During the 1920s and ’30s there was a shop selling records and/or record players on just about every block of George St in Sydney, NSW.

Home Recreations LD, 388 George St, sold the Australian designed and made Salonola, 'The Instrument with the Human Voice'.

The Aeolian Coy in Sydney manufactured the Vocalion range of 'disc talking machines’, as well as selling records from the major labels of the time such as Vocalion, Columbia, HMV, Zonophone an

Is Canberra calling to you? And why is it hot in Brisbane but Coolangatta?

This diverse collection spans 100 years and shows the relationship between Australia's growing population and evolving public transport systems.

This clip from a silent, black-and-white cinema advertisement for Anthony Hordern & Sons shows Santa landing on Sydney Harbour by seaplane and being rowed ashore to Lady Macquarie’s Chair where

A crowd of 20,000 people welcoming Santa as he arrives by horse-drawn carriage at the Anthony Hordern Pavilion, Sydney.

Advertisement published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 November 1946.

Photo from the A.W.A. Radio Electric Works (Ashfield) Children's Christmas Party, 1939.