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Peter Dombrovskis(1945-1996)
Morning Light on Little Horn, CradleMountain-Lake,
St Clair National Park, Tasmania 1995
Pictures Collection,
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The image is from a suite of original photographs acquired recently by the National Library from Liz Dombrovskis, widow of the famous environmentalist and wilderness photographer. Along with one of the world’s great portrait photographers, Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002), and Andre Disderi (1819-1890), Peter Dombrovskis was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City in January 2003.

 

March 2003 Volume XIII Number 6

WITH HOOPS OF STEEL: THE DISTINGUISHED DELPRATS

Nancy Robinson Flannery discusses the legacy of achievements and papers left by a nineteenth-century Netherlands migrant family

A PEN DIPPED IN DRAMA AND GOSSIP

Commercial salesmen in the nineteenth century led rather more exciting lives than their twentieth-century counterparts as Judy Cannon discovered when she read the 1867-1868 travel diary of Frederick A. Edelsten

PRIME MINISTERS: THE PERSONAL VIEW

Following on from his description of the Library’s Oral History collections relating to Australian prime ministers, Barry York looks at their personal papers in the Manuscript Collection

THE N-PLAN: TEN YEARS OF PRESERVING AUSTRALIA'S NEWSPAPER HERITAGE

Roslyn Russell, historian and habitual researcher, reviews an important heritage initiative

A PARDON FOR MR ROBERTSON

Patricia Stone examines the text of a rare convict document, recently added to the Library’s Manuscript Collection

FRIENDS

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

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