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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 (pdf)
  • 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 (pdf)
  • The collection of ornithologist Archibald J. Campbell (pdf)
  • The World War 1 photographic album of Signaller J.P. Campbell (pdf)
  • 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 (pdf)

In this section

  • A new home for Robin Lovejoy’s papers

    Pictures Librarian Linda Groom describes the process of acquiring the archive of theatre designer and director Robin Lovejoy.

  • A Small Town at War – the Drouin Collection

  • Frank Hurley's Antarctic photographs

  • John Hamilton Mortimer and the discovery of Captain Cook

  • The Lycett Album

    One of the items of considerable significance in the National Library’s Pictures Collection is the bound volume commonly referred to...

  • The sixties through the eyes of John Mulligan

  • The works of William Hardy Wilson

  • William Henry Corkhill and the Tilba Tilba Collection

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    • 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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The National Library of Australia acknowledges First Australian peoples as the Traditional Custodians of this country and their continued connection to land, sea, and culture. The National Library pays respect to the resilience and strength of Ancestors and Elders past, present, and emerging and extends that respect to all First Australian peoples.

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