Celebrating an aspect of material culture for which Asian societies have long been renowned: cloth, and the articles made from it. 'Seersuckers, baftas, hummums, cossaes, four-thread weaves, common bazeens, gazas, Permacody cottons, Yanaon guineas, conjoos...' part of a French memorandum on textiles available from India in the middle of the eighteenth century.
[University of Melbourne,VIC ]

The fashions worn by the men, women and children who attended the celebrations marking the Federation of Australia were transitory styles between the stiff, formal lines of late-Victorian fashions and the looser, more comfortable Edwardian clothing. While men's clothing during the period 1890-1910 continued to be quite conservative, women's clothing broke free of late-Victorian constraints..
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

Welcome to the Federation Images web site. Visitors to this site will find a range of black and white photographs, cartoons and newspaper excepts, from the Federation period in Australia. Most of these images have been retrieved from microfilm, resulting in varying degrees of clarity.
[Monash University Library,VIC ]

'The Federation of Australia from six British colonies on 1 January 1901, was not inevitable. The need for common defence policies, standardisation of railways, control over immigration and agreement on tariff policies both external and internal could have resulted in a co-operative association of states similar to the European Union, rather than a new nation.'
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

'Follow the Sun' depicts characteristic images of Australians at play and on holidays. Golden beaches, exotic wildlife, healthy bodies and magnificent scenery are illustrated in these wonderful posters. Come and enjoy these colourful, attractive and nostalgic images of the way Australia was.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act received the royal assent on 9 July 1900 and it was proclaimed that, on the first day of the twentieth century, the six Australian colonies would be united as a federal commonwealth under the name of the Commonwealth of Australia.
[Australian War Memorial, ACT ]

A centenary exhibition prepared and presented by the National Library of Australia. This exhibition was mounted to mark the centenary of the Australian Labor Party (1891-1991), the oldest of Australia's political parties.
[Australian Workers Heritage Centre, QLD courtesy of the National Library of Australia ]

Features works from the library's holdings of french literature from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibition includes works by Voltaire, Moliere and Satre, as well as examples from the library's collection of travel accounts. 7 October 1998 - 26 February 1999.
[Monash University Library, VIC ]

An exhibition of photographs from the Department of Classics and Archaeology and material from the Monash University Library Rare Books Collection 30 July - 2 October 1998.
[Monash University Library, VIC ]