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National Library of Australia News March 2004 cover with a black & white photograph by Bill Henson from The Wesfarmers Collection, Perth
On the cover this month

Bill Henson
Paris Opera Project   1990-91
Type C colour photograph; 
125.0 x 125.0 cm
The Wesfarmers Collection, Perth

March 2004 Volume XIV Number 6

THE LENS OF AN EARTH SCIENTIST

 

Nancy Robinson Flannery looks at the life, work and donations of postwar geologist Dr Alick William Green Whittle, 1920-1987

BIRDS
  Author of the Introduction to the Library’s recently released, expanded edition of Judith Wright’s Birds, the poet’s daughter, Meredith McKinney, reveals the background to the poems in this publication
CORROBOREE
 

Researching the Library’s extensive collection of dance materials, Michelle Potter analyses the success of the three danced interpretations of John Antill’s musical composition Corroboree

SAMUEL SHUMACK: FRONTIER TALES OF OLD CANBERRA
 

Delving into the Manuscript Collection, Judy Cannon discovers some fascinating tales of the everyday lives and experiences of early Canberrans by the 19th-century chronicler Samuel Shumack

TWO MEN AND A BRIDGE

The Votes and Proceedings of the early years of the New South Wales Legislative Council reveal much of the social, economic and administrative history of the growing colony, as illustrated by Russell Doust’s research

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