Our rich and varied Pictures Collection focuses on Australian people, places and events, from European exploration of the South Pacific to contemporary events. You can now view more than 113 000 of these items online. Have a look at the astonishing artworks from the Ducie Collection of First Fleet Art, stunning photographs by Frank Hurley and Wolfgang Sievers or Ellis Rowan’s botanical watercolours.
Explore our digitised Pictures Collection by viewing the selection showcased below, browsing through all digitised Pictures in our Pictures catalogue or reading selected articles and essays. To review our progress read Pictures digitisation - progress so far and Digitisation - overview.
George Raper [Red-browed finch] [1788?]
Samuel Thomas Gill [Native diving into pool] [ca. 1850]
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Cocktails in the Bush [between 1917 and 1937]
Loudon Sainthill A tree creature, The tempest, 1951
Nick Moir CFA fire fighters observing the Beechworth fire... 2009
Simon O'Dwyer Fight 2000
Dave Tacon Young residents from the Flemington housing estate... 2006
Hardy Wilson Kurrajong Library design 1951
Portrait of Nuri Mass reading [193-?]
Jeff Carter The drover's wife, Urisino Bore, New South Wales 1958
Ern McQuillan Tuna fishing at Eden, New South Wales 1960
Jeff Carter John Bucknell Waldren cracking macadamia nuts at Kingscliff, NSW 1957
Skinner Prout Alluvial gold washing, Mt Alexander goldfields, Victoria ca. 1852
Ruth Maddison Tea ladies in the owners, trainers and jockeys enclosure 1986
A.G. Foster ...construction site of the Commonwealth Bank 1925-1928
Wolfgang Sievers Two women working at Siemens, Victoria 1961
Wolfgang Sievers Draughtsman at Marweight Engineering, Melbourne 1968
Tim Webster Sunday lunch in the laneway at Queen Victoria Market 2003Marking the second anniversary of the official apology to the Stolen Generations, the Library is making available recordings from the Bringing Them Home oral history project. In this interview, Mona Tur tells how she was threatened with removal from her mother, a traditional Antikirinja / Yunkunytjatjara woman. When she was eight years old, Mona was eventually sent to the United Aboriginies Mission at Oodnadatta, South Australia. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she was able to maintain strong links to her family and culture.