Recent Acquisition Highlights

June 2003

Background

This report offers a review of recent major acquisitions of significance and trends in collection development activity in the National Library.  It does not describe the large volume of acquisitions of both Australian and overseas materials that are routinely acquired through deposit, purchase or donation to build the collections.  During the financial year 2002-2003 it is estimated that the Library will acquire over 300,000 collection items in a large range of formats.

Australian Printed Materials

The National Library continues to acquire many printed works associated with the European discovery and exploration of Australia. 

  • Kippis, Andrew. Leben des Capitain James Cook: aus dem Englischen. Hamburg, Hoffmann, 1789. 2 volumes.  Beddie 35.  Very rare German first edition – one of the first biographies of Cook.  The Library also holds this item in microfiche.
  • Cook, James Viaggi intorno al mondo fatti dal capitano Giacomo Cook. Venezia, Presso Antonio Zatta e Figli, 1794-1795. 4 v.  An unusual Italian edition of Cook’s collected voyages
  • La Perouse, Jean-François de Galaup. Resa omkring jorden af Herr de la Perouse aren 1785 och foljande: sammandrag: Stockholm, Johan Pfeifer, 1799. Ferguson 290.  First Swedish translation of La Perouse.
  • White, John. Journal of a voyage to New South Wales. Melbourne, Edition Renard, 2002.  This deluxe edition of the 1790 work comprises copies 11-50 and includes in addition to the 65 coloured plates, a complete set of 65 uncoloured plates taken from a copy of the uncoloured original issue.  These uncoloured plates have never before been reprinted in this form. The Library has copy no. 13.

A number of books related to Australia and not previously held in the Library’s collections have been received.  These include nineteenth and twentieth century imprints.

  • Travies, Edouard. Buffon en estampes: planches et illustrations. Paris, Ledot Aine, ca. 1860. 2 volumes.  This work depicts both accurately (4 plates) and inaccurately (1 plate) Australian and Papua New Guinea fauna.  The unusual and incorrect depiction is that of the koala concerning its anatomy, wombat like walk and back clinging infant.  The work, eligible for Ferguson, but not listed, is regarded as one of the rarities of nineteenth century natural history illustration with only two known holdings in the world.
  • La terre illustrée, or Tableau pittoresque do globe sous le rapport physique, botanique et ethnographique: atlas de 13 planches impremées sue carton et coloriées. Bruxelles, Kiessling et Compagnie: Paris, Librairie Louis Janet, ca. 1875.  A geographical atlas for children consisting of a series of plates with commentary.  Australian references include five maps and a plate of the human races including ‘Races Australiennes’. The Library does not hold many children’s materials of this nature for the second half of the nineteenth century.  There are no known holdings in Australia
  • Scheuermann, Jakob Emmanuel. Zonen-Gemalde, oder, Darstellung der jedem Himmelsstriche eigenthumlichen organischen Naturgeschopfe. Winterthur, Switzerland. Caspar Studer, 1842. A set of 10 plates showing climactic zones for the use in schools lithographed by J.E. Scheuermann.  The schematic representations show various landscapes and their inhabitants with typical flora and fauna. 3 of the plates have many Australian images.  This acquisition further complements the children’s encyclopaedic work of Bertuch’s Bilderbuch fur Kinder and the poster Uit de Australische dierenwereld (Holland, 1900)
  • Maund, B. The botanist; containing accurately coloured figures of tender and hardy ornamental plants, with descriptions, scientific and popular, intended to convey both moral and intellectual gratification. London, Groombridge, [1837-1842] 5 v. in 2.  A popular work presented in well set out sections including geographical notes, the plant’s introduction, cultivation and current growing places.  Contains historical information concerning the explorers, expeditions, individuals, major botanical publications, English nurseries, botanical gardens associated with the plants, allowing scholars to trace the movement of Australian flora into England and Europe.  The illustrated botanical work represents the tail end of popularity for Australian plants, which were beginning to be superseded by easier to grow tropical exotics.  The work contains approx. 50 plates and descriptions of Australian flora (eg, grevillea, kangaroo paw, acacia, waratah, correa) with a quarter of these from the Swan River colony and King George’s Sound, W.A.  The acquisition complements other Library holdings in this area.
  • The missionary’s farewell: valedictory services of the Rev. John Williams, previous to his departure for the South Seas, with his parting dedicatory address to the British churches and the friends of missions. London, John Snow, 1838. Ferguson 2679b.
  • Keats, Thomas W. A practical guide to the best means of testing gold. Intended for the use of emigrants to the gold regions. London, Saunders & Stanford, c1852.
  • Borlase, James S. Blue cap the bushranger: or the Australian Dick Turpin. London, Hogarth House, [1879?]
  • Nelson, Victor. Boomerang Bob of the bush. London. 1927.  This story was serialised in 12 issues of the English children’s periodical The Champion, Vol. XI, no. 263 – no. 274, Feb. 12 – April 30, 1927.
  • Grey, Zane. An American angler in Australia. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. 1st UK edition.  The Library holds the US edition. This UK edition is now quite scarce and very expensive on antiquarian dealers sites on the Internet.
  • The complete works of Gaius Petronius done into English by Jack Lindsay; with one hundred illustrations by Norman Lindsay. London, Fanfrolico Press, 1927.  This edition is limited to 650 copies.  The Library’s copy is no 549, signed by Jack Lindsay.
  • Goss, Lia. Target for their dark desire, adapted from the original story by Carter Brown. 1984.  Artist’s book produced and illustrated by Lia Goss with a selection of text illustrated with etchings.  Limited edition of 6 copies.  This work complements the Library’s extensive holdings of Carter Brown works.  The Library holds this title in both English and French.
  • Elyard, Samuel. Letters to a Jewess. Nowra, Samuel Elyard, 1897. Text in English and Hebrew. Ferguson 9430. First edition of this rare work.  The introduction notes that “As Hebrew type was not available in Australia, the author imported it from England … the book has been printed with the author’s hands”.
  • Elementary exercises in Hebrew grammar for use in the Hebrew School and for home practice. Sydney, Andrews, 1894. Ferguson 10354.  Another rare item, this pamphlet provides lessons in both Hebrew and English.
  • Ridgway, Charles. The apothecary’s fatal error: an episode in the life of the author. Yokohama, Fukuin Printing Co. 1907.  Includes an account of voyage to Australia and time spent in Western Australia.
  • MacCartie J. C. A handbook for Australian brewers. Melbourne, Lawrence & O’Farrell [1884]
  • Franc, Maude Jeanne. Minnie’s mission: an Australian temperance tale. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878.
  • Loudon, J.C. An encyclopaedia of cottage, farm and villa architecture and furniture: containing numerous designs for dwellings, from the cottage to the villa, including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings…London, Longman, 1833.  The first edition of an architectural handbook for amateurs and professionals during the 1830’s and 1840’s.  Broadbent in ‘The Australian colonial house’ states that this edition was the principal architectural handbook for amateurs and professionals, which exerted a vast influence on the colonial architecture in New South Wales.
  • Menpes, Mortimer. Lord Roberts, London, A & C Black, 1915. 1st edition.
  • Master Emery, Some village verse. Lima, Ohio. The author, 1903. Limited edition of 500 copies.  A collection of poems from the 1890s, many featuring Sydney and Melbourne.
  • Newell, Averil. The red witch. London, A&C Black, 1937. 1st edition. Illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.
  • Dale, Alice M. Marcus Warwick, atheist. London, Kegan Paul, 1898. No recorded  holdings on Kinetica.
  • Brandon, John G. The death in the quarry. London, Wright and Brown, [1941] 1st edition.  No recorded holdings on Kinetica.

The Library is constantly seeking Australian periodicals not represented in the national collection, or individual issues missing from its sets.  Among the most recent acquisitions are:

  • The Kan-Karroo Kronikle [Cairo?] Printed and published for the Amusement Committee, [1914]. Vol. 1, no. 1 (28th October 1914) – Vol. 1, no. 11 (2nd December 1914) Collective printing of the 11 issues of this troopship magazine produced on board the Karoo on the trip from Melbourne to Suez between October and December 1914.
  • Osteralia [At sea, H.M.A.T. Osterley, 1917.] no. 1 (March 2 1917) – no. 6 (April 6 1917) Complete set of a shipboard newspaper recording the incidents on board the troopship Osterley carrying Australian troops to England.
  • The 2ndnineteenth; the magazine of the 2/19 Battalion A.I.F. Association and its earlier title The nineteenth: the magazine of the 2/19 Battalion A.I.F. Association. The Library received a full set of this journal Vol. 1, no. 1 (March 1961) – Vol. 42, no. 2 (July 2001).  There is only one other holding recorded on Kinetica for this journal.
  • Pals annual: for the boys of Australasia 1927. The final volume of this notable magazine for Australian children. This acquisition completes the National Library’s holdings as issues for 1921-1926 are already held.
  • House & Garden; Successful Entertaining; Grass roots and Earth Garden. All issues filled gaps in our collection.
  • Australian bottle review; national newsletter. Vol. 1, no. 2 (April 1975) – Vol. 7, no. 42 (Dec/Jan 1982).  The Library previously held two issues and now holds a complete set of this journal.
  • Australian antique bottle collector Vol. 1, no. 1 (1982) – Vol. 1, no. 4 (Dec/Jan 1983)  - 4 issues. These issues complete the Library’s holdings for this journal.
  • Barbed wire and bamboo, the journal of the Ex-Prisoners of War Association of Australia was received.  Early issues from 1950 to 1955 have filled gaps in the collection.  This is the second donation of issues from this journal, and the Library’s set is almost complete.

Australian documentary heritage is also represented by more ephemeral or insubstantial material, and the National Library collects a varied selection documenting aspects of Australian life.

  • McMahon, Marie. Nyuntu a_ nangu maruku ngurangka nga_ranyi: kulint jaku ulu_runya ma_lakungku ngura walytja piti ungkuntja 1985-angka = You are on Aboriginal land: commemorating the hand back of Ayers Rock to traditional owners, 1985. Westgate, NSW. Jalak/Redback Graphix, 1985. Broadside 96 x 113 cm.  Limited edition of 53 copies. Includes the holograph signatures of 10 traditional owners.
  • Emigration to Western Australia. [Dublin, ca. 1837] 1 folded sheet.  This very interesting folded sheet is intended to advertise the attractions of the colony to potential emigrants.  It is unrecorded.
  • The lamentation and farewell of the unhappy convicts who were sentenced to transportation at the Summer Assizes, 1829, now lying in Newcastle Gaol. [Newcastle?], Printed for the publisher by Kay and Simpson, 1829. 1 sheet, 33 x 12 cm.  Eligible for Ferguson though not listed.  This broadside is about transportation to Van Diemen’s Land.  It concerns the fate of seven prisoners in Newcastle Gaol awaiting transportation to Van Diemen’s Land for their crimes.  The acquisition of this broadside complements the Library’s small collection of broadsides on Van Diemen’s Land.
  • Australian Aborigines Conference sesqui-centenary day of mourning and protest to be held in The Australian Hall, Sydney on Wednesday 26thJanuary 1938. Aborigines and persons of Aboriginal blood only are invited to attend. Leaflet.  Published by the Aborigines Progressive Association.
  • Souvenir of Australian tour 1908 & 1909. Manchester, R. Scott & Co. Rugby League Kangaroos tour.  1908 was the first year that Rugby League separated from Rugby Union.  Interestingly, this item also includes photos of the English, Welsh and Australian Wallabies rugby union teams.
  • 1929 Australian Grand Prix – Two hundred mile Australian Grand Prix under the auspices of Victorian Light Car Club, Cowes March 18, 1929. On reverse hand-written rules of the race and starting positions with the name of each competitor and their grid positions. Poster 50cm. x 31 cm
  • Olympia 1956; De sjunde olympiska vinter-spelen I Cortina d’Ampezzo och De sextonde olympiska sommarspelen I Melbourne utgiven av Tore Nilsson.  Stockholm, Ahlen & Akerlunds, 1956.  Written in Swedish, regarding the Winter Olympics at Cortina d’Ampezzo, equestrian events at Stockholm and Summer Olympics at Melbourne.
  • Outdoor advertising, Sydney, Hollander & Govett Ltd, 1905?  A record of Sydney advertising posters and views of an unfamiliar Sydney. Holland & Govett dominated Sydney in the production of posters and controlled most of the available outdoor advertising sites.  Here they list sites available and show examples of their posters.

The Library collects a representative sample of calendars each year.  Through selective acquisition a small number of examples from previous years are added to the collection.

  • The century booklet calendar for 1900 and 1901. Adelaide, J.L. Bonython & Co.  [1899] Produced by John Hunter Co. Ltd of Adelaide, Western Australia and Broken Hill.  The richly illustrated publication is primarily a boot and shoe catalogue. Secondly, it is of great interest regarding the South Australian contingent to the Boer War with seven full pages on this featuring the Mounted Contingent, the Bushmen’s Contingent, Nurses, etc.  It also features political luminaries of the day eg. State Premiers and the notables of the Federal Convention in 1897.
  • A donation of a complete set of National Bank of Australia calendars from 1957 until 2001.  Each calendar covers a specific subject which includes background notes on the works and brief biographies of the Australian artists.

A number of posters from World War II relating to the civilian and domestic effort in Australia were acquired.  Topics featured include the Australian Comforts Fund; civilian help for the war effort, loans, bonds and certificates and stamps to aid the war effort; recruitment of women into the services; and recruitment of men into the services.  Artists included Walter Jardine and the cartoonist Les Such.

Australian Electronic Publications

The Library’s Electronic Unit seeks out and archives significant Australian websites and other electronic documents as a way of preserving this aspect of Australia’s published heritage material.  The following examples of items recently archived show the diversity of the material being collected and preserved.

  • Canberra bushfires - A collection of websites created in response to the bushfires that devastated parts of Canberra in January 2003.  A selection of news and media sites, local government sites, images, personal accounts and bushfire relief services have been included in PANDORA.
  • Iraq conflict  - This collection includes websites providing comment, opinion and information on the crisis concerning the disarmament of Iraq and subsequent Iraq War of March-April 2003.
  • Croc Festival – Website of the event that celebrates youth culture in remote communities, involving indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in visual and performing arts, sport clinics and careers markets.

Asian Collections

Law is an important area of collecting for the National Library and legal materials relating to Asia are in high demand.  Although there is a good printed collection of legal texts built up over the years, readers are finding that electronic resources offer better search functions and ease of use.  Two CD-ROMs containing Indonesian and Japanese legal texts respectively were recently purchased.  Together with the Chinese law database on CD-ROM, they form a good foundation for building up an electronic collection in this important area.

With funding contribution from the Japan Foundation in Sydney, a 23 volume set of work titled  Nihonjin no kaigai katsudo ni kansuru rekishi-teki chosa was recently acquired. Originating as an internal government study completed shortly after the Second World War on Japanese immigrants and Japanese industries overseas during 1868-1945, this first time published work  provides valuable historical information into Japanese activities in occupied areas including Korea, Taiwan, Manchuria and later China and Southeast Asia

The latest census on the Chinese population, the largest in the world, carried out in 2000, is now gradually being published for all 31 provinces.  Compared to the last census in 1990, the publications this time are more readily available to overseas collecting institutions and so far the volumes for two provinces, together with that for the whole nation, have arrived in the Library.

The National Library has arrangements with Australian embassies in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos to acquire publications from the region for the Library.  The Library has acquired Ancient inscriptions of Cambodia, a beautifully illustrated four-volume set published by UNESCO in Phnom Penh, on the ancient history of Cambodia through a study of Khmer inscriptions.  From Laos Phon khong kansamluat sathiti kasikam, 1998/1999, a 19-volume set of agricultural statistics of the country by province was acquired.  In comparison to Cambodia and Laos, there is much more electronic publishing in Thailand.  A recent addition to the Thai CD-ROM collection is Khomun Watthanatham 76 Changwat, four CD-ROMs containing detailed information on the social customs and cultures of 76 provinces in Thailand.

Overseas Materials

The Library purchased a substantial run of The Guardian newspaper on microfilm.  This title, published by the Church of England, provides social, intellectual, political and theological commentary and is an important historical source particularly for the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

The latest unit of Goldsmith-Kress Library of Economic Literature comprising 582 titles on 46 reels of microfilm was received.  This supplement reflects the range of the literature of economics in Europe in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.

Providing access to electronic resources is a priority for the Library.  During the period under review, the following important resources have been made available to readers.

  • Times digital archive 1785-1985.  Published by Gale and fully searchable, this online version of The Times (London) has already been proven popular with readers.  High resolution digital images have been produced from microfilm. 
  • Declassified documents reference system (DDRS).  Full text database and index published by Gale.  DDRS is an important source of information about United States post-World War II domestic policy and international relations.  It is the only compilation of materials that are recorded as they are released by United States government agencies, the National Archives and Presidential Libraries.  DDRS contains over 78,000 documents, constituting more than 450,000 pages of material.  The database is fully searchable and provides greatly improved access to the contents of this collection.  This order replaces the Library’s subscription for the microfiche version.
  • Oxford reference online was purchased through the Council of Australian State Libraries Consortium. The subscription provides access to over 100 dictionaries and reference books.  Titles include Oxford dictionary of modern quotations, Oxford dictionary of art, Dictionary of political biography, Who’s who in the twentieth century and Dictionary of Finance and banking.
  • Digital dissertations - an international index to post-graduate dissertations and theses.  Replaces the print subscription to Dissertation Abstracts
  • NewzIndex – index to New Zealand’s key business publications.  Replaces the print index which ceased in June 2002.

Manuscripts

The Library regularly acquires diaries of nineteenth century seamen, travellers and emigrants who visited or settled in Australia.  Two recent examples are the diaries of William Balham, who arrived in Sydney in 1879, and Thomas East, who arrived four years later and spent his first weeks languishing at the North Head quarantine station.  Of particular interest is the journal of Lieutenant James Hay, who served on the Australian Naval Station in 1880-83.  Containing many delightful drawings, it records in detail the tours made by British warships in the Western Pacific and describes a punitive expedition following the murder of an officer in the Solomon Islands.  It should be a useful source on cross-cultural relations in the Pacific.

The surveyor R H Mathews and the zoologist Sir Baldwin Spencer were two of the major figures documenting Aboriginal society, beliefs and customs at the turn of the twentieth century.  Some interesting letters and manuscripts have been added to the Mathews Papers, one of the most heavily used manuscript collections.  The Library has also acquired annotated copies of two of Spencer’s books.  The extensive annotations of The Aboriginal tribes of central Australia (1899) date from the 1920s and show his response to the writings of Carl Strehlow and others in the years since his book was published.

Acquisitions of modern collections of personal papers are quite diverse.  They include the papers of Archbishop Hugh Gough and Canon William Edwards (the first headmaster of Canberra Grammar School), the politician Sir Fred Chaney, the sports writers John Worrall (formerly a Test cricketer) and Harry Gordon, the feminist and public servant Elizabeth Reid, the musicians Andrew Ford, Margaret Kartomi and Patrick Thomas, the theatre producer Robin Lovejoy, the writers Rosemary Dobson, Jack Hibberd, Mark O’Connor and Judith Wright, the historian Ann Moyal and the doctor and leader of the Greek community Spiro Moraitis.  The last instalment of papers of Judith Wright was received; over a period of 30 years there has been 28 instalments.  All but two of these collections were donated, in some cases under the Cultural Gifts Program, which provides a taxation incentive for donors.

The Australian National University Library is divesting itself of manuscript holdings and several collections were offered to the National Library.  Among the more substantial collections are papers of the poets Flexmore Hudson and A.D. Hope, the lawyer J G Starke and several collections relating to immigrant communities.  The largest is the Russian Émigré Collection, containing papers and publications of families and individuals who left Russia after the 1917 Revolution and who eventually found their way to Australia.

Maps

The Library has acquired a rare pair of collapsible terrestrial globes, one in French and the other in German, produced by Carl Bauer in Nuremberg in about 1825.  They were designed as an educational tool for young geographers and show William Parry’s discoveries near the North Pole.  They are accompanied by a set of notes and miniature sheet maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australia, and various European countries.  Other early items are a map by Nicolas Sanson of the imagined Arctic and Antarctic regions, printed in Amsterdam in about 1690, and eleven globe gores for the southern hemisphere of a territorial globe, compiled by the French cartographer Nicolas Bion in about 1700.  The gores depict the eastern coast of Australia in a vaguely accurate way (although linking New Holland to the New Hebrides) and may be based on the world map of Jean Baptiste Nolin.  One of three known copies of the Nolin map was purchased by the Library in 2002.

Turning from the eighteenth century to the last six months, the Library has acquired on CD-ROM digital remote satellite imagery showing the ACT and surrounding region before and after the January bushfires.

Music

The euphoria surrounding the presentation of the Sculthorpe collection in December 2002 has generated considerable interest in music donations.  Richard Divall donated his collection of music scores and orchestral arrangements representing his 35-year career as an operatic conductor in Australia. Materials relating to early rock musicals were presented by Michael Wade, a musical director and later publisher. In addition to sheet music, manuscripts, programs and ephemera the collection also includes an early musical typewriter.  The last instalment of the Don Banks collection was also received, comprising sound recordings, videos and photographs.  Alan Stiles presented his newly published editions of works of the New Zealand–Australian composer Alfred Hill.  Early items received have included a valuable piece of 19th century sheet music entitled In the Diggings and the program of Nellie Melba’s concert tour in 1902. 

Oral History

Interviewing for the Library’s oral history collection has concentrated on eminent Australians in numerous fields, ranging from law to obstetrics.  They include Sir James Gobbo; the political scientist and former editor of Quadrant Robert Manne, economist Don Lamberton, historians Ann Curthoys, Bill Gammage and Susan Marsden; marine biologist David Pollard, medical researcher Alan Trounson, newspaper executive Andrew Clark, retired public servant Sir Richard Kingsland and the politician Senator Aden Ridgeway, in this case reinterviewed by Jackie Huggins and Peter Read as part of the Seven Years On project which is interviewing young Indigenous leaders. At the time of the earlier interview, recorded in 1995, Senator Ridgeway was Director of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council.

Literature and the arts are well represented among recent interviewees.  Recordings were made with the playwrights Alan Seymour and Nick Enright (who has since died) and the poet Michael Thwaites (who at different times was an ASIO officer and a librarian).  The Library’s Curator of Dance, Dr Michelle Potter, has interviewed the dancers and ballet directors Eileen Kramer, Ray Crook, Ross Stretton, Marilyn Rowe and Ian McRae.  Among other interviewees have been composer Roger Smalley, folklorist Bill Scott, folksinger and historian Danny Spooner, singer and songwriter Ted Egan and conservator Professor Colin Pearson.

Pictures

The Library’s record of Tasmania’s wilderness areas was enhanced by the acquisition of 20 colour exhibition prints by eminent photographer and conservationist, Peter Dombrovskis.  Dombrovskis was born in Europe in 1945 and emigrated to Australia with his mother in 1950.  He was strongly influenced by Lithuanian-Australian pioneer conservationist and photographer Olegas Truchanas, and by landscape photographers of mid-century America such as Ansel Adams.  Dombrovskis’ exquisitely beautiful landscapes have a strong political element and he made them freely available for use by conservation organisations.  Through publication in the Wilderness Calendar series, calendars and books, or use in illustrated lectures, his photographs influenced many Australians.  One of the photographs acquired by the Library, Morning mist, Rock Island Bend, Franklin River, Tasmania, 1979, played an important role in the successful campaign to prevent the construction of the dam on the lower Franklin River, Tasmania.

In January, the Library arranged for staff photographer Damian McDonald to join a small group of media to photograph damaged buildings at the Woomera Detention Centre following a protest by detainees.  The damage to the Centre was extensive and was widely reported in the press both in Australia and overseas.  McDonald’s photographs complement photographs of the Baxter Detention Centre just before it was opened, and photographs of a range of protests on the refugee issue in various capital cities.  The Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs does not permit photography inside detention centres while detainees are in residence.

A comprehensive collection of over 1,650 original cartoons by George Molnar was acquired by donation through the Cultural Gifts Program.  The cartoons are a significant addition to the Library’s pictorial record of public opinion of architecture and town planning issues; the relationship of people to the built environment; the ethics of public space; popular opinion on politics and politicians at the international, national and local levels; and Australian social history.

A collection of photographs of the Tasmanian 19th century photographer George Cherry and his family were acquired by donation from Mrs Jennifer Baume to complement Cherry’s papers.  The collection includes fine examples of ambrotypes and other early photographic techniques.

The Robin Lovejoy Archive was acquired by purchase from Mrs Patricia Lovejoy. The pictorial component of the collection contains 51 costume designs in watercolour, gouache and ink, 55 set designs in watercolour, ink and oil paint, 353 photographs of theatre and opera performances dating from 1948 to the early 1980s and a number of drawings and sketches, a poster and a hand-drawn card.  The photographs in particular are a significant addition to the Library’s pictorial record of Australian theatre performances in the decades following World War II.  The costume designs for Corroboree will complement the Library’s holdings relating to John Antill’s score.

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