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images, texts, and documents found in australian museum (and other) archives cultural warning: may contain images, and names of people who have died *posting from Awabakal country*
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harkenimage · 8 months ago
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Children playing ring-a-rosy, Clive Bristow, Woomera, ca.1958
Clive Bristow was an official photographer at Woomera during the time when the town was closed for general access, and no cameras were allowed unless authorised.
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harkenimage · 1 year ago
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The new order, Noel Counihan, 1942
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harkenimage · 1 year ago
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Beersheba (Palestine, Hands Clasping), Frank Hurley, ca.1910-1962
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harkenimage · 1 year ago
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Making brass fittings for military tanks, Darian D. Smith, 1943
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harkenimage · 1 year ago
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Cooma Hospital, Yuncken Freeman Architects, 1982
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harkenimage · 1 year ago
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St Margaret's Church, Eastern Road, Turramurra, Grace Cossington Smith, ca.1930
medium: oil on cardboard
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harkenimage · 1 year ago
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Granite formations, Pearson Island, Keith Phillips, 1960
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harkenimage · 2 years ago
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Tiger (Panthera tigris) , Taxidermy mount, Rowland Ward
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harkenimage · 2 years ago
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Tribute to the Red Army, Noel Counihan, 1942
medium: oil on composition board
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harkenimage · 4 years ago
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Pup sitting in a yard, Harold L. Godden, ca. 1907-1914
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harkenimage · 4 years ago
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Enamel ware, Rosalie Gascoigne, 1976  
medium: enamel kitchen utensils, wood
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harkenimage · 4 years ago
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Men making baskets at the Sydney Industrial Institute for the Blind, Sydney, ca. 1920
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harkenimage · 4 years ago
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Black Bearded Saki (Chiropotes satanas), Taxidermy mount, Hoffmannsegg, 1807
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harkenimage · 4 years ago
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Taxidermied stud ram bred by J. Simpson of Boorooma Station, Brewarrina, New South Wales, 1892
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harkenimage · 4 years ago
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Tupultupulnga, Naomi Kantjuriny, 2011
medium: Tjanpi, chicken wire, acrylic wool, raffia, paper raffia, pillow stuffing, wipia and plastic leaves
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harkenimage · 4 years ago
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Fungi and lichen detail, Tasmania, Peter Dombrovskis, 1976
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harkenimage · 4 years ago
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C.W. Woods and Hartley Miller at Beltana Waterhole and Rock, 1905
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