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Most viewed on Flickr

by State Library of NSW

This album brings together some of our most popular images as viewed by the Flickr community.

Some images were loaded in 2008 and have been accruing views for nearly 15 years, others are popular examples loaded in the las few years.

99 photos · 9.4K views

Ice cased Adelie penguins after a blizzard at Cape Denison, c. 1912, photograph by Frank Hurley

Tattooed lady Betty Broadbent, 4 April 1938

Private screening of film 'Cloistered' for nuns, State Theatre, Sydney, 1938

Permanent waving a man's hair, 1938

Damien Parer, Bungan, New South Wales, 1938

Tattooed man 'Sailor Bill', Sydney, 1939

Lloyd Lamble undergoing steam treatment, 1941

Huia, two-masted topsail schooner, c. 1925

Harry's Cafe de Wheels, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, 18 August, 1949

Pan sculpture (nighttime), Archibald Foundation, Hyde Park, Sydney, c. 1933

Acrobatics at the beach by two Tivoli stars, December 1951.

BHP shipbuilding and freight wharves, Whyalla, South Australia, c. 1950

Canadian swimmer diving in North Sydney Olympic Pool, 1938

Pigeon racers with timing clocks, 1945, by Alec Iverson

Study of a small girl with a prize Scottish terrier dog, c. 1935 / by Sam Hood

Start of the Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race, 1971

Musical stars Madge Elliott and Cyril Ritchard's wedding, St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, 16 September 1935 / photograph by Sam Hood

Huskies pulling sledge

Harry Fell, hairdresser, Melbourne, 28 October 1952

Police Dog, Tess, 29/1/35 / by Sam Hood

Valentina Blinova in L'Oiseau de feu [The Firebird], Ballets Russes, Sydney, 1936-1937 / Max Dupain

Billy and Graham Green from the Salvation Army Camp practise a little deceit, Collaroy Beach, ca. 1940 / photographer unknown

Blizzard, the pup in Antarctica / photograph by Frank Hurley

Ice mask, C.T. Madigan, between 1911-1914 / photograph by Frank Hurley