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Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17895929015)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17895929015)

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-p304b

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p304b

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p304b

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p333-fig131

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p333-fig131

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p333-fig131

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p365-fig176

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p365-fig176

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p365-fig176

The Aborigines of Victoria - Fig 247 - Mirnyongs

The Aborigines of Victoria - Fig 247 - Mirnyongs

Diagram of mirnyongs which occur at the outlet of Lake Connewarren, Victoria, Australia

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - A comparatively straight-haired and a curly-haired man

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - A comparatively straight-hai...

A comparatively straight-haired and a curly-haired man

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - Kagariu or Johnnie Campbell

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - Kagariu or Johnnie Campbell

Kagariu, or Johnnie Campbell, Kabi Tribe, Mary River, Queensland, the most notorious native bushranger

Natives of Australia (1906) (14582179789)

Natives of Australia (1906) (14582179789)

Identifier: nativesofaustral00thomuoft (find matches) Title: Natives of Australia Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868- Subjects: Ethnology -- Australia Australia -- Social conditio... More

Pastor Schwarz's daughter seated with Aboriginal children from Hope Valley Mission

Pastor Schwarz's daughter seated with Aboriginal children from Hope Va...

Creator: Ivan Lester Roennfeldt. Location: Hope Vale, Queensland. Description: Pastor Schwarz married the government appointed school teacher Mary Schwarz (nee Alan) they had two daughters. The aboriginal c... More

Aboriginal burial mound and carved trees, William Blandowski ca. 1856-1857

Aboriginal burial mound and carved trees, William Blandowski ca. 1856-...

Aboriginal burial mound. Illustrates of Aboriginal Australia by William Blandowski between 1856-1857. William Blanowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led a Victorian government expedition ... More

Aboriginal burial mound, William Blandowski ca. 1856-1857

Aboriginal burial mound, William Blandowski ca. 1856-1857

Aboriginal burial mound. Illustrates of Aboriginal Australia by William Blandowski between 1856-1857. William Blanowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led a Victorian government expedition t... More

Aboriginal burial mound, Australia, Charles Sturt (1833)

Aboriginal burial mound, Australia, Charles Sturt (1833)

Aboriginal burial mound. 'Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia' by Charles Sturt (1833)

artist:name=William Hatherell from "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by E. E. M. With ... illustrations"

artist:name=William Hatherell from "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia....

This image has been taken from scan 000141 from volume 01 of "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by E. E. M. With ... illustrations". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from ta... More

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

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.

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]

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

Arrernte people's dance (from a book Published in 1931) P.310

Arrernte people's dance (from a book Published in 1931) P.310

日本語: アランダ族の踊り(1931年出版の本より)

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 20 - A Nungi-nungit

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 20 - A Nungi-nungit

A Nungi-nungit preparing to avenge a death by evil magic in the Kurnai tribe

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 35 - Bribbum and Wabulkan

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 35 - Bribbum and Wabulkan

(1) Bribbun of the Chepara tribe; Wabulkan of the Chepara tribe. ×½

Page 139 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 139 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Page 351 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 351 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 351 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

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

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 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

Australia 269

Australia 269

Illustration from opp p237 Illustration from opp p237

Orang Mereghi, Australiani del Nord (3)

Orang Mereghi, Australiani del Nord (3)

A group of indigenous Australians in Makassar, 1873, photographed by Italian naturalist Odoardo Beccari. The group came from "Mereghi" - the Makassan term for Northern Australia. A group of indigenous Austral... More

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

Francis F. Gillen, 41522 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Francis F. Gillen, 41522 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available ... 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 5802 Residents of Palm Island June 1931
BOOTH(1873) Australia Illustrated
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

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

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.

Page 051 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 051 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Page 343 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 343 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Page 442 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Page 515 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Page 553 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 553 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 553 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

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-p347-fig163

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p347-fig163

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p347-fig163

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

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

Aboriginal attack Lake Hope - Public domain  engraving

Aboriginal attack Lake Hope - Public domain engraving

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

Group of natives, moola bulla (gov) aboriginal station - cyclopedia of western australia

Group of natives, moola bulla (gov) aboriginal station - cyclopedia of...

Aboriginal Australians at Moola Bulla station, circa 1912 Aboriginal Australians at Moola Bulla station, circa 1912

Australian scenery & Aboriginals - (photogr.) J. W. Lindt - btv1b8447085f (19 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

Dunneed, Australia. Museum of New Zealand collection

Dunneed, Australia. Museum of New Zealand collection

Public domain scan of 19th century New Zealand drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Murray River Blacks. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photograph.

Murray River Blacks. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photog...

Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Queensland State Archives 2474 Aborigines 1898

Queensland State Archives 2474 Aborigines 1898

Aborigines. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album. Register listing indicates Yandilla.)

Queensland State Archives 5801 Dancers Palm Island June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5801 Dancers Palm Island June 1931

Dancers, Palm Island. (Home Secretary's inspection visit to Palm Island)

SLNSW 799112 2 Aborigines hunting

SLNSW 799112 2 Aborigines hunting

2. [Aborigines hunting]

Arrernte people (from a book published in 1906)

Arrernte people (from a book published in 1906)

日本語: アルンタ人、オーストラリア(1906年発行の本より)

517 of 'Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien' (11291190846)

517 of 'Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien' (112911908...

Image taken from: Title: "Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien" Author: LUMHOLTZ, Carl. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10491.ff.10." Page: 517 Place of Publishing: Kjøbenhavn Date of Publishing... More

Page 429d Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 429d Boy Travellers Australasia

Fourth slice of illustration on page 429 of The Boy Travellers in Australasia. (1888)

Page 036b Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 036b Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration of page 36 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Page 117 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 117 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Page 323 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Page 394 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Page 399 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 399 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 399 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Voyageto New Holland Vol 3 1703 Illus PDF 219

Voyageto New Holland Vol 3 1703 Illus PDF 219

Illustration from a Journey to New Holland (Vol III) (1703)

PSM V52 D027 Old tom australian aboriginal

PSM V52 D027 Old tom australian aboriginal

Old Tom, Australian aboriginal

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

Aboriginal Australian women and children, Maloga, N.S.W

Aboriginal Australian women and children, Maloga, N.S.W

Postcard showing a group of women in bush setting, two standing beside bark shelter, two more seated at entrance of shelter, three of them holding babies. All the women are wearing European dress, woman on left... More

Corroboree Barak - A painting of a group of people on a wall

Corroboree Barak - A painting of a group of people on a wall

Figures in possum-skin cloaks, circa 1898

Map of Area Occupied by Wangerriburra People, Queensland

Map of Area Occupied by Wangerriburra People, Queensland

Map of area occupied by Wangerriburra people, Queensland.

Queensland State Archives 3072 Sergeant Whiteford and his trackers 1898

Queensland State Archives 3072 Sergeant Whiteford and his trackers 189...

Sergeant Whiteford and his trackers. (With text from A Report to the Commissioner of Police - On the Aboriginals occupying the "Hinter-land" of Princess Charlotte Bay together with a Preface containing suggesti... More

Queensland State Archives 5866 Residents on the beach Mapoon 20 July 1911
SLNSW 802637 Page 236 - Public domain dedication image
Face detail, from- Towtrer Tasmanian Aboriginal by W B Gould 1833 (cropped) (cropped)

Face detail, from- Towtrer Tasmanian Aboriginal by W B Gould 1833 (cro...

Towtrer Chief of the Port Davey Tribe, Tasmania, c.1933, W.B. Gould, State Library of New South Wales V/91}

Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland - Warraba

Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland - Warraba

"WARRABA", SIR J. P. BELL'S BLACKBOY.

Page 368a Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 368a Boy Travellers Australasia

Top slice of illustration on page 368 of The Boy Travellers in Australasia. (1888)

Man of the Wonkanguru - An old black and white photo of a man with a beard

Man of the Wonkanguru - An old black and white photo of a man with a b...

scan of illustration from p. 46 of The native tribes of South-East Australia

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 10 - Kumabara record
Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 25 - Spear throwers
Page 089 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 089 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Page 129 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Page 173 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Page 378 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Page 531 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 531 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Voyageto New Holland Vol 3 1703 Illus PDF 223

Voyageto New Holland Vol 3 1703 Illus PDF 223

Illustration from a Journey to New Holland (Vol III) (1703)

George French Angas01

George French Angas01

Te Wainokenoke (seated), to the left of Nohorua (with full moko and a grey beard). Behind the couple is Nohorua's son, Tuarau, standing wrapped in a blanket, ca 1844. Painting by George Francis Angas who recor... More

Natives of Australia (1906) (14582177728)

Natives of Australia (1906) (14582177728)

Identifier: nativesofaustral00thomuoft (find matches) Title: Natives of Australia Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868- Subjects: Ethnology -- Australia Australia -- Social conditio... More

The Australian Museum magazine (1921) (20323909126)

The Australian Museum magazine (1921) (20323909126)

Title: The Australian Museum magazine Identifier: australianmuseum1192123aust (find matches) Year: 1921 (1920s) Authors: Australian Museum; Australian Museum Subjects: Natural history Publisher: Sydney, Austral... More

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