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National Library of Australia News October 2003 cover with a colour costume design for the Spirit of Australia in Terra Australis, Borovansky Ballet in 1946 by Eve Harris
On the cover this month

Eve Harris (1917–1995)
[Costume design for the Spirit of Australia in Terra Australis, Borovansky Ballet, 1946]
Manuscript Collection, MS 9610
Reproduced with kind permission of Jim Fullarton

 

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October 2003 Volume XIII Number 14

FANNY RICHARDSON’s BROOCH

 

John Wade traces the circumstances of the repatriation of one of the first pieces of Australian gold jewellery to enter a public collection

TERRA AUSTRALIS
  Michelle Potter describes Terra Australis, the Borovansky Ballet’s all-Australian creation of 1946
BOTH SIDES OF THE FOOTLIGHTS: PERSONAL AND FAMILY NARRATIVES REVEALED THROUGH COLLECTIONS OF THEATRE PROGRAMS
 

Richard Stone recounts a series of individual stories brought to light by theatregoers' surviving collections of programs and other memorabilia

CHANGING THE WORLD: KENNETH MYER LECTURE 2003. PROFESSOR FIONA STANLEY
 

Diana Giese profiles Professor Fiona Stanley, Australian of the Year, who gave the recent Kenneth Myer Lecture for the Friends of the National Library

ASKNOW!

Penelope Layland examines the digital revolution occurring in the reference section of today’s libraries

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