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28 photos and 4 illustrations tagged koala, from 6 members of Flickr Commons.

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• State Library of Queensland 20 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 5 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 2 photos & illustrations
• Australian War Memorial collection 2 photos & illustrations
• British Library 2 photos & illustrations
• Powerhouse Museum 1 photo / illustration

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Private Pinkerton, another soldier and friend with a koala

from Australian War Memorial collection

• 4 older comments, and then…
• aríon potts said:

  I wonder what they fed it, since koalas live off of eucalyptus leaves, which probably wouldn't be available in a war zone.

• ndnbrunei said:

  I imagine that this photo was taken in Australia. Koalas are high maintenance animals if kept in captivity in Australia, let alone overseas!

• George Oates said:

  You can see over on the right there that this photo was taken in Broadmeadows, Melbourne, Australia.

• Australian War Memorial collection said:

  A few koalas did make it overseas as mascots. I have often wondered about their food, but eucalyptus tres do exist outside Australia so perhaps they were of the right type. if they took eucalyptus leaves with them on the ship transporting them, they must have been pretty dry by the time they got over there.

• John M said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Australian portrait, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

'Aussie Bear' factory, Thurlstane (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Palmer Street Sydney

from State Library of New South Wales

• Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:

  On the clicker press, top left, the operator appears to be stamping out the small, koala noses from black leather. See a clicker press in closeup here - flic.kr/p/2kt9EwM The patterns are being cut from kangaroo hides laid out on the trestle tables; and stitched by the women on the Singer industrial sewing machines on the central bench.

• MICHEL CAUDRON said:

  Wonderful gallery of old photos Superb, I love it

Aussie Bear, toy koala manufactured by Thurlstane, ca. 1944-1945

from State Library of New South Wales

• Esai Garcia said:

  Looks so life-like, impressive work from the 40's!