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Johnny Campbell, Aboriginal outlaw, captured at Tewantin, 1880

Johnny Campbell, Aboriginal outlaw, captured at Tewantin, 1880

Campbell (traditional name 'Kaigaru'), pictured ankles bound with female companion. Image taken from a newspaper clipping.

Australian scenery & Aboriginals - (photogr.) J. W. Lindt - btv1b8447085f (32 of 38)

Australian scenery & Aboriginals - (photogr.) J. W. Lindt - btv1b84470...

Français : Sujet : Aborigènes d'Australie Australie Paysages -- 1870-1913 Portraits -- 1870-1913 Langue : anglais Sujet : Aborigènes d'Australie Australie Paysages -- 1870-1913 Portraits -- 1870-1913 Langue : anglais

Australian scenery & Aboriginals - (photogr.) J. W. Lindt - btv1b8447085f (27 of 38)

Australian scenery & Aboriginals - (photogr.) J. W. Lindt - btv1b84470...

Français : Sujet : Aborigènes d'Australie Australie Paysages -- 1870-1913 Portraits -- 1870-1913 Langue : anglais Sujet : Aborigènes d'Australie Australie Paysages -- 1870-1913 Portraits -- 1870-1913 Langue : anglais

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

Australian Aborigines Advocate front cover 31 March 1908

Australian Aborigines Advocate front cover 31 March 1908

Front cover of the Australian Aborigines Advocate magazine, dated 31 March 1908

Ellen Campbell Atkinson and Edwin Atkinson

Ellen Campbell Atkinson and Edwin Atkinson

Ellen Campbell Atkinson and Edwin Atkinson at their wedding in Echuca, 3 May 1911.

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.

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.

Peal Gibbs, Sydney, Australia

Peal Gibbs, Sydney, Australia

Pearl Gibbs photograph in The Sun (Sydney) 22 October 1954: 2 was the only Indigenous member of the Aborigines Welfare Board (1954 - 1957)

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]

J W. Lindt - Portrait of an Aboriginal man - Google Art Project

J W. Lindt - Portrait of an Aboriginal man - Google Art Project

Public domain photograph - 19th-century male studio portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Expedition guides next to wet-weather huts - NMA-156838

Expedition guides next to wet-weather huts - NMA-156838

Depending on where they lived, Arnhem Land people might only move camps two or three times a year. They would spend the dry season (the middle of the calendar year) in lower areas including flood plains and the... More

Girl tobogganing down a granite slope, photograph by H. Basedow

Girl tobogganing down a granite slope, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Girl tobogganing down a granite slope."

Group of people, seated - NMA-11960

Group of people, seated - NMA-11960

Basedow photographed this group of people at Mount Currie, to the north-west of the Olgas (Kuta Tjuta), in 1926. On this trip Basedow's party were travelling by camel. The two groups camped near one another and... More

Old woman in mourning, photograph by H. Basedow

Old woman in mourning, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Old woman in mourning."

StateLibQld 1 81419 Native house being constructed on Darnley Island, Torres Strait, 1899

StateLibQld 1 81419 Native house being constructed on Darnley Island, ...

Native house being constructed on Darnley Island, Torres Strait, 1899 Darnley Island is also known as Erub. This image shows the house during the framing construction.

Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - (Birds) Sketchbook mainly of activities of Aboriginals and Whites - Google Art Project (717281)

Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - (Birds) Sketchbook mainly of activitie...

Public domain scan of print / book page depicting birds, ornithology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Staff of Yarrabah Mission Hospital

Staff of Yarrabah Mission Hospital

An old sepia tone image of five women and a young man standing in front of a wood frame building, with the words "Hospital" over the building and "Hospital Staff-Yarrabah" under the image of the people.

Page 139 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 139 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Page 351 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Aboriginal women and children at the Hope Valley Mission, North Queensland - circa 1907

Aboriginal women and children at the Hope Valley Mission, North Queens...

The Hope Valley Mission, at Hope Valley, was run by Lutheran Church Missionaries. Previously known as the Cape Bedford Mission, it was established around 1896 and closed in May 1942. It reopened as the Hope Va... More

Aborigines of Victoria - Fig 252 - Natives of King George's Sound

Aborigines of Victoria - Fig 252 - Natives of King George's Sound

Profiles of people from King George's Sound, Western Australia

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p367-fig179

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p367-fig179

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p367-fig179

Aboriginesofvictoria01p276b - A drawing of a fishing net and a fish
Aboriginesofvictoria01-p408-fig.237

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p408-fig.237

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p408-fig.237

Nativepolicemusgrave, Queensland, Australia

Nativepolicemusgrave, Queensland, Australia

Native Police detachment at Musgrave around 1898

The funeral of Queen Narelle, wife of King Merriman at Wallaga Lake, William Henry Corkhill (II)

The funeral of Queen Narelle, wife of King Merriman at Wallaga Lake, W...

National Library of Australia scan. Date given as circa 1900.

Ethnological Studies Among the North-West Central Queensland Aborigines - Plate II - Sign language
Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - Turandiu

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - Turandiu

Turandiu, son of Dick and Fanny Public domain photograph related to Queensland, Australia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14758621456)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14779267754)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

Aboriginal rainmakers, 1898, Farina, South Australia (SLSA B 60681-90)

Aboriginal rainmakers, 1898, Farina, South Australia (SLSA B 60681-90)

Aboriginal rainmakers, Farina, South Australia

Aboriginal camp, ca.1858

Aboriginal camp, ca.1858

Aboriginal camp, Victoria. Richard Daintree and Antoine Fauchery, circa. 1858.

Australian scenery & Aboriginals - (photogr.) J. W. Lindt - btv1b8447085f (20 of 38)

Australian scenery & Aboriginals - (photogr.) J. W. Lindt - btv1b84470...

Français : Sujet : Aborigènes d'Australie Australie Paysages -- 1870-1913 Portraits -- 1870-1913 Langue : anglais Sujet : Aborigènes d'Australie Australie Paysages -- 1870-1913 Portraits -- 1870-1913 Langue : anglais

Australian scenery & Aboriginals - (photogr.) J. W. Lindt - btv1b8447085f (24 of 38)

Australian scenery & Aboriginals - (photogr.) J. W. Lindt - btv1b84470...

Français : Sujet : Aborigènes d'Australie Australie Paysages -- 1870-1913 Portraits -- 1870-1913 Langue : anglais Sujet : Aborigènes d'Australie Australie Paysages -- 1870-1913 Portraits -- 1870-1913 Langue : anglais

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

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

Queensland State Archives 1388 An aboriginal climbing a tree in the Jungle Malanda NQ c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1388 An aboriginal climbing a tree in the Ju...

An aboriginal climbing a tree in the Jungle, Malanda, NQ. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 5802 Residents of Palm Island June 1931
Tambo-aboriginal-circus

Tambo-aboriginal-circus

Kukamunburra (Tambo) and R. A. Cunningham's Australian Aboriginal international touring company in c. 1884

Visit of Charles Fraser p20 (1) - Public domain scan / engraving

Visit of Charles Fraser p20 (1) - Public domain scan / engraving

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain bec... More

Visit of Charles Fraser p22 (1) - Public domain  engraving

Visit of Charles Fraser p22 (1) - Public domain engraving

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain bec... More

BOOTH(1873) Australia Illustrated
Man with a spear-thrower, photograph by H. Basedow

Man with a spear-thrower, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Man with a spear-thrower."

Two men demonstrating the use of spear-thowers, photograph by H. Basedow
Woman with a pet possum on her head - NMA-11728

Woman with a pet possum on her head - NMA-11728

This is a Pongaponga woman from western Arnhem land. She carries, suspended from her head, a basket or bag for holding the food she has gathered. And she has a pet ring-tailed possum, which she carries on her h... More

Women carrying water - NMA-12516

Women carrying water - NMA-12516

Women carrying water, Wadaman people, Northern Territory.

Eliza Fraser portrait - Public domain portrait engraving

Eliza Fraser portrait - Public domain portrait engraving

Portrait sketch of Eliza Fraser. Public domain photograph related to Queensland, Australia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Humpy en route to Fish Creek near Oenpelli, Northern Territory, 2 October 1948 - Robert Miller (19741114619)

Humpy en route to Fish Creek near Oenpelli, Northern Territory, 2 Octo...

Miller, Robert Rush, 1916-2003 Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription and accompanying documentation.; Part of the collection: American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, Northern Territ... More

Nicolas-Martin Petit New Holland-Mororé

Nicolas-Martin Petit New Holland-Mororé

Deutsch: Nicolas-Martin Petit (1777–1804), Teilnehmer der Baudin-Expedition nach Australien (1800–1804): Cour-Rou-Bari-Gal, junger Aborigine, Neuholland (Australien). Muséum d’histoire naturelle du Havre. Vgl.... More

Charles Kerry - Nooroona Bore(GN00067)

Charles Kerry - Nooroona Bore(GN00067)

One of a series of glass negatives photographed by Kerry and Co, Sydney Australia. There is a similar series of photos also by Kerry and Co available in the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. Appears to be a w... More

Mickey OF ULLADULLA - Yuin, Dhurga peoples - not titled (Corroboree) - Google Art Project

Mickey OF ULLADULLA - Yuin, Dhurga peoples - not titled (Corroboree) -...

Public domain photograph of music festival, band, orchestra, 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

Northern Territory - crocodile shooting, Adelaide River(GN02925)
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.

Roper River 1938-NTS PH0254-0010

Roper River 1938-NTS PH0254-0010

Roper River Mission was created by the Church Missionary Society in 1908 and taken over by the Northern Territory Government's Welfare Department in 1968. It was renamed Ngukurr in 1988 when the Yugul Mangi Co... More

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Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17896270101)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17896270101)

File from the Biodiversity Library. The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open-access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p305b

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p305b

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p305b

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p310-fig94

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p310-fig94

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p310-fig94 Public domain photograph of 19th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p337-fig144

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p337-fig144

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p337-fig144

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p347-fig163

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p347-fig163

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p347-fig163

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p410-fig240b

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p410-fig240b

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p410-fig240b

The Aborigines of Victoria - King George's Sound, 1846

The Aborigines of Victoria - King George's Sound, 1846

King George's Sound, 1846 From a painting by the Deputy Assistant Commisionary-General Neill

All about animals. Facts, stories and anecdotes (1900) (14775729014)

All about animals. Facts, stories and anecdotes (1900) (14775729014)

Identifier: allaboutanimalsf00newy (find matches) Title: All about animals. Facts, stories and anecdotes Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Subjects: Animals Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bros Contributing Libr... More

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14594965789)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14778471631)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

Yalata, South Australia -- aerial looking north-east

Yalata, South Australia -- aerial looking north-east

An aerial view of Yalata, South Australia, looking north-east An aerial view of Yalata, South Australia, looking north-east

Aboriginal attack Lake Hope - Public domain  engraving

Aboriginal attack Lake Hope - Public domain engraving

Night attack of the natives on Lake Hope; wood engraving.

The dance, New South Wales, Dance

The dance, New South Wales, Dance

Public domain scan - 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joobaitch and Monop corroboree 1932

Joobaitch and Monop corroboree 1932

photo of Joobaitch a Noongar elder with other corroborree dancers including Monop

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

Queensland State Archives 1376 Natives display before tourists at Palm Island c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1376 Natives display before tourists at Palm...

Natives display before tourists at Palm Island. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 5783 Dancers Mapoon June 1931
Queensland State Archives 5797 Dancers Palm Island June 1931
Queensland State Archives 5813 Boys dormitory Palm Island June 1931
Visit of Charles Fraser p18 (3) - Public domain  engraving

Visit of Charles Fraser p18 (3) - Public domain engraving

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain bec... 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

Charles Perkins talking with Aboriginal residents at Moree, February 1965 - The Tribune (20153364632)

Charles Perkins talking with Aboriginal residents at Moree, February 1...

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

Walter Baldwin Spencer and Francis J Gillen - Young Anmatyerr man, Barrow Creek, Central Australia, 1901 - Google Art Project
Portrait of a man with long hair and painted markings, photograph by H. Basedow

Portrait of a man with long hair and painted markings, photograph by H...

Original caption: "Portrait of a man with long hair and painted markings."

Two men with wooden hair ornaments, spears and shields, photograph by H. Basedow

Two men with wooden hair ornaments, spears and shields, photograph by ...

Original caption: "Two men with wooden hair ornaments, spears and shields."

Seven Peace Keepers (18946669324)

Seven Peace Keepers (18946669324)

A photograph of "The Seven Peace Keepers" on top of the Flinders Slopes. This artwork is part of the Cross Currents Georges River Art Walk. Jamie Eastwood is a Western Sydney based Aboriginal artist working wi... More

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Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17895933145)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17895933145)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales : with sixty-five plates of nondescript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions /

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17896324405)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17896324405)

File from the Biodiversity Library. The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open-access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17896392075)
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