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Under Construction

by National Library of Australia Commons

Construction in its many guises as depicted in photographs from the National Library’s collection—from a bush shower in outback Australia, to a ‘constructed’ photograph of Charles Ulm’s Southern Sun flying over the partially-constructed Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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Unidentified construction worker riveting
[Laying foundation of new Macquarie Lighthouse, South Head, Sydney, 1881]
Southern Sun flying over Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1931 / E. W. Searle
[Temporary camp during the erection of the Main Base Hut, Cape Denison, Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914] Hurley
Attaching the tram lines to the poles using a horse drawn wooden scaffold, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 19 April 1902, 1
Group of workmen at Glebe Island silo construction site, New South Wales [4] A.G. Foster
Railway Construction Workers Union meeting, Western Australia, 1912
Bridge workers, Murray Bridge
Tharwa Bridge over the Murrumbidgee River, 1894 / O'Hanlon
Construction workers making concrete bricks during the construction of the new administration office, Birkenhead depot, August, 1950
Pouring concrete for the construction of the silos on Glebe Island, New South Wales [2] A.G. Foster
Rails and other materials used in the construction of the tramway in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 1902
Construction of the tram shed, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 19 April 1902, 1
Two unidentified men at the railway construction camp at Gundagai, July 1901
[A man and horse standing on top, and another man by the side of a concrete culvert on the railway line construction site] Ryan & Thompson
[Two men standing on the rock with the city on the background, Waverley and Randwick, 1886]
Two men, a horse and a gold mine whim and shaft house under construction, Hill End, New South Wales, ca.1872
Nairne railway viaduct, South Australia / S.W. Sweet
Francis Birtles in a bush shower constructed of timber and paper bark strips, 1914 / Frank Hurley