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Australia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Locator = -25.274398;133.775136,Created For =

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

Ready for Shearing, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1653
Scope and Contents

Photograph of sheep seperated into pens ready for shearing with the shearing shed in the background in the early 20th century. The image is from the book, 'Australia: The Sheep Country.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Remnants of Southern Australian Aborigines, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2996
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two Southern Australian Aborigine men standing together in a wooded field in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Report on Australian Ionospheric Services , 1941

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/G.5
Scope and Contents

The material consists of Report on Australian Ionospheric Services, dated 1941.

Dates: 1941

Reports and data, 1944-1949

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.355
Scope and Contents

The material includes a report by H.G. Booker (T.R.E.), dated 1944; a report on eclipse observations in Canada, dated 1946; T.R.E. report and data, dated 1946; comments on a publication, author unknown, dated 1947; and charts and data for Australia, dated 1948-1949.

Dates: 1944-1949

Shearing in Full Swing - Australia: The Sheep Country, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/653
Scope and Contents

Photograph of men shearing sheep in a shearing shed in Australia in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison correspondence (gold), mid 19th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/10/6
Scope and Contents

The Sir Roderick Impey Murchison correspondence (gold) consists of:


  1. correspondence, alphabetically arranged
  2. geological drawings
  3. notes
  4. presscuttings
Dates: mid 19th century

Small black notebook, inscribed inside 'E.V. Appleton', 1952

 Item
Identifier: Coll-37/B.40
Scope and Contents

Small black notebook, inscribed inside 'E.V. Appleton'. The notebook contains notes made on Appleton’s journey to Australia for URSI [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale] meeting and other engagements, 1952. It includes personal notes, list of articles and speeches required during trip, notes of papers read or contributions heard at conference, diagrams and research ideas. Both ends of the notebook have been used.

Dates: 1952

Song entitled 'Gleann' and accompanying notes, 11 July 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/75
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Gleann' collected from Christy MacLeod, aged 47, Obe, Harris, originally from St Kilda [Obbe, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris and Hiorta/St Kilda] beginning 'Himbo cha ruig mi ort, Be mise gun ite in Hearra'. The accompanying notes state how she has collected seven stones of feathers because of her dog's bird-hunting abilities, that dogs are numerous in St Kilda with every family having three or four for the birds and that 'The St Kilda people in Australia were saying in their...
Dates: 11 July 1870

Story, 21 August 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/70
Scope and Contents Story collected from [-] MacLean about a man in Lochs [Na Lochan, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis] who emigrated to Australia to seek his fortune and was to send for his wife and family when he was able. His wife did not hear from him for three years and so she went to a woman to ask for help. She went into a trance and on wakening up told the wife that her husband was safe and well and that although he hadn't written to her he would do so without delay. Three months later she received a...
Dates: 21 August 1909

Strathdoon Stag-Hounds with a Dingo in Sight, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1703
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man holding six Strathdoon Stag-hounds on leads in a field with a kennel boy standing to one side in the early 20th century [Australia?]. Writing on the slide notes that the dogs have a dingo in their sights. Each of the dogs' names are written under the dog: [?] Lec, Strathdoon Rapid Rova, Bogunda, Strathdoon Rapid Bran, Wonga, and Strathdoon Laird.

Dates: 1870s-1930s