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Staff
Members 1920s
photograph
Pictorial Collection
(Harold White second from right, Kenneth Binns centre, next to
White)
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In
the 1920s, Parliament House Melbourne was a privileged environment to
work in:
Life
in Parliament House in Melbourne was a very different story to life in
Parliament House in Canberra. The pace of life in Melbourne was very,
very slow by comparison to anything that exists in Canberra today. We
were authorised, when Parliament was not in session, to have an organised
cricket or tennis match once every fortnight. When Parliament was in session
it could be once a month. We had in the grounds of Parliament House a
cricket pitch, a bowling green, a tennis court, and every lunch hour we
quite casually played there for an hour or two without having to be concerned
about time.
Andrew
Osborn, Oral History, 1962
Meanwhile
the collections continued to grow. Perhaps the most historically significant
single acquisition of the early years of the Library was the purchase
of the Endeavour
journal of Captain Cook in 1923. It represents a moment of
transition between the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library and the National
Library of Australia, as the title of Commonwealth National Library was
adopted shortly after the journal was purchased.
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