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Today is World Photo Day, marking 175 years since the invention of photography.
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This is the oldest known surviving photograph taken in Australia, snapped in 1845.
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The first druggist's shop in Melbourne: Collins Street, circa 1857.
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Daguerreotype of Stephen King and a young woman, circa 1859.
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Kidney Brothers Boot & Shoe Warehouse, Collingwood, 1861.
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Members of the South Australian Volunteer Forces, 1860.
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The first Aboriginal cricket team, and the first Australian cricket team to tour England, 1867.
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Miner and photography pioneer B.O. Holtermann (second from left) with reef gold from Star of Hope mine, 1873.
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Teacher and children outside the school, Blacklead, 1873.
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Burdekin River in flood, 1875.
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The Carandini ladies, one of Australia's first opera performing families, 1875.
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Swanston Street, Melbourne, 1872.
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Harris family, Sydney, 1877.
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Tram for North Carlton and St. Kilda traveling east past Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne, 1880.
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Studio reenactment of Ned Kelly's capture, 1880.
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Queensland cyclist, R. James on a rear-steering rotary tricycle, circa 1884.
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Macquarie Lighthouse, Sydney: old and new side by side, 1884.
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Reading the proclamation of annexation, Mr Lawe's house, Port Moresby, New Guinea, November 1884.
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Australian South Sea Islanders at their Sunday School in Mackay, Queensland, circa 1890.
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Bridget Darmody on a camel, 1892.
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Dr Frances Dick, first woman to practise medicine in New South Wales, Sydney, 1892.
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Studio portrait of S. Yee, Brisbane, circa 1895.
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Kalgoorlie crowd waiting for the election results, 1900.
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Family portrait of storekeeper Al Coy, his wife, and baby at St. George, Queensland, 1900.
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Geelong AFL team, circa 1900.
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Glenelg Beach, South Australia, 1901.
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Imperial Army officers visiting South Australia during the visit of the Duke of York, 1901.
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Perier family in de Dion voiturette, the first car imported into New South Wales, 1903.
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Afghan cameleer escorts Mrs Walter Lawrence Silver on the wallaby track, circa 1904.
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Sydney Cricket Ground, 1905.
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A postcard from the 1906 Melbourne Cup, Flemington.
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Chinese gardeners at the Cairns railway station, 1910.
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First Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1912.
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A postcard of one of Wallona Aritta, one of Australia's tattooed ladies, 1913.
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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne circa 1914.
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Patrons of the Eureka Hotel, Redhill, South Australia, 1915.
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Spectators packing the verandas and rooftop areas of the pavilion at the end of the jetty at Henley Beach, South Australia, 1918.
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Marie-Celeste de Villentroy in Australian flag, 1920.
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David Unaipon (1872–1967) the first Australian Aboriginal writer to have a book published in Australia, 1925.
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Australia's first "atmospheric" theater, the Capitol, intended for silent movies and live performances, opened in 1928.
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First cars and trains across Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1932.
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Open air wash house, Melbourne, 1935.
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Visiting Native American Chief High Eagle talks with Johnny Schneide, White City, Sydney, 1935.
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Arnotts' Biscuits Albion van, Sydney, 1936.
