Geoff Barker

Benevolent Asylum, Hotham, Melbourne, 1870-1875, American & Australasian Photographic Company. Uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Mel…

Lion fish in Taronga Zoo aquarium, Sydney, 27 November 1938, film negative, Australian Consolidated Press Archive. Uploaded to #FlickrCommons by @StateLibraryNSW flic.kr/p/2rHHjPd

Children at the migration centre, Uranquinty, New South Wales, 18 January, 1950, by L Bartholomew. Image uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranquinty

Female model with hat and dog brooch, 20 October 1938, by Ivan Ive, vintage film negative, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 032/Item 155 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9gkRjQq…

Worker on electrical power lines, Sydney, March 1953. With a bit of #Boro going on with those trousers. flic.kr/p/2rUCZRo

Speedway Champion Lionel Van Praag, Sydney, 20 December 1940, photographed by B. Rice for Pix magazine, Australian Consolidated Press Archive, Uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW

Born #OTD 8 March 1856 Australian artist Tom Roberts. Seen in this rare image with GVF Mann painting on a boat (the Antidote?,) on the Hastings River, New South Wales, 1896. Uploaded to FlickrCommons by @StateLibraryNSW flic.kr/p/2rGzxGZ

International Women’s Day - June Marie Dally-Watkins OAM (1927 – 2020) was an Australian businesswoman and fashion model, recognised by the Australian honours system as an entrepreneur, vintage negative, Uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Dall…

Collage portrait with dangling heads, in Alfred William Leslie Ellis. World War One Album, c. 1917, State Library of New South Wales collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/94RxQ6K…

Born #OTD 3 March 1874, English actress Ada Reeve. Photo at Tivoli, Sydney, 1914, by Talma & Co., uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Reeve

#OTD 3 March 1885 the New South Wales Contingent left Sydney to serve in the Sudan with British forces as part of the Suakin Expedition in 1885. photo by Carl Leibinger, uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South…

Phillip Parker King - an Admiral in the Royal Navy and surveyor of the Australian coast died #OTD 26 Feb 1856. This painting of his Funeral at Port Jackson is by Conrad Martens and was uploaded to Wikipedia by State Library of New South Wales en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_P…

British-born Australian customs official and artist Frederick Garling Jr. born #OTD 23 Feb 1806 - Portrait and Watercolour. Uploaded to @Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick….

Actor dressed as a Gaucho for 'The Sun' toy fund performance, roof of New Tivoli Theatre [?], Sydney, 6 November 1936, by Alec Iverson. StateLibraryNSW

On this day 18 Feb 1954 - Queen Elizabeth II waves farewell from rear of Royal Car en route to Circular Quay West to embark on SS 'Gothic' for the voyage to Tasmania, uploaded to #FlickrCommons by State Library of New South Wales flic.kr/p/2r3b6jh

Born #OTD Louisa Lawson, - 17 Feb 1848 - Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, feminist and mother of poet and author Henry Lawson. Portrait uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_La…

Born #OTD 17 Feb 1907, Marjorie Lawrence, Australian soprano & first Metropolitan Opera soprano to perform the immolation scene in Götterdämmerung by riding her horse into the flames as Wagner had intended. Uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_…

A north east view of Macquarie Harbour, 1833, W.B. Gould, watercolour, State Library of New South Wales uploaded to #Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_…

Died #OTD 14 Feb 1779 - carved ditty box shaped like a coffin by sailors on Cook's last ship HMS Resolution. Contains a rough watercolour sketch of the death of Cook and what is thought by some to be a lock of Cook's hair, ca. 1779 @StateLibraryNSW collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/npAd3Ob…

Australia’s oldest contortionist David Mitchell photographed aged 73 #OTD 13 Feb 1942, by Frederick Stanley Grimes, uploaded to Wikidata by @stateLibraryNSW wikidata.org/wiki/Q133853595