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An important photographic collection for Australian football has been secured thanks to fast work and the generosity of two football federations and seven individuals interested in Australian football history and heritage.
A deposit has been paid on more than 19,000 soccer photographs in the Fairfax Media photographic collection.
The photographs were amongst 2 million sold by the media organisation to US interests in 2012.
While Fairfax Media own the digitised collection, the original photographs – which chronicle Australian pictorial history from the 1920s through to the 1990s – are currently held in the United States.
Cultural institutions that have purchased part of the collection include the Bradman Museum, the ³Ô¹ÏÍøÕ¾ Library of Australia and the Sydney Opera House.
Amongst those making a financial contribution to the deposit are:
