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1830s: The Rascally Bird Stuffer
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/the-rascally-bird-stuffer/Once 'collector and preserver of specimens', the Museum's early taxidermist decided to branch out.
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A Labour of Love — the Scott Family Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-labour-of-love-the-scott-family-collection/Sisters Helena and Harriet Scott documented the butterflies and botany of NSW in exquisite detail, but their path was not without struggle.
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That's the spirit: a short history of wet specimen storage at the Australian Museum
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/wet-specimen-storage-spirit-house/Glass jars containing translucent creatures are a common sight at any natural history museum. But the highly flammable ethanol that preserves the specimens inside must be carefully stored to prevent the collections going up in flames.
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Ancient Egyptian Lecture Series
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/ancient-egypt-lantern-lecture/Our Photographic Archives team have uncovered lantern slides from a 1925 Ancient Egypt Lecture Series delivered by Museum Ethnologist, William Walford Thorpe.
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Lantern slides and platypus diplomacy: David Fleay’s legacy at the Archives
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/david-fleay-platypus-diplomacy/Sydney University students are the first to explore conservation pioneer David Fleay’s collections in the Australian Museum’s Archives. In this blog, they describe their project to solve a platypus mystery.
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Beran Collection Pacific Photographs
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/beran-collection-pacific-photographs/Prints of photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Australia.
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Rex & Audrey Cuthbertson Photograph Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/pasifika-collections/photographic/cuthbertson-photograph-collection/A photographic album, loose black & white photographs and coloured slides created by pilot Rex Cuthbertson when he flew into the Highlands of Papua New Guinea between 1948–1954.
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Photographic film formats at the Australian Museum
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/film-formats/Over the years a variety of film formats have been used at the Australian Museum.
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History of photography at the Australian Museum
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/history-of-photography/The nineteenth century saw an explosion of scientific discovery and invention, particularly in the field of photography.
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Patricia Egan: Stories from the Photographic Archive
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/patricia-egan/Digitisation specialist Annie Breslin spent time with former Australian Museum archivist Patricia Egan, to learn about her favourite and most memorable images and the stories they tell about the history of the Museum.
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