… Heritage Park, the Museum showcases a wide range of items relating to the history of the former Gembrook / C. A. Nobelius & Sons Nursery, as well as … research material on Australia’s horticulture, environment and business history will reach new audiences. Australian Red Cross (Heritage Archives) … a wide range of community services, playing a pivotal role in Australia’s history. The Heritage Archives was established in the 1990s to care for a …
… to Antarctica with a reimagining of the life of artist Nel Law in The Art of Breaking Ice by Rachael Mead. After sneaking her way onto her … in the dangerous sport of freestyle aerial skiing and her attempt to make history at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games. Slow things down a bit with … This time of celebration is the perfect time to learn more about LGBTQIA+ history, icons and experiences with books such as Rainbow History Class by …
… dispute resolution the project required; and numerous original works of art by voyage artists John Webber and William Ellis , some of which were … . They offer invaluable depth: the back story, which is often lost to history. So take the plunge into the detail of our digital collections. You …
… Bernard, European Vision and the South Pacific, 1768-1850: A Study in the History of Art and Ideas , Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1960. … 168 original paintings and …
… major contributions in the fields of folklore, customary law, archaeology, art and geology. Among his many publications were the Philippine ethnographic … and other devotional works, and books on archaeology, anthropology, history, literature, folklore, voyages, travel, politics, foreign relations, …
… moving to Macau in 1922, Braga set about collecting and recording the history of the colony since the Portuguese arrival in the sixteenth century. … manuscripts in the Ajuda Library. He also extended his collecting to the history of British colonisation and influence in the Far East. In 1966 Braga … and the Far East, Roman Catholic missions in China and Japan, Chinese art, international relations, shipping, Macau, Hong Kong, Timor, Goa, Brazil, …
… fully reversible. All the treatments are documented and become part of the history of these works. These pattern plates are part of a larger … (1845–1863). It also holds numerous other original manuscripts, works of art and publications associated with Gould and his artists. In 1951, … in 2004. The following year, an article by Matthew Stephens about the history of the Library’s pattern plates appeared in the National Library of …
… of meticulous recordkeeping across all areas of life – from family history to household management and to records of the pastimes that the … run organisation dedicated to the preservation and presentation of railway history. The historic archive section of the Museum covers railways … operators, on all 3 major railway gauges in use throughout Australia's history. The National Railway Museum, based at Port Adelaide, secured a …
… College, Geelong. He learnt violin at school, but his main interest was art. He was trained as an accountant and worked in the Taxation Office and … moved to the Buckland Valley in north-eastern Victoria. It was his love of art, rather than music, that led Snell to start collecting sheet music. While … largely of his research material on composers and Australian music history … Snell Collection …
… Library) mfm M 2662 Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–1819 (Natural History Museum) mfm M 3038 Letters of Capt. James Cook, 1775–77 (National … second voyage, 1772–1773 (1975) Joppien, Rudiger and Smith, Bernard, The art of Captain Cook’s voyages (3 vols in 4, 1985–87) Parkin, Ray, H.M. Bark … (1980) McAleer, John and Rigby, Nigel, Captain Cook and the Pacific: art, exploration & empire (2017) McCormick, E.H., Omai: Pacific envoy (1977) …