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Images & Image Making Collection

Image: Poster - 'Double Your Week-End Fun, Go with a Kodak', 1930s

Source: Museum Victoria

Encompassing more than 300,000 images relating to all aspects of Victoria's history, and more than 1,000 artefacts relating to photography and image production generally, this is the largest collection within the History and Technology Collection.

The collection focuses on heritage images relating to the history of Victoria, and the history of image making in Victoria, from European settlement onwards. Images within the collection reflect all curatorial areas including engineering, transport, sustainability, information and communication, domestic and community life, immigration, working lives, public and institutional life, design, cultural diversity, clothing and textiles, medicine in society, and sciences.

Significant collections and items

Kodak Australasia Heritage Collection & Baker and Rouse Collection: 1,000s of photographs, advertising material, photographic products and factory floor artefacts.
McKay Archive: 25,000 images, 600 negatives and 19 films.
Melbourne Observatory: astronomical and operations photographs.
Biggest Family Album in Australia & Melbourne's Biggest Family Album: about 10,000 images of everyday life.
International Harvester: more than 900 glass negatives, around 60,000 film negatives and prints, over 200 albums and about 40 scrapbooks relating to the manufacture and sales of agricultural equipment, motor trucks and construction equipment.
Vickers Ruwolt: over 1,000 glass plate negatives documenting one of Australia's major heavy engineering firms, 1920s-1960s.
A.J. Campbell: more than 2500 photographs and negatives by the noted Australian ornithologist and field naturalist.
Laurie Richards: 85,000 negatives documenting corporate and retail life, 1950s-1970s.
State Electricity Commission of Victoria: over 3500 negatives and 1,000 photographs documenting the power industry, 1870s-1980s.
Jim Payens Aerial Photography: several thousand negatives and one of the aerial cameras used by Jim Payens to take them. They document Victoria's development from the air, with a focus on industry, during the 1950s to the early 1970s.
Science Museum of Victoria: over 10,000 negatives depicting collection objects, events, exhibitions, visitors and staff.
Spotswood Pumping Station: 300 photographs.
Francis: internationally significant pre-cinema and cinema images and technologies, from the 18th and 19th centuries.
William S Anderson: over 1,000 images of Lorne and Great Ocean Road, and his camera, 1898-1940.
Kodak No. 1 camera (1888) and artefacts reflecting the evolution of Kodak camera innovation.
Sutton panoramic camera and wet plate curved glass negatives taken with it in the mid 19th century by Richard Daintree, a pioneer of Australian fieldwork photography.
Gernsheim Collection

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Photograph - Aerial View of the Exhibition Building from the North East, Melbourne, 1956

Black & white aerial photograph of the Exhibition Building from the north east, taken in 1956. The photograph shows the Exhibition Building, annexes, buildings used by the British Migra ...

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Photograph - Aerial View of the Exhibition Building from North East, Melbourne, 1963

Black & white aerial photograph of the Exhibition Building from north east, taken in 1963. The photograph shows the Exhibition Building, eastern and western annexes, a car park on the s ...

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Photograph - Aerial View of the Exhibition Building from North East, Melbourne, 1973

Black & white aerial photograph of the Exhibition Building from north east, taken in 1973. The photograph shows the Exhibition Building, new eastern and western annexes and car parking ...

Images: 3
Photograph - Aerial View of the Royal Exhibition Building from North, Melbourne, 1981

Black & white aerial photograph of the Royal Exhibition Building from the north, taken 6 April 1981. The photograph shows the Royal Exhibition Building, eastern and western annexes, car ...

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Photograph - Eastern Annexe, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1947

Black & white photograph of the eastern annexe of the Exhibition Building from the north west, taken in 1947. The photograph shows the northern side of the eastern annexe that, at this ...

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Photograph - 3D Model of Exhibition Building, Melbourne, circa 1979

Black & white photograph of a 3D model of the Exhibition Building, circa 1979. The model is of the redevelopment that was planned for 1979 to 1980, showing the proposed new eastern anne ...

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Photograph - Aerial View of the Exhibition Building from North East, Melbourne, 1956

Black & white aerial photograph of the Exhibition Building from north east, taken circa 1956. The photograph shows the Exhibition Building, annexes, buildings used by the British Migran ...

Images: 2
Photograph - Eastern Annexe, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, circa 1977

Black & white photograph of the eastern annexe of the Exhibition Building, taken circa 1977. The photograph shows the northern car park that replaced the White Ensign Club and Australia ...

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Photograph - Exhibition Building from North, Melbourne, circa 1947

Black & white photograph of the dome of the Exhibition Building, taken from the north in 1947. The photograph shows the dome and the northern side of the Great Hall as well as the grass ...

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Photograph - Exhibition Building from North, Melbourne, 1977

Black & white photograph of the Exhibition Building, taken from the north in 1977. The photograph shows the dome and the northern entrance to the building as well as the northern car pa ...

Images: 2