EditorialLantern Slide - Acacia normalis, Victoria, Date Unknown, Colour image of Acacia normalis blooms in a vase, photographed by A.J. Campbell. A well-known Naturalist, Campbell argued for recognition of Wattle as a symbol of Australian patriotism. Campbell ...
EditorialDress with Hobble Skirt Dress with staggered skirt, After 1908 the straight line of 'Style Directoire' and 'Style Empire' introduced by Paul Poiret continued in Dutch fashion. A right silhouette was already known in a modest circle here before that tim...
EditorialSword Belt, ca. 1750?ca. 1850, Tibetan, Leather, iron, copper alloy, gold, .2a; L. 39 1/2 in. (100.3 cm); Wt. 12.9 oz. (365.7 g); .2b; L. 7 in. (17.8 cm); Wt. 0.8 oz. (22.7 g), Swords-Accessories, This belt, and its matching sword and scabbard were rep...
EditorialPhotograph - Gilbert Payne Mulcahy, 1937, Laminated portrait of G. P. Mulcahy, dated 1937, in a brass frame. Gilbert (Gil) Payne Mulcahy enlisted into the Australian army on 15 February 1915, aged 21, and was placed into the 6th Australian Infantry Bri...
EditorialPhotograph, 'Display Windows Hay Street Shop', Perth, circa 1930s, Black and white photograph captioned 'Display Windows Hay St. Shop' featuring a range of cameras surrounding a photographic display titled 'At Sea With The Royal Navy', in the Kodak Sto...
EditorialCatalogue - ANA, Fourth Australian Exhibition, Jan-Feb 1908, Souvenir catalogue for the Fourth Australian Exhibition, promoted by the Australian Natives Association (ANA), and held at the (Royal) Exhibition Building, 25 January - 22 February 1908.
EditorialPhotograph - Private John Peile, Crown Studios, Sydney, World War I, Jun-Aug 1915, Photograph of Private John Peile, service number 2662, 2nd Battalion, AIF, taken in a Sydney studio after he had enlisted on 25 June 1915 but before he sailed on 9 Augus...
EditorialLantern Slide - Wattle tree, Victoria, Date Unknown, Black and white image of a wattle tree photographed by A.J. Campbell. A well-known Naturalist, Campbell argued for recognition of Wattle as a symbol of Australian patriotism. Campbell promoted spring...
EditorialLantern Slide - Acacia maideni, Victoria, circa 1920, Black and white image of Acacia maideni, or the J.H. Maiden Wattle, one of the variety which flowers in March, photographed by A.J. Campbell and included on page 49 in his book Golden Wattle publish...
EditorialPhotograph - Colonel Elliott, Egypt, Captain Edward Albert McKenna Album, World War I, 1914-1915, Image of Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Edward Pompey Elliott on horseback. Elliott was the officer in charge of the 7th Battalion. By the end of the war Colon...
EditorialBarricade in the streets of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). Riots during the General Textile Strike in the city. February, 1902. Promoted by anarchist groups and labor movements. Gravure in "Le Petit Journal", 9th March, 1902.
EditorialJohann Tetzel Selling Indulgences in Saxony. Tetzel (ca. 1460-1519), a Dominician monk, promoted the sale of indulgences to save peoples souls in their afterlife. Colored engraving 1880.
EditorialJohann Tetzel Selling Indulgences in Saxony. Tetzel (ca. 1460-1519), a Dominician monk, promoted the sale of indulgences to save peoples' souls in their afterlife. Colored engraving 1880.
EditorialIchikawa Kodanji as Seppu Shinsuke, Ichikawa Sadanji as Kishino Toshiaki, Ichikawa Danjuro as Saijo Takamori, Onoe Kikugoro as Kurata Shinpachiro, Nakamura Chutaro as Shotaro, Onoe Kikunosuke as Magoichi, and Ichikawa Kosaku as Tokumaru in the play Oki...
EditorialMadame Zazel shot from a cannon. Poster for the acrobatic performances by Zazel who was successfully promoted by Guillermo Antonio Farini at the Royal Aquarium in 1877. A collection of pamphlets, handbills, and miscellaneous printed matter relating to ...
EditorialDuring the 1830s, continued dissatisfaction with the limited extension of the franchise achieved in 1832 led to the emergence of a new reform movement known as Chartism. The movement took its name from this pamphlet, which was drafted predominantly by ...
EditorialA perspective view of a pyramidical Bee hive, presented to the society by Sir Charles Whitworth (MP.) A perspective view of a Brabant scythe, presented to the society by Wm. Hanbury esq. A perspective view of an Hainault scythe, presented to the soci...
EditorialJohann Tetzel Selling Indulgences in Saxony. Tetzel (ca. 1460-1519), a Dominician monk, promoted the sale of indulgences to save peoples souls in their afterlife. Colored engraving 1880.
EditorialJohann Tetzel Selling Indulgences in Saxony. Tetzel (ca. 1460-1519), a Dominician monk, promoted the sale of indulgences to save peoples' souls in their afterlife. Colored engraving 1880.
EditorialIchikawa Kodanji as Seppu Shinsuke, Ichikawa Sadanji as Kishino Toshiaki, Ichikawa Danjuro as Saijo Takamori, Onoe Kikugoro as Kurata Shinpachiro, Nakamura Chutaro as Shotaro, Onoe Kikunosuke as Magoichi, and Ichikawa Kosaku as Tokumaru in the play Oki...