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Sydney Cove medallion 1789 Josiah Wedgwood a128978

Sydney Cove medallion 1789 Josiah Wedgwood a128978

Sydney Cove medallion, 1789, red ochre clay, modelled by William Hackwood after a design by Henry Webber, original issue, Josiah Wedgwood

Two Aborigines in a bark canoe by the riverbank ca.1870

Two Aborigines in a bark canoe by the riverbank ca.1870

Two Aboriginal people in a bark canoe close to the river bank on the Murray, in the Moorundie area. The man standing is dressed in a fur cloak made of possum skins and is propelling the canoe with a long pole. ca.1870

Marn grook illustration 1857

Marn grook illustration 1857

Aboriginal domestic scene. The etching was executed by German artist Gustav Mützel, who worked from the sketches of German explorer Johan Wilhelm Theodor Ludwig von Blandowski (see Marn Grook: name of the earl... More

William Tietkens

William Tietkens

Portrait des William_Tietkens

map from "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent"

map from "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place o...

This image has been taken from scan 000582 from volume 03 of "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent". T... More

Aboriginal Australians from "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent"

Aboriginal Australians from "The Australian Race: its origin, language...

This image has been taken from scan 000168 from volume 01 of "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent". T... More

Murray River Blacks. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photograph.

Murray River Blacks. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photog...

Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Queen'sland Blacks. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photograph.

Queen'sland Blacks. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photogr...

Public domain photograph - 19th-century albumen print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

artist:name=R Jones from "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by E. E. M. With ... illustrations"

artist:name=R Jones from "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by...

This image has been taken from scan 000448 from volume 01 of "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by E. E. M. With ... illustrations". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from ta... More

artist:name=William Hatherell from "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by E. E. M. With ... illustrations"

artist:name=William Hatherell from "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia....

This image has been taken from scan 000141 from volume 01 of "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by E. E. M. With ... illustrations". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from ta... More

artist:name=R Jones from "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by E. E. M. With ... illustrations"

artist:name=R Jones from "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by...

This image has been taken from scan 000445 from volume 02 of "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by E. E. M. With ... illustrations". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from ta... More

Kings [sic] Sound - aborigine man, woman, and boy in loin-clothes, standing against large trunk of tree

Kings [sic] Sound - aborigine man, woman, and boy in loin-clothes, sta...

Similar to lantern slide W7-666. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transporta... More

Native Australians hunting

Native Australians hunting

Photograph shows Aboriginal natives of Australia: 2 men hunting with spear.

Francis F. Gillen, 41522 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Francis F. Gillen, 41522 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available ... More

Australia's Aboriginal people had long known about

Australia's Aboriginal people had long known about

Australia's Aboriginal people had long known about the crater near Wolfe Creek by the time an aerial survey identified it in 1947. Almost circular, Wolfe Creek Crater (also known as Wolf Creek Crater) is consid... More

The local and traditional land owners of Bradshaw finish

The local and traditional land owners of Bradshaw finish

The local and traditional land owners of Bradshaw finish their ceremonial dance by waving to the U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy sailors and Australian soldiers June 23 after the “Welcome to Country” ceremony at Bradsh... More

13. At Warralong Station

13. At Warralong Station

'At Warralong Station, in North-West Australia a young camel, that had been caught from a wild mob of such animals, was a station pet.'

Aborigines of Lake Tyers, Victoria - very early 1900s

Aborigines of Lake Tyers, Victoria - very early 1900s

Vintage Victoria Postcards Public domain scan of the vintage Victoria Australia postcard, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

North Coolgardie Blacks, Western Australia - very early 1900s

North Coolgardie Blacks, Western Australia - very early 1900s

"I originally joined Flickr to dedicate and share on my photostream vintage photographs taken by Henry William Mobsby F.R.G.S., F.R.S.A. (1860-1933) who was my husband's great great uncle... He was an Englishma... More

Scene at Palm Islands, North Queensland - 1908

Scene at Palm Islands, North Queensland - 1908

One of many postcards produced by the Queensland Government to hand out at the Franco-British Exhibition in London in 1908.

Aborgines at Momba 1870s

Aborgines at Momba 1870s

Aborigines at Momba Station by Frederick Bonney 1870s

Aboriginal Australian women and children, Maloga, N.S.W

Aboriginal Australian women and children, Maloga, N.S.W

Postcard showing a group of women in bush setting, two standing beside bark shelter, two more seated at entrance of shelter, three of them holding babies. All the women are wearing European dress, woman on left... More

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 children at the Bungalow in Alice Springs

Aboriginal children at the Bungalow in Alice Springs

Aboriginal children at the Bungalow in Alice Springs.

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

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

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.

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 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 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 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)

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 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

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

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

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

Corroboree (BM 2016,2036.4)

Corroboree (BM 2016,2036.4)

An Aboriginal ceremony or dance with a fire in the centre, several women are at bottom right holding wooden music sticks, men are at rear decorated with body ornamentation and holding spears. There are two gum ... More

Punch. Wife of Cullabaa. Broken Bay Tribe. (BM 1893,0803.59)

Punch. Wife of Cullabaa. Broken Bay Tribe. (BM 1893,0803.59)

Portrait of Punch in profile (partially in silhouette), wearing a skirt and a cloak wrapped around herself; state with title lettering filled. 1836 Lithograph

Aboriginal Australian in 1965 detail, from- Charles Perkins talking with Aboriginal residents at Moree, February 1965 - The Tribune (20153364632) (cropped)

Aboriginal Australian in 1965 detail, from- Charles Perkins talking wi...

Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins talking with Aboriginal residents at Moree in Australia Deutsch: Der Aboriginalaktivist Charles Perkins im Gespräch mit Aboriginal-Einwohnern in Moree in Australien Can you h... More

Douglas Thomas Kilburn - Three Aboriginal men, Melbourne, Victoria - Google Art Project

Douglas Thomas Kilburn - Three Aboriginal men, Melbourne, Victoria - G...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hut Eastern Arrernte Basedow

Hut Eastern Arrernte Basedow

Hut decked with porcupine grass, Eastern Arrernte people, Arltunga district, Northern Territory.

Face detail, from- Towtrer Tasmanian Aboriginal by W B Gould 1833 (cropped) (cropped)

Face detail, from- Towtrer Tasmanian Aboriginal by W B Gould 1833 (cro...

Towtrer Chief of the Port Davey Tribe, Tasmania, c.1933, W.B. Gould, State Library of New South Wales V/91}

Group of Aboriginals at Chowilla Station on the lower Murray River, South Australia (6174049594)

Group of Aboriginals at Chowilla Station on the lower Murray River, So...

Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897 Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription beneath photograph.; In: Views of scenery on the Darling & Lower Murray during the flood of 1886.; Inscriptions: "Group of Aboriginal... More

Group of Aboriginals at Dunlop Station homestead, Darling River, New South Wales (6173515807)

Group of Aboriginals at Dunlop Station homestead, Darling River, New S...

Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897 Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription beneath photograph.; In: Views of scenery on the Darling & Lower Murray during the flood of 1886.; Inscriptions: "Group of Aboriginal... More

'Our Corroboree' and 'Gathering Oysters', Sydney Harbour (8724030773)

'Our Corroboree' and 'Gathering Oysters', Sydney Harbour (8724030773)

This image belongs to a photograph album relating to Edward Hungerford. The album contains images of shipping and street scenes around Sydney from the 1880s, most of which appear to have been taken by photogra... More

Station Herrmannsburg (6790321831)

Station Herrmannsburg (6790321831)

Title: Station Herrmannsburg Alternative Title: The station at Herrmannsburg Creator: Unknown Date: 1892 Part Of: eaa/searchterm/Ag2002.1457 Physical Description: 1 photographic print: collotype; 25 x 35 cm. Fi... More

Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - New South Wales Blacks - Sydney tribe holding corroboree-Sketchbook of Aboriginal activities - Google Art Project

Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - New South Wales Blacks - Sydney tribe ...

Public domain scan of 17th-century artwork, drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - Victorian Blacks - Kilmore tribe holding corroboree-Sketchbook of Aboriginal activities - Google Art Project

Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - Victorian Blacks - Kilmore tribe holdi...

Public domain scan of 17th-century artwork, drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - Victorian Blacks - Melbourne tribe holding corroboree after seeing ships for the first time-Sketchbo... - Google Art Project

Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - Victorian Blacks - Melbourne tribe hol...

Public domain photograph of military parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yabarowirro

Yabarowirro

Journalist Abdirahman Yabarow with fellow Somali politician Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi.

Samuel Robert Lock - Corrobbaree on the banks of Lake Alexandrina S. Australia 2012 CSK 04826 0176

Samuel Robert Lock - Corrobbaree on the banks of Lake Alexandrina S. A...

Corrobbaree on the banks of Lake Alexandrina S. Australia signed and inscribed as titled 'Corrobbaree on the banks of Lake Alexandrina S. Australia SR Lock.' on the reverse PROVENANCE: Conway Mordaunt Shipley,... More

Arrernte people (from a book published in 1906)

Arrernte people (from a book published in 1906)

日本語: アルンタ人、オーストラリア(1906年発行の本より)

Arrernte people's dance (from a book Published in 1931) P.310

Arrernte people's dance (from a book Published in 1931) P.310

日本語: アランダ族の踊り(1931年出版の本より)

Circular Head (Discoveries in Australia)

Circular Head (Discoveries in Australia)

This is an illustration entitled "Circular Head" from Volume 1 of John Lort Stokes' 1846 book Discoveries in Australia.

321 of 'Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien' (11100573373)

321 of 'Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien' (111005733...

Image taken from: Title: "Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien" Author: LUMHOLTZ, Carl. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10491.ff.10." Page: 321 Place of Publishing: Kjøbenhavn Date of Publishing... More

361 of 'Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien' (11290145663)

361 of 'Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien' (112901456...

Image taken from: Title: "Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien" Author: LUMHOLTZ, Carl. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10491.ff.10." Page: 361 Place of Publishing: Kjøbenhavn Date of Publishing... More

517 of 'Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien' (11291190846)

517 of 'Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien' (112911908...

Image taken from: Title: "Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien" Author: LUMHOLTZ, Carl. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10491.ff.10." Page: 517 Place of Publishing: Kjøbenhavn Date of Publishing... More

Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland - Warraba

Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland - Warraba

"WARRABA", SIR J. P. BELL'S BLACKBOY.

331 of 'Among Cannibals. An account of four years' travels in Australia, etc. (Translated from the Danish.)' (11202057575)

331 of 'Among Cannibals. An account of four years' travels in Australi...

Image taken from: Title: "Among Cannibals. An account of four years' travels in Australia, etc. [Translated from the Danish.]" Author: LUMHOLTZ, Carl. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10492.ee.17." Page: 331 P... More

Illawalla 1 - Victorian era public domain image

Illawalla 1 - Victorian era public domain image

The Illwalla, Thornton, Lancashire. Now demolished. Public domain photograph of Victorian style building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Australian-legendary-tales-cover

Australian-legendary-tales-cover

cover image from "Australian legendary tales" by K. Langloh Parker