.C. men in Bentleigh smile for the camera, c. 1942Albert Tucker in Fitzroy Gardens, Melb. 1942May Day, Melbourne 1942Law Courts Russell St Melb [Melbourne] 1942Taken from Noel Counihan's studio about Jan 1942 Russell St MelbourneJoy Hester in Fitzroy Gardens, Melb '42, 1942Joy Hester in Fitzroy Gardens, Melb '42, 1942Joy Hester in Fitzroy Gardens, Melb '42, 1942Tony Jackson, 1942 Lit Collins St Melb [Melbourne]Malvern Cricket Ground and T. [Town] Hall. Melb. 1942Tony and Pauline Jackson 1942 Lit. Collins St [Melbourne]Two women serve food inside mobile Air Raid Precautions Squad canteen at Russell Street, c. 1942Two Auxiliary Fire Service (Brighton) members in rescue training using a winch, c. 1942Brighton Tech boys take cover under their desks, c. 1942Practical instruction for A.I.F. Driver Mechanics and Mechanics M.T. at a Motor Vehicle Traide Training Centre near Melbourne, c. 1942Stationary trams in Swanston St. during air raid alert, c. 1942Trench digging Fawkner Park South Yarra, c. 1942

1943 40 photos

A.R.P. [i.e. Air Raid Precautions] display at Hawthorn, c. 1943Corporal H.L. Ripper and Lance Corporal E.C. Tickell weaving scarves at Rockingham Convalescent Home, Kew, c. 1943Two men studying canteen management classes at Melbourne Technical College, c. 1943Military procession in Melbourne, near the corner of Elizabeth and Collins Streets, 1943Nurses laying flowers on the Edith Cavell Memorial, St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, c. 1943A.I.F. men on their return to Australia, at Spencer Street station, Melbourne, 1943Fairfield Hall, Brighton, 194317th Brigade marching through Melbourne, c. 1943V.D.C. at East Malvern testing out their [illegible] built rope and plank bridge, c. 1943Frankston V.A.O.C. Post, c. 1943Boys from [Heidelberg] Military Hospital listening to the show, c. 1943Aust. troops on leave from M.E. [i.e. Middle East] arriving at a Transit Camp in Melb[ourne], c. 1943A.I.F. soldiers of the 9th Division in Swanston Street, during a march in Melbourne, 1943Fairfield Hall, Brighton, 1943Lieutenant J. ten Brink, of the Royal Netherland Navy, who together with Mr. J. Overdiep collected 2,639 [pounds] ... Liberty Loan ... Commonwealth Bank Head Office in Melbourne, c. 1943Parade of A.R.P. [i.e. Air Raid Precautions] personnel at Flemington, c. 1943A.C.1. R.C. MONSON of Melbourne (Vic.) Oxy Welder at a Mobile Works Squadron in Northern Australia, c. 19435th Batt. V.D.C. Church Parade. Elsternwick Park, c. 1943Graveside service of Military funeral of Lieut. Stewart Woods, Adjutant, 5th Batallion V.D.C. at Springvale, c. 1943Chinese lion and drays in city of Melbourne to promote the Chinese Lion Carnival, c. 1943V. D.C. at Bentleigh assault and attack on a building, c. 1943Miss M. Finnin, rehabilitation officer and Sapper W.D. Owen examining scarves woven at the Rockingham Red Cross Convalescent Home, Kew, c. 1943Officials of different organizations watching A.R.P. [i.e. Air Raid Precautions] display Melbourne, c. 1943Air Raid Precautions Squad during display in Melbourne - lying down during air raid, c. 1943About 1500 women in uniform from the combined services marched through Melbourne, 1943Pte R. J. Owens, Footscray, had his arm broken when he was hit by a falling coconut at Milne Bay, c. 1943Bourke Street, Melbourne, c. 194317th Brigade marching through Melbourne, c. 1943Gun carriage and pall bearers enter Springvale Cemetery for military funeral of Lt. Stewart Woods, c. 1943Erecting the new army barracks in the Albert Park near St. Kilda Football Ground, c. 1943Sister Preston Burton and Signalman A. J. Clemens, c. 1943Lt. Gen. J.L. Whitham at church parade, Elsternwick Park, c. 1943Brig. H. Bartlett, H. R. B. Janvrin and H. W. Fitzroy-William, c. 1943Side view of St. John Hall Heidelberg Military Hospital, c. 1943A.I.F. soldiers of the 9th Division in Swanston Street, during a march in Melbourne, 1943Stretcher bearers at work during A.R.P. [i.e. Air Raid Precautions] display Melbourne, c. 1943Caulfield Guineas Day St. H. B. Rucker (A.I.F.) and his wife Sister Gwenda Rucker, c. 1943Army v R.A.A.F. Cricket at Footscray, c. 1943Bourke St. Infantrymen, c. 1943St. John Hall Heidelberg Military Hospital broadcasting current news service, c. 1943

4,991 historic photos of Melbourne from the 1940s, by year, then those the library dates to a span of years. All are from State Library Victoria; each photo links to its original record.