Australian Collection (page 19)

Martin Place, Sydney, Australia Date: 1911

General store in a mining area, Australia, with numerous advertising posters on display. The poster Whose Was the Hand? is advertising a novel of 1890 by the English author Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Australian Wood Duck male (Chenonetta jubata)

Australian Aborigines spearing fish with throwing-sticks. One is holding a boomerang. Date: circa 1895

Patients and nurses in garden at Quex Park
A group of patients and nuses gathered in the garden at Quex Park, beside the buildings of the Powell-Cotton Museum. The men include Australian and Scottish soldiers

Patients waiting for VAD transport
Three stretchers with patients are on the ground at the back of some vehicles. The patients have probably just arrived by ambulance train at Ramsgate Town Station

Studio photograph by Langfier, Glasgow & London, of Australi
A studio photograph of an Australian soldier in Army uniform. An embossing stamp on the photograph is S. Langfier, London & Glasgow. On the reverse is written in ink Rayner

Photograph of three VAD patients at Quex Park VAD Hospital. The man on the right is Artieme Mettrie who was a patient at the hospital between 14th November 1914 and 13th May 1915

Studio photograph of an Australian VAD patient
Studio photograph of an Australian Sergeant. He is sitting on a small table against a backdrop of a curtained window. His hat is beside him on the table

Samuel Walker Griffith
Sir SAMUEL WALKER GRIFFITH Australian statesman, premier. Date: 1845 - 1920

Adam Lindsay Gordon
ADAM LINDSAY GORDON Australian writer : his portrait, a view of his tomb, and a drawing by himself showing him as a steeplechaser. Date: 1833 - 1870

Thomas Elder
THOMAS ELDER Australian promoter of exploration, founder of the Australian Exploring Expedition. Date: 1818 - 1897

Australian Troops 1918
Australian field artillery troops advance to the Western Front with their horses and carts, watched by a group of British soldiers. Date: 1918

Walter Turner - Drawing
Walter Turner (1889 - 1946) Australian born writer, musician, music critic and editor in England

Australians Make Planes
Australian Air Force fitters overhauling planes. In every state of Australia rapid provision was made to train RaF recruits at technical and engineering colleges. Date: 1940s

Mining / South Bulli
SOUTH BULLI Members of the Australian Royal Commission into the coal mining dispute ready to go down the mine at South Bulli, New South Wales. Date: 1930s

May Robson (1858 - 1942), Australian actress in American films

Anona Winn (1904 - 1994), Australian actress

Sir Fn Broome / Hirschmann
SIR FREDERICK NAPIER BROOME Australian Governor Date: 1842 - 1896

Carrie Moore, Australian singer and actress, seen here as The Sandow Girl 1883 - 1956

Marcus Andrew Clarke
MARCUS ANDREW CLARKE - Australian writer (author of For the Term of his Natural Life - about convict life in Australia) Date: 1846 - 1881

N-T Marion-Dufresne
NICOLAS-THOMAS MARION-DUFRESNE French navigator, fails to understand or be understood by Australian natives when they offer him a burning stick, 1771 Date: 1729 - 1772

Australian Cheese Making
Manufacturing cheese in Australia - the home farm - milking the cows - the cheese room - breaking up the curd Date: 1891

Prospectors in Australia rejoice at finding gold at last. Date: 1850s

Gold mines at Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia. Date: 1882

Nellie Melba (1861 - 1931) (born Helen Mitchell) Australian soprano - she gave her name to peche melba and melba toast

Gold prospectors on the way to Coolgardie, Australia
Gold prospectors on the hundred-mile journey to Coolgardie in Western Australia, some with carts, others pushing wheelbarrows. Date: 1850s

Menu for London epicures 1906
Photograph of some expensive dishes from different countries not ever been eaten or seen before, on rich peoples menu in London

Franco-British Exhibition - Irvines Australian Wine Trophy
Franco-British Exhibition, White City, London - Irvines Australian Wine Trophy. Date: 1908

New South Wales Australia P class steam train
A New South Wales Australia P class, possibly travelling through the Blue Mountains, Australia. Date: circa 1910

Christening 1918 Tree Planting Soldiers Group
Christopher Powell-Cotton (1918-2006) was christenend at All Saints Church, Birchington on 20 April 1918. Afterwards a tree was planted in the grounds of Quex Park

Christening 1918 Tree Planting Proxy Godfathers group
Christopher Powell-Cotton (1918-2006) was christenend at All Saints Church, Birchington on 20 April 1918. Afterwards a tree was planted in the grounds of Quex Park

Group on rear verandah, Quex Park
Group of patients and one nurse on the rear verandah, overlooking the gardens, Quex Park. This verandah ran along the back of the Museum buildings and was used as a sheltered outdoor space in summer

American Douglas A-20A Attacking light bomber - designed specifically for low and medium altitude combat. The USaF (United States Army Air Forces) used the British name Havoc for the A-20A

What People Are Wearing - Jillian Robertson
The Australian journalist Jillian Robertson wearing a saffron Buddhist robe she bought in Saigon where she was reporting on the war in Vietnam. Date: 1966

Red-capped parrot, Purpureicephalus spurius
Two specimens of Red-capped parrot, Purpureicephalus spurius - 1894.10.26.16 (top) and 1894.10.26.15 (bottom Date: 1894

Falco longipennis, Australian hobby
Watercolour 105 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Lunated Falcon, Goo-roo-wang

Vombatus ursinus, common wombat
Plate 8 from a collection of 49 original watercolour drawings of animals by Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826), from the H.M.S. Investigator expedition to Australia, 1801-1803

The jockey Stephen Donaghues racing dramas (1926)
Frank Bullock (Australian jockey champion- seen left) visited the Islington studio one day to see how his colleague Stephen Donoghue (far right) was enjoying his film experience

Group photo, St Johns College, Melbourne, Australia
Group photo, St Johns College, a theological college in St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Date: circa 1914

Tasmanian Tiger on display, Australia
Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) on display (probably stuffed), in a garden in Australia. The species is believed to be extinct. Date: circa 1910

Selwyn, Queensland, Australia
View of Selwyn, Western Queensland, Australia, a copper and gold mining town, with the Mount Elliott Hotel on the right. Date: circa 1910

Olga Brandon - Australian-born actress
Olga Brandon (1863-1906), Australian-born actress, created the role of Vashti Dethic in the play Judah by Henry Arthur Jones at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London. Date: 1890

The Burra Burra copper-mine in South Australia, showing the surface operations. 1848

Commander Geoffrey Spicer-Simson
Commander Geoffrey Basil Spicer-Simson (1876-1947), Australian-born British Royal Navy officer, best known for his part in the Battle for Lake Tanganyika in 1915. Date: 1925

Men of the Australian Navy in Great War Deeds, WW1
Men of the Australian Navy, on board the HMAS Sydney, cheering and crying as the defeated and sinking German cruiser Emden turned to run ashore

Michael Gow (right) Australian playwright - Away"
Michael Gow (Australian playwright including " Away" and theatre director) in a Tower Theatre production Date: 1978

WW1 - Australian Infantry advancing to battle in Turkey
WW1- In a large stretch of hilly terrain in Turkey, the Australian mounted infantry and heavy artillery adavance in full force towards battle. Date: 1915

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