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Cheers and beers

by National Library of Australia Commons

A selection of photographs from the National Library’s collection which relate to the role alcohol has played within Australian society from the 1870–1950s.

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Cascade ales & beers reach farther south [penguins, sea elephants, a man wearing a hat and holding a sign and several other men on the Nuggets beach, Macquarie Island, Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914] [Antarctica] / [Frank Hurley]
Henrietta Delboise proprietress of Cafe Rivoli at 154 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, 1929
Hop Picking at Glenora / Spurling
Billboard advertising Old Court whiskey along a railway platform, Victoria, approximately 1925
Picking hops [Tasmania]
Portrait of Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm and T.H. McWilliam at beer garden, Great Pacific Hotel, Suva, 1928?
Firefly fighters landing emergency supplies of beer at West Island from HMAS Sydney, sailing from Perth en route to the Coronation, 1953 / Tom Meigan
J. H. Roberts drinking beer in the J.C. Williamson production of Fly Away Peter, 1949 [7] Hal Williamson
[West End Bitter Beer advertisement featuring boxing identities, South Australia]
Mrs Gleeson pours a beer for a customer at the Drouin Hotel, Drouin, Victoria [photo by Jim Fitzpatrick]
Johnston's wine press, South Australia, 1920 / Samuel Ware
Wine Glass [i.e. Wineglass] Bay
Man standing outside Mrs. H. Peterson's Colonial Wine and Coffee Rooms, Hill End, New South Wales, ca.1872
Billboard advertising Leeto sparkling wine, Victoria, approximately 1925
A man using a wine press, ca. 1900