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Harnessing the dogs and preparing to start on a sledging exp...
The hand written message on the front reads 'up to that time, Captain Scott took the Discovery to / the head of Ross Sea...
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Copy negative - Dr Herbert Basedow on South Australian Gover...
Copied from an old sepia print found among Basedow papers, 1961.
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Operative Bakers' Association (NSW)
This is a blank membership certificate for the NSW Operative Bakers' Association which dates to the 1890s. The certifica...
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Three page folded letter from John Close to Alice Close, Ant...
Written by John Collinson Close, an 'assistant collector' on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14, led by Do...
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Ogden Smiths Mermaid fishing fly
This fishing fly belonged to Thomas Lloyd Forster Rutledge, who was a keen fisherman. During the 1930s, he and some frie...
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Lantern slide - Pitjantjatjara man, central Australia, photo...
Reproduced by Basedow in "The Australian Aboriginal", FW Preece And Sons, Adelaide, 1925, plate IV/2. Caption reads: 'Wo...
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Miner's crossed pick and shovel brooch incorporating a large...
'This digger brooch is typical of those brooches commissioned by diggers and produced by jewellers on the Western Austra...
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Film negative - Girl, Unnrubinna, tobogganing on the granite...
Reproduced by Basedow in 'Journal of the Government North-West Expedition', "Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Socie...
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Emperor penquin rookery at commencement of Great Barrier
The hand written message on the front reads 'after being frozen up / at the foot of Mount Erebus for over 2 years - was ...
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Wicker and leather child's pony saddle
This child's saddle belonged to a member of the Rutledge family from Gidleigh station near Bungendore in New South Wales...
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Pocket compass in case, used by John Close
This pocket compass was used by John Collinson Close, a member of Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AA...
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Photographic postcard of Paramatta River at Drummoyne, NSW
The Drummoyne Bridge was built in 1881 and had an opening span to let vessels on the Parramatta River pass through....
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Club from Yaamba, Rockhampton, Queensland, 1903
Edmund Milne (1861-1917) was born in England and emigrated to Queensland with his parents 19 months later. He had had pe...
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Breastplate presented to Coomee Nullanga of Ulladulla NSW by...
Edmund Milne (1861-1917) was born in England and emigrated to Queensland with his parents 19 months later. He had had pe...
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Page's dog Qus
The hand written message on the front reads 'from the most southerly point reached by / Ross in 1841, just 60 years earl...
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Leather bound brass telescope, used by John Close
Used by John Collinson Close, an 'assistant collector' on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14, led by Dougl...
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