Swinburne University of Technology

Swinburne University of Technology has a strong reputation in Australia and overseas as a provider of career orientated education and as a university with a commitment to research. The University maintains a strong technology base and important links with industry, complemented by a number of innovative specialist research centres, many with international linkages.

The university's operations are conducted at six Victorian campuses: Croydon, Hawthorn, Healesville, Lilydale, Prahran and Wantirna, as well as at its international campus in Sarawak, Malaysia.

The Swinburne Image Bank is a collection of historical photographs relating to Swinburne in its various manifestations from its early years into the 1980s. The photographs provide a view of "career oriented education" over most of the last century, as well as historical images of Swinburne's buildings, people and history. They are wonderfully mixed in their origins, subjects and purposes, as well as in their degrees of artistry.

Users of the collection are likely to be particularly interested in a wide range of photographs illustrating the learning and teaching of the then college - art, carpentry, chemistry and science, commercial (e.g. typing), domestic science, engineering and trades, and other studies. There are many other studies over the period - cake decorating (1954), car decorating (nd), astronomy (1960s), blacksmithing (1937), dressmaking (1915).

For more information, please contact:

Swinburne University of Technology Library
PO Box 218 Hawthorn Victoria 3122 Australia
phone +61 (0)3 9214 8330
fax +61 (0)3 9818 3651
email images@swin.edu.au
web http://www.swin.edu.au/

[Chemistry experiment conducted by junior pupils], 1960's, Swinburne University of Technology.