
Hōne Heke fells the flagstaff flying the British flag at Kororāreka, 1845
Painting by Arthur McCormick

Hone Heke

New Zealand wars

Gun boat "Pioneer"

Boxer Rebellion 1900

World War I

International Brigade, Spanish Civil War

Pig iron ban

A Dutch ship black-banned by wharfies

World War II

Korean War

Vietnam Moratorium 1970

Australian troops on battleship Prince of Wales before landing at Gallipoli

Encampment at Anzac Cove 1915, Graham Bould

Anzac Cove

Grave makers in the Allied cemetery in the Anzac area, AWM

Troops pass through France by train

Soldiers pause for a Rest in a smouldering field

Battle of the Somme 1916

A film crew captures the action on the Western Front

First Anzac Day parade in Sydney, along Macquarie Street 1916

St Bartholomew's plaque to commemorate men who served in World War I

Pyrmont and Ultimo War Memorial

Private Albert Landaman a tram conductor of Pyrmont prior to enlising in 17th Battalion. Photo with family taken 1915. Killed in action at Ypres Belgium September 1917. 28 Years of age.

Private. J.A. Newcomb, clerk of Pyrmont - studio portrait 1915. Died of wounds after returning home 1919, aged 20

Prisoners of war in Germany, Pte Robert Russell from Pyrmont seated. Returned Australia 1919

Pte Thomas Kelly, 17th Battalion from Pyrmont (formerly a fireman). Killed in action near Lagnicourt France April 1917

Pte William Bower of Pyrmont (formerly electrician). Fought on Western Front May 1916. Died of wounds suffered in battle in Le Sars, France

The Hon. Edward Knox

Pyrmont Refinery 1889

Slave trade in the South Seas - seizure of the schooner Daphne

Pacific Islander sugar cane labourers

South Sea Islander labourers on a Queensland sugar plantation, 1890s
Photographer unknown

Sugar plantation in the Caribbean

Hoeing weeds in Queensland sugar cane

South Sea Islander women 1891

White Australia medallion

Mass deportation after Federatiom

Kanakas deported after Federation

Small sugar mill in nortehrn New South Wales

Billy Hughes, Attorney General

Privy Council - UK coat of arms

First girmitiyas arrived in Fiji from India in 1879

Indian indentured labourers

Labasa hurricane, Coolie Lines, 1912

Labasa hurricane, stables, 1912

Locomotive boiler explosion, Labasa 1912

Striking Indian indentured labourer women 1920

Labasa Mill, 1924 - the only CSR mill located on the island of Vanua Levu, opened in 1893

E.W. Knox

Cane being transported to the Nausori Mill on the Rewa River punt, 1940

CSR's training farm for Fijian youths at Drasa, Lautoka, ca 1940
The Hon Edward Knox ca 1894

Lautoka Mill, 1940s

Nausori Mill 1947

Typical Indian cane grower's house, Naselai, 1947

Mechanical grab unloading cane from the punts, Nausori Mill, 1947

Wharf men loading the last sugar crushed at Nausori Mill before the mill closed on 7 January 1960

Notice to employees confirming the closure of Nausori Mill, 1959

Striking men outside the Railway Institute at Central Station

Assembly in Eddy Avenue

Tramway men marching toward the Domain

Demonstration in the Domain

Unions Affected by the Strike

Merv Flanagan's funeral

Strikers' wives marching from the Domain to Parliament House

Women stormed Parliament

Strikers' Loss

Mere-Mere from Whangamarino Redoubt, 1863
Sketch by Charles Heaphy

Gate Pa batle 1864
Watercolour by Horatio Robley

General Chute's march to destroy Maori villages 1866

Failed attack on Maori stronghold by British forces 1868
Engraving in English magazine

Von Tempsky killed at Te Ngutu-o-te-manu 1868

Captain Thomas Porter with pro-government Maori forces 1871

Whanganui Māori and Moutoa flag

Te Whai-a-te-Motu meeting house

Carved post honouring Titokowaru

Troops of Mechanised Cavalry regiment of 7th Div. awaiting tranport to Queen Mary for embarkation prior to leaving for the Middle East, 1940

Troops of 7th Division arriving at Pyrmont prior to embarkation on the troop transport Queen Mary for the voyage to the Middle East 1941

Air Raid Rehearsal Pyrmont

Air Raid Rehearsal Pyrmont

Air raid rehearsal Pyrmont

Australian soldiers

Troops welcomed home from Wewak 1946

Armoured car personnel waiting to board at Glebe Island 1946

Glebe Island with troops about to board SS Pauchang Victory for Japan 1946

HMAS Manoora about to leave Glebe Island for Japan 1946

Trucks on Glebe Island bound for Japan 1946

Bombs from Borneo to Brisbane via Glebe Island

SS Moreton Bay - one of the vessels chartered by the Dutch government-in-exile affected by the waterside workers’ black bans

Protesters being hosed by Dutch troops aboard a British ship during a Sydney demonstration against the transport of Dutch military support to the Netherlands East Indies, 1945

Indonesian seamen speaking at a pro-Indonesian demonstration in Wynyard Square on 28 September, 1945.
Courtesy State Library of New South Wales/Daily Telegraph

Australian mounted troops

Australians and New Zealanders at Klerksdorp 1901
Painted by Charles Hammond

Troops of 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse in the Transvaal 1902

Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant, whose execution caused an increase in anti-war sentiment in Australia

Weathercock to celebrate the relief of Mafeking in the South African War
Made by CSR coppersmiths in Pyrmont

Plaque marks the restoration of the weathercock to the former CSR administration building

Retired CSR engineers with Leone Huntsman, Jacksons Landing Community Association

Massacre of Christians 1898

Australian Naval Brigade officers with some Chinese 1900-1901

Group portrait of Australian Naval Brigade officers 1900-1901

Chinese convicts loading coal

Anarchists in the streets of Barcelona

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