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Portrait of Anna Pavlova in Dragon Fly [1914-1916]
Pictures Collection, nla.pic-an13566922

 

February 2004 Volume XIV Number 5

AS LIGHT AIR: DECORATIVE DANCING

 

Michelle Potter explores the popularity of a free, Grecian-style dance form in Australia through images found in the Library’s collections

WORDS ARE CLUES
  From the very beginning of European settlement on Australia’s east coast, Indigenous words were recorded by navy personnel, administrators and residents. Keith Vincent Smith unearths some of the resulting word lists in the Library’s collections
NEW PATHWAYS, NEW DIRECTIONS: THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA 2003
 

This special 'year in review' supplement highlights the National Library’s activities in 2003

JOHN FLYNN’s DOUBLE VISION
 

Historian Rob Linn describes an in-depth study of the Australian Inland Mission and the AIM photographs held in the National Library’s collections

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