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State Library of Queensland  >  Find  >  Information for...  >  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people  >  Photographs

Photographs

Online databases

Photographs can be a useful source of family and community history information. Many institutions have collections of digital photographs which can be accessed online.

• Search Picture Queensland
• Search the Australian War Memorial collection [new window]
• Search Picture Australia [new window]

Organisations with collections

The following organisations also hold significant photographic collections relating to Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders. Access conditions may apply to these collections.

• John Oxley Library photograph collection (State Library of Queensland)

• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  • Perfect Pictures database [new window]

• James Cook University
  • JCU Picture Archive [new window]

• Mitchell Library (State Library of New South Wales)
  • Manuscripts, oral history & pictures [new window]

• National Library of Australia
  • Digital collections [new window]

• National Archives of Australia
  • Photosearch [new window]

• National Film and Screen Archive
  • Collection search [new window]

• Royal Queensland Historical Society
  • Welsby Library [new window]

• University of Queensland's Anthropology Museum 
  • About the collection [new window]