100 Not Out honours Queensland sporting achievers and achievements over the past century, from the days when Indigenous boxer Jerry Jerome was as much a household name as Alfie Langer is today. Featuring 48 athletes and six of the most memorable Queensland sporting moments, 100 Not Out is a selective exhibition of Queensland's sporting history. Curator Robert Longhurst explains, “ The aim was to create a gallery of household names of sporting identities; Queenslanders who have achieved national and international recognition and prominence.
[State Library of Queenland, QLD ]

History and photographs showcasing a century of Aboriginal life in Queensland since 1897
[State Library of Queenland, QLD ]

By 1918, the First World War had been in progress for over three years, and thousands of Australians had already been killed or wounded. During the last year of the war, Australian soldiers had the opportunity to serve alongside men of many different nationalities, as well as to mix with French civilians.
[Australian War Memorial, ACT ]

Discover how Melbourne won the right to host the Games from The Games Bid. Some of the issues and problems involved in organising the Games are described in Preparations and Melbourne and the World. Revisit some of the great moments in The Games. The Melbourne Games became known as The Friendly Games yet were held at a time of extreme interNational political tension summarised in World Events.
[State Library of Victoria , VIC ]

This exhibition is a collection of words and images about reconciliation. The words were gathered by curator Wayne Coolwell who utilised his extensive experience as a journalist to elicit heartfelt responses from a diverse range of Queenslanders. Complementing these personal statements are striking photographs by Suzanna Clarke which reveal the essence of the people who gave them.
[State Library of Queensland, QLF ]

A Rage for Curiosity presents images of European Australia between 1788 and 1830. These crucial documents of Australian history highlight the way Europeans first looked at the land, its nature and the Aboriginal peoples.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

A dynamic photographic exhibition to commemorate 50 years of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme. It captured the unique and inspiring story behind the building of a modern Australian icon by more than 100,000 multicultural workers. The exhibition presented over 100 rare and powerful photographs showing the Scheme under construction, and how it looks today.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

The latest in a series of exhibitions in the Picture collection. The works chosen for this display all show aspects of the history of the State Library of Victoria.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

This exhibition displays material from two AIDS-related ephemera donated to Monash over the past two years. One collection was put together by the late Ian Goller, the other by Dr. Richard Travers. Dr. Travers was the curator of this exhibition.
[Monash University Library, VIC ]

This exhibition traces the development of the poster in Victoria, from 19th-century letterpress text to brightly coloured contemporary street posters.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

This exhibition of 32 historical images from the John Oxley Library within the State Library of Queensland highlights the role played by South Sea Islanders in the development of Queensland in the 19th century.
[State Library of Queensland, QLD ]

In May 2000 Deakin University embarked on a project to celebrate Alfred Deakin's contribution to the Federation of Australia by producing a high quality travelling exhibition, an interactive CDROM and web site. The Alfred Deakin : the Voice of Federation project is part of a national program of Federation events which will be show-cased throughout Victoria during 2001.
[Deakin University Library, VIC ]

The images from this photographic journey between birth and death - originally commissioned and shown at the Barbican Art Gallery, London in 1993-94 - have been selected by art critic Bruce Bernard, assisted by the Hulton Getty Picture Collection's own curator, Sue Percival. The collection, based in London, is one of the largest photographic archives in the world, containing 15 million pictures.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

Janet and Andrew McLean have won acclaim for their picture books since their first book was published in 1978. This exhibition provides a video interview with this team, as well as images and further information about their work.
[State Library of Victoria, WA ]

Believing that 'the peace must be won for the masses', John Curtin used his prime ministership in World War Two to further his lifelong dream of a fair go for all Australians, implementing Labor programs in the areas of economic reform, social services and immigration, education, public broadcasting, and foreign policy, while maintaining confidence in the power of Parliament. Political cartoons illustrate vividly the achievements which are the focus of the resource. Online educational activities involve interpretation of some of these cartoons.
[John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

This exhibition, using the resources of our Rare Books and Prints collections, seeks to reveal the extraordinary creativity of Aubrey Beardsley and the decadents in terms of book production and illustration.
[University of Melbourne, VIC ]

This absorbing exhibition presents a stunning selection from the National Library's substantial holdings of the work of Pictorial photographer Harold Cazneaux. It forces a major reassessment of the importance of this highly individual twentieth-century photographer. His break from the constrained formalism of studio photography, along with his joyful use of light, produced a body of influential and enduring images of Australian life and scenes..
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

As we hurtle towards the millennium, Australians in Black & White (the most public art) is a timely examination of the development of Australian identity through a presentation of recurring themes in our visual history. In themes such as sport, workers, crime, land, war, sex, foreigners, death, drugs, people and culture we can not only chart the changes in Australian society but also witness the development of a vital artistic and cultural tradition.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

When we think of Germans in 19th century Australia, we probably think first of their role in the opening of the vast sheep and wheat belts of South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, and the feats of intrepid individuals such as Ludwig Leichhardt. We tend to overlook the role of groups like Melbourne's small but distinguished band of Germans, whose achievements in the sciences, arts, crafts, commerce, even gymnastics, amounted to what has been described as one of the high points of Australian colonial culture ...
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

The comic book invasion of Australia! The State Library of Victoria might seem an unlikely venue for an exhibition of comic books but these are among the many unexpected items in the Library's collections.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

Once the home of the biggest gold mine in Tasmania, Beaconsfield now looks forward to another golden era. Gold was first discovered at Beaconsfield in 1869, and by the turn of the century more than 50 mining companies had worked the goldfields in the area ... These photographs are all part of the extensive collection held at the Launceston Library.
[State Library of Tasmania - Launceston Reference Library, TAS ]

What sort of country do you want to belong to? What ties us together as Australians? What tears us apart? Since Federation in 1901, people have felt that they belonged or did not belong in Australia for many different reasons. Belonging explores some of the ways people experienced 'belonging' in Australia in the twentieth century. Drawing on the extensive collections of the State Library of New South Wales, the State Library of Victoria, the National Archives of Australia and the National Library of Australia, this exhibition challenges viewers to consider the question: Where do I belong?
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

The exhibition Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian women's art in the National Library of Australia was held from 8 March to 4 June 1995. It was opened on the twentieth anniversary of International Women's Day and was one of more than one hundred exhibitions held in Australia in 1995 to celebrate women's activities and creativity.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

Birds! contains watercolours, oils, lithographs, photographs, sculptures and books, most of them drawn from the library's own collection. It explores ornithological illustration from the earliest colonial images featuring the work of John Lewin and Elizabeth Gould to contemporary photographs by Graeme Chapman and Donald Trounson. The exhibition displays contrasting manuscripts - a 15th century Book of Hours and two of Donald Friend's diaries and also features the Hunter sketchbook and the Lycett album as well as other Library treasures.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

In 1984, a collection of over 300 photographic negatives on glass plates produced in the 19th century were discovered in the photographic studio of the Haig Brothers, in the town of Warwick, Queensland. The negatives had been taken by William Boag, a travelling 19th century photographer. The original glass plate negatives were probably purchased from Boag when he left Warwick in 1873 or 1875, possibly by John Haig, the founder of the Haig dynasty of photographers.
[State Library of Queensland, QLD ]

This exhibition displays a selection of boys' adventure books from the Children's Literature Research Collection in the Special Collection at the Woolstores Campus, Geelong. Boys' adventure books flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century. They explore notions of masculinity based on physical fitness and courage against the background of empire.
[Deakin University Library, VIC ]

Bringing the House Down brings together the best of Australian political cartooning. Artists represented in the show include Bill Leak, Alan Moir, Peter Nicholson, Geoff Pryor, Cathy Wilcox, Ron Tandberg, Mark Knight, Sean Leahy, Bruce Petty, Dean Alston and Ward O'Neill.
[National Museum of Australia, ACT ]

Even before the First Fleet landed in 1788, Europeans expected to see fabulous creatures down-under. They had been conditioned by centuries of superstition and travellers' tales to believe in the existence of sea serpents, hairy giants, mermaids and other strange creatures. The Southern Hemisphere, in fact, was believed to be the realm where the natural order of things was reversed.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

The Victorian Exploring Expedition of 1860-1861 was the largest, costliest journey of exploration ever mounted in Australia. It was also one of the worst failures in Australian history, with many lives needlessly lost. Led by Robert O'Hara Burke and his navigator William John Wills, it set out to cross the deep continent from southern to northern coast - Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria - at a time when coastal cities were booming but the interior was almost unknown: terra incognita.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

'From the appointment of the trustees of the Domain Cricket Ground in 1851 to the 2000 Olympics, government has played an active part in the promotion and regulation of sport in New South Wales. Whether checking the standards of dressing accommodation on metropolitan beaches by the Surf Bathing Committee in 1911 or creating a sports portfolio in 1971, the Government of New South Wales has taken sport and recreation seriously.
[State Records New South Wales, NSW ]

An exhibition displaying the Nican photographic exhibition established to celebrate the International Day of Disabled Persons in 1996 - features selected works from a national photography competition.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

Charles Joseph La Trobe is well known for his contribution as Victoria's first Lieutenant-Govenor, however little is known about his art. Over his lifetime Charles Joseph La Trobe, an accomplished artist, produced over 437 known watercolours depicting landscapes and scenery illustrating his travels. This exhibition provides information on the man, his travels and his art.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

Child's Play provides access for Queenslanders, Australians and international visitors to photographs that reflect Queensland's diverse culture and heritage through the experiences of children. You'll find over 1,000 photographs of children from the 1890s to the 1920s on this site. The majority of them are focused on growing up in rural and regional Queensland. There are photos of children celebrating the Centenary of Federation in Brisbane, at school on a Torres Strait island, milking cows on a farm near the Darling Downs town of Allora, playing dress ups in Childers, wearing army cadet uniforms and even riding billy goats. It also provides educators and students with resources which can be used in the classroom, including some activities that are linked to the new Queensland Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE) syllabus.
[State Library of Queensland, QLD ]

Material from the State Library of Victoria's childrens literature collections. Includes The Children's Books of Margaret Mahy; Ethereal or Earthly? Friend or Foe; Evil Females in Children's Books; The Gingerbread Man Meets Dali; Moving Tales; Moomintrolls; My Oath - 102 Years of Seven Little Australians; Domesticity to Danger.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

This exhibition celebrates Tram conductors - affectionately known as 'connies' by generations of Melburnians. Connies presents a selection of Neale Duckworth's evocative black and white photographs of the last conductors to work on Melbourne's trams.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

Your invitation to be part of the celebrations of the life and work of the great navigator, Matthew Flinders, 1774-1814.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

From purely speculative representations of Terra Australis on items such as Ortelius' 1579 world map, the coastlines of New Holland, Antarctica and other lands slowly emerge. The exhibition includes Fowkes' 1789 map of the settlement at Sydney Cove and concludes with Flinders' General Chart of Terra Australis or Australia, published in 1814.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

The late 18th century was a period of acute interNational rivalry between France and Britain in the advancement of science and Pacific exploration. The spirit of the age was overwhelmingly scientific, dominated by Enlightenment concepts such as knowledge, progress, reason and truth.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

An exhibition from the Picture Collection of the State Library of Victoria, featuring photographs by Warren Kirk. My photographs are personal documents of ordinary, everyday objects and places that are survivors of a past within my memory - and that are of interest because of their impending extinction.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

This exhibition shows a great range of artists books currently being produced by young German artists. The genre of the livre d'artiste, or artist's book is a very popular one in the US, Britain, Europe and Australia. It is the result of an artist looking at the conventions of book production and seeing what can be done within them. Often the conventions are stretched in some way, typically by using materials which make a statement about the book's content, and producing a concept.
[Monash University Library, VIC ]

An exhibition from the Picture Collection of the State Library of Victoria, featuring photographs by Warren Kirk. My photographs are personal documents of ordinary, everyday objects and places that are survivors of a past within my memory - and that are of interest because of their impending extinction.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

Five Prime Ministers served Australia during the war years - Menzies, Fadden, Curtin, Forde and Chifley. The nation's key decision-making bodies, the Cabinet, War Cabinet and Advisory War Council, decided the direction of the war effort in meetings held mainly at Parliament House in Canberra and Victoria Barracks in Melbourne, supported by the hard work and dedication of staff in the Prime Minister's Department and the War Cabinet Secretariat. This web publication takes you inside the walls of the offices and meeting places where the course of the war was directed and invites you to explore the stories of the places and people who worked there.
[John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

An exhibition of girls' annuals from 1880-1960 illustrating the changing themes over the period, particularly with regard to women's roles in society. April 22 to June 9 1996.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

An exhibition of significant plates from the State Library's important collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century illustrated books on the landscapes, flora, fauna and indigenous peoples of the Australian and Pacific regions.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

A selection of photographs and writings relating to E.J. Banfield and his life on Dunk Island.
[State Library of Queensland, Qld ]

On the 1st of March 1901 Parliament was opened by the Duke of York, later to be crowned George V. The first Cabinet consisted of Edmund Barton as Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs, Alfred Deakin Attorney General, George Turner as Treasurer......
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

Celebrating an aspect of material culture for which Asian societies have long been renowned: cloth, and the articles made from it. 'Seersuckers, baftas, hummums, cossaes, four-thread weaves, common bazeens, gazas, Permacody cottons, Yanaon guineas, conjoos...' part of a French memorandum on textiles available from India in the middle of the eighteenth century.
[University of Melbourne,VIC ]

The fashions worn by the men, women and children who attended the celebrations marking the Federation of Australia were transitory styles between the stiff, formal lines of late-Victorian fashions and the looser, more comfortable Edwardian clothing. While men's clothing during the period 1890-1910 continued to be quite conservative, women's clothing broke free of late-Victorian constraints..
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

Welcome to the Federation Images web site. Visitors to this site will find a range of black and white photographs, cartoons and newspaper excepts, from the Federation period in Australia. Most of these images have been retrieved from microfilm, resulting in varying degrees of clarity.
[Monash University Library,VIC ]

'The Federation of Australia from six British colonies on 1 January 1901, was not inevitable. The need for common defence policies, standardisation of railways, control over immigration and agreement on tariff policies both external and internal could have resulted in a co-operative association of states similar to the European Union, rather than a new nation.'
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

'Follow the Sun' depicts characteristic images of Australians at play and on holidays. Golden beaches, exotic wildlife, healthy bodies and magnificent scenery are illustrated in these wonderful posters. Come and enjoy these colourful, attractive and nostalgic images of the way Australia was.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act received the royal assent on 9 July 1900 and it was proclaimed that, on the first day of the twentieth century, the six Australian colonies would be united as a federal commonwealth under the name of the Commonwealth of Australia.
[Australian War Memorial, ACT ]

A centenary exhibition prepared and presented by the National Library of Australia. This exhibition was mounted to mark the centenary of the Australian Labor Party (1891-1991), the oldest of Australia's political parties.
[Australian Workers Heritage Centre, QLD courtesy of the National Library of Australia ]

Features works from the library's holdings of french literature from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibition includes works by Voltaire, Moliere and Satre, as well as examples from the library's collection of travel accounts. 7 October 1998 - 26 February 1999.
[Monash University Library, VIC ]

An exhibition of photographs from the Department of Classics and Archaeology and material from the Monash University Library Rare Books Collection 30 July - 2 October 1998.
[Monash University Library, VIC ]

Gallipoli had its roots in strategic failure. By the end of 1914 trench warfare had spread along the line in the west. In the east Turkey had aligned itself with the Central Powers and Russia , Britain and France's main ally, was looking increasingly vulnerable. '
[Australian War Memorial, ACT ]

The photographs of Harold Cazneaux are timeless in their creative beauty and their extraordinary tonal qualities. Cazneaux was the leading exponent in Australia of the school of 'pictorial photography.' Indeed, Max Dupain once called him 'the father of modern Australian photography.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

An exhibition from the Fryer Library in association with the History Department, University of Queensland. The exhibition is a very interesting account of the early life of some Queensland settlers, the Hume family and includes copies of letters and other papers, an historical account of their lives, and lots of photos.
[University of Queensland Library, QLD ]

This photographic archive dates back to 1946 when the then Department of Immigration first confronted the massive task of organising settlement for thousands of displaced persons located in camps throughout Europe. As shiploads of migrants arrived and moved into places like Bonegilla, Departmental photographers were there to record the arrivals and daily lifestyles of these new communities .
[Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) Library, ACT ]

This moving exhibition captures the stories, the successes, the failures, the conflicts and the previously unrecognised diversity of Australia's Greek migration and settlement over the past two centuries.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

Australians are known for their obsession with sport and John Curtin shared this national passion, both as a participant and as a spectator. Images, letters, newspaper cuttings, video and audio clips combine to tell the story of the prime minister well regarded as fairest and best.
[The John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

John Curtin was the Labor prime minister who led Australia through the darkest hours of World War II. He was the poor country boy who rose to become prime minister, the revolutionary young socialist turned political pragmatist, the pacifist called upon to lead Australia during wartime.
[The John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

This selection of about 500 letters documents the relationship between Prime Minister John Curtin and the general public during the years 1941-1945 . A joint project between the National Archives of Australia and the JCPML
[National Archives of Australia, The John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

This online exhibition reflects a current display in the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library Challenge Bank Reading Room and tells the story of Curtin's life from his early days to his time as Prime Minister.
[The John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

John Curtin is best remembered as the prime minister who led Australia through the dark days of World War II. However, before entering parliament, and for a few years in the early nineteen thirties, John Curtin earned all or part of his livelihood as a journalist.
[The John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

Comic postcards provide a fascinating insight into Australian values and attitudes during the first half of this century. This colourful exhibition is available to be viewed online.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

These drawings were produced by children from the School of the Air in Alice Springs, towards the end of 1998. The National Museum of Australia and the School of the Air worked together on a project in preparation for the celebration of the School's 50th Anniversary in 2001.
[National Museum of Australia, ACT ]

Launceston is fortunate in having a magnificent natural wonder in the heart of the city. The spectacular Cataract Gorge on the South Esk River is only a kilometre from the shopping and commercial centre. Historical Photographs from the Local Studies Collection.
[Launceston Reference Library, TAS ]

Explore the world of the diggers at the time of the 1853 Goldfields Petition. Material taken from the State Library's rich collections of paintings, postcards, books, maps, theatre posters and diaries will illustrate the journey to the diggings, life under canvas, making new chumsand entertainment on the goldfields, as well as mining techniques. Find out if someone in your family signed the Petition by searching through a transcription of the 5000 signatures.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

Looking Back is drawn from the slide collection of the State Library of Queensland's John Oxley Library. Looking Back is a searchable database of 250 coloured images depicting a variety of Queensland subjects and locations from 1950 - 1970.
[State Library of Queensland, QLD ]

It seems appropriate, in a year that has seen great changes in the library, to pay homage to a former staff member. He may not have been the ideal Librarian, yet 'Genius has an imperialism of its own' and the library is proud to call Clarke one of its own.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

'Memories of Picnics' will give you a brief look at the picnic experience in Western Australia in the first half of this century.
[Library and Information Service of Western Australia, WA ]

The items on display range from the 1920s to the present. They include examples of the works of many of Australia's most important writers, e.g. Kenneth Slessor, A.D. Hope, Judith Wright, and one of the rarest books on display, Patrick White's The Ploughman. 18 March - 10 June 1999.
[Monash University Library, VIC ]

One memory of childhood is always wanting to draw or paint. This is my earliest memory and will be my last, I think, that I must put something on paper or canvas or whatever within reach. From an interview with Nora Heysen, 25 August 1994. Oral History Collection.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

On his first major field trip after being appointed assistant entomologist at the South Australian Museum in 1918, Norman Tindale sketched the tribal Aboriginal boundaries in the Groote Eylandt and Roper River area of the Northern Territory. His map was edited before publication and the boundaries removed on the basis that Aborigines were wanderers with no fixed attachments to land...
[South Australian Museum, SA ]

John Curtin had a lifelong link with train travel. Experience train travel as it was from 1917 when the trans Australia line first spanned the continent until the mid 1940s. Images, film clips and the memories of the people who travelled with John Curtin bring this story alive.
[John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

One People, One Destiny: Celebrating the Centenary of Federation is a display illustrating the gestation of Federation over a period of 60 years, from the first mutterings amongst the Colonial states to the writing and debate of the constitution and the official ceremonies and celebrations..
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

This notebook is a rare and significant record of an Aboriginal child's memories of life in the late 1800s in far North Queensland. Oscar was an Aboriginal boy from the Palmer River people of North Queensland.
[National Museum of Australia, ACT ]

In 1901 a Commonwealth Parliamentary Library was established to serve the newly formed Federal Parliament of Australia. In time, this Library would evolve into the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library and the National Library of Australia, but the drive to collect and document the Australian identity was there from the beginning. .
[National Libray of Austraia, ACT ]

In the aftermath of the Second World War (1939-1945), communities were still coming to terms with the devastation which that conflict had caused, and the millions it had killed. Yet only five years after the end of this war, another was to break out, and again Australia would commit its forces. It was the Korean War.
[Australian War Memorial, ACT ]

Recent acquisitions Australian Manuscripts Collection State Library of Victoria including important documents by John Pascoe Fawkner on the early settlement of Victoria. This online exhibition is updated quarterly showcasing new acquisitions to the State Library's Manuscripts collection.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

Sir Rex de Charembac Nan Kivell (1898-1977) was a collector possessed of great imagination, taste and persistence. Born in New Zealand, he lived most of his life in London where he amassed an extensive collection of documentary evidence relating to the European exploration, discovery and colonisation of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific ... The Rex Nan Kivell Collection is a resource unrivalled for its beauty, coherence and comprehensiveness.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

Picture Queensland - images of Queensland, its people and places, past and present - is from the photographic collection of the State Library of Queensland's John Oxley Library. The photographs in Picture Queensland depict various aspects of Queensland life from the contributions of Indigenous Queenslanders, the settlement of early pioneers; the prominent people who have shaped our history; the homes and buildings constructed, to the fashions we wore through the years..
[State Library of Queensland, QLD ]

This exhibition revealed the vast collection of the State Library of New South Wales. Inspired by the theme of European collecting, it presented rare and beautiful items ranging from illuminated medieval manuscripts to a collectors chest.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

An exhibition of eight historic postcards selected from the extensive collections of the Tasmaniana Library and the Launceston Library's Local Studies Collection.
[Launceston Reference Library, TAS ]

Australia has had twenty-five Prime Ministers since Federation in 1901. The Prime Ministers of Australia has details about all of them: their lives and the times in which they lived.
[National Museum of Australia, ACT ]

A selection of photographs from the Queenslanders on the Veldtphotographic exhibition about Queenslanders in the South African War of 1899-1902.
[State Library of Queensland, QLD ]

The Rawson Archive showcases a rare and insightful collection of hand-written pen and ink-illustrated diaries and photographs of the Rawson family. The images have been selected from a larger collection of family documents in the John Oxley Library, part of the State Library of Queensland devoted to Queensland history. The material relates to members of the Rawson family, who were among the first European settlers in the Mackay area which was purchased by the Queensland Library Foundation at auction on Monday, 17 April 2000. The Rawson Archive is important from a historical perspective as it contains rare documentation that fills a great void in Mackay's history. Following a major cyclone and tidal wave in the area in 1918, much of Mackay's documented history up to this point was lost. The archive material survived because when the Rawson family returned to England in the late 1880s they took with them the material they collected during their time in Mackay.
[State Library of Queensland, QLD ]

A fascinating selection of drawings and watercolours collected by the State Library over a period of 125 years. S.T. Gill continued the English tradition of caricature so impressively that in 1853, the Argus described his lithographs as worthy of his famous contemporary, the English illustrator and caricaturist George Cruikshank.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

This exhibition centres on two of the less-well known areas of the Monash Rare Book Collection: - a collection of American Science-fiction magazines from the 1920s to the 1960s; and the library's collection of comics. 1 September to 29 February 2000.
[Monash University Library, VIC ]

This exhibition highlights Australian popular publishing in the University of Melbourne's collections. Some of the books are recognised as great works of Literature - most are not. The emphasis is on professional writers and publishers making a living from their craft, and on popular reading habits.
[University of Melbourne, VIC ]

This exhibition examines the history and significance of the British military campaign against Tipu Sultan and the kingdom of Mysore in southern India in 1799. It includes historical transcripts, 18th Century artefacts (coins, military uniforms and regalia, medical equipment etc.), photographs, maps, and books depicting and describing life in India in 1799.
[Macquarie University Library, NSW ]

In following the development of John Curtin's political thinking and career, this exhibition traces the developmment of Australia to full adulthood - to the moment when Australia had to stand apart from Britain and defend it's own soil. The exhibition is an exploration, through the eyes of one of Australia's most prominant early citizens, of what it means to be a nation.
[John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

See the synergy between sport and photography in Shutter Speed, a display showcasing the work of top sports photographers. The scope of the photographs goes beyond the Olympics to cricket, Australian Rules football and other local and international sports. Highlighting images from the archives of Allsport, the leading international sports picture agency.
[State Library of NSW, NSW ]

Melbourne born writer Ivan Southall is celebrated in this exhibition. The exhibition provides information about his writings and an audio/video interview with the author.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

This project celebrates the work of local Western Australian photographer and film maker, Stuart Gore. Many of Gore's photographs and films produced between 1920 and the late 1940's are held in the collections of the JS Battye Library of West Australian History. These photographs and films, together with extracts from an oral history interview, have been integrated in this pilot interactive multi media project.
[Library and Information Service of Western Australia, WA ]

Sydney Eccentrics provided an insight into these individuals, revealing their own words and inspiration through original diaries and letters, artworks and possessions. Individuals include Billy Blue, the legendary Bee Miles, bohemians, Domain orators and recent figures such as Madam Lash.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

With the Olympic Games starting on 22 November and the major television stations in Melbourne and Sydney not fully operational it was vital that facilities for telecasting on location at the Games be made available. For this purpose two outside broadcasting vans had been commissioned by the ABC from the English companies Papworth Coachworks and the manufacturers of outside broadcast equipment, Pye Ltd.
[National Museum of Australia, ACT ]

A visual tribute to the mid-19th century art of John James Audubon and John Gould as featured in two sets of priceless publications: Audubon's The Birds of America and Gould's The Birds of Australia. 13 September 1999 - 12 January 2000
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

A number of years ago I donated a quantity of cricket memorabilia to the State Library of South Australia. Part of this has been on permanent display in the Mortlock Library of South Australiana. A special exhibition of the collection is now being arranged. This will be of interest to cricket lovers and hopefully to a wide cross section of viewers. I commend the Library for its work in connection with this project.
[State Library of South Australia, SA ]

The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 1998 exhibition of portrait paintings depicted a cross-section of Australian society. The Prize requires that both painters and subjects be Australian citizens, but not that the subject should be in any way well known.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

At a time when Australia is preparing to sever its last, tenuous ties with England, why should Tasmania, this island outpost of the British Empire, hazard a backward glance? The answer perhaps involves a clear recognition of our cultural origins: an acknowledgment that although our forebears may have landed in Terra Icognita, the first artistic efforts in the Antipodes did not spring out of the void ...
[Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, TAS ]

The National Library's most recent acquisition is a rare First Fleet collection. Experience the wonder and peril of the voyage that changed Australian history, through the eyes of seventeen year old Midshipman George Raper.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

This online exhibition commemorates one of Brisbane's most influential art galleries throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Artists connected to the Johnstone form an impressive list of the best Australian artists of that generation - Charles Blackman, Sir Sidney Nolan, Donald Friend, Arthur Boyd, Ray Crooke, Margaret Olley, Lawrence Daws and Robert Dickerson. Its founders, Brian and Marjorie Johnstone, operated the gallery for 22 years and its closure in 1972 marked an end of an era. Marjorie Johnstone bequeathed the Johnstone Gallery Archive to the State Library of Queensland.
[State Library of Queensland, QLD ]

In selecting exhibits for this on-line exhibition, an attempt has been made to show books which are not only representative of the collection, but also to show the depth of the collection by choosing around particular themes. The nucleus of the Morgan Collection of Children's Books in the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, was donated in 1954 by Mr. Frederick Morgan (1878-1978), former City Librarian in Hereford, England and in his retirement Librarian of the Hereford Cathedral Library. The original collection, comprising 1086 items, was gathered over much of his very long life - he lived to the age of 100 . The earliest item in the original collection dates from 1729, the bulk of the collection is from before 1900.
[University of Melbourne, VIC ]

Photographs of the North Esk Wharves from the local studies collection of the Launceston Reference Library.
[Launceston Reference Library, TAS ]

This exhibition displays material from the Rare Book Collection covering the fields of witchcraft, spiritualism, alchemy and mesmerism. Objects from private collections are also on display.
[Monash University Library, VIC ]

The Picture Gallery presents an occasionally changing selection of paintings and sculptures from the holdings of 2,000 framed works of art, over 150,000 watercolours, prints and drawings and 3,000 objects which are part of the Library's Pictures Collection.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

An Exhibition of Books from the Monash University Library Rare Book Collection. The exhibition includes original writings from the time and provides an insight into the politics and history of the era, including the amoral lifestyle of the court, the execution of Catholics during the Popish Plot scare and the 'glorious revolution', which saw the flight into exile of Charles's brother James II. The books, pamphlets and caricatures of the period offer a fascinating glimpse into the lives of the people from all levels of society. The popular enthusiasms and the major calamities such as the Great Plague are all features of the exhibition.
[Monash University Library, VIC ]

Australian photographer, Max Dupain (1911-1992) was best known for his personal work - this exhibition shows Dupain's commercial photography, which until now has rarely been acknowledged.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

Drawing on the cricket collections of the State Library of New South Wales, the summer game showcases 28 rare works of art, photographs, manuscripts and books from the early years of white settlement to the infamous bodyline series of 1933
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

These digitised images have been selected from photographs held by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment and are made available for educational and research purposes. Categories are: 'The Better Farming Train', 'The 1939 Bushfires', 'Settlement', 'Butter Factories', 'National parks', 'Giant trees', Forest timber', 'Working in the forest', 'Royal Melbourne Show', 'Mineral springs', 'Gold mines', 'Gold diggers'.
[Natural Resources and Environment Library, VIC ]

The fifty watercolours selected for this exhibition have been drawn from a group of 161 works that was offered for sale at Sotheby & Co., London in May 1926 by the grandson of Earle's half-brother. Some years later, the works came into the possession of the New Zealand-born art dealer and collection, Sir Rex Nan Kivell (1898-1977), and together with the rest of his collection, were acquired for  the National Library of Australia in several stages between the 1940s and 1970s, initially by purchase and later by gift.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

The World Upside Down online exhibition is an eyewitness account of Australia through time from 1788 to 1830.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

The World Upside Down online exhibition is an eyewitness account of Australia through time from 1788 to 1830.
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

This exhibition includes works from the 16th to the early 20th century, from Marco Polo to Chinese Morrison. There are 17th and 18th century maps of the area, and photographic albums from the 1890s. 17 June to 20 August 1999.
[Monash University Library, VIC ]

Travellers' Tales, contains a selection of published tales by travellers from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. Some travellers are well known authors and statesmen; others are unknown - their lives and experiences relived only through the printed record of their travels. These tales reflect a fascination with travel for curiosity's sake, for the experience of other cultures, for pleasure.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

'This exhibition presents an extraordinary sample of the cultural treasures to be found in libraries throughout the world, ranging from ancient texts and forms of writing to electronic books. The National Library's own extraordinary collection is represented, as well as the collections of some of Australia's State libraries..'
[National Library of Australia, ACT ]

'An ongoing exhibition providing information about some of our most famous, rare and inaccessible collection items. This site aims to enable visitors to discover more about our special collection items. New items are constantly being added.'
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

'An ongoing exhibition providing information about some of our most famous, rare and inaccessible collection items. This site aims to enable visitors to discover more about our special collection items. New items are constantly being added.'
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

An exhibition to celebrate over a century of Football in Victoria - includes images and information about the history of football in Victoria.
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

'Over the last century Victorians have played an important role in serving their country during times of peace and war. '
[State Library of Victoria, VIC ]

John Curtin's house, which was constructed in 1923 reflected not only his own financial circumstances and his and his wife's domestic taste, but also shows us something about the relatively tranquil pace of life in his adopted city, Perth, and the ideas people had about domestic and personal space.
[The John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

Read the words. Look at the photograhs. Consider the stories. These are images of Australian life; not of life in some far away, alien, impoverished land. They portray young Australians whose parents have come from different cultures and who must cross the bridge into full membership of our society but with their own hopes and dreams intact.
[State Library of NSW ]

Explore what it was like to live in John Curtin's home community as Australia moved from war-time privations to peace and growing prosperity. Covering every thing from getting around, keeping in touch, school, work and having fun, this resource contains a wealth of information, plenty of anecdotes and images and online activities for the adventurous.
[John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, WA ]

Weird & Wonderful Sydney is a selection of photographs that shows many facets of city life including food, fashion, work, entertainment and advertising. The images document that great post-war period of social change from the early 1950s to the early 1970s.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

On 31 July 1900 Western Australia became the final Australian colony to vote for Federation. An overwhelming majority of voters were in favour of union with the eastern colonies. Within six months the Commonwealth of Australia had been proclaimed - 1 January 1901 - and campaigning for Federal elections had begun.
[Library and Information Service of Western Australia WA ]

William Yang's retrospective exhibition was a personal chronicle of lives and landscape by one of Australia's great photographers. Diaries revealed candid shots of theatrical luminaries, people prominent in public life, those with HIV-AIDS, friends, parties and the landscape of Australia.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]

Asked whether she saw herself as a family woman or a career woman, Hazel Hawke, then wife of Bob Hawke, Australia's Prime Minister from 1983 to 1991, answered 'I don't classify myself'. Hazel Hawke shaped her own role as prime minister's wife, becoming a strong and active leader in the community. In this online exhibition, dynamic poster art from the 1980s, along with images, documents, sound and video from Hazel Hawke's years in the Lodge, reveal vividly the issues that she was passionate about.
[John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library ]

South Australia was one of the first places in the world to give women the vote in 1894, and was the first in the world to enable women to enter Parliament.
[State Library of South Australia with the Women's Suffrage Centenary Committee, SA ]

Ivor Hele, the first official war artist apppointed in the Second World War, served in such diverse battle theatres as North Africa, New Guinea and Korea. ... Hele's wartime work is the pinnacle of his achievements. It carries on the great tradition of George Lambert, who set the standard for Australian war art during the First World War. This exhibitions presents over 50 works in oil, ink and wash, pencil and crayon.
[State Library of New South Wales, NSW ]