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Aboriginal boys and men in front of a bush shelter - NTL PH0731-0022

Aboriginal boys and men in front of a bush shelter - NTL PH0731-0022

Some Aboriginal boys and men in front of a bush shelter, Groote Eylandt, NT, c.1933.

Aboriginal boys with sticks - NTL 29248

Aboriginal boys with sticks - NTL 29248

Aboriginal boys with sticks. Public domain photograph of indigenous native people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aboriginal children at the Bungalow in Alice Springs

Aboriginal children at the Bungalow in Alice Springs

Aboriginal children at the Bungalow in Alice Springs.

Aboriginal man and boy with dugout - NTL PH0190-0018

Aboriginal man and boy with dugout - NTL PH0190-0018

Steam ship from Sydney at Darwin Wharf. Aboriginal man and boy in foreground with dog and dugout canoe.

Australian Aboriginal encampment (8285825877)

Australian Aboriginal encampment (8285825877)

Format: Postcard, photo mechanical print. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Part Of: Powerhouse Museum Collection 426937 Acquisition credit line: Gift of Elizabeth Bullard, 1967

Australian Aborigines Advocate front cover 31 March 1908

Australian Aborigines Advocate front cover 31 March 1908

Front cover of the Australian Aborigines Advocate magazine, dated 31 March 1908

Bathurst Island men - Australia in World War Two

Bathurst Island men - Australia in World War Two

Title: Personal photographs of the Hon. C L A Abbott during his term as Administrator of the Northern Territory - Aborigine Chief of Bathurst Island who died of fright in Darwin when he saw his first motor car Date: 1939

Boolaloo

Boolaloo

Boolaloo homestead during floods 1931

Boomerangs Forbes 1916 during World War I

Boomerangs Forbes 1916 during World War I

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Cissie McLeod and Mrs Mugg (PH0412-0025)

Cissie McLeod and Mrs Mugg (PH0412-0025)

Maid servant Cissie McLeod stands by Mrs Mugg (B. James) seated in cane chair outside Government House in Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. (PH0412-0025)

Coolgardie Aboriginals - A black and white photo of a group of people

Coolgardie Aboriginals - A black and white photo of a group of people

Aboriginals participating in a performance to mark the opening of the Coolgardie Railway Line, 23rd of March 1896

Corroborree - A black and white photo of a group of people

Corroborree - A black and white photo of a group of people

Cropped image from photograph taken at the premiere of Corroboree, a ballet written by composer John Antill and based on the real-life ceremony, at the Empire Theatre, Sydney, in about 1950. Photographer: Bill ... More

Daisy may bates - A black and white photo of a group of people

Daisy may bates - A black and white photo of a group of people

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ellen Campbell Atkinson and Edwin Atkinson

Ellen Campbell Atkinson and Edwin Atkinson

Ellen Campbell Atkinson and Edwin Atkinson at their wedding in Echuca, 3 May 1911.

George French Angas - Klemsic, 1846

George French Angas - Klemsic, 1846

Klemsic, planographic; relief lithograph, printed in colour, from multiple stones; varnish highlights by brush, 37.0 x 55.6 cm, by George French Angas

Harold Holt and FCAATSI

Harold Holt and FCAATSI

Harold Holt and two government MPs meeting with representatives of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) – from left to right: Gordon Bryant, Faith Bandler,... More

Joobaitch and Monop corroboree 1932

Joobaitch and Monop corroboree 1932

photo of Joobaitch a Noongar elder with other corroborree dancers including Monop

Joseph Lycett Corroboree Newcastle

Joseph Lycett Corroboree Newcastle

Corroboree at Newcastle, painting, oil on wooden panel, 70.5 x 122.4 cm, by Joseph Lycett

Kaikai Kulgoa Koompartoo - Public domain image of steamship

Kaikai Kulgoa Koompartoo - Public domain image of steamship

Left to right, Sydney Ferries Ltd steamers, wooden-hulled Kai Kai and Kulgoa, and steel-hulled Koompartoo (1922) after her wheelhouses were raised for spectator excursion work. Circa 1938

Last palawahs - A black and white photo of a group of people

Last palawahs - A black and white photo of a group of people

Last of the aborigines (Tasmanian aborigines; palawah). Aborigines believed to be from left to right: Mary Ann Arthur, William Lanney, seated Bessie Smith and Truganini.

Map of Area Occupied by Wangerriburra People, Queensland

Map of Area Occupied by Wangerriburra People, Queensland

Map of area occupied by Wangerriburra people, Queensland.

Mundowdna 2 - An old photo of a man and a woman riding in a horse drawn carriage

Mundowdna 2 - An old photo of a man and a woman riding in a horse draw...

Horse drawn buggy outside a stone building at Mundowdna Station ca. 1898

On the Barwon - 1850 - Public domain scan / drawing

On the Barwon - 1850 - Public domain scan / drawing

Drawing of South Geelong in 1850. Depicts the first wooden bridge across the Barwon river which washed away in the 1850s.

Painted men and boys - NTL PH0724-0031

Painted men and boys - NTL PH0724-0031

A group of Aboriginal men and boys painted for a ceremony or corroboree, Darwin, NT, 1940.

Peal Gibbs, Sydney, Australia

Peal Gibbs, Sydney, Australia

Pearl Gibbs photograph in The Sun (Sydney) 22 October 1954: 2 was the only Indigenous member of the Aborigines Welfare Board (1954 - 1957)

Crystal Palace, Prof Natives April 1884, Hyde Park, London

Crystal Palace, Prof Natives April 1884, Hyde Park, London

Members of R. A. Cunningham Australian Aboriginal international touring company, Crystal Palace, London, April 1884

Queensland State Archives 1000 Aborigine climbing for Coconuts Neck Bay Shaw Island near Lindeman Island c 1931

Queensland State Archives 1000 Aborigine climbing for Coconuts Neck Ba...

Aborigine climbing for Coconuts, Neck Bay, Shaw Island, near Lindeman Island. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 1288 Jackie Cattle Camp an aboriginal climbing a tree in Mr Englishs Jungle at Malanda NQ c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1288 Jackie Cattle Camp an aboriginal climbi...

Jackie Cattle Camp an aboriginal, climbing a tree in Mr English's Jungle at Malanda, NQ.

Queensland State Archives 1350 A typical Palm Island Native c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1350 A typical Palm Island Native c 1935

A typical Palm Island Native. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 1366 A native preparing for a war dance at Palm Island c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1366 A native preparing for a war dance at P...

A native preparing for a war dance at Palm Island. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 1376 Natives display before tourists at Palm Island c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1376 Natives display before tourists at Palm...

Natives display before tourists at Palm Island. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 1388 An aboriginal climbing a tree in the Jungle Malanda NQ c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1388 An aboriginal climbing a tree in the Ju...

An aboriginal climbing a tree in the Jungle, Malanda, NQ. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 1389 An aboriginal climbing a Monkey Rope Malanda NQ c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1389 An aboriginal climbing a Monkey Rope Ma...

An aboriginal climbing a Monkey Rope, Malanda, NQ. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 2474 Aborigines 1898

Queensland State Archives 2474 Aborigines 1898

Aborigines. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album. Register listing indicates Yandilla.)

Queensland State Archives 2984 Panel from the Exhibition of Australian Aboriginal Culture prepared by the Australian National Committee for UNESCO at the Queensland Museum Brisbane 1959

Queensland State Archives 2984 Panel from the Exhibition of Australian...

Panel from the Exhibition of Australian Aboriginal Culture, prepared by the Australian National Committee for UNESCO, at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. (As part of the Queensland Centenary celebrations, the e... More

Queensland State Archives 3072 Sergeant Whiteford and his trackers 1898

Queensland State Archives 3072 Sergeant Whiteford and his trackers 189...

Sergeant Whiteford and his trackers. (With text from A Report to the Commissioner of Police - On the Aboriginals occupying the "Hinter-land" of Princess Charlotte Bay together with a Preface containing suggesti... More

Queensland State Archives 3207 Blacks Dugout Tinnenburra c 1910

Queensland State Archives 3207 Blacks Dugout Tinnenburra c 1910

Aboriginal dugout, Tinnenburra Station, south of Cunnamulla, Queensland. Original title: "Blacks' Dugout, Tinnenburra."

Queensland State Archives 3329 Aboriginal axe found in gravel dump 25 February 1936

Queensland State Archives 3329 Aboriginal axe found in gravel dump 25 ...

Aboriginal axe found in gravel dump. (Story Bridge construction)

Queensland State Archives 4938 Permanent Residence Maalan Country North Queensland 1953

Queensland State Archives 4938 Permanent Residence Maalan Country Nort...

Permanent Residence, Maalan Country, North Queensland.

Queensland State Archives 5737 Mission conducted by Seventh Day Adventists Mona Mona June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5737 Mission conducted by Seventh Day Advent...

Mission conducted by Seventh Day Adventists, Mona Mona.

Queensland State Archives 5738 Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Mona Mona June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5738 Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and par...

Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Mona Mona.

Queensland State Archives 5801 Dancers Palm Island June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5801 Dancers Palm Island June 1931

Dancers, Palm Island. (Home Secretary's inspection visit to Palm Island)

Queensland State Archives 5803 Hon James Christian Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Fantome Island June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5803 Hon James Christian Peterson Home Secre...

Hon James Christian Peterson, Home Secretary and party with residents of Fantome Island.

Queensland State Archives 5804 Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Yarrabah June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5804 Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and par...

Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Yarrabah.

Queensland State Archives 5810 Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Yarrabah June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5810 Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and par...

Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Yarrabah.

Queensland State Archives 5818 Home Secretarys party and residents of Cowal Creek June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5818 Home Secretarys party and residents of ...

Home Secretary's party and residents of Cowal Creek.

Queensland State Archives 928 Messrs Davidson and Deering and two Black Boys from Lindeman Island who went spearing turtles c 1931

Queensland State Archives 928 Messrs Davidson and Deering and two Blac...

Messrs Davidson and Deering and two Black Boys from Lindeman Island who went spearing turtles. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas. This phot... More

Send arsenic exterminate aborigines

Send arsenic exterminate aborigines

telegram from 1907 requesting that Arsenic be sent to Broome to exterminate Aborigines

SLNSW 44240 Aboriginals and their Gum Leaf Band pass the dais

SLNSW 44240 Aboriginals and their Gum Leaf Band pass the dais

Aboriginals and their Gum Leaf Band pass the dais Public domain photograph of military parade, army ceremony, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

SLNSW 456249 Aboriginal man in exhibit possibly Australian Museum or Royal Easter Show

SLNSW 456249 Aboriginal man in exhibit possibly Australian Museum or R...

[Aboriginal man in exhibit, possibly Australian Museum or Royal Easter Show]

SLNSW 75764 Warriors in Ambush series 49 Aboriginal Mystic Bora Ceremony

SLNSW 75764 Warriors in Ambush series 49 Aboriginal Mystic Bora Ceremo...

Warriors in Ambush : series 49 - Aboriginal Mystic Bora Ceremony Public domain scan of the vintage Australian postcard, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

SLNSW 799112 2 Aborigines hunting

SLNSW 799112 2 Aborigines hunting

2. [Aborigines hunting]

SLNSW 799113 3 Aborigines hunting

SLNSW 799113 3 Aborigines hunting

3. [Aborigines hunting]

SLNSW 799117 8 Corroboree

SLNSW 799117 8 Corroboree

8. Corroboree Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

SLNSW 851810 Banks Papers Series 36a

SLNSW 851810 Banks Papers Series 36a

Banks Papers - Series 36a; Papers of Sir Joseph Banks - charts and illustrations, ca 1790s, 1803

SLNSW 871624 Drawings by Tommy McRae and Mickey of Ulladulla

SLNSW 871624 Drawings by Tommy McRae and Mickey of Ulladulla

[Drawings by Tommy McRae and Mickey of Ulladulla]

SLNSW 9306 NSW police officer talking to Aboriginal John Noble also known as Marvellous at the opening of Federal Parliament 1927

SLNSW 9306 NSW police officer talking to Aboriginal John Noble also kn...

NSW police officer talking to Aboriginal John Noble, also known as "Marvellous", at the opening of Federal Parliament, 1927

SLSA B 61437 Aborigines inspecting a bicycle

SLSA B 61437 Aborigines inspecting a bicycle

a photograph of the Wertheim Electra bicycle of Australian transcontinental cyclist Jerome J. Murif, being inspected by two indigenous aboriginals on Dalhousie Station, Northern Territory (1897), description so... More

Stringybark s - Public domain  print

Stringybark s - Public domain print

"The bushranging tragedy": portraits of Kelly gang members and police officers involved in the Stringybark killings, clockwise from top left: Constable Lonigan, Ned Kelly, Constable Scanlan, Sergeant Kennedy, C... More

Tambo-aboriginal-circus

Tambo-aboriginal-circus

Kukamunburra (Tambo) and R. A. Cunningham's Australian Aboriginal international touring company in c. 1884

Three Aboriginal Australian men posing outside a tent, Durundur reserve, circa 1902

Three Aboriginal Australian men posing outside a tent, Durundur reserv...

Three Aboriginal Australian men posing outside a tent, Durundur reserve, circa 1902

Tommy Governor (Sydney Mail Sat 27 Aug 1892, Page 481)

Tommy Governor (Sydney Mail Sat 27 Aug 1892, Page 481)

Tommy Governor was an Australian Aboriginal. He was the discoverer of the silver-lead deposit at Mt Stewart, later known as Leadville, N.S.W. after the foundation of a town there. He was the father of Jimmy Governor.

Victorian Aboriginals and war implements (c. 1883) by Fred Kruger

Victorian Aboriginals and war implements (c. 1883) by Fred Kruger

Victorian Aboriginals and war implements (c. 1883) by Fred Kruger

Visit of Charles Fraser p12 (1) - Public domain portrait engraving

Visit of Charles Fraser p12 (1) - Public domain portrait engraving

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain bec... More

Visit of Charles Fraser p12 (2) - Public domain scenic engraving

Visit of Charles Fraser p12 (2) - Public domain scenic engraving

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain bec... More

Visit of Charles Fraser p12 (3) - Public domain scan / engraving

Visit of Charles Fraser p12 (3) - Public domain scan / engraving

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain bec... More

Visit of Charles Fraser p12 (4) - Public domain portrait engraving

Visit of Charles Fraser p12 (4) - Public domain portrait engraving

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain bec... More

Visit of Charles Fraser p12 (5)

Visit of Charles Fraser p12 (5)

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay.

Visit of Charles Fraser p18 (1)

Visit of Charles Fraser p18 (1)

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay.

Visit of Charles Fraser p18 (2) - Public domain portrait engraving

Visit of Charles Fraser p18 (2) - Public domain portrait engraving

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain bec... More

Visit of Charles Fraser p18 (3) - Public domain  engraving

Visit of Charles Fraser p18 (3) - Public domain engraving

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain bec... More

Visit of Charles Fraser p18 (4) - Public domain portrait engraving

Visit of Charles Fraser p18 (4) - Public domain portrait engraving

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain bec... More

Visit of Charles Fraser p20 (1) - Public domain scan / engraving

Visit of Charles Fraser p20 (1) - Public domain scan / engraving

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain bec... More

Visit of Charles Fraser p20 (3) - Public domain  engraving

Visit of Charles Fraser p20 (3) - Public domain engraving

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain bec... More

Visit of Charles Fraser p22 (1) - Public domain  engraving

Visit of Charles Fraser p22 (1) - Public domain engraving

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain bec... More

Wedding portrait of William Wallace Chatfield and his bride, Mary Jane Cain.

Wedding portrait of William Wallace Chatfield and his bride, Mary Jane...

L-R: Private Harry McLaren, Trooper William Wallace Chatfield and his bride Mary Jane Cain, Private Walter James Williams, the bridesmaid Ida Fuller. The soliders are in uniform for the Australian Imperial For... More

William Barak 1866 - A black and white photo of a man with a beard

William Barak 1866 - A black and white photo of a man with a beard

Photograph of Indigenous Australian activist William Barak, albumen silver; approx. 10.0 x 6.7 cm., laid down on panels to form a composite image 101.2 x 146.8 cm.

Alexander Schramm - A Scene in South Australia (ca. 1850)

Alexander Schramm - A Scene in South Australia (ca. 1850)

Google Cultural Institute Public domain photograph of painting, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Corroboree (BM 2016,2024.2)

Corroboree (BM 2016,2024.2)

Group of Aboriginal men and women standing, sitting and dancing around a fire, some men have white body decoration and hold shields or spears and the women hold sticks or clubs; hills in the background and tree... More