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Drouin town and rural life during World War II, 1944-1945

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Collection of photographs of Drouin, Victoria most of which were taken by Jim Fitzpatrick, who worked as a photographer for the Australian Information Service from 1942 to 1976. The subjects of the photographs include: family and domestic life, school children, portraits of local people, women in non-traditional occupations, enlisted men on leave and the butter factory. There are also a number of aerial photographs of the town.

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Falkingham collection of early Canberra photographs, Approximately 1920

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Collection includes vistas of Canberra, Queanbeyan, Bateman's Bay and environs, Canberra hotels, schools, power house and churches, provisional Parliament House under construction, and the Royal Military College.

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People and towns in rural Western Australia and South Australia, 2023, 2023

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Collection of photographs documenting people, townships, and mines in rural Western Australia and South Australia. Included are images of the Eyre Highway, a 1,664-kilometre highway linking Western Australia and South Australia via the Nullarbor Plain, the Central Norseman gold mine in Western Australia, Iron Knob mine in South Australia, the Nullarbor Roadhouse, wind turbines at the Port Augusta Renewable Energy Park (PAREP), and the 12th hole at the Nullarbor Links Golf Course, the longest golf course in the world, with 18 holes over 1,365 km of the Eyre Highway in South Australia and Western Australia.

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Scrapbook of newspaper and journal cuttings of photographs and articles about Australian cities, Approximately 1930

Collection of photographs - Colin Ferguson, 1935-1940

Ian Carroll Collection, ca. 1970 - 1985

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A collection of photographs of village life in Papua New Guinea, taken by I.R. Carroll. The locations covered are mainly the Highland Region, from Waghi to Enga, and the Coastal and New Guinea Islands area. Topics include: customs associated with family, children, celebrations and magic rituals; crops, pigs and general agriculture; cooking and medicinal plants; and general scenes including towns, roads, schools, church missions.

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Grampians, Victoria : geographic ephemera collected by the National Library of Australia, N.D.

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Material in the Geography and Travel ephemera collection covers significant information about the geography, history, and tourist activities of places in Australia, its Antarctic and island territories. This includes geographical features, national parks and reserves, regions, cities, towns, buildings and other man-made structures. The collection includes advertising material, pamphlets, price lists, tokens, area and accommodation guides, brochures, postcards, stickers, labels and tickets.

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Nullarbor, South Australia : geographic ephemera collected by the National Library of Australia, N.D.

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Material in the Geography and Travel ephemera collection covers significant information about the geography, history, and tourist activities of places in Australia, its Antarctic and island territories. This includes geographical features, national parks and reserves, regions, cities, towns, buildings and other man-made structures. The collection includes advertising material, pamphlets, price lists, tokens, area and accommodation guides, brochures, postcards, stickers, labels and tickets.

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Papers of J. C. Whiting, 1933-1987

Papers of H. M. Green, 1930-1963

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The papers comprise correspondence (family, general and business correspondence), drafts, notes, cuttings, card indexes and printed material. The major correspondents are Dorothy Green, C.B. Christesen, Beatrice Davis, W. Cowan, P. Ryan, J. La Nauze, Beatrice Wines, Judith Fisher, G. Ferguson, A.R. Chisholm, C.E.W. Bean, A.P. Elkin, G. Long, J. Passmore, L. Scott, L. Triebel and C. Waldren.

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