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National Library of Australia News October 2004
On the cover this month

'Die größte Heuschreke'
(The Largest Grasshopper) [detail]
Plate 40, reproduced from Bilderbuch für Kinder, Vol 5
Weimar, Germany: im Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1798-1830
National Library Rare Book Collection,
RBRS N 500.83 B595

 

This is one of the many illustrations and delicately mounted exhibits that constitute a delightful exhibition in the National Library’s Visitors Centre until 6 February 2005.

The exhibition was curated by Canberra artist eX de Medici and represents a modest symbiosis between two great national collections housed in Canberra-those of the National Library and the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) managed by the CSIRO’s Division of Entymology.

October 2004 Volume XV Number 1

BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE, THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ARTHUR PHILLIP

 

Elizabeth Nelson examines two opposing views of revolution found in the Library’s collection of pamphlets and rare books003

SURVEYOR, ANTHROPOLOGIST, INDEPENDENT GENTLEMAN: THE CONTROVERSIAL CAREER OF R.H. MATHEWS
  Martin Thomas peruses the papers of R.H. Mathews who studied Indigenous Australians in the late- nineteenth and early-twentieth century and was published in many prestigious Australian and overseas journals
RACE AGAINST TIME
 

Thérèse Radic studied the diaries of Frederick Septimus Kelly to estimate the expatriate Australian’s achievements in music and sport

THE 8TH WONDER?
 

Russell Doust describes the full glory of the State Theatre in Sydney and reveals that a huge collection of music played there between 1930 and 1950 is now in the National Library’s Music Collection

THE HAYSTACK THAT GOT AWAY

The National Library and the National Folk Festival have joined forces to foster a tradition-bearers oral history project aimed at recording the practical skills and knowledge of those engaged in traditional Australian crafts. Gwenda Beed Davey describes the venture

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