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Stanley Leighton (1837–1901) The Blue Lake, Mount Gambier, South Australia, Friday 17 Ap. 1868
watercolour; 15.2 x 25.0 cm
Pictures Collection
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This exquisite watercolour was painted by Stanley Leighton who toured South Australia in 1868. On his travels, Leighton painted many watercolours of homesteads and the countryside. One of the homesteads he painted was Binnum Binnum where he was the guest of Henry and Frances Jones who are featured in the story on page 3. An article about Stanley Leighton will appear in National Library of Australia News later this year. Read story

February 2008 Volume XVIII Number 5

The Joneses of Binnum Binnum

Marion Amies reflects on the changing fortunes of Henry and Frances Jones of Binnum Binnum station in the mid 1800s

A Footstep in Time

G.A. Mawer tells the story behind a two thousand-year-old stone set in the foyer floor of the Library

‘Now the Magical Change Has Come!’ A Drought Breaks in 1908

Ian Warden brings us the words of journalists who, when reporting the drought of 1908, fancied themselves as pastoral poets

Dell’Arcano del Mare—Mysteries of the Seas

Bill Geering and Martin Woods introduce one of the rarest and most beautiful atlases in the Library, and the Englishman who created it

Fundraising at the National Library of Australia

Doreen Mellor explains the increasing explicit promotion of philanthropy to help fund the Library’s goals

Friends

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

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