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How things change or stay the same over time
Student activities
Task no. 1
How things change or stay the same over time
These are old photos of families taken at different times in the past.
- What is similar to your family?
- What is different to your family?
Mr and Mrs Eddie Atkinson, native missionaries [of] Cummeragunja [with two children] , 1860 - 1909
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Portraits of Norman and Lionel Lindsay, family and friends, ca. 1900-1912, 1900 - 1912
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Royal Easter Show (1938 : Sydney, N.S.W.), 4/1938
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Hixson family, c. 1898, c. 1898
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Japanese steamer arrives. The captain with wife and family., 13 September 1934
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