Pic of the Week presents a selection of images from the rich collection of the National Archives. Each week a different image is featured on our home page, but here you can browse a full year's worth.

• Week 34 – Stereophonic sound chairs extol Australia's scientific achievements, 1967
• Week 35 – An Indian father and sons pack apples, 1969
• Week 36 – Thylacines at the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, 1910
• Week 37 – Daffodil farm in spring, 1955
• Week 38 – Returning World War I troops welcomed in Cairns
• Week 39 – Sturt's Desert Pea
• Week 40 – Full bench of the High Court of Australia, 1987
• Week 41 – Tourists view the Barrier Reef from a Catalina flying boat, 1947
• Week 42 – Ladies aboard a lounge car on the Trans-Australian Railway, 1917
• Week 43 – The Japanese community in Sydney, New Year's Day 1939
• Week 44 – Two women and their children on Makatea in the Society Islands, 1909
• Week 45 – Young Gerald Telford astride Phar Lap, 1931
• Week 46 – Lighthouse keepers on Australia's southern coast, 1956
• Week 47 – An honour guard of lifesavers greet the Queen and Prince Philip, 1954
• Week 48 – Running metal from a blast furnace in Whyalla, 1957
• Week 49 – Darwin Wharf, c. 1960
• Week 50 – Violinist at the Methodist Ladies College in Sydney, by Max Dupain, 1971
• Week 51 – Memorial service for Prime Minister Harold Holt, 1967
• Week 52 – The Christmas shopping rush, 1949

You can also use our Pic of the Week photo browser.

The National Archives collection includes more than 160,000 photographs, as well as maps, plans and other illustrative material. For more information see the scope of the collection.

Over 110,000 photographs have been digitised and are available online. You can dip into this enormous image bank using PhotoSearch. Find your own pics of the week!