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Glass plate negatives
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/glass-plate-negatives/The glass plates are the archives’ oldest photographic collection, with the first plates dating from the mid 1860s.
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Museum displays: Invertebrate and Vertebrate Tree
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/invertebrate-vertebrate-tree-displays/See behind the scenes photographs featuring the construction of the Vertebrate and Invertebrate Tree, both popular displays, opened in 1959 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Charles Darwin's publication, ‘On the Origin of Species'.
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Lantern slides
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/lantern-slides/Often called 'magic lantern slides' these glass slides designed for projection enchanted and educated audiences at The Australian Museum in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Ric Bolzan: Favourite photographs from the archive
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/ric-bolzan/Former head of the Australian Museum's photography department, Ric Bolzan nominates his top five favourite Australian Museum images and tells us why.
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Ethel King and the lizard skin shoes
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/ethel-king/Talented yet underrated artist Ethel King brings to life the lecture theme of wildlife slaughter in the name of the shoe manufacturing industry.
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Ancient Egyptian Lecture Series
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/ancient-egypt-lantern-lecture/Our Photographic Archives team have uncovered lantern slides from a 1925 Ancient Egypt Lecture Series delivered by Museum Ethnologist, William Walford Thorpe.
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Rex & Audrey Cuthbertson Photograph Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/pacific-collection/photographic/cuthbertson-photograph-collection/A photographic album, loose black & white photographs and coloured slides created by pilot Rex Cuthbertson when he flew into the Highlands of Papua New Guinea between 1948–1954.
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Photographic film formats at the Australian Museum
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/film-formats/Over the years a variety of film formats have been used at the Australian Museum.
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History of photography at the Australian Museum
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/history-of-photography/The nineteenth century saw an explosion of scientific discovery and invention, particularly in the field of photography.
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Patricia Egan: Stories from the Photographic Archive
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/patricia-egan/Digitisation specialist Annie Breslin spent time with former Australian Museum archivist Patricia Egan, to learn about her favourite and most memorable images and the stories they tell about the history of the Museum.
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