Shearing the Rams, Tom Roberts, 1890
Camping out, Victoria, 1920/30s, by Lindsay G. Cumming
Working For a Selector, James Alfred Turner, 1886
2nd 25th Infantry Battalion, Darwin, 1940
The Foundation of Perth, George Pitt Morison, 1929
Bridesmaid and two flowergirls enter the church, St. Marks, Darling Point, 1930s by Sam Hood
School sports relay race, Goulburn St. versus Lansdowne Crescent, Hobart, 1953
Prospector's Hut, Ballarat, 1850s by Henry Hainsselin
Swagmen standing under trees, outback Queensland, 1905
The Pioneer, Frederick McCubbin, 1904
Miss Grant, by Alpha Studios, Victoria, 1926
Victoria Square, Adelaide, 1901
Approaching Storm with Bushfire Haze, Hans Heysen, 1913
Soldiers march down Bourke Street, Melbourne, prior to departing for the battlefields of World War I, 1914
'Watering cattle at Mount Kosciuszko', probably at Blue Lake, New South Wales, 1900
Some of the first vehicles across the (Sydney Harbour) Bridge, 1932 by Sam Hood
>>4843001Not sure yet how I feel about this thread...
Royal Visit, Sydney, 1954.
The Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1880, by Joseph Reed
Western Australia tourism poster, 1936
Soldier and dog, departure of the 6th Division for the Middle East, January, 1940 by Sam Hood
Captain Cook's landing at Botany, A.D. 1770 Sydney Australia Aboriginal
Art students, E Phillips Fox, 1895
Anzac artwork from the cover of The Queenslander, 1935
>>4843008imagine being there, marching off to die in a spray of lead to secure the profit margins of the angloid ZOGfucking miserable
Sunshine and Shadow, Hans Heysen, 1904
Hurdlers, Empire Games, Sydney, 1938 by Sam Hood
Cabinet manufactured by W. H. Rocke & Co. Melbourne and decorated by painter John Mather, 1880
Sydney Harbour Bridge opening celebrations poster, 1932
Wet weather in Melbourne, 1953
A Map of the City of Hobart, 1927
Interior of Thomas Shipway's blacksmith shop with two men working on the anvil, Clarendon, South Australia, 1896
Australian Beach Pattern, Charles Meere, 1940
Collins Street, looking west from the corner of Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, 1916
Man and young boy boxing, Queensland, 1900s
Early town plan of Adelaide according to Colonel William Light’s original plan for the city. Light arranged the city in a grid with public squares and surrounding parkland. His plan for the city and its development became known as ‘Light’s Vision’. 1839
Young ladies dressed in costume at the Teachers Training College Brisbane, 1930
The original plans for The Public Library, Melbourne, 1850s
Altarpiece, Sacred Heart Church, Beagle Bay, WA, built 1917
Tommy McRae - Spearing the kangaroo
an entire continent bereft of culture. almost impressive.
Down on His Luck, Frederick McCubbin, 1889
William Henry Corkhill - Photograph of a painting of a young girl playing a violin, c. 1900
Outdoor mass, St Patrick's College, Manly, 1934
Happy St George Day, 1876 Sydney Sovereign featuring Queen Victoria and St George with the dragon
>>4853145jealousy isn't a good look
A reader in the Reading Room, Mitchell Building, State Library of New South Wales, 1943
Bernays Family Photograph, Queensland, 1909
Murray Street, Hobart, c. 1892.
Beverley Ussher & Henry Kemp - Beach, Schiess and Company, Burke Street, Melbourne, c. 1905
>>4843008>>4850566>2nd 25th Infantry BattalionLooks like they garrisoned Palestine, then fought the Vichy French in Syria, then came back to kill Japs. They acquitted them honourably, and defeated the various enemies arrayed against them.
The Face tree, Burke's head carved on a tree trunk near the depot, Cooper's Creek, Queensland, 1916
>>4855280Australians.
>>4855294Truely haunting photo. >Australian soldiers in a forest destroyed by war, Battle of Passchendaele - Belgium - October 29th 1917
This unsigned 1911 plan for a Neutral Bay cottage is possibly the oldest architectural drawing in North Sydney Council's collection. The house features the high-pitched terracotta roof, tall chimneys and decorative timber work characteristic of the Queen Anne English Revival style from the Federation-era.
>>4855317Belgium... fucking BELGIUM....
Fireplace mantle detail showing Celtic Queen Boudicca at ‘Kelrose’200 Miller St, North Sydney, built around 1900
An invitation to meet Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in celebration of the opening of the first Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1901
>>4855326its mental
>>4843008defend the bank of the new south wales, ladsyour wives and girlfriends will wait
do you think world history would be any different if Europeans never colonized Australia? I really think it would be 100% unchanged. for such a large country/continent, Australia has really contributed nothing, even relative to substantially smaller European countries. interesting.
>>4856149Just say you're jealous, it's quicker
>>4856175Please summarize the top 5 impacts Australia has had on the course of world history. and be very specific.
Sergeant Clement Edward Hill, 3rd Light Horse Regiment of the Australian Army, South Australia, 1915
The Letter, Frederick McCubbin, 1884
>>4856176>>4856180I actually agree. this mans ability to sit on a horse while simultaneously holding a gun would qualify as a top 5 accomplishment for Australia.
>>4856176We raised the average IQ of the planet by several points by genocide shitloads of Abos.
>>4856208yeah that tracks. killing a technologically inferior culture is probably one of Australia's biggest accomplishments. quite impressive
>>4856176Single-handedly won the second boer war, ww1, ww2
>>4856176democratic electionshttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Australian-ballot
>>4856189The Light Horse Cavalry rode from the canal to Damascus, clearing the land of Ottoman forces and rule. The cavalry were the first Allied forces to enter Damascus. The Allies capturing Damascus led to Ottoman surrender and the singing of the Armistice of Mudros.
Violinist Peta Lowe at the University of Adelaide's Elder Conservatorium, 1976, photograph by Douglas McNaughton.
When was the Australian accent first identified as such?
Professor Thomas Johnston, James Marr and Frank Hurley in a cabin on board the Discovery, c. 1930, photograph by Frank Hurley.
The Stock Exchange, Collins Street, Melbourne.
Wes Colquhoun and Fred Phair talking to the girls at the ball in the Soldier's Memorial Hall, Drouin, Victoria, 1944
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, 1914
Unley boys football team, Adelaide, 1914
The 1938 Australian Florin featuring the Coat of Arms, equal to 20 cents.
Arnott’s Famous Biscuits, Full page ad, Australian Women’s Weekly March 1941. William Arnott opened his first bakery in Morpeth, New South Wales in 1847
Union Hotel, corner of Pacific Highway and West Street, North Sydney, 1914
Young farm girl, South Australia, late 1800s
Skinners Family Hotel, Corner of George and Hunter Sts, Sydney, 1849 above, 2017 below
The 'Wattle Painting' of Queen Elizabeth II by Australian artist Sir William Dargie, 1954. The year of her first visit to Australia, the first time a reigning monarch had visited Australia, and a year after her coronation.
Dilhorn House, Federation Queen Anne style, Perth, built 1897
Two women by the billy over a fire, 1915 by Rex Hazlewood
The Buffalo Ranges, Nicholas Chevalier, 1864
>>4855293
Verandah of Carrington Hotel, Katoomba, c. 1900.
>>4858228I wonder what these fellas would have been talking about
>>4858243Meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars I'd imagine.
John Glover, A View of the Artist's House and Garden, 1835
>>4858564Holden weren't making cars yet. The other two are possibilities but asking the question sincerely, if it's 1900, discussing the federation of Australian is probably likely.
Cottesloe Beach, Perth, 1907.
"Ernest Edwards, 51, is the 'village blacksmith' and a veteran of World War I. Has three children - a boy, 22 serving with the Australian Army in New Guinea; a girl, 20 who is a bank clerk; and a boy, 15, who is studying engineering. Both sons won scholarships." --Printed on label, Drouin, Vic, 1944
Melbourne from the south bank of the Yarra, Henry Gritten, 1856
Broadaxemen 2, Telegraph Point, New South Wales,1955 [picture] / Jeff Carter
Master and apprentice, Ardglen Region, New South Wales,1958 [picture] / Jeff Carter
Boonoke poll merino auction,1957 [picture] / Jeff Carter
Bush wedding, Stuart Creek Station, South Australia, 1972 by Jeff Carter
Marching girls, Sydney, 1962 [picture] / Jeff Carter
Festival of Sydney, 1990
PICKLES ST, PORT MELBOURNE, 1987
Dancers Anita Ardell and Les Rutherford at Kings Cross, 28 November 1956.
Blackheath Public School, 1956.
Beehive Corner, King William Street, Adelaide, c. 1909.
Comptrollers, Government Savings Bank, Sydney, 1906.
Miss Australia Entrants wearing spring hats, Expo 88, Brisbane, 1988
>>4843001This has been a strange series.
Archeologist Vere Gordon Childe (1892 - 1957).
Elizabeth Caroline Armstrong - Ranunculus, c. 1903
Architectural drawing of a Provisional School, c 1905
>>4863921Whys that?
George III was King when Australia was founded
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, 1929
HMAS Australia painted by Charles Edward Dixon, 1913
Melbourne Football Team, 1895
Marching up King Street, Sydney c.1931, by Sam Hood
Two men having a bare knuckle fight over an altercation that took place the night before at the ball that was held after the Reids Flat race meeting - Reids Flat, NSW, c. 1925
Tin and Iron workers, Peterborough, South Australia, 1883
The 11th Reinforcement of the 3rd Light Horse at Mitcham, SA, 1915
Mount Arapiles and the Mitre Rock, Nicholas Chevalier, 1863
Sister Margaret Elizabeth Muirhead, AIF nurse, 1942
And now it's all pajeets and chinese. RIP australia.
Howitzer of the 55th Australian Siege Artillery in its lair, WWI
Militia, 1917 (one soldier has "33" badge on his forage cap and badge on the sleeve is "Citizen Forces, 1812-1917" with a star in the map of Australia), by Sam Hood
The Red Gum, Hans Heysen, 1926
Original designs for Canberra
>>4867119
Government offices in autumn scene, Canberra, 1967
Katoomba Golf Club, c. 1930.
Registering up a battery of Australian Heavies, Exhibition of war photographs taken by Capt. F. Hurley, August 1917- August 1918 (no.14)
Blaxland family picnic at Fordwich, 1896
Park Street from Hyde Park, Sydney, 1880-1890.
Caption reads: 'cleaning the rifle. 2/5 Australian Infantry Battalion. Mount Tambu', New Guinea, 1943
Near Fernshaw, Louis Buvelot, 1873
>>4868741https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/%2Fm%2F03_x4d?col=RGB_3C331A
Banks of the Yarra1935ArtistEveline Syme
Captain Cook statue, Hyde Park, Sydney, 1879, designed by Mr. Thomas Woolner.The unveiling took place on the 25 February, 1879, ten years after the laying of the foundation stone. It was a ticketed event and James Barnet, the Colonial Architect, was employed to design large stands to the east and west of the statue to accommodate upwards of 2000 people. The construction was done by Hudson Brothers, of Redfern, in eight days.
>>4870735
>>4870735 The Australian Museum & Captain Cook statue, Sydney, ca. 1900-1910 / Hall & Co.
>>4870735 William YoungCaptain Cook Statue, Hyde Park c1920s
Queen Victoria Statue, Garden Palace Building, Sydney, between 1879-1882
Queens Square, with the Victoria statue surrounded in foliage, 1900s
Unveiling statue of the Rev. John Dunmore Lang at Wynyard Park, Monday 26 January 1891
Large statue of Captain Arthur Phillip, erected in 1897, dominates this view across the Botanic Gardens to Farm Cove. This was the site of the fabulous Garden Palace, built in 1879 and destroyed by fire in 1882. Beyond the curve of the sea wall, the sheer legs (a type of crane) at Garden Island can be seen just above Mrs Macquarie's Point.
Five small boys and two girls walking along a brick wall, Sydney, 1934 / photographer Sam Hood
Lord Hopetoun, the Commonwealth of Australia’s first Governor-General and the first Federal Ministry, Government House, Sydney, 1901
Premier Bertram Stevens and his cabinet in his office, Colonial Secretary's Building, Sydney, 29 February 1939 / photographer Sam Hood
Bourke Street, Melbourne, 1986.
Militia encampment at Sunbury, Nicholas Chevalier, 1864
Royal Easter Show, Driver Avenue Moore Park, Sydney, 1980s.
Statue of Saint George and the Dragon, in front of the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1889
Statue of Joan of Arc in front of the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Emmanuel Frémiet, 1907
Cricket at the Sydney Cricket Ground, 12 December 1903
Boans Free Taxis on Wellington Street outside Boans department store, Perth, 1929.