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The ACT in Pictures

Images ACT | Reflections of Canberra | Picture Australia
 

The ACT Heritage Library has three significant collections of images:

  • Photographs from the Canberra Times and the Canberra Chronicle   from the 1970s to the 1990s.
  • Photographs from the Commonwealth Department of Capital Territory from the 1950s through to the early 1980s.
    View a list of subject headings for the Canberra Times and the Department of Capital Territory (wordimage  492kb)
  • The David Coward Photography Collection, a collection of over 300,000 negatives, the work of commercial photographer, David Coward who operated in Canberra, 1958-2003. This collection is unvailable at present. 

Images ACT

Material from the collections is being digitised and catalogued in our on-line database, Images ACT.

Electronic copies from Images ACT may be purchased for single use

Commercial use - 7 day delivery  $104.25 Non-commerical use - 7 day delivery $31.28
Commerical use - 3 day delivery  $208.50 Non-commerical use - 3 day delivery  $62.55

Not all images are available for purchase depending on our agreement with individual donors.  To order a copy of an image, please contact us.

We welcome donations of photographs to Images ACT. We can copy and return your originals. Contact us for details.

Reflections of Canberra

Reflections of Canberra

Reflections of Canberra  is an online exhibition, sampling the collection of the ACT Heritage Library and reflecting the changing landscape lifestyles of the Canberra region and its community.

Picture Australia

Picture Australia  is an internet based aggregator service which allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time. The ACT Heritage Library contributes its image collection to this resource.

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