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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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Sorry JPEG, sometimes you're a pixellated mess
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/sorry-jpeg-sometimes-youre-a-pixellated-mess/Don't knock nostalgia when you're knee-deep in a 35 mm slide collection.
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Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year conversation starters
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/learning/australian-geographic-nature-photographer-of-the-year-conversation-starters/Why do you think people like taking photos of nature? Use these conversation starters for fun suggestions and prompts for how to engage with the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year exhibition.
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Brewarrina Boy
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/sydney-elders/brewarrina-boy/For many Indigenous artists, to take up photography as an art form was often a conscious move to counter this history of the medium.
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Honorary Pom
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unfinished-business/unfinished-business-honorary-pom/They could tell you how many sheep there were in Australia, they could tell you how many cattle. Yet they couldn’t tell you how many Aboriginals there were, because we weren’t allowed to vote.
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Freshwater Saltwater
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unfinished-business/unfinished-business-freshawater-saltwater/Kay Sadler was unaware that she was Aboriginal until her early twenties, making her emotional journey to connect to culture as painful as her physical pain from Marfans Syndrome.
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Maralinga
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unfinished-business/unfinished-business-maralinga/In the 1950s there was British Government and the Australian Government made an agreement to have bomb testing in Australia. Not far from here. I was only a little kid.
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Sound of Silence
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unfinished-business/unfinished-business-sound-of-silence/I didn’t want to accept the fact that I was deaf, ’cause I wanted to be a hearing person so I could fit in with their world.
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