Australia Day

Today is (the increasingly controversial) Australia Day, so here are three girls and a kangaroo in Australia, circa 1900-1910.

From the collection of the State Library of Queensland.

StateLibQld_1_100472Three girls and a kangaroo, 1900-1910. The girls pose in a garden in front of a shed covered in creepers. The girl on the right stands and holds the kangaroo aloft

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Australian Troops in December 1914

Australian troops at the Mena Camp in Egypt in December, 1914. One soldier plays with a kangaroo. It was common for troops to take native animals with them when they went to war, and many of these animals were then left in the care of the Cairo Zoological Gardens.

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