Anna the Archivist

All materials are sourced from australian archives

[random-brushstrokes]

Jack Noel Kilgour - The attic window (ca. 1934)

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'Men of the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service go skin-diving off the near Semaphore at Wonga Shoal in the Gulf of St Vincent, South Australia. All lighthouses and lights in Australia deep-sea waters, is since 1915, regularly visited and serviced by ships of the commonwealth Lighthouse Service. The Cape York calls at lights in South Australia, Tasmania and Victorian waters.'

1963.

Credit: National Archives of Australia (item ID: 11469144)

[vicmemories]

Cobb & Co. horse-drawn carriage on its way to Lake Tyers, 1880s, photo by Nicholas Caire.

[thingsfromthedirt]

Along the track by Lesbia Thorpe (ca. 1950s)

color linocut on paper

[herpsandbirds]

Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri), family Neoceratodontidae, order Ceratodontiformes, class Dipnoi, Australia

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Bill Hawthorne

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Uluru (previously known as Ayers Rock), Northern Territory. 1957.

Photographer: J Fitzpatrick

Photo credit: National Archives of Australia (item ID: 11141872)

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'Central Australia'

1954

Drawing by Arthur Boyd

Credit: National Gallery of Australia (Accession Number: 75.3.3186)

[batshit-auspol]

Runner up design for the Sydney Opera House

[archiveofaffinities]

Big Whale, Kinka Beach, Queensland, Australia, 1988

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Poinciana tree in flower, New Farm Park, Brisbane. 1963.

Photo credit: National Archives of Australia (Item ID: 11929692)

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Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne, 1990.

Photo credit: National Archives of Australia (item ID: 11725143)

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St Phillip's Church, York Street, Sydney. Circa 1941-71.

Photo credit: National Archives of Australia (item ID: 11894331)

[20thcenturyartgallery]

Boy in Oriental Robe

Artist: Justin O'Brien (Australian, 1917-1996)

Date: c. 1946

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

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Cathill Express

Artist: Jeffrey Smart (Australian, 1921-2013)

Date: 1962

Medium: Oil on plywood

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Description

Although spending much of his career in Italy, Jeffrey Smart was one of Australia’s most distinguished artists. Throughout his painting oeuvre he remained fascinated by the urban landscape, focusing on prosaic corners of the city and the sleek geometry hidden behind everyday detritus. Completed four years before Smart’s eponymous painting, Sydney’s Cahill Expressway was the first freeway to be constructed in Australia.

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The cloisters of Winthrop Hall, The University of Western Australia. 1963.

Photo credit: National Archives of Australia (item ID: 11742601)

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Halfway Rest

Artist: Albert Ernest Newbury (Australian, 1891-1941)

Date: 1928

Medium: Oil on canvas on plywood

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

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'Election day in Adelaide, 25 April 1896 – the first Australian election and referendum in which women could vote'

Credit: The National Museum of Australia