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Winifred West
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/winifred-west-biography/When she first arrived in Australia, the well-known educationalist Winifred West supported herself by teaching privately and drawing shells for Charles Hedley, the Conchologist at the Australian Museum.
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The Museum's Early Days
https://australian.museum/about/history/the-museums-early-days/Australia's oldest museum was founded in 1827. Under the dedicated curatorship of German emigrant Gerard Krefft in the 1860s, the Museum came to be recognised as a truly 'scientific' establishment.
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Nancy Adams
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/nancy-adams/Nancy spent her entire working life in the Entomology Department of the Museum.
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Australian Museum Archives
https://australian.museum/get-involved/staff-profiles/australian-museum-archives/The Museum Archives and Research Library cares for the Museum’s institutional memory and its historic natural history book and journal collections dating from 1836.
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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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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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Recovering a 'lost collection' - the Saemann minerals
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/recovering-a-lost-collection/Not much has been written about our oldest surviving mineral collection because for more than 150 years it’s been almost lost to sight.
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