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Pictorial Databases

Web Sites for Genealogists - An Australian gateway site for tracing your family history by Cora Num

See also Ships' Pictures

Trove is the National Library of Australia’s enhanced search service that aggregates the information from 1000 libraries, art galleries, archives and museums in Australia. Over 90 million items are available. It offers combined or individual searches of digitised newspapers; journals, articles and data sets; books; pictures, photos and objects; music sound and video; maps; diaries, letters and archives; archived websites (1996 to present); people and organisations plus lists (created by other users of Trove). This is a great place to search for pictorial material.

Trove Pictures Photos Objects  offers searches of photographs, negatives, artworks, drawings, posters, postcards and other pictures, as well as physical objects such as puzzles, instruments and clothing. Images from Picture Australia including all contributions from Flickr users can now be found here.

Australian War Memorial collection databases include photographs. The photograph collection contains almost one million images, covering the experience of Australians at war and Australian military history from the 1860s to the present.

National Archives of Australia PhotoSearch allows you to explore the National Archives photographic collections. Includes digitised photographs online.

National Library of Australia Pictures. This rich and varied collection focuses on Australian people, places and events, from European exploration of the South Pacific to contemporary events. Art works and photographs are acquired primarily for their informational value, and for their importance as historical documents. The collection include photographs, drawings, watercolours, oils, lithographs, engravings, etchings and sculpture/busts. A strength of the collection is the period from 1800-1920.   

Images ACT, ACT Heritage Library's collection of 8,000+ digitised photographs from Canberra and the region. 

State Library of New South Wales manuscripts, oral history and pictures catalogue search of the Mitchell Library, Sir William Dixson Library and Dixson Galleries. Includes personal papers and archives, paintings, drawings, photographs, objects, posters and architectural plans.

State Records New South Wales, Photo Investigator with online access to images of life in NSW. 

City of Sydney Archives ArchivePix is the Archives digital photograph bank and currently 50,000 of the estimated 80,000 photographs held have been scanned and indexed.  

PictureNT by the Northern Territory Library. Search for historical and contemporary photographs of the Northern Territory. 

State Library of Queensland Picture Queensland with a mix of historical and contemporary images from urban, regional and rural Queensland.

State Library of South Australia South Australiana Database  for access to photographs and pictorial material.

SA Memory is an online gateway to South Australian culture and heritage. This multimedia website focuses on the South Australian experience. It illustrates and interprets themes to highlight South Australia's people, places, issues and events from the colony's beginnings to contemporary times.

LINC Tasmania - The Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office has an extensive collection of Tasmanian pictorial works, with over 42,000 images online. New images are added regularly and their format includes albums, apple and pear case labels, bank notes, maps, photographs, pictures, plans, postcards, posters, prints, sketchbooks.

State Library of Victoria Pictures Collection documents the history of Victoria and its people from the early years of the colony to the present day. Many items from the collection can also be viewed in the Library's online catalogue. 
 
Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia with online images of Chinese, Chinese immigrants and their descendants held in Australia. 

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