Australia Collection (page 5)

View of Sydney Harbour, Sydney, Australia
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Dromaius novaehollandiae, emu
Drawing No. 67, watercolour by George Raper (1792) from The Raper Collection

Queen Elizabeth II - Royal Tour of Australia - Adelaide
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip leave Victoria Park racecourse, Adelaide, after a choir of 3000 children sang Australian songs. Another 70, 000 children attended the occasion. Date: 1963

Fremantle Harbour, Australia
Entrance to Fremantle Harbour, Western Australia

Jenolan Caves, New South Wales
Jenolan Caves House, Jenolan Caves, New South Wales, Australia

Corowa, New South Wales
Murray Bridge, Corowa, New South Wales, Australia

Cooks New Zealand Tours
Cover illustration for Cooks New Zealand Tours, showing tropical flora and fauna in a landscape. Date: 1897

At the Oval / Ally Sloper
Ally Sloper bats at the Oval against Australia, dressed in medieval armour for protection

H. Verity after Englands 1934 Test Match victory
Hedley Verity (1905-1943), cricketer, resting in his hotel in London with a newspaper after Englands victory against Australia at the 1934 Test Match

Christmas in Australia, Huntley and Palmers biscuits
Christmas Dinner in Centennial Park, Sydney, Australia given a quintessential British twist with the addition of Huntley and Palmers biscuits. Not sure how well they go with the turkey though

Sydney, Australia - Coogee Beach - a two-carriage tram close to the (rather popular it seems!) beah"

Australia - Waterfalls series - Wentworth Falls and steps

Sports of the Australian Summer
A group of surfers surfing at nightime

Perth 1900s
William Street in Perth, Western Australia

Match of Bowls at Crystal Palace, London, 1901
Illustration showing a match of bowls at the Crystal Palace in London during June 1901. The players shown are (from left to right) Dr. W.G. Grace (large beard), Mr. John Young (Australia), Mr. J.W

Emigrants embarking at the Royal Albert Docks, London, 1911
Illustration showing emigrants about to board the New Zealand liner Paparoa to make passage to Queensland, Australia, 1911

W. M. Woodfull struck by a cricket ball, Melbourne Cricket Gr
Photograph of William Maldon Woodfull (1897-1965), the Victoria and Australia cricketer, just after he had been struck by a cricket ball bowled by Harold Larwood in the match between the MCC

Canberra: The First Class Lounge
Colour illustration depicting the First Class Lounge of Canberra, P&Os super-liner. The ship set off on her maiden voyage to Sydney, Australia in June 1961

Lascar Seamen at work and at rest, 1906
Series of Photographs showing Lascar seamen at work in the stokehole of a passenger liner (centre image) and at rest in the Home for Asiatic Seamen (bottom images)

William John Wills
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS English explorer in Australia, associated with the fatal expedition with Burke

Edmund Y. W Henderson
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SIR EDMUND YEAMANS WALCOTT HENDERSON shown soon after he was appointed as Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in 1869. He succeed the late Sir Richard Mayne in this post

Steamship Australia Star
motor vessel of the Blue Star line

Plain-Wanderer
COLLARED PLAIN WANDERER pedionomus torquatus Only one species is known, and it lives in Australia

Racial / Australia / Sheep
In an Australian sheep shearing shed

Australia Batman 1827
JOHN BATMAN (1800-1827) negotiates with the aborigines of Victoria

Dampier in Australia
WILLIAM DAMPIER and one of his crew are attacked by natives, and he is compelled to shoot one of them

Pacific / Cook 1770
Captain Cook takes formal possession of New South Wales

Piastoon, Australian race horse, owned by R H Edkins, trainer E Fisher. Winner of seven races. Date: circa late 1920s

Tools of the Australian aborigines
Tools and weapons of the Australian aborigines. Drinking vessel made of dulse leaf 1, stone knife 2, basket for shells 3, basket 4, shell necklace 5, spears 6-9, wooden sword 10, 12, shield 13

Aboriginal medicine man of the Worgaia, Central Australia. Date: 1922

Sir Henry Parkes (1815 - 1896), colonial Australian politician and longest non-consecutive Premier of the Colony of New South Wales

Handley Page Clive III G-ABYX of Sir Alan Cobhams National Aviation Day flying circus. One of the Hinaidi I prototypes, J9126

The Emigrant Ship Artemisia en route for Australia
(Top) The Emigrant Ship Artemisia en route for Moreton Bay, New South Wales, Australia. (Bottom) Emigrants on the deck of the ship. Date: 1848

Adelaide, South Australia by Night - viewed from Mount Lofty. Date: circa 1930s

Harry Hawker - Homecoming of the Australian Aircraft pioneer
Wild scenes greet the return, in 1914, of Harry Hawker (1889-1921) - Australian aviation pioneer - on his return to Australia (to demonstrate the advanced Sopwith Tabloid)

Western Australia - Aborigine Elders ready for a Corroboree
Western Australia, Australia - Five Australian Aborigine Elders ready for a Corroboree (an an Australian Aboriginal dance ceremony which may take the form of a sacred ritual or an informal gathering)

British Migrants to Australia on board ship - 1920s
In the 1920s, the Australia Government was keen to develop regional areas. Prime Minister Stanley Bruce considered there were three things necessary for this: labour

Greetings from Australia - Commonwealth Coat of Arms
The Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia with a Kangaroo and an Emu - the six smaller shields within the large shield signify the six states of Australia. Date: circa 1920s

Australia - Bullock teams carrying huge Karri logs (Eucalyptus diversicolor) - native to the wetter regions of Southwestern Western Australia. Date: circa 1910

UFO over Balwyn, Melbourne
Unidentified flying object photographed over Balwyn, a suburb of Melbourne. A hoax seems likely... Date: 2 April 1966

HMS Encounter, 2nd class protected cruiser, Challenger class
Royal Navy - HMS Encounter, a 2nd-class protected cruiser of the Challenger class, operated by the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN), as HMAS Encounter

HMAS Yarra - River-Class Torpedo Destroyer
Royal Australian Navy - HMAS Yarra / HMS Yarra, a River-Class Torpedo Destroyer, making way at speed, on the River Clyde during manufacturers trials in 1910. Yarra was built by William Denny & Bros

Aboriginal woman smoking a pipe, Australia, c. 1890
Aboriginal woman smoking a pipe, Australia, c.1890

Prison ship Success Australia, c. 1890
Image show offcers quarters on board. The ship was converted into a floating museum and used to display the horrors of the penal era. She was destroyed by fire in 1946

HMS Renown, Duke & Duchess of York on visit to Antipodes
Fold out cross section of HMS Renown, the battle-cruiser on which the Duke and Duchess of York travelled to Australia and New Zealand for their tour in 1927. 1927

Eastern correa, Correa reflexa var. cardinalis (Correa cardinalis). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Vine lilac or waraburra, Hardenbergia violacea (One-leaved hardenbergia, Hardenbergia monophylla). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S

Troopers of Queensland mounted police, Australia -- full dress uniform (left) and khaki bush uniform (right). Date: circa 1900s

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