PictureAustralia
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:01 pm
I don't know if this really fits into the spotted category, but I can't see anywhere else to put it and, after all, some people have been posting 1960s pictures in here as well as current ones, so here goes.
I might be telling some of you about something you are already aware of, but there is a really good site for finding old (and not so old) Australian photographs, called PictureAustralia http://www.pictureaustralia.gov.au/index.html
(Family group beside car on El Sharana road, South Alligator, Northern Territory)
(Darwin Railway Station with train carriage and police vehicle in the foreground, 1960 FB Holden registration no. 89563)
(Show room of Williams Motor Co. Pty Ltd, Currie Street, Nambour, 1961 )
(Brothers' first car, St Johns College, Lakemba, 1961 )
I might be telling some of you about something you are already aware of, but there is a really good site for finding old (and not so old) Australian photographs, called PictureAustralia http://www.pictureaustralia.gov.au/index.html
Here's a small sample of what they've got:Picture Australia is an Internet based service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time. When you do a search on Picture Australia, thumbnail images are retrieved from participating institutions on the fly and inserted into the search results.
For example, a search on 'St Kilda' will retrieve images from all the agencies that hold relevant material, including the Nolan Gallery, the National Library of New Zealand, the National Archives of Australia, the State Library of Victoria, etc.
(Family group beside car on El Sharana road, South Alligator, Northern Territory)
(Darwin Railway Station with train carriage and police vehicle in the foreground, 1960 FB Holden registration no. 89563)
(Show room of Williams Motor Co. Pty Ltd, Currie Street, Nambour, 1961 )
(Brothers' first car, St Johns College, Lakemba, 1961 )
