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Archival photographs document children in 1970s Australia in classrooms and schoolyards, playing sport, and passing time with cards. They capture real moments—not a checklist of what every child did, or proof that an activity has disappeared. The examples below are specifically Australian, with locations and dates identified by the National Library of Australia (NLA).
What the record can—and cannot—tell us
The NLA’s educational resource for its 1975: Living in the Seventies exhibition uses photographs and objects to invite comparisons between childhood then and now. Its lesson asks students to sort displayed games into ones they still recognize and play and ones that are “no longer common,” but it does not name which games fit either group. The archive therefore supports specific scenes, not a definitive ranking of 14 vanished habits.
A photograph establishes that a scene was captured at a particular place and time. On its own, it cannot show how widespread the activity was, who was left out, or whether it continued in later decades. These distinctions matter: school, sport, and card games have not simply ceased to exist.
14 documented glimpses of childhood in 1970s Australia
At school
- Learning in a classroom. A 1975 photograph by Wolfgang Sievers shows a teacher and small children in a classroom at Tom Price, Western Australia. It is a record of one class, not a picture of every Australian school.
- Spending time in a schoolyard. Wes Stacey’s photograph shows children in the schoolyard of Maldon Public School, Victoria, around 1970. The caption documents the place and scene, but does not specify what the children were playing.
- Sharing a school day with classmates. The classroom photograph records a teacher and children together, while the schoolyard image records children outside school buildings. Together they offer a glimpse of two school settings; neither establishes a standard daily routine.
- Experiencing school in a regional town. Tom Price, the location named in the Sievers caption, places that classroom scene in Western Australia rather than an unspecified city. The image is evidence of that particular setting, not a comparison of regional and urban schooling.
Playing sport
- Playing under-age rugby. An Australian Information Service image is captioned as young Australian children playing under-age rugby in New South Wales in 1975. The caption does not give participation figures or detail the rules.
- Playing netball in Sydney. A 1979 image shows a group of young refugees from Indochina playing netball in Sydney, New South Wales. It documents the participants and activity in that moment, not the experience of all refugee children.
- Taking part in organized sport as children. The rugby and netball captions show young people playing sport in two distinct settings and years. They do not establish how commonly children played either sport.
- Playing alongside a varied group of children. The netball caption identifies the pictured group as young refugees from Indochina. That specific detail makes the photograph a record of one community’s participation, not a basis for generalizing about every child in Sydney.
Games and time together
- Playing cards behind local shops. A photograph captioned by the NLA shows two boys playing cards while two others watch, behind the Kingston shops in Canberra in 1971. The caption does not identify the card game.
- Watching friends play. The same Canberra caption notes that two boys were watching the two who played cards. It captures a small social scene, but does not reveal how often the boys met or what else they did.
- Gathering in a neighborhood setting. The card players were photographed behind the Kingston shops. That is a concrete location for this encounter, not proof that children commonly played behind shops.
- Learning games through play. The NLA lesson presents a selection of “well-loved games from the 1970s” and asks students to compare them with games they know. It does not identify the games in its sorting activity, so no particular pastime can be confidently labeled a relic on that evidence.
- Playing games that remain recognizable. The NLA’s exercise explicitly asks students which displayed games they still recognize and play. It points to continuity as well as change, without naming individual games or measuring how often they are played today.
- Comparing childhood across generations. The educational resource encourages students to compare games from the 1970s with those familiar to them. That is a documented way of studying change—not evidence that children’s play followed one uniform path.
How to read the “relics” label
“Relics of the past” works as a reminiscence prompt, but it overstates what these records establish if taken literally. The archive documents moments of school, sport, and play in named Australian places. It does not show that these activities were universal, nor that they have vanished. Card play and school sport, for example, are activities the photographs document, not extinct customs.
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For a family-history or classroom discussion, the most useful questions are specific: Where did the activity happen? Who is named or pictured? What does the caption actually say? What would require another source—such as prevalence, rules, or whether the practice continued? Keeping those questions separate lets the images illuminate the past without turning a handful of photographs into a claim about every 1970s childhood.
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