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.

Another song about Sydney was written and recorded around the same time by Maurice Chenoweth, a well known ‘silvery tenor’.

The NFSA has five separate versions of the song, O! Sydney I Love You, including two by Len Maurice, perhaps recorded at the same session.

The opening of the Columbia pressing plant in 1926 with its brand new technology of electrical (as distinct from purely acoustic) recording opened the doors to Australian performers to record their

This simple home movie clip captures afternoon tea on board a boat at Pittwater, Sydney in 1932.

A still taken on the set of the documentary Constructing Australia: The Bridge, 2006 - Film Australia Collection © NFSA.