National Library of Australia - Home page
NLA News - home
National Library of Australia News March 2003 cover
On the cover this month

Peter Dombrovskis (1945–1966)
Morning Light on Little Horn, Cradle Mountain-Lake, St Clair National Park, Tasmania 1995

Pictures Collection
nla.pic-an24365564

 

Editorial/Production
Editors: Kathryn Favelle & Leora Kirwin
Photographers:Loui Seselja, Jim Nomarhas, Greg Pook, Andrew Stawowczyk Long, Damian McDonald
Designer: Julie Hamilton
Web Page Design: Seuth Sirimanotham
Picture Researcher: Seuth Sirimanotham

 
Unless otherwise acknowledged, the photographs in this magazine are taken by the National Library’s Imaging Services.
The views expressed in National Library of Australia News are those of the individual contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors or the publisher.
Every reasonable endeavour has been made to contact relevant copyright holders for illustrative material in this magazine.
Where this has not proved possible, the copyright holders are invited to contact the publishers.

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 PAGE

A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia
 
  Return to NLA News Entry

To order a particular issue of the NLA News e-mail nlasales@nla.gov.au
or join the Friends of the National Library of Australia and receive a copy each month by mail.

About This Site | Copyright | Privacy | Accessibility | Site Map | Site Search | Content A-Z | Contact Us