National Library Home > News & Events

NLA News cover On the cover this month

Don McMurdo (1930-2001)
[A Scene from an Australian Opera Performance of Don Giovanni] June 1997
col. negative; 35 mm
Pictures Collection,
nla.pic-an23380145

The Don McMurdo Performing Arts Collection covers dance, opera and theatre and includes thousands of images from individual Australian performances. Don McMurdo worked as a commercial photographer in Sydney and Melbourne before taking up a 13-year appointment as the sole photographer with the Sydney Opera House Trust. Fittingly, superb photographs of the Opera House complement the many performance images in this stunning acquisition. McMurdo’s son, Terry, recently donated the second section of the collection to the National Library under the Cultural Gifts Program.

 

August 2003 Volume XIII Number 11

THE BARONS LYTTELTON OF FRANKLEY

Angus Trumble examines a fine replica of a portrait, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, of William Henry, 3rd Baron Lyttelton of Frankley, and recounts some of the family’s history in the peerage

A STEADFAST REVENGE: DR DUNCAN AND MR CROW

Stephen Holt traces the ideological development of the social scientist who rejected Christina Stead and, in turn, received a scathing literary punishment

HIKING WITH HURLEY

Simon Kleinig describes a bushwalk to Frenchmans Cap in Tasmania and the resulting suite of photographs in the Library’s Frank Hurley Collection

THE BIRDMEN OF BIG DOG ISLAND

Each year, millions of short-tailed shearwaters, also known as mutton-birds, nest on islands around Australia’s south-eastern coastline. Since the early years of European settlement, the chicks have been hunted from their nesting burrows. Trish Ainslie and Roger Garwood visited the remaining birders on Big Dog Island to record their rare lifestyle

CONVERSATIONS FROM THE PAST

Barry York recalls the pioneering work of the Library’s first oral history interviewer, Mel Pratt

FRIENDS

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

Download Cover to Cover (4.76Mb)

 

 

Return to NLA News Entry

If required, download the latest PDF reader from Adobe