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SL Magazine Autumn 2019 –Autumn 2019 Message I promise that I don’t snoop on visitors to the Library, but just before Christmas I found myself attached, as it were, to a group passing through the new paintings galleries. One of them, a little peppery, didn’t like what he saw: ‘What’s all this? I thought this was supposed to be a Library. What have they done to the books?’ In recent issues of this organ I’ve had something to say about the shared history of libraries and museums, and we all know that the material now on display in the Mitchell Building represents part of a uniquely rich and important collection that has been growing for nearly 200 years. But what about the books? It’s gradually dawning on libraries around the world that the growth of digital access to reading material has not meant the demise of the printed word. If I’d had the chance, I would have assured our peppery visitor that the book is not dead, and it was never going to be. Even if print were in decline, we would still have a core obligation to protect, preserve and present the printed material in our collection, while continuing to add to it. Plans at your Library for 2019 include the expansion of our ‘Critics’ Picks’ collection of new books reviewed in major journals in Australia, Europe and the United States. We have ordered more desks and chairs for the Mitchell Library Reading Room — thanks to the generous support of our Foundation — to cope with the increased number of readers we are delighted to welcome. Planning is underway for establishing an open access collection of writing for children. The Library is an active member of the soon-to-be-launched national e-deposit scheme, intended to give ready access to all material — including born-digital material — placed in our major libraries under copyright deposit legislation. Behind all of this, work on improving the utility of our catalogues continues as a priority. This doesn’t mean that we are apologetic about drawing attention to other parts of our collection. Less than a quarter of our paintings are currently on display. The tiniest fraction of our photographs. Hardly any of our maps. So it goes on. Over the past few months we have made exciting purchases. You can read about some of them in this issue. I can also tell you that we acquired, at the very end of last year, a beautiful Herbert Badham Sydney rooftop scene and a series of important nineteenth century watercolours of Sydney Harbour. These new works will be on show later this year. Central as they are to our character and purpose, then, books are only part of who we are. This issue of SL magazine makes the point well, and I hope you enjoy it. As ever, I look forward to seeing you at the Library. DR JOHN VALLANCE FAHA State Librarian ontents Autumn 2019 4 GENERATIONS 32 FEATURE An architect’s return 6 NEWS Launch your research 36 PAINTINGS FROM In the Amaze Gallery THE COLLECTION Shortstacks Bohemian Sydney Where to live 38 JUST DIGITISED Molly’s trolley Bird’s-eye view SL Interrobang SL magazine is published STATE LIBRARY OF NSW 40 NEW ACQUISITIONS quarterly by the Library Macquarie Street 8 TAKE 5 Pinchgut Council of NSW. Sydney NSW 2000 Autumn 2019 Phone (02) 9273 1414 Sport memorabilia Churchman Vol 12 No 1 ISSN 1835-9787 (print) Fax (02) 9273 1255 ISSN 1836-1722 (online) enquiries.library@ 10 NEWS FEATURE 44 INTERNSHIP E&D-5281-2/2019 sl.nsw.gov.au Corsali’s True grit Print run 3500 www.sl.nsw.gov.au Southern Cross COVER EDITOR 46 PERFORMANCE Cathy Perkins Pictorial endpaper 12 EXHIBITION Mrs Dickens’ cathy.perkins from Doctor Dolittle’s @sl.nsw.gov.au Return by Hugh Lofting, Quick march! songbook illustrated by the author, DESIGN & PRODUCTION London: J Cape, 1951, Simon Leong Model School Library/1631, 16 FEATURE 50 BUILDING A STRONG see page 28 FOUNDATION PHOTOGRAPHY The sinking Unless otherwise stated of the Austral The Hudson Fysh all photographic work collection is by Digitisation and Imaging, State Library 20 ON LOAN of NSW. Facing new worlds 52 RECENT HIGHLIGHTS SUSTAINABILITY Printed in Australia FEATURE 54 FOR OUR FRIENDS by Rawson Print Co 24 using Spicers Paper Arrest her! Q&A Monza Recycled Satin 55 250 gsm and Revive Libby Hathorn Laser 110 GSM. Revive 28 COLLECTION Laser is Australian made, HIGHLIGHT carbon neutral and FSC® 100% recycled certified. Endgame Generations Photographs by Louise Whelan of migrant and refugee communities are on display from March to May 2019. Oz Afrique dance troupe during Harmony Day event, Cabramatta High School, Cabramatta, NSW, 21 March 2012, FL7238279 In the Amaze Gallery This autumn, several items are on display in our Amaze Gallery for the first time. You can view an early copy of the Treaty of Waitangi enclosed in an 1840 dispatch from the first Governor of New Zealand, William Hobson; and see the earliest known European image of Aboriginal Australians, engraved in 1698. Among our recent acquisitions on show are a George Roberts watercolour from the 1840s of Sydney’s King Street, looking towards St James Station (above), and an exquisite sketchbook L by architect Peter Hall, who worked on the Sydney Opera House. Shortstacks Launch your research A new short film competition asks entrants to reference one or more of six selected items on display in our galleries. They Find the history of your house, take an ‘artist’s eye’ include Dorothea Mackellar’s handwritten poem about her journey through the collection, learn to use beloved ‘sunburnt country’, a letter smuggled out of the historical maps, or gather ideas for your bestselling Holsworthy internment camp for ‘enemy aliens’ in 1919, novel at this year’s ‘Launch into Library Research’ and a strange scene of modern domesticity painted by seminars. The full-day workshops will give you Herbert Badham in 1959. Judges include celebrated film an overview of key collections and help you get critic Margaret Pomeranz. Entries close on 29 April 2019, your research underway. and the finalists will be screened at the Library in June. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/launch-into-library-research www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards Cameraman and bathing belles, c 1930s, by Sam Hood 6 / SL MAGAZINE Autumn 2019 State Library of New South Wales Where to live The citizens of New South Wales have again demonstrated their fascination with all things real estate through the popularity of a digitised book in our collection. The 1917 publication Where to NEWS Live: ABC Guide to Sydney & Suburbs was among the top three most-viewed digitised items on the Library’s catalogue for the past year. The guide gives an alphabetical account of Sydney’s growing suburbia, commenting on local attractions, architectural styles, population, train and bus fares, electricity, gas and council rates Interrobang and average house prices. The following is one of approximately Q981.1/H 350 questions answered each month by the Library’s ‘Ask a Librarian’ service. ? I’m researching the time spent in Sydney in 1880 by the future King of England, George V. Was there any newspaper coverage connected to the rumour that he fell overboard from his ship HMS Bacchante? ! A newspaper search on the Trove website recovered many articles covering the Sydney tour of Princes George and Albert in May 1880, but there are no obvious references to George falling into the water. The book The Cruise of Her Majesty’s Ship Bacchante, 1879–1882 — a book-length account of the tour compiled from the princes’ journals and letters — includes references to men overboard (and several deaths) but nothing about George. One small article titled ‘Reported Drowning of Prince George of Wales’ in the Nottinghamshire Guardian of 8 July 1881 showed up in a search of British newspaper databases. It mentions an Molly’s trolley unfounded rumour that was quickly laid to rest by the royal family. Staff in our Family History team were enlightened recently A further Trove search, using this later date, when a reader told them that a member of his mother’s family located a mention in the Glen Innes Examiner had invented the important device known as the ‘Molly Trolley’. and General Advertiser in September 1881 (under Librarian Mary (Molly) Hogue designed the lightweight metal the heading ‘Queer Rumours’) that Prince Albert book trolley in the early 1970s for manoeuvring through the (not George) had drowned. Other rumours about narrow stacks of the Mitchell Building. Her invention was so the princes’ tour reported in this article include successful, according to Brian Fletcher’s 2007 history of the a mutiny on board, with several officers killed, Mitchell Library A Magnificent Obsession, that it ‘caused some and the wrecking of the Bacchante. None were true. friction between staff as there weren’t enough to go around’. The Molly Trolley is still in use at the Library. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/ask www.sl.nsw.gov.au/blogs/molly-trolley Carissa Glynn and Molly Trolley, photo by Joy Lai SL MAGAZINE Autumn 2019 State Library of New South Wales / 7 Take SPORT MEMORABILIA Compiled by Anna Corkhill, Curator, Research & Discovery Mina Wylie’s medal SCG soil Australian swimming champion Soil from Bulli, on the NSW south coast, has been the Mina Wylie won this medal as a teenager favoured earth to dress the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1904 for ‘fancy and trick swimming’. pitch since 1891, but it wasn’t always easy to source. R 956/3 In the early 1930s, groundsman Bill Stuart experimented with Hamilton soil (from Newcastle), and a sample is in the Library’s collection.
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