Resurrecting a sense of place--PictureAustralia: Ourtown.

• Author: Hooton, Fiona

Comet McNaught over Australia's Capital City, Canberra from acaffery to Anthony Caffery Flickr-link

Somaya Lyneham Trolleylove July 2006 [out the back of the Lyneham shops] Flickr-link

ashroc Capitol Theatre, Manuka c.1955 [this building no longer exists in 2007] Flickr-link

unknown photographer Wombat Hill, Daylesford reproduced courtesy State Library of Victoria, image number a07021 State Library of Victoria

gervo1865_2 Wombat Hill, Daylesford Flickr-link

sandown Bowraville, NSW Australia c.1970 Flickr-link/

Bootmaker [Woden Plaza, Canberra] from Echo's Pond to Kerry L. Williams Flickr-link

Rossco (R. & V. Photographers) Support [The timber supports used in the Catherine Hill Bay coal loader; this wharf now lays abandoned] Flickr-link

The National Library of Australia invites the community to add their perspectives on Australia's rural and urban spaces, to juxtapose the contemporary with the historical, and to illustrate domestic and work spaces by contributing images to the new Flickr group, PictureAustralia: Ourtown. The new group continues the successful partnership between the Library's PictureAustralia service and Yahoo!'s Flickr photo-sharing service begun in 2006. Images loaded into either the PictureAustralia: People, Place and Events or Ourtown groups are harvested on a weekly basis into PictureAustralia's collection.

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