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Newcastle Post Office staff, 1949.

A gallery of workplace photos: Part 2

Group photos of employees in their workplaces aren't as common today as they once were. But I've gathered a selection from a variety of sources. Here is part 2 in the series. Newcastle Hospital staff, circa 1940s. Staff of P. Johnson and Co (later Stylemasters), makers of menswear, Darby Street Newcastle, circa 1930s. Krempins seed store, Hunter Street Newcastle, circa 1945. L to R: Edith Krempin, Laurel Blakemore, Biddy Hill, Nina Longworth, Norma Atkinson, Harry Krempin, Jack Krempin?, Roger Cecil (far right) Casben clothing company, Weston, circa 1957. Photo from Bernie Peel. Morison and Bearby engineering,…

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Newcastle Herald staff picnic December 12, 1936

A gallery of workplace photos: Part 1

It's not so fashionable these days, it seems, but there was a time when group photographs of people at their workplaces were standard fare. Here is a gallery of workplace photos, mostly from Newcastle, NSW. A staff photo from Newcastle's BHP steelworks in 1935 - the company's jubilee year. The photo came from Mrs Jan Collins, whose mother, Esme Moodie, is in the picture. Esme married Christopher Windsor in 1933, but kept her maiden name at work. She left work in 1936 to raise her family. Her husband was a crane driver at BHP's open hearth…

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Read more about the article Just the two of us: a gallery of couples

Just the two of us: a gallery of couples

In old photo albums and negative sleeves there are often photos of couples, having fun, clowning around or just posing for the lens. Here's a small selection from different decades. A fashionably dressed couple from the 1920s or 1930s, proudly posing in front of their car. The same pair, in a nice outdoor setting, with some young spectators. Here's a curious double-act Continuing the theme of the great outdoors Love on the beach Something a little odd about the lady?Newcastle lass Pam Parsons with well-known cartoonist Eric Jolliffe at a fancy dress party. It's the look…

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