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Blaschka glass models
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/blaschka-glass-models/The 19th century was a time of great scientific endeavour. In 1879 the Australian Museum actively sought to share these wonderful discoveries with the public by ordering specimens and models from Europe so that it could display all the common European vertebrates and invertebrates.
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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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Harry Burrell Glass Plate Negative Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/harry-burrell-glass-plate-negative-collection/Harry (Henry J) Burrell was keen photographer, and this collection documents his wide interest in Australian native fauna.
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Gerard Krefft, Curator and Secretary, 1861-1874
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/johann-gerard-krefft/Johann Ludwig Gerard (Louis) Krefft, 1830–1881 was one of the few Australian scientists to accept and propagate Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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Amy Alfreda Vickery
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/amy-alfreda-vickery/Philatelist, philanthropist and a lady of the old school
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Rex Bretnall
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/rex-bretnall/Another casualty of the Great War.
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Frank McNeill
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/frank-mcneill/Sandy the Naturalist had another life as the zoologist Frank McNeill.
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John Disney 'What's Hit is History - What's Missed is Mystery'
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/whats-hit-is-history-whats-missed-is-mystery/John Disney was a crack shot, a brown belt in judo, and the Museum's last 'Curator of Birds'.
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