Piecing together the lives of soldiers
This ANZAC Day we remember some Bendigo soldiers who are included in the Vincent Kelly photographic archive.
This ANZAC Day we remember some Bendigo soldiers who are included in the Vincent Kelly photographic archive.
Arts & literature, Such was life:
Melbourne artist Sybil Craig became one of the first women war artists in Australia. The Library holds Sybil’s archive which contains over 1700 photographs and more than 280 works on paper, many of which are now online.
Arts & literature, Such was life:
Ruth Hollick is noted for her portraits of children and of Melbourne society’s elite as well as creating some of the earliest known fashion photographs in Australia.
Charles Pratt was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1891 and was cadet with the First Wellington Rifle Company. When war broke out he quickly enlisted and saw action in… Read More ›
People & professions, Such was life:
In 1903 the Australian ornithologist Robert Hall (1867-1949) embarked on his major expedition to Siberia (via Japan and Korea), to collect specimens and eggs of Siberian birds known to migrate… Read More ›
People & professions, Such was life:
The Fred Boyle Photographic Collection portrays Echuca in the 1950s and ’60s as a town driven by community spirit.
Maggie Diaz was an American-born Australian commercial photographer who lived and worked in Melbourne.
News:
We need your help to capture and record Melbourne’s laneways as they exist now for the State Collection.