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'Victory Shower', Victory Hat, worn by Alba Callinan, war loan series, 28 February 1945, photographed by Grimes, PIX Magazine

'Horn Of Plenty', Victory Hat, worn by Marie Haigh, war loan series, 28 February 1945, photographed by Grimes, PIX Magazine

Wet weather Sydney, Pix Magazine

Wet weather Sydney, Pix Magazine

Wet weather Sydney, Pix Magazine

Wet weather Sydney, Pix Magazine

Wet weather Sydney, Pix Magazine

Tram smash, Taronga Zoo Park line, 8 September 1939, Pix Magazine

SMS Bismarck, Cockatoo Island Dry Dock, 1880, by Claus Franzen

Timber getting at Wauchope NSW, 3 February 1944, photographed by Alec Iverson

H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 1846, unfinished watercolour by Owen Stanley

Narrabeen camp war workers holiday, 26 January 1944, photographed by Alec Iverson

Linda Malden "Spring Ridge" station, 24 January 1944 / photographed by N. Herfort

British sailors on holiday at Nowra, 28 December 1944, photographed by Ivan Ives

Blue costume for Adelaide’s Centenary Pageant, 1936, Thelma Affor

Costume, Adelaide Centenary, 1936, Thelma Afford

Majestic Ballet Costume, Adelaide, 1936, Thelma Afford

Wine Ballet Costume for Adelaide’s Centenary Pageant, 1936, design by Thelma Afford

Kids Crafting 101 - Preschool Color Collage Art Activity

Find out more about Matthew Flinders.

Ludwig Leichhardt

On an expedition to cross the Australian continent explorer Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848) disappeared.

The search party for Leichhardt ...

Bungaree was a friend of Matthew Flinders and the first Aboriginal person to circumnavigate Australia on the HMS Investigator.

Would you like to wear this hat? This black velour bicorn hat trimmed with black braid on upper edges, and with leather cockade belonged to Captain Matthew Flinders.

Matthew Flinders, ca. 1800 - watercolour miniature portrait.

A lock of hair can be found behind the miniature portrait of Matthew Flinders.

Dress sword and scabbard : said to have belonged to Matthew Flinders

This telescope is thought to have belonged to Leichhardt, 1842.

What did Matthew Flinders take with him on the HMS Investigator?

This is a new terrestrial globe created by Nathaniel Hill in 1754. Can you see New Holland?

Abel Tasman's map from 1644

Explore some of the maps in the Library collection.

The Long Goodbye by P. J. Parker, shortlisted for the National Biography Award, 2017. Published by Hardie Grant Books, 2016.