pre-modern and modern

These pics are from a NSW museum exhibition series. The one above is a Redfern family evicted in 1934. That's their "meagre possessions" on the footpath. He was a Gallipoli vet.

This was taken only twenty four years later, on a new Dundas estate, but it may have been another world in comparison. It gives a sense though behind the twentieth century enthusiasm to demolish the drear and drudge of the past and concrete it over with sparkling new modernity. Yet so much was successfully eradicated that what's left is coveted.