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Bruce Howard (b 1936)
On a Bicyle Built for?
[Melbourne]: Herald and Weekly Times, 1981
gelatin silver photograph; 30.3 x 40.5 cm
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This visual record of how one Melbourne family solved its transport problems is part of the Library’s current exhibition, In a New Light: Australian Photography 1930s-2000, curated by Helen Ennis.

Lesser known photographers, as well as the Australian 'greats'--Frank Hurley, Harold Cazneaux, Olive Cotton, David Moore, Jeff Carter,Wolfgang Sievers and Athol Shmith--are represented in this ambitious exhibition of more than 300 works depicting Australian life in the last six decades of the twentieth century.

 

January 2005 Volume XV Number 4

REDLIGHTGREEN: HOW TO 'GOOGLE' YOUR LIBRARY CATALOGUE

Merrilee Proffitt explains how RedLightGreen makes searching library catalogues more like surfing the Web

INDEXING AND DELIVERY OF HISTORICAL MAPS USING TlMEMApTM

We invited Ian Johnson to describe an innovative research tool for clients using map collections in the National Library and elsewhere

'BUILDING CASTlES IN THE AIR' -- THE CASTIEAU DIARIES

Mark Finnane gives us a tantalising glimpse into the diaries of a colourful official who was acquainted with many of the notable characters of 'Marvellous Melbourne' from the 1850s to the 1880s

WHAT TIME'S DINNER, MA?

Russell Doust has a bit of fun tracking changes in our grazing habits

COMIC CAPERS IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY

Edgar Crook investigates the varied history and fortunes of the comic book in Australia

FRIENDS

A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia

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