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Celebrate!

by National Library of Australia Commons

A selection of photographs from the National Library of Australia inspired by our season of celebration. These images contain dancing, Christmas, laughter, refreshments, banquets and handsome soldiers.

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Party that Winifred Atwell attended [2]

Dance given on board Renown at Sydney, New South Wales, [1920] Gordon Harrison

Picnic party drinking and eating under the trees beside a river, with one man proposing a toast, New South Wales, ca. 1869 / Charles Walter

State School, Fete, Exhibition Building : maypole dance opposite the Royal Box

Dancing on the singsing ground: men in all their splendour (1) : The Tengerap Clan Singsing, Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea, 1954 / Terence and Margaret Spencer

Victory celebrations in Martin Place, Sydney, 15 August 1945

People dressed up in costumes for Australia Day celebrations, approximately 1915

[Portrait of Hughes being carried by soldiers along a crowded street, 1918]

Some of the guests enjoying refreshments, with an electric petrol pump in the foreground, during the opening of the Birkenhead terminal, 29 September, 1950

The Denison family of Sydney celebrating the golden wedding anniversary of John Joseph and Harriett Willson Denison, November 1939

Wes Colquhoun and Fred Phair talking to the girls at the ball in the Soldier's Memorial Hall, Drouin, Victoria

Dancers in the Soldier's Memorial Hall, Drouin, Victoria

[Mawson and men at Christmas dinner with menu and balloons, on board the S.Y. Discovery, 1930] : [Antarctica] /

Nancy Walton, Audrey Tomlinson, Peggy Kirk, Maud Gardner, Jacqueline Smith and Delores Bonney at a dinner for Peggy Kirk at Princes, 1953

Ballroom dancing, Canberra, ca. 1942 / Department of Information

Santa Claus at Canberra Airport, ca. 1929

Santa giving present to baby in garden, Castlecrag, Sydney, New South Wales, [1] [transparency].