1 January, 1926. Men in the midst of planting trees, with Parliament House in the background.
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December, 1926. The arrival of National Library books at Parliament House on a truck. The people include Harold L. White and K. Binns.
1 January, 1927, the Duke and Duchess of York (the Queen Mother) arriving at Parliament House.
William James Mildenhall with his Armstrong Siddeley motor car, registration number 27, during the’ Royal Visit’ in May 1927.
1 January, 1927. Parliament House and East Block from Russell Hill. Canberra was established largely in sheep paddocks in 1913.
Royal Visit May 1927 – Mounted police riding past naval and army formations outside Parliament House during rehearsal.
January 1921–December 1935. Braddon area from the Civic Centre building.
1 January, 1927. King Billy, the last native Tasmanian Aboriginal, on the steps of Parliament House.
1 January, 1927. Duke of York opening the front door of Parliament House, Prime Minister Rt Hon Stanley Bruce on the left, Governor-General on right.
Policeman at East Block (now the National Archives of Australia) wearing a helmet, October 1927.
January 1921–December 1935. Landing of Captain W.N. Lancaster and Mrs Keith Miller aircraft Red Rose at the Review Ground opposite Hotel Kurrajong.
January 1921–December 1935. A motor ambulance driver poses next to the van, based in East Lake behind Kingston Power House. The driver wears uniform of early bus drivers.
January 1921–December 1935. Rt Honourable W M Hughes – also known as Billy Hughes – Australia’s 7th prime minister from 1915-23. To the left of him is the Hon Percy G Stewart, minister for works and railways.
1 January 1923. Turning of first sod for construction of Parliament House by the minister for works and railways, Percy Stewart, with a Keystone steam shovel driven by Joe Lea.
Parliament House rear stairway under construction, 1926.
January 1921–December 1935. Opening of the 16th Parliament, with the Govenor-General leading the address in the Senate.
January 1921–December 1935. Prime Minister James Henry Scullin (Australia’s 9th prime minister, from 1929-32) and official guests at the opening CSIR Building, Division of Entomology, Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain.
January 1921–December 1935. Mount Stromlo Observatory, 30-inch Reynolds Telescope, under construction.
January 1921–December 1935. Murrumbidgee River Bridge after 1925 flood. Western approaches were washed away, near the Cotter Pump House.
15 June 1928. Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith in his flying helmet, with a crowd.
1926. School children and school bus.
1926. Parliament House landscape development with horse teams.
1929. Roadworks in progress with manual labour.
1932. Swimmers at Manuka Swimming Pool, Manuka Circle, Kingston.
1934. Capitol Theatre and Manuka shops from Manuka Oval.
1927. Roy Rowe with wife and son at home in Eastlake (Kingston).
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