National Library of Australia

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About the National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia is the country's largest reference library. Our role is to ensure that documentary resources of national significance relating to Australia and the Australian people, as well as significant non-Australian library materials, are collected, preserved and made accessible either through the Library itself or through collaborative arrangements with other libraries and information providers. Our Collections The Library holds the greatest collection in the world of material relating to Australia and the Australian people. It ranges from the earliest European works about the Great Southern Land to the most current publications. The collection includes all formats of material, from books and magazines to pictures, photographs, maps, sheet music, oral history recordings, manuscript papers, ephemera and much, much more!

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Synchronised surfing,Manly beach, New South Wales, 1938-46

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Paul Hagon said:
    Is the guy on the left not on a surfboard? The board looks bigger & he's holding a paddle?
  • BobMeade said:
    I agree with Paul Hagon, looks like a kind of early surf ski, rather than a surf board being used by the bloke at left. On the other hand, I guess if he's standing up on it and riding a wave, then it's probably surfing!
  • Flickr said:
    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ January 15, 2024
  • Sigurd Krieger said:
    Congrats on Xplore!!
  • gato-gato-gato said:
    Excellent

Russian orchestra at 2CH, Sydney, 17 September 1936, 2

  • hector olivares lopez said:
    Como pasan los años de rápido!.....ahi estoy hecho un pollo!

[Six smiling women in nurses' uniforms, each with a camera] [Frank Hurley]

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  • Blushing Toothbrush said:
    good onya
  • jamica1 said:
    It would be good if a vintage camera buff could identify them all.
  • Flickr said:
    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ March 24, 2021
  • gato-gato-gato said:
    Super Bild, sehr gelungen!
  • incognito7nyc ✈️❤NewYorkCityofDreams✯♛ said:
    ✨🌟★❤✯♥♡✨ Very beautiful ✨♡♥✯❤★🌟✨

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