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A library of more than 1000 images to help you explore defining moments in Australian history.

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Thylacine cranium

Thylacine cranium

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Gold Cradle

Gold cradle

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An ancient midden of freshwater mussel shells at Lake Mungo

An ancient midden of freshwater mussel shells at Lake Mungo

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Map of Australian showing the Great Dividing Range highlighted in yellow.

Map of the Great Dividing Range

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Photograph of dingo looking out from grass-covered sand.

A dingo on Fraser Island, Queensland

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Footsteps in sand

Pleistocene human footprints at Willandra Lakes in south-eastern Australia

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Studio photo of a game board with three pieces, an instruction manual and the box they came in. the box has a colourful illustration showing men holding a flag pointing at ships at sea. The pieces on the game board are ships and the board itself suggests that the game involves moving around an oval sea with an illustration of gold diggings in the centre.

‘Race to the Gold Diggings’ board game

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Oil painting depicting scenes of disaster with people and animals fleeing from thick black smoke. Corpses and bones of animals can be seen in the foreground.

Black Thursday, February 6th, 1851, by William Strutt, 1864

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Illustration depicting crowds of people, horses, kangaroos and birds fleeing a bushfire. Some people have escaped in row boat.

Black Thursday, engraved by Julian Rossi Ashton, 1851

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Black and white illustration depicting a man and woman with horses walking through bushland and fleeing from a fire that has devastated their home. One of the horses is lying on the ground and appears to be dead.

Black Thursday, February, 1851, engraved by F.A. Sleap

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Cataraqui shipwreck site, King Island, 1887.

Cataraqui shipwreck site, King Island, 1887

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<i>Diving for pearl shell on the north-east coast</i>

Diving for pearl-shell on the north-east coast

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Flying dingoes, painted by Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, 1974

Flying dingoes, 1974, Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri

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A colour lithograph depicting people working along a creek.

Gold Washing. Fitz Roy Bar, Ophir Diggings, 1851, by George Angas

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Mother whale, by Narritjin Maymuru, 1978.

Mother whale, by Narritjin Maymuru, 1978

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<em>Mr E.H. Hargraves, the Gold Discoverer of Australia, Feb 12th 1851 Returning the Salute of the Gold Miners</em> by TT Balcombe

Mr E.H. Hargraves returning the salute of the gold miners [5th] of the ensuing May, June 1851, by T.T. Balcombe