State Library :: Australia Travel Guide

Web goto-sydney.com

State Library

Filed under:

State Library

State Library
The State Library of Victoria’s Picture Collection forms a comprehensive visual record of the state and its people. The 650,000 images in the Collection constitute the oldest visual historical collection in Australia, illustrating the development of Victoria from the 1850s to the 1990s. Also included are some interstate and overseas views.
Of the Library’s Picture Collection, over 160,000 images have been digitized and made available online via the Library’s Pictures Catalogue. The Pictures Catalogue also contains some images from the Australian manuscripts, map, rare books and other special collections
The scope of the Library’s digitised content covers a diverse range of themes and collections. Content includes such subject areas as Melbourne and Victorian street scenes, buildings, ships, country views, costume, flora and fauna, portraits, Australian Aborigines, political and social events particularly of the nineteenth century, aerial views of Melbourne, factory interiors, domestic architecture, furniture, household goods and appliances, topographical, geological, botanical, agricultural and mining scenes, Federation commemorative arches and Boer War celebrations.
The State Library in Swanston Street is always worth a visit, and particularly since the refurbishment of the dome in the main reading room has been completed.


Related Travel Information

Cultural Precinct
Cultural Precinct Cultural Precinct Immediately to the north of Perth Station, and still in Northbridge, is the Cultural Precinct, where one can...

Melbourne City Centre
Melbourne City Centre Melbourne City Centre The city centre is a combination of modern high-rise and beautiful historical buildings. Melbourne’s city centre...

Education system in Australia
Education system in Australia Education in Australia is free and primarily the responsibility of the individual states. In each state administration,...


Travel Chronicle: Sydney Destination Guide

Cost of Living in Sydney
Cost of Living in Sydney One-liter bottle of mineral water: A$1.50 33cl bottle of beer: A$2 Financial Times newspaper: A$8.50 36-exposure...

Music : Sydney
Music : Sydney Every one recognises the Opera as the iconic monument of Sydney with its incomparable volumes making the building...

Foreign relations of Australia
Foreign relations of Australia The foreign relations of Australia have spanned from the country's time as Dominion and later Realm...

Browse the Sydney Destination Guide
travel-chronicle.com This page requires frames. travel-chronicle.com This page requires frames. State Library ::Australia Travel Guide
travel-chronicle.com This page requires frames.