Mysteries from the Rosenberg Collection of Vincent Kelly’s Bendigonian portraits
Explore some of the mysteries in Vincent Kelly’s Bendigo photographic portraits.
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Celebrating our nurses: the history of nursing in Victoria
International Nurses Day is celebrated on Friday 12 May – the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. In today’s blog we explore the history of nursing in Victoria and take a glimpse at the nurses featured in our collection.
Your local milk bar
Ask a librarian, Collection spotlights, Victorian history:
Take a walk down memory lane as we explore a newly digitised collection of photographs of milkbars from the 70s and 80s taken by Melbourne photographer, Christopher van der Craats.
Winter illuminations: snow and shadows
Ask a librarian, Collection spotlights, People & professions, Such was life:
With winter well upon us, these images from our photographic collections evoke some of the seasonal experience of snow, ice, and shadows; as senses are sharpened by a chill in the air, the brightness and contrast of snow and subject, or the blanketing fogs.
