trawling through the archives

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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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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The new order, Noel Counihan, 1942

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Beersheba (Palestine, Hands Clasping), Frank Hurley, ca.1910-1962

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Making brass fittings for military tanks, Darian D. Smith, 1943

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Cooma Hospital, Yuncken Freeman Architects, 1982

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St Margaret's Church, Eastern Road, Turramurra, Grace Cossington Smith, ca.1930

medium: oil on cardboard

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Granite formations, Pearson Island, Keith Phillips, 1960

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Tiger (Panthera tigris) , Taxidermy mount, Rowland Ward

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Tribute to the Red Army, Noel Counihan, 1942

medium: oil on composition board

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Pup sitting in a yard, Harold L. Godden, ca. 1907-1914

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Enamel ware, Rosalie Gascoigne, 1976  

medium: enamel kitchen utensils, wood

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Men making baskets at the Sydney Industrial Institute for the Blind, Sydney, ca. 1920

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Black Bearded Saki (Chiropotes satanas), Taxidermy mount, Hoffmannsegg, 1807

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Taxidermied stud ram bred by J. Simpson of Boorooma Station, Brewarrina, New South Wales, 1892

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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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Fungi and lichen detail, Tasmania, Peter Dombrovskis, 1976

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C.W. Woods and Hartley Miller at Beltana Waterhole and Rock, 1905