| Content: |
Pictoria contains whole collections and individual
items covering such subject areas as Melbourne and Victorian street scenes,
buildings, ships, country views, costume, portraits, Australian Aborigines,
political and social events particularly of the nineteenth century, aerial
views of Melbourne, factory interiors, domestic architecture, furniture,
household goods and appliances, topographical, geological, botanical,
agricultural and mining scenes, Federation commemorative arches and Boer War
celebrations. Artists and photographers represented include Edward La Trobe
Bateman, Nicholas Caire, Richard Daintree, Allan C. Green, Eugene von Guerard,
W.F. Liardet, Charles Nettleton, Charles Norton, Elizabeth Parsons and Charles
Rudd amongst many others. Formats include: most glass negatives and lantern
slides; unprinted flexible base negatives; most postcards; photographs from
albums and large collections; some oil paintings, watercolours and drawings;
some prints and posters. |
| Budget and funding: |
1989 Sidney Myer Fund, through a donation to the State
Library's Renaissance Appeal, provided the Library with $309,000 to undertake
the videodisc project. These funds provided for the copying onto videodisc,
over a five year period, of over 104,000 images from the Library's Picture
Collection, and the cataloguing of those images. As of October 1996 access to
Pictoria has been enhanced through the development of the Multimedia Source
Project funded through the Victorian Government's Victoria 21 Multimedia
policy. Through this project the 104,000 images can now be seen via the world
wide web, thus making this unique collection available not only to those
Victorians previously disenfranchised by distance, but also to the world. |