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Ekins pharmacy, Melbourne, Victoria: the shop seen from the street, with the pharmacist and his family standing outside. Photograph by E.C. Waddington, ca. 1883/1884.

Ormond College, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Victoria. Wood engraving.

Alfred Hospital Training School for Nurses, Melbourne... : this is to certify that... has served a three years term of training as  a pupil nurse in the wards of this hospital (including the nursing of sick children and gynaecological patients) also in the operation theatre and out-patients and casualty departments... qualifying her to act as a skilled medical & surgical nurse.

New Medical School buildings, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Victoria. Wood engraving by A.O.

The face of a woman looks out with side profiles of three other male and female faces and the back view of another woman's head; a warning that AIDS is not the only sexually transmissible disease by the AIDS/STD Unit, Health Department Victoria. Colour lithograph, July 1992.

A couple caress within a bag full of water that is suspended against a collage of faces, labels and the lettering 'who', 'sex', 'love' and 'no'; representing an advertisement for safe sex helplines by Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Colour lithograph by Kevan Way, 1995.

Wilson Hall, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Victoria. Wood engraving.

Public Library, National Gallery, Technological Museum, Melbourne, Victoria. Wood engraving by S. Calvert, 1886.

A line of people stand along a shopping street representing a warning about the risk of STD's by the AIDS STD Unit, Health Department, Victoria. Colour lithograph, July 1992.

Astronomy: the Great Melbourne Telescope, in use outdoors. Colour lithograph after H. Grubb.

Now ready : cloth boards, price 3s. 6d. : Part 1. Contributions to practical surgery : pathological, therapeutic & operative, by James George Beaney F.R.C.S.E. : surgeon to the Melbourne Hospital.

Ormond College, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Victoria: sketches of the interior. Wood engraving.

Bricks or spirit : the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne / Emma Russell.

Health Committee's report / City of Melbourne.

The eye and ear : the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital centenary history / [Lyndsay Gardiner].

Diversity and discovery : the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1965-1996 / Gustav Nossal.

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Melbourne

Images from the collections

Images referencing Melbourne

Works from the collections

Bricks or spirit : the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne / Emma Russell.

Health Committee's report / City of Melbourne.

A couple caress within a bag full of water that is suspended against a collage of faces, labels and the lettering 'who', 'sex', 'love' and 'no'; representing an advertisement for safe sex helplines by Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Colour lithograph by Kevan Way, 1995.

The eye and ear : the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital centenary history / [Lyndsay Gardiner].

Diversity and discovery : the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1965-1996 / Gustav Nossal.

Melbourne

Images from the collections

Images referencing Melbourne

Works from the collections

Bricks or spirit : the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne / Emma Russell.

Health Committee's report / City of Melbourne.

A couple caress within a bag full of water that is suspended against a collage of faces, labels and the lettering 'who', 'sex', 'love' and 'no'; representing an advertisement for safe sex helplines by Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Colour lithograph by Kevan Way, 1995.

The eye and ear : the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital centenary history / [Lyndsay Gardiner].

Diversity and discovery : the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1965-1996 / Gustav Nossal.

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