Flinders Collection

Petrie at Daphne
The Pharoahs Palace at Daphne being excavated by renowned archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 - 1942) who devoted his life to studying Egyptian culture

Melbourne, Australia
Flinders Street Railway Station, Melbourne, Australia

Hydromys chrysogaster, water rat
Plate 1 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

Psephotus dissimilis, hooded parrot
Plate 14 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)

Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, Australia. In 1882 the government decided to build a new central passenger station to replace the existing ad-hoc construction

Flinders Street, Melbourne
An etching of Flinders Street, which runs parallel to the Yarra River, in Melbourne, and is home to the great central station of the same name. Date: circa 1925

Flinders Lane, Melbourne
This etching shows pedestrians and vehicles in Flinders Lane, a minor street in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria. Date: circa 1921

Henderson Hats Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Henderson Hats, R. C. Henderson Limited, designers and manufacturers of distinctive millinery

Caper bush or Flinders rose, Capparis spinosa, Caprier. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alphonse-Leon Noel after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Pacific koel, Eudynamys orientalis (Flinders cuckow, Eudynamys flindersii). Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by H

Quartz crystal - Collected by Matthew Flinders & Ferdinand Bauer, 16 February 1803, from Australia, Melville Bay. Coll. No. BM 75819 Date: 1803

Barnardius zonarius, Australian ringneck
Plate 21 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)

Litoria aurea, golden bell frog
Plate 26 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826)

Platycercus exmius, eastern rosella
Plate 18 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)

Flinders Street Railway Station, Melbourne, Australia
Flinders Street Railway Station, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - four additional inse views of the city - (clockwise from top left): view looking south, view from the Railway Tower

Illustration, Little Pollie Flinders sat among the cinders, warming her pretty little toes. Her mother came and caught her and whipped her little daughter for spoiling her nice new clothes. Date: 1895

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

Platycercus venustus, northern rosella
Plate 19 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)

Nursery Rhymes -- Jack and Jill, Polly Flinders
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- Jack and Jill falling down the hill. Below -- Little Polly Flinders sitting among the cinders. Date: early 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- Little Polly Flinders sat among the cinders. Date: circa 1920s

Cephalotus follicularis Labill, pitcher plant
Collected by Robert Brown at King George Sound, Western Australia, Dec 1801-Jan 1802, during the voyage of HMS Investigator, captained by Matthew Flinders

Premna serratifolia L. aloalo
Collected by Robert Brown on Goods Island, Torres Strait, Northern Australia, 2nd November 1802. During the voyage of HMS Investigator, Captained by Matthew Flinders

Perameles bougainville, barred bandicoot
Plate 2 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

Trichoglossus haematodus, rainbow lorikeet
Plate 24 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)

Alyogyne hakeafolia (Giord) Alefeld, hibiscus
Collected by Robert Brown in Goose Island Bay, off Cape Arid, Western Australia, May 1803, during the voyage of HMS Investigator, captained by Matthew Flinders

Phascolarctos cinereus, koala
Plate 5 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

Petrogale inornata, rock wallaby
Plate 10 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826). Held in the Zoology Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Aprosmictus erythropterus, red-winged parrot
Plate 23 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)

Australian Strike
Strikers meet in Flinders Park during the Labour and Shipping Strike. Date: 31 August 1890

Townsville Australia
Lower Flinders Street, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Australia / Townsville 20C
Townsville, Queensland: Flinders Street (main street) with Town Hall

William Flinders Petrie
SIR WILLIAM MATTHEW FLINDERS PETRIE English Egyptologist. Developed principle of sequence dating of potsherds

Little Polly Flinders sat among the cinders, warming her pretty little toes. Her mother came and caught her and smacked her little daughter for spoiling her new clothes

FLINDERS (1774 - 1814)
MATTHEW FLINDERS - Explorer and navigator in the Pacific

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