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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
Items per page: 10 50 (showing 61 - 70) 20079 items
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Photograph - Dame Nellie Melba Performance in Organ Gallery, Exhibition Building, Melbourn ...
Black & white photograph of a performance in the organ gallery at the western extremity of the Great Hall of the Exhibition Building, 21 December 1907. The photograph shows Dame Nellie ...
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Photograph - Grand Organ, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1961
Black & white photograph of the Grand Organ in the Great Hall of the Exhibition Building, 1961. This is one of 959 photographs (or images) of the Exhibition Building collated by the Ex ...
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Photograph - Demolition & Removal of Organ, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1965
Black & white photograph of the almost complete removal of the Organ and Organ Gallery in the Great Hall of the Exhibition Building, June 1965. The Grand Organ was removed between May a ...
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Photograph - Western End of Great Hall, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1977
Black & white photograph of the western end of the Great Hall fully refurbished after the removal of the Organ Gallery, taken in 1977. The Grand Organ was removed between May and August ...
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Photograph - Western Annexe & Car Park, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, circa 1967
Black & white photograph of the northern section of the western annexe of the Exhibition Building, taken circa 1967. The northern section of the western annexe was demolished between Ma ...
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Photograph - Demolition of Western Annexe, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1967
Black & white photograph of the northern section of the western annexe of the Exhibition Building part of which has been demolished, taken in 1967. The northern section of the western a ...
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Photograph - Second Stage Demolition of Western Annexe, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 19 ...
Black & white photograph of the northern section of the western annexe of the Exhibition Building most of which has been demolished, taken in 1967. The northern section of the western a ...
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Photograph - Third Stage Demolition of Western Annexe, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 196 ...
Black & white photograph of the northern section of the western annexe of the Exhibition Building most of which has been demolished, taken in 1967. The northern section of the western a ...
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Photograph - Conversion of Northern Western Annexe Site to Car Park, Exhibition Building, ...
Black & white photograph of the site of the northern section of the western annexe of the Exhibition Building being prepared as a car park in 1967. The northern section of the western a ...
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Photograph - Western Section of Northern Car Park, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1977
Black & white photograph of the western section of the northern car park, previously the site of the western annexe, taken in 1977. The photograph shows the car park full of cars and an ...
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