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The following institutions and individuals have kindly provided digital copies of photographs for use on this website, and have given the FAHS permission to use them on this website.

National Library of Australia

1. Title: Three camels in front of commercial buildings, Coolgardie, Western Australia, ca. 1890s [picture]. Image number : nla.pic-an24613175

2. Creator: Gibbs, Shallard & Co. Title:Christmas in the bush, an Australian homestead [picture] / drawn by O.R. Campbell; Gibbs, Shallard and Co. printers. Image number : nla.pic-an8927791

3. Creator: Clint, A. (Alfred), 1843-1924. Title: The Government Camp, Ballarat, 1854, troops arriving from Melbourne [picture] / A.C. from a sketch by S.D.S. Huyghue. Image number : nla.pic-an8656950

4. Title: The Kelly gang - from an original photograph, Steve Hart, Dan Kelly, Ned Kelly [picture]. Image number : nla.pic-an14034948

5. Title: Paddle steamer Rodney with wool barges and the Pride of the Murray in the background, wharf, Echuca, Victoria [picture] Image number: nla.pic-vn33040996.

6. Creator: Austin, G. B. H. Title: [Australian Commonwealth celebrations; an invitation to a conversazione in the Exhibition Building, 7 May, 1901] [picture] / Image number: nla.pic-an8334419

National Archives of Australia

Series A6180, Item 13/11/75/26 - Demonstrations - Australian capital territory - Demonstration against the Dissolution of Parliament by Sir John Kerr and support for Mr Gough Whitlam at Parliament House, 1975

Royal Western Australian Historical Society

Fremantle Port

Royal Historical Society of Queensland

Barrier Reef (postcard)

View over Newstead from Hamilton Hill, 1873

Homestead, buildings and cattle on Darling Downs

Bullock teams hauling wool, Charleville

View over Brisbane from Bowen Terrace, 1872

Group of natives at Badu Island, Torres Strait

Royal Australian Historical Society

Fox under the Hill Hotel, Prospect, NSW - Magaard, Henry Gustav Hirsch - Gelatin silver print - [1930] - The Fox under the Hill - a once prosperous wayside inn of the old coaching days, now a deserted but picturesque old farm house standing just off the Great Western Road at Prospect, near Parramatta NSW. Originally built by a well-to-do Parramatta publican, John Piesley in 1832 on land granted to him in 1813. It was one of eight public houses between Parramatta and South Creek. In those days the road ran directly at right angles to the present Great Western Road.

Aboriginal Camp - NSW - P. W. Gledhill

Aboriginal canoe, Wilcannia Central Darling - [1942] - P. W. Gledhill

Upper Hawkesbury River NSW - 1925 - unknown provenance

Macquarie Street, Sydney - looking south from the gates of Government House early 1900's. Before redevelopment of the site now occupied by the Astor - unknown provenance

River boats Bourke July 1886 on a rising Darling River. The Jane Eliza in the foreground to the left of the horse punt. Riverside houses of Bourke seen on the left.

Coal River Valley Historical Society, Tasmania

Butcher shop, Bridge Street, Richmond, Tasmania, circa 1894

Blacksmith shop, Richmond, Tasmania

Land Army Girls, Richmond, Tasmania, early 1940s (on their way to clean up path to St. Luke's Church)

Bridge at Richmond, Tasmania. Built by convicts, completed 1825 (early photo)

Brass band, Richmond, Tasmania

Associate Professor Don Garden

Rolling Down the Mallee

Timber Train in Geeveston Forest, Tasmania

Measuring Water to the Irrigators

Pastoral idyll Riverina

Big shoot on the Burdekin

A Lord of the Forest. An old gum-tree used as a Church, Gippsland

Tasmanian Aborigines

Dr Ruth Kerr

Mt. Morgan - manager, directors in front of Bucyrus shovelling, early 20th century.
Caption on original photo reads: "G.A. Richard, W.R. Hall, Henry Twynam and another pose in front of the big Bucyrus shovel".

Cooroy, Queensland - arrival of Cambage family, and bullock teams at railway yards, 1911

Staff cottage on remote research station, Wrotham Park, Queensland, early 1950s

John Davies

FAHS Annual General Meeting, Alice Springs, 3 Sep 2006