Anna the Archivist

All materials are sourced from australian archives

[annathearchivist]

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

Credit: The National Museum of Australia

[20thcenturyartgallery]

The Fish Bowl

Artist: Margaret Preston (Australian, 1875-1963)

Date: 1910

Medium: Oil on canvas on composition board

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

[annathearchivist]

'Trade union members protest during a visit by United States President Lyndon Johnson to Australia, 1966'

Credit: Australian National University Archives (Z248-81)

[annathearchivist]

'The French Minister for Defence, Mr Andre Giraud, presented the Cross of Officer de la Legion d'Honneur to Australian war heroine, Ms Nancy Wake, in Sydney on February 24. The presentation, aboard the helicopter carrier FNS Jeanne d'Arc, was made during a five-day-visit to Australia by Mr Giraud who held discussions with Australian Minister for Defence, Mr Kim Beazley, and the Australian Prime Minister, Mr Bob Hawke. Ms Wake received the award in recognition of her role in the French resistance against the Nazi occupation during WWII. It is the fifth French award bestowed on Ms Wake who had the war-time code name of the 'White Mouse' as a member of the Allied Escape Route Organisation in Occupied France. Australian News & Information Bureau. Photograph by Bill Payne, 1988.'

Credit: National Archives of Australia (Item ID: 11635959)

[random-brushstrokes]

Julian Rossi Ashton - The Smile (1899)

[annathearchivist]

'Two Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) DC-3 planes flying above some cumulus clouds over the Pacific Ocean near Sydney, 1957 - Australia, the driest continent, is a world leader in practical rainmaking experiments - The first man made rain to reach ground fell in New South Wales in 1947 - Suitable clouds are seeded with silver iodide from the plane which is fitted with burners under its wings - The silver iodide, when burned in a hot flame, produces smoke of fine crystals which can start the formation of ice crystals in "dry" clouds and so induce precipitation.'

Credit: National Archives of Australia (Item ID: 11848159)

[annathearchivist]

'Aboriginal People And Torres Strait Islander Peoples - Art - Rock Painting - Cave painting Oenpelli NT - Injaluk Rock'

Credit: National Archives of Australia (Item ID: 11689630)

[annathearchivist]

'Sydney's Taronga Park Zoo's lions bask in the spring sunshine. In the background is the Sydney Harbour Bridge which links the city (left) with North Sydney. 1966. Australian News and Information Bureau, Photographer: A Ozolins'

Credit: National Archives of Australia (Item ID: 11970555)

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Flood in Lismore, NSW, Australia. 23rd July 1921.

[statelibraryqueensland]

Remnants of Lost Media: A Girl Detective in 1921

This film advertisement is one of the only remaining records of the 1921 silent film Retribution, filmed in Queensland and considered to be one of the first full-length feature films made in the state. Directed by Armand Lionello and starring Thorene Adair as the suit-wearing, sharp-shooting girl detective, Retribution told the story of a young woman seeking to absolve her sister of the murder of the "Sapphire King of Anakie" and the theft of his sapphires.

There are no known surviving copies of this film, however a record of the film's script was registered for copyright in August 1921, and a copy of this script is held in the National Archives of Australia.

Original images HERE.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Portrait of Nellie Patterson (Australia, 1903) by Hugh Ramsay.

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

8th February 1972: Gough Whitlam speaking at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra.

[annathearchivist]

'Immigrants, particularly married women, rush the huge Northgate pineapple cannery, Brisbane, QLD, for seasonal work at the height of the summer pineapple crop. They work long hours but each week collect pay envelops fattened by penalty rates. Unskilled men get up to 31 Pounds a week and unskilled women, up to 21 Pounds. The cannery processes up to 600 000 pineapples a day and employs up to 1600 workers. Last year more than half the 64 million cans processed were exported to Europe. General view of women trimming and examining the skinned pineapples for blemishes. The pineapples come down the shutes at left. March 1959.' Credit: National Archives of Australia (Item ID: 7495801)

[lionofchaeronea]

A View of the Artist's House and Garden, in Mills Plains, Van Diemen's Land, John Glover, 1835

[annathearchivist]

'ASIO surveillance photograph of anti-Apartheid Demonstration, Reid, Canberra, 18/03/71' Credit: National Archives of Australia (Series: A9626)

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

1857 stamp of the colony of Victoria, Australia featuring Queen Victoria. X

[vintagecamping]

Road tripping across the arid outback from Perth to Sydney.

Australia

1965