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  4. Explore the pictures collection through articles and essays

Explore the Pictures collection through articles and essays

You can further explore the Pictures Collection online through articles and essays.

Paintings

  • An S.T. Gill watercolour of a South Australian homestead (web archive)
  • A new home for Robin Lovejoy’s papers
  • The Lycett Album
  • John Hamilton Mortimer and the discovery of Captain Cook
  • The works of William Hardy Wilson

Photographs

  • The photographic collection of the Australian Inland Mission (web archive)
  • The collection of ornithologist Archibald J. Campbell (web archive)
  • The World War 1 photographic album of Signaller J.P. Campbell (web archive)
  • William Henry Corkhill and the Tilba Tilba Collection
  • A Small Town at War – the Drouin Collection
  • Frank Hurley's Antarctic photographs
  • The sixties through the eyes of John Mulligan
  • The photographic archive of Wolfgang Sievers (web archive)

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  • Pictures
    • Explore the pictures collection through articles and essays
      • A Small Town at War – the Drouin Collection
      • A new home for Robin Lovejoy’s papers
      • Frank Hurley's Antarctic photographs
      • John Hamilton Mortimer and the discovery of Captain Cook
      • The Lycett Album
      • The sixties through the eyes of John Mulligan
      • The works of William Hardy Wilson
      • William Henry Corkhill and the Tilba Tilba Collection
    • Using the Pictures Collection
    • Conditions for filming Pictures Collection items
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      • Archived websites about East Timor's 2007 elections
    • Indonesian collection
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