1. “Emigrants and Aborigines – What should go in our gallery?”
Websites to help with Australian history –
A site that has some outstanding “slide shows” and that can take you to very good individual
pictures - http://www.pictureaustralia.org/trails/index.html
A website that provides links to many others with helpful historical information -
http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/histsite.html
Such as this history summary and a site about the goldrush-
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/australianhistory/
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/goldrush/
A page that links to all sorts of digital sources on Australian life -
http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/
Images used in the Powerpoint –
Richard Redgrave – The Emigrants Last Sight of Home (Wikimedia Commons)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Redgrave_-
_The_Emigrants'_Last_Sight_of_Home.JPG
Emigration from Truro poster
http://www.geevor.com/index.php?object=202
“Here and There” cartoon from Punch magazine
http://www.mapspictures.com/ireland/history/ireland_population.htm
Pictures of “Leaving home”, “The Journey” and “New Land” (From a real gallery exhibition)
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exilesandemigrants/ed_resource.html
The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ford.madox.brown.the.last.of.england.jpg
Emigrant ships arriving in Sydney harbour
http://www.nla.gov.au/pict/index.html and then search for “Picken emigrants arriving Sydney”
Bungaree – the Aborigine in British naval uniform who greeted emigrants as they arrived
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Augustus_Earle_Portrait_of_Bungaree.jpg
Aborigine dance (and many other images of Aborigine culture)
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/slideshow/Depictions+of+the+First+Australians
Aborigine image of Kangaroo on rock face
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aboriginal_Art_Australia(1).jpg
Governor Davey’s Proclamation to the Aborigines
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gov_Davey%27s_proclamation-edit2.jpg
Slides in a Trail called “Colonial Life in Art”
- Hobart town being built
- Mining camp
- Arrest of Aborigine “trespassers”
- Spearing of Lt Stokes
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/trails/slideshows.html
“A game of Euchre (cards)” being played by the miners
http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an8927787
Truganini (Trugernanner) the (so-called) “last Tasmanian aborigine”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trugernannaer