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David Moore (1927-2003)
Malcolm Fraser {centre} at Tudor House School, 1940
1 of 85 gelatin silver photographs; 38 x 27 cm or smaller
In: Contemporary Australian Photographs, 1940-1980
Pictures Collection
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The National Library’s Pictures Collection has images of every Australian prime minister from Edmund Barton to John Howard. Images include cartoons, portraits in watercolours, oils and pen and ink, busts, plaques and photographs. Although, in general, prime ministerial portraits highlight the period in which the individual flourished politically, we do see some subjects as children or young adults. This photograph--one of 300 images of Malcolm Fraser--shows him as a schoolboy aged 10.

 

April 2003 Volume XIII Number 7

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Christobel Mattingley celebrates the legacies of Gregory Mathews, ornithologist extraordinaire, and Lilian Medland, illustrator par excellence

VISIONS SPLENDID

Christopher Vernon examines four newly acquired architectural drawings by Marion Mahony Griffin, which highlight the evolution of her distinctive graphic technique

PRIME MINISTERS PORTRAYED IN THE PICTURES COLLECTION

In his third and final instalment on prime ministers, Barry York uncovers a wealth of images in the Pictures Collection

'THE NATIONAL': THE NATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL AND THE NATIONAL LIBRARY

Gwenda Beed Davey discusses the Library’s involvement in the National Folk Festival as part of its commitment to Australia’s folk heritage

BEAUTIFUL COLOURS TO ARRANGE: MARY CUNNINGHAM, MISTRESS OF TUGGERANONG

Jennifer Horsfield shows how Mary Cunningham’s notebooks and correspondence reveal one woman’s experience of life in the new Federal Capital Territory

FRIENDS

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

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