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June 1995
This listing gives brief descriptions of some of the more significant
items recently added to the National Library's collections.
Included this month, are new items for the Pictorial, Oral History, Manuscript, and Printed
Collections.
A number of portraits have been acquired for the collection. These
include:
- Two charcoal on paper portraits of circus performers
Nikki Ashton and
Jonas Zilinskas by Diana
Mogensen.
- A dry-point etching of writer
Dennis Altmann, by Richard
Gordon Morrison.
- A bronze bust of the forensic scientist
Dr John Birrell by the
sculptor Ethel Reynolds.
- Fifty eight posters were received for the collections, and
fifty-five cartoons by Tony Rafty were donated under the Taxation Incentives
for the Arts Scheme.
- The Library's extensive photographic
collections continue to grow through purchase, donation and lending for
copying. Items of interest recently received cover all aspects of Australian
life and society.
- Six exhibition prints of Australian artists by Greg Weight. The
photographs were taken between 1971 and 1994 and the subjects are:
Louis James,
Martin Sharp,
Reg Mombassa,
William Robinson, and
Rosalie Gascoigne.
- Four photographs of the interior of
Coombe Cottage at Coldstream
near Lilydale, and signed by Dame Nellie Melba.
- A donation by Dr Barry York of eleven photographs depicting
Maltese immigrants in
Australia.
- Four photographs of
Ethel Turner and her family,
lent for copying, by Ethel Turner's grand-daughter Philippa Poole.
- A photographic portrait of the Aboriginal writer
Eva Johnson, taken by
Destiny Deacon.
- Other photographs purchased include the Prime Minister, Paul
Keating, the Minister for Health, Dr Carmen Lawrence, Aboriginal artist Hector
Djandalu, fashion designer and businesswoman Maggie Shepherd, Senator Margaret
Reid, Aboriginal artist Hope Reid and ACT Legislative Assembly member Wayne
Berry.

- A number of Australians from many walks of life were interviewed
recently for the National Library's oral history tape collections. They
included Sir Jack Brabham, Bruce Clayton-Brown, Prof. Ronald
Drayton-Brown, Clem Jones, Dr Richard Manchester, Darryl
Pearce, Prof. Jack Richardson, John Olsen, Murray
Rose, Lt. General John Sanderson, Ian Temby Q.C., and Sir
Edward Williams.
- Nine field recordings were received from the well-known performer
Alex Hood under the Folklore Program.

Added to the manuscript
collections during the last month were:
- Papers of the broadcaster Muriel Howlett, political
scientist Len Hume, letters of Barbara Hanrahan to Carmel Bird,
and copies of papers of the novelist Colin McInnes.
- Further papers added to collections already held of Aboriginal
activist Charles Perkins, novelist Gillian Bouras, and
Professor Jerzy Zubrzycki.

- The Newspaper Advertising Bureau of Australia has presented the
National Library with a bound volume entitled Caxton Awards for creative
excellence in newspaper advertising, Volume 1 finalists and winners 1992 and
1993. This one-off bound volume relates to the Caxton Award, an annual
award and record of newspaper advertising in Australia over the last
twenty-five years.
Last updated June 1995
