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43 photos and 32 illustrations tagged kangaroo, from 10 members of Flickr Commons.

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• British Library 31 photos & illustrations
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• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 4 photos & illustrations
• Australian War Memorial collection 3 photos & illustrations
• Powerhouse Museum 2 photos & illustrations
• Royal Australian Historical Society 1 photo / illustration
• SDASM Archives 1 photo / illustration
• The Field Museum Library 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of New South Wales 1 photo / illustration
• Tasmanian Archives and State Library (Commons) 1 photo / illustration

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Residential street in the Brisbane suburb of Kangaroo Point, 1935

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Kangaroo Point: Directly east across the river from the city, one of Brisbane’s oldest suburbs, the first house being built in 1844. In 1823, explorer John Oxley described the area as a “jungle, fringed with mangroves with the higher land open forest, covered with grass”. Source: hicksrealestate.com.au/secret-history-brisbanes-suburbs-z/

Migrants pointing to a painted kangaroo on a train, Ludwigsburg

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

• Vivienne Strauss said:

  These photos are so heartwarming, I wish the world was still like this in some ways.

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:

  Vivienne Strauss We love this one too, they are at the beginning of their journey!

• workislife said:

  Their suits are still timelessly modern..

Kangaroo hunting in Adavale, Queensland ca. 1928

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  The killing of kangaroos by Europeans began at exactly the same time that the species was first identified. Shooting, naming, describing, scientifically classifying, sketching, dissecting, eating: these things all played out simultaneously as soon as Cook’s Endeavour got stranded on a reef in far north Queensland in June and July 1770. Many notable visitors participated in organized kangaroo hunts: Charles Darwin in 1836 (“my usual ill-fortune in sporting followed us”), Britain’s Admiral of the Fleet Henry Keppel in 1850, and the novelist Anthony Trollope in 1871. The Duke of Edinburgh came to the colonies in 1867 – the first royal visit – hunting kangaroo in South Australia and then traveling out to Victoria’s western district for more sport. Organized hunts could kill any number of kangaroos; alongside hunting meets that pursued individual roos as game, squatters also organized large-scale drives or battues, which could see thousands of kangaroos rounded up, slaughtered, and left to rot. Source: theconversation.com/friday-essay-the-art-of-the-colonial-...