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Add in equal parts - History, Photography, Music, Wikis - digitise - then serve chilled. Library/Museum Curator. Works @ State Library NSW. Shared views mine own. https://geoffbarker.wordpress.com/ & Q64778919
Speedway Champion Lionel Van Praag, Sydney, 1940, photographed by B. Rice for Pix magazine, Australian Consolidated Press Archive, Uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_...
International Women’s Day - June Marie Dally-Watkins OAM (1927 – 2020) was an Australian businesswoman and fashion model, recognised by the Australian honours system as an entrepreneur, vintage negative, Uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Da...
Born #OTD 3 March 1874, English actress Ada Reeve. Photographed at The Tivoli, Sydney, 1914, by Talma & Co., uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Reeve
British-born Australian customs official and artist Frederick Garling Jr. born 23 Feb 1806. Portrait and watercolour uploaded to @Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederi....
Phillip Parker King - an Admiral in the Royal Navy and surveyor of the Australian coast died 26 Feb 1856. This painting of his Funeral at Port Jackson is by Conrad Martens and was uploaded to Wikipedia by State Library of New South Wales en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip...
Actor dressed as a gaucho for 'The Sun' toy fund performance, roof of New Tivoli Theatre [?], Sydney, 1936, by Alec Iverson. State Library NSW
Born #OTD 17 Feb 1907, Marjorie Lawrence, Australian soprano & first Metropolitan Opera soprano to perform the immolation scene in Götterdämmerung by riding her horse into the flames as Wagner had intended. Uploaded to Wikipedia by
@StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjori...
Macquarie Harbour Penal Station on Sarah Island, Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), 1833, by W.B. Gould. Updated the Wikipedia thanks @geniaus.bsky.social
yes you are correct it is Macquarie Harbour Penal Station o Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)
#OTD 13 Feb 1942, Frederick Stanley Grimes photographed Australia’s oldest contortionist David Mitchell - aged 73, uploaded to Wikidata by @stateLibraryNSW www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133853...
Convicts in New South Wales, lithograph, 1793, wash drawing, Juan Ravenet, State Library of New South Wales uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict...
Bondi Beach, Sydney, c. 1872, by American & Australasian Photographic Company, vintage collodion glass negative. Uploaded to #FlickrCommons by @StateLibraryNSW flic.kr/p/2rUYU9R
#OTD 28 January 1952, Newcastle Beach, Hood Collection, State Library of New South Wales, uploaded to #FlickrCommons by @StateLibraryNSW flic.kr/p/2rQVys6
#OTD 27 January 1930 Francis Chichester was photographed at Mascot after his solo flight from Croydon, England to Darwin in DH-60G 'Madame Elijah' G-AAKK. By Sam Hood and uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis...
French heavy cruiser Montcalm, Sydney Harbour, January 1911, Sam Hood, vintage glass photonegative, Uploaded to WIkipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...
When we think of books for people with visual impairment, we often think of the tactile writing system designed by Louis Braille, first presented in 1824. This article looks at another less well-known system developed by an Englishman named William Moon. geoffbarker.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/m...
'My Lady Plucks a Red Red Rose,' watercolour by Thea Procter c.1905. Uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLIbraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thea_Pr...
New Year's painting completed.
Photo of Douglas Mawson, Alistair Mackay & TWE David who #OTD 16 January 1909, were first to reach the South Magnetic Pole in Antarctica. Uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas...
Aerial photograph of RAN naval depot, Garden Island, Sydney, c. 1930, by Sam Hood. Vintage film negative uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_...
#OTD 13 January 1938, permanent waving a man's hair, Australia, Ivan Ive, vintage film negative, uploaded to #flickrcommons by @StateLibraryNSW, flic.kr/p/2ryXc9C
#OTD Children Jitterbug dancing, 11 January 1941. Uploaded to #flickrcommons by @StateLibraryNSW flic.kr/p/2r28Ykq
#OTD 8 January 1912 the first boat of Mawson's Australian Antarctic Expedition went ashore at Cape Denison, Antarctica, event captured by Bernard McGrath, State Library of NSW collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n7o7bv3n
New entries for Australians on #PublicDomainDay 2026. Sydney Long, Keith Macpherson Smith, Helen Elizabeth Gillan, John Radecki and Alan Geoffrey Fairfax. Includes a full list of Australians who died in 1955 and whose works entered the Public Domain in 2025. geoffbarker.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/p...
Airplane Southern Cross at Mascot Sydney before making the first commercial trans-Tasman flight, January 1933, by Sam Hood, Uploaded to Wikipedia by State Library NSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-T...
Two versions of Dr Frederick Bridges, posed as 'The Anaesthetist,' Sydney, March 1933. Photo by Harold Cazneaux, vintage glass negative, State Library of New South Wales, uploaded to #flickrcommons by @StateLibraryNSW flic.kr/p/2rwByDr
Schnapper Point after sunset', Mornington, Victoria, 1859-63, Eugene Von Guerard, drawing. Uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning...
'Dissonance' a free online Zine pulling together research relating to cultural collections in Australia. NZ National Flag 1834, #Australiafirst photographer, #Darwin, #Funafuti, #UNESCO, #migration, #MobyDick, Concord Hospital, #Architecture. Download @ geoffbarker.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
Model in a dress, studio portrait from above, Sydney, 26 July 1938, by Ivan for Pix magazine, State Library of NSW, collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9gkRj...
