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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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Josephine Smith digging a grave at the Drouin Cemetery, Victoria, [2]

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  • National Library of Australia said:
    Thanks Bob, that's amazing
  • Gerry Morris said:
    Her hobby was digging graves?!?
  • Jennifer said:
    any other hobby grave diggers out there?
  • Pandora said:
    She looks like a nice lady, she'd be the last person to let you down.
  • Ian Campbell said:
    ...and all along I thought she was quite shallow...

Grumman Hellcat, Royal Navy aircraft, 1943?

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  • tumpshy said:
    Braw
  • Hernán Gauna said:
    Argentina pilot Of Sublieutenant Óscar Lorenzo Sundt, 808 Scuadron, July 1945

Orient liner SS Orford passing under Sydney Harbour Bridge, 19 March 1932

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  • covid convict said:
    The procession of ships under the Harbour Bridge took place after the official opening ceremony on 19th March, 1932... The procession was led by RMS Maloja (P&O)...followed by RMS Orford (Orient Line)...SS Nieuw Zeeland (KPM)...TSMV Manunda (Adelaide SS Co)...SS Port Auckland (Port Line)...MV Viminale (Lloyd Triestino)...Kitano Maru (NYK)...

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