The lion is one of the most iconic symbols of Lunar New Year festivities.

This 1927 model AWA Radiolette has a polished walnut redelec case with contrasting grained ivory fret and feet, four volume control/tuning dials, AWA badge, and straight line tuning dial encased in

Eileen Joyce (1908–1991) was an Australian piano prodigy whose international career spanned more than 30 years.

The NFSA's Teilo Nicholls discovered a recording in the collection featuring the voice of his great uncle – a well-known explorer in Papua New Guinea in the 1930s.

Few Australian radio serials have had the enduring popularity of Yes, What?.

In this clip, Tim Bowden explains how ABC radio, which was broadcast nationally, became a unifying factor in a big country.

the announcer introduces Jack Hides, who gives a description of his 1935 expedition to the Strickland-Purari region of Papua, the last large unexplored area.

In this animated cinema advertisement from the 1930s, a tradesperson is fixing a broken electric refrigerator in the kitchen.

This early cinema ad appeals to the ‘pester power’ of children by using an animated cartoon to promote Sellex products.

Three year old Victor Willey Jr gives a customer a smooth shave with a sharp razor, at his father's barbershop in Sydney's Brighton-Le-Sands in 1938.