Records

Each record focuses on a single item from the National Archives' collection. Some records contain extra information to help you interpret them.

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  Olympic athlete Cathy Freeman

  This is a colour photograph of Australian Olympic and Commonwealth athlete Cathy Freeman, aged 19 or 20, at a running track.

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  Pioneer aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith

  This black-and-white photograph shows the pioneering Australian aviator, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.

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  Pioneering aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and crew

  This is a black-and-white photograph showing Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (pilot), John Warner (radio operator), Charles Ulm (copilot) and Captain Harry Lyon (navigator) after their crossing of the Pacific Ocean in 1928.

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  Portrait of Aboriginal Artist Albert Namatjira

  A black-and-white photograph of artist Albert Namatjira standing beside his truck, displaying a landscape painting which is pinned to a backing board.

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  Portrait of actor Ernie Dingo

  This black-and-white photograph shows the well-known Indigenous Australian actor and television presenter Ernie Dingo.

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  Portrait of politician and women's rights activist, Enid Lyons

  A black-and-white photographic portrait of Dame Enid Lyons in the year her husband, Prime Minister Joseph Lyons, died. It was taken when she was 42 years old.

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  Portrait of rural outfitter RM Williams

  This colour photo shows Australian bush identity and businessman, Reginald Murray Williams, better known as RM Williams, sitting with one arm around his blue heeler dog and the other arm resting on a leather saddle.

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  Portrait of tennis player Evonne Goolagong

  This is a colour photograph of Evonne Goolagong Cawley at the age of 21.

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  Portrait of Wiradjuri elder Jimmy 'King Billy' Clements outside Parliament House

  A black-and-white photograph of Aboriginal man Jimmy Clements (1847–1927), known as 'King Billy', standing outside (then) Parliament House in Canberra in 1927.