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• TLF-IDM002383

This is a colour photograph showing a Papadimitropoulos family picnic with a spit roast at Greenvale Reservoir, near Tullamarine, in 1978. The spit was hooked up to a modified car battery and is visible at the front right-hand side of the photograph. The image is a digital scan of the original photograph.

• TLF-IDM017269

How important is the environment in an election campaign? In this clip, explore the issue that changed Australia's conservation landscape forever: the fight to save the Franklin River. Watch how the Tasmanian Wilderness Society used political and media strategies to influence the outcome of the 1983 federal election in ...

• TLF-IDR11324

This collection of 24 digital curriculum resources focuses on the work of building the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme. It is organised into seven categories: preparing the sites; bringing up supplies; drilling the tunnels; constructing the dams; building the power stations; constructing pressure shafts; and creating ...

• TLF-IDR2214

This is a photograph showing the first Snowy Mountains Authority Commissioner, Sir William Hudson (1896-1978, centre), discussing site plans with two other officials at the site of the Tumut Pond Dam wall in the Snowy Mountains. The three men are standing on a grass ledge in a steep and rugged gorge with the Tumut River ...

• TLF-IDR2219

This is a 1954 photograph of the construction of the concrete dam wall at Guthega, 15 kilometres north-east of Mount Kosciuszko in the Snowy Mountains, built to allow water to drop down a 4.6-kilometre tunnel to the penstocks and power station. The wall is being constructed in sections and there is steel scaffolding holding ...

• TLF-IDR2402

This is a black-and-white photograph taken in 1952, which shows Norwegian drillers, who were brought to Australia because of a shortage of skilled labour after the Second World War, working on the initial stages of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. The men are preparing the rock face for blasting at Munyang, the site of the Guthega ...

• TLF-IDR2405

This is a black-and-white photograph that shows the initial construction of the tunnel built to divert the Eucumbene River as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. The photograph shows men at work in the tunnel and at its entrance, a stationary truck and an excavator clearing rock spoil. On the right of the photograph, observing ...

• TLF-IDR2476

This is a black-and-white photograph from 1956 showing drillers fitting a drill during construction of the tunnels for the Snowy Mountains Scheme. The photograph shows two drillers wearing hard hats, gloves and waterproof gear and working in a confined space at the front section of the drill. One worker is holding the long ...

• TLF-IDR2893

This is a black-and-white photograph of a worker beside a small machine at the Guthega Dam on the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme in 1957.

• TLF-IDR2906

This is a black-and-white photograph of two men surveying the site of the Eucumbene Dam, a valley near Adaminaby, New South Wales. A surveyor is taking notes beside a tripod and theodolite (an instrument used by a surveyor to measure angles), while another man is holding a stadia rod (a graduated vertical rod used to find ...