Sydney Town Hall Night Illumination, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Image 25000056 - The Sydney Town Hall illuminated as part of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations in 1938. ..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!

Australia's March to Nationhood

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.