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Nursing Cavalcade at Town Hall
The ‘Hold High the Lamp’ cavalcade was presented at the Sydney Opera House as part of the 1951 Federation Jubilee Celebration. Some 200 nurses and actors took part in an elaborate pageant that told the story of nursing from its earliest…
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