On the
cover this month
View from Summit of Mount Ainslie, 1956
From the Harrison Papers in the National Library’s Manuscripts
Collection, this is a hand-coloured tracing by Peter Harrison of one of
the exquisite panels prepared by Walter Burley Griffin and his wife,
Marion Mahony Griffin, as part of their entry in the Federal Capital
Competition, 1911-12.
The original image is featured in the exhibition An Ideal
City?—The 1912 Competition to Design Canberra opening at the
National Library on 16 June and running until 8 October 1995.
June 1995 Volume V Number 9
PETER HARRISON, WALTER BURLEY GRIFFIN
AND THE HARRISON PAPERS
Robert Freestone from the University of New South Wales discusses Peter Harrison’s interest in Walter Burley Griffin. The National Library has just published Walter Burley Griffin: Landscape Architect, resulting from Dr Freestone’s editing of Harrison’s original manuscript, held in the Library’s Harrison Papers
A MAN AND HIS BOOKS
The Library of L.F. Fitzhardinge
Margaret Dent, formerly the National Library’s Rare Books Librarian, shares her affectionate memories of a longtime friend and exceptional bibliophile, Laurence Frederic Fitzhardinge (1908-93)
OUR CATTLE LIKED THE SCENERY
The Higher They Got the Better They Liked It
Klaus Hueneke opens a few more windows after 20 years of recording the oral history of the high country
DECONSTRUCTING MANNING CLARK
Was He Meant to be an Historian?
Stephen Holt discovered, through his study of the William Macmahon Ball Papers, that Australia’s pre-eminent historian might well have been propelled into another career discipline
LISWA’s Research Collection of Children’s Literature
Diana Giese goes west to locate some favourite Australian childhood stories
FRIENDS
A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia
NLA EXHIBITIONS
An Ideal City? The 1912 Competition to Design Canberra
A travelling exhibition developed by the National Library and the Australian Archives in conjunction with the National Capital Planning Authority
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