Clowns: “Australia's March to Nationhood” Australian 150th Anniversary Celebration

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Clowns: “Australia's March to Nationhood” Australian 150th Anniversary Celebration

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Image 21806143 - Clowns parade ahead of a Luna Park float - part of the "Australia's March to Nationhood" parade on January 26th, 1938. This image was taken in Driver Avenue, Moore Park...This image is part of a collection entitled ‘Australia Day 1938 - Sesquicentenary Celebrations’, which is available to view on the Royal Australian Historical Society's Historypin Channel. Access the collection at the following link: ..www.historypin.com/channels/view/48441/#!collections/view... ( http://www.historypin.com/channels/view/48441/#!collections/view/id/3924/title/Australia Day 1938 - Sesquicentenary Celebrations ) ..Please feel free to comment on this or any of the other images in the collection. If you have more accurate information regarding the location and/or date of the image, we would love to hear from you!

Luna park, Steeplechase park and Dreamland were an ambitious amusement parks at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City in 1900s.

The pageant "Australia's March to Nationhood," which was the imposing initial item in the 150th anniversary celebrations of New South Wales, and which symbolised the milestones in Australia’s 150 years of history and development from the days of its struggling infancy, was one of the most magnificent and stirring spectacles ever seen in the Commonwealth. It took more than 1½ hours to pass a given point, and it was about 1½ miles in length. From the Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS), Australia’s oldest historical organisation founded in Sydney in 1901, promotes the study of Australian history.

This image dataset is generated from the world's largest public domain image archive. Made in two steps (manually curated set, and following image recognition), it comprises of more than 100,000 images of military ceremonies from different countries and times. All media is in the public domain, so there is no limitation on the dataset usage - educational, scientific, or commercial. Please contact us if you need a dataset like this, we may already have it, or, we can make one for you, often in 24 hours or less.

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1930 - 1939
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Driver Avenue, Moore Park, New South Wales, Australia, 2021-33.89147, 151.22348
Google Map of -33.89146789999999, 151.2234836
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Royal Australian Historical Society
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