Travelling Trunk
Many German migrants living in South Australia and Victoria moved to the Riverina after the 1861 Robertson Land Act provided...
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Governor Burke's 1835 Proclamation of terra nullius
When James Cook sailed on the east coast of Australia in 1770 he named it New South Wales...
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Lithograph of Bungaree
Bungaree, from Broken Bay, was for many years the best known Aboriginal person in Georgian Sydney...
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Brief case lettered Sir Henry Parkes, G.C.M.G
Before 1900, there was no actual country called Australia, there were six colonies of New South Wales, Tasmania...
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North Head Quarantine Station small pox sufferer's casts
The North Head Quarantine Station occupies the first site officially designated as a place of quarantine for people entering Australia... The
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Matthew Finders Bicorn Hat
Matthew Flinders was born at Donington, Lincolnshire, on 16 March 1774. In 1789 he entered the Royal Navy and two years later joined...
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Gold Diggings Board Game
In March 1851, Edward Hargraves wrote to the Sydney Morning Herald to announce that he had found payable gold just outside the New South Wales town of Bathurst...
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Gold Fields Chinese Opium Box
These tins were found on the Sofala goldfields. They were used to import and store opium...
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Model Fokker aircraft 'Eindecker'
The outbreak of fighting in Europe in August 1914 immediately brought Australia into the 'Great War'. Within one week of the declaration of war all German subjects in Australia were declared 'enemy aliens'...
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Tu Do
Vietnam has been invaded many times. In the nineteenth century it became part of France's empire in South-East Asia. During World War II, Vietnam was invaded...
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