Contents 1 Australian Portrait Collections 1.1 Australia Wide 1.2 New South Wales 1.3 Northern Territory 1.4 Queensland 1.5 South Australia 1.6 Tasmania 1.7 Victoria 1.8 Western Australia 1.9 Research Notes

Australian Portrait Collections

This page attempts to bring together the various collections of portraits available online related to Australians. Please feel free to update with new finds!

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Australia Wide

• Australian War Memorial
  • Reflections – Honouring our World War Two Veterans
  • The First World War 1914–1918: - Our Island Heroes - legacy of Aboriginal servicemen who left Country from Cape Barren Island and Flinders Island to fight in First World War
  • Full Photograph Collection (unsure how to filter on portraits only)

• National Archives of Australia
  • Images of First World War Australian servicemen

• National Portrait Gallery (not free?)

• Parliament of Australia
  • Portraits of Prime Ministers

• PICRYL - search engine for public domain media files including portraits
  • search Australian portraits

New South Wales

• State Library of New South Wales

  Portraits of War: Crown Studios Project

  1600 photographs in the Crown Studios Collection, a selection at Flickr Commons and picryl.

Northern Territory

Queensland

• State Library of Queensland

  World War 1 soldier portraits

  • The Queenslander newspaper published portraits of nearly 30,000 Queensland soldiers before embarkation to World War 1.

South Australia

• State Library of South Australia

  South Australians of World War 1 Photographs - 542 portraits of soldiers prior to embarkation in studios and at various military camps in South Australia including Morphettville and Jubilee Oval.

  Heroes of the Great War Chronicle Newspaper Portraits 1915-1919 - subset of notices published in South Australian newspaper The Chronicle between 1915 and 1919 about World War I service personnel that contain a portrait. Includes reference (date, page and column) within The Chronicle, brief biographical details including name, age, rank, battalion and occasionally place of death.

• Old Colonists and Settlers Photographic Mosaics
• SA Portrait Collection - complete 10668 portraits held by library

Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia

• Australian Army Museum of Western Australia

  World War 1 Studio Portraits: The Army Museum has an extensive collection of formal photographic portraits of servicemen and women mainly from World War 1 dating from 1914 to 1919.

  • "Treasured" - World War 1 Photo Portraits - Identified
  • World War 1 Studio Portraits - Not Yet Known
  • Names and Faces - informal snapshots of individuals or small groups.

• Soldiers of Barrack Street

  Photographic portraits of World War 1 Servicemen by Denis Dease, who operated the Dease studio at 117 Barrack Street from 1898 to 1929.

• State Library of Western Australia

  Adopt a Soldier photographs - collection of more than 700 photographs of World War I soldiers digitised in 1999

Research Notes