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Chasuble
A.W.N. Pugin, c.1840s; John Hardman Powell, c.1853–54
Made by Mrs Lucy Powell and Misses L. and W. Brown, Birmingham, 1854
[Re-lined and collar of chasuble restored by the Carmelite nuns, Launceston, Tasmania, 1977]
Silk, velvet, gold braid, metal thread, waxed card, pastes, glass beads, gold metal cord and paillettes; 119.5 x 111.0 cm
Archdiocese of Hobart Museum and Archives
Photograph by Simon Cuthbert, Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery

 

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February 2003 Volume XIII Number 5

ISLAND TREASURES FROM HELL AND PARADISE: HANDMADE ALBUMS IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY

 

Christobel Mattingley discovers that the personality of the compiler and a wider history are demonstrated in some handmade albums in the Library’s collections

SISTER SUFFRAGISTS: AUSTRALIAN WOMEN ACTIVISTS IN ENGLAND
  Ann Nugent unearhs the largely untold stories of three women prominent in the suffrage movement in Australia and England as documented in the National Library’s collections
PRIME MINISTERS RECORDED IN THE ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION
 

In the first part of a series on prime ministers, Barry York discovers that the voices of most of Australia’s prime ministers can be heard in the National Library’s Oral History Collection

PRECIOUS, UNIQUE AND FRAGILE: CONSERVING OUR GRASSROOTS HISTORY
 

Diana Giese discovers the ways in which some recipients of Community Heritage Grants have used their funds to preserve our history and heritage

PRINS JORIS WAS A GENTLEMAN: MULTICULTURAL FOLKLORE FOR CHILDREN

Gwenda Beed Davey surveys sound recordings of folklore for and by children held at the National Library of Australia

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