Museum Victoria
Museum Victoria Provides access to images from three different collections via Picture Australia. The most extensive is the Biggest Family Album collection which includes over 9,000 online photographs covering the constructed and natural environments, the nature of work, recreation, technology, travel and farming.
The photographs date back to the turn of the last century and show ordinary men and women making history - people taking to the skies, first travelling in cars or exploring early radio communications.
The Imagining Australia 1914-1918 database presents material from Museum Victoria's collections which show the various depictions of Australian identity during the war. The photographs from this database illustrate the Australian experience of the First World War in Egypt, Australia, Belgium and France.
Images from the Sunshine harvester works web site show the history and operations of the agricultural manufacturing enterprise established by HV McKay in the 1880s around Sunshine in Victoria. The Sunshine Harvester Works (which gave the suburb its name), was the largest industrial enterprise in Australia in the 1920s. It had a major impact on the social and economic development of Australia, and was a significant contributor to the mechanisation of agriculture around the world.
Based in Melbourne, Museum Victoria cares for the State's vast and priceless natural science, Indigenous, social history and science and technology collections. The overall size of these collections is estimated at approximately 16 million individual items. Museum Victoria runs four museums at three separate locations:
- Melbourne Museum and Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens;
- Scienceworks Museum, Spotswood; and
- Immigration Museum, Old Customs House, Flinders Street.
For more information about any of the Museum Victoria photographs in Picture Australia, please contact:
Discovery Centre
Museum Victoria
PO
Box 666
MELBOURNE VICTORIA 3001
Australia
phone +61 (0)3 8341 7111
fax +61 (0)3 8341 7788
email discoverycentre@museum.vic.gov.au
web http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/discoverycentre
William (Bill) Boyd
Bill Boyd boxing with
his pet kangaroo,
Kanga Joe 1923
Biggest Family
Album
Museum Victoria