Stunning images of Australians at work and play taken by the nation's most famous photographer Max Dupain go under the hammer in historic sale

Sunbaker is widely recognised as Australia's most iconic photo. The picture was taken by Max Dupain at Culburra Beach on the south coast of NSW in 1937

The MLC Centre was opened in Martin Place in 1977 and was the tallest building outside of the United States at the time

This aerial photo looks across Circular Quay in Sydney Harbour sometime during the 1960s. The foundations of the iconic Sydney Opera House sit at the end of the pier

The AWA Tower is pictured in the right of this photo with Wynyard Park in the centre. The tower was built in 1939 and is still standing today

Grocery trucks unload at Paddy's markets, in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Haymarket, sometime around 1940. The markets still exist today

The Sydney Town Hall sits on the left of this picture while the Queen Victoria Building is framed in the background. Both iconic buildings are still standing today

This photo was taken from the top of the clock tower at Sydney's Railway Square. It looks south down George Street towards what is today the Broadway shopping centre

Trams gather at the south-western entrance of Sydney's Central Station in 1939. The station's clock tower sits in the background

Morning commuters rush to work down the Circular Quay pier in Sydney Harbour. This photo was taken around 1938

Woman complete their morning shop for fruit and vegetables at the Crow's Nest Greengrocers north of the Sydney CBD in 1939 

Sydneysiders flock to the ever-crowded Bondi Beach to soak up the sun. Even in this 1960s-era photo the popular beach is full of people 

This 1956 photo was taken from the MLC Building in Martin Place - at the time the country's tallest building - and shows the Sydney Harbour Bridge lighting up as night falls

A 1970s photo taken in Edgecliffe looking towards the city across the suburbs of Rushcutters Bay (foreground to the right) and Kings Cross (background to the right) 

A aerial view of Hyde Park which lies in the middle of the Sydney Business District. The 1935 photo was taken from the T&G Building and pre-dates much of the development which now fringes the park

The Macquarie Street entrance of the Sydney Botanical Gardens sits in the foreground with the Sydney Harbour Bridge running behind it. Today the M1 motorway runs through the area

A woman walks in front of the New South Wales Public Library along Shakespeare Place in 1946. Today this area is a busy street lined with buildings and leads onto a motorway

A man drives a horse-drawn carriage along George Street in 1940. Tram lines can be seen on the road to the right with the tram wires hanging overhead

A line of cars are parked along Macquarie Street in front of the city's botanical gardens in this 1930s photo. A horse-drawn carriage can be seen on the right  

From the top of the clock tower at Sydney Central Station, this photo looks north along 1930s-era George Street. Trams can be seen on the ground below

A woman sunbathes at the edge of a pier on Sydney's Clarence River in the 1950s. A freshly-caught fish lies to her right and she takes shade with a newspaper on her head

An aerial view looking north over Sydney with the AWA Radio Tower in the left of the photo. The steel-framed tower was partly designed to model the Eiffel Tower in Paris

The partly-constructed AMP Tower on Sydney's Bridge Street. Construction of the 45-floor tower was completed in 1976 and it was the tallest building in the city until the MLC Centre was built the next year

One of Melbourne's now-iconic trams runs down Elizabeth Street in the city centre as commuters make their way home from work 

Park goers take in the sun under the trees during their lunch in Hobart, Tasmania, in a photo dated 1947

A view of Sydney's harbour looking across the city taken from the Hotel Ship Inn on Pitt Street