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Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra 1996
silver gelatin; 20.5 x 25.5 cm
From the Pictorial Collection (p1730/1)

This is one of a series of 167 photographs forming the Canberra Life Collection, featuring lifestyles of people in the national capital. The photograph also appears in the recent National Library publication, A Sporting Nation: Celebrating Australia's Sporting Life, which draws on the Library's extensive collection of books, journals and newspapers, along with its oral history, pictorial, manuscript and ephemera collections, to celebrate Australia's sporting culture at both professional and social levels.

 

January 2000 Volume X Number 4

VOYAGING THROUGH STRANGE SEAS: FOUR WOMEN TRAVELLERS IN THE PACIFIC

Honore Forster considers some early women voyagers

DOCUMENTING AUSTRALIAN DANCE: THE PEGGY VAN PRAAGH COLLECTION

In the first of a series looking at recent additions to the Library's dance holdings, Michelle Potter reviews the papers of Peggy van Praagh

ISAAC NEWTON AND THE SPECTRUM OF GENIUS

Patricia Fara examines the evolving portraiture of an eminent scientist

TO GATHER AND GO WITH CHARLIE: SOME SOURCES ON THE JACOBITE REBELLION

Edward Duyker looks at the legacy of Bonnie Prince Charlie, as evidenced in the Library's Collection

PROMPTING AUSTRALIANS OVERSEAS

In the second of two articles on the Library's collecting of material relating to Australian performing artists overseas, Richard Stone highlights the role of a private collector and dealer based in New York

FRIENDS

A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia

NLA PUBLICATIONS

Tim Winton: A Celebration and other publications available from the National Library

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