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Frank Hurley (1885-1962)
Strawberry Time on a 'New Australian' Settler's Fann near Brisbane
gelatin silver;38.9 x 28.8 em
From the Pictorial Collection

After World War 2, the celebrated Australian photographer Frank Hurley travelled Australia capturing the country on film, State by State. This photograph appeared in Queensland: A Camera Study, published by Angus & Robertson in 1950. It shows a prosperous migrant farmer and his helpers gathering the strawberry crop for the nearby Brisbane market.

 

August 1999 Volume IX Number 11

BAUDIN'S LAST BREATH

Nicolas Baudin was at the helm of a prestigious and controversial French  expedition to 'Terre Napoleon' between 1801 and 1803. Victor Barker tells us how and why he became involved with this man and his story

SEEKING EDGEWORTH DAVID, THE KNIGHT IN THE OLD BROWN HAT

T.W. Edgeworth David made amazing geological discoveries in Australia, Antarctica and the Western Front during the First World War but his work is not widely known today outside the profession. David Branagan looks at his papers in the Manuscript Collection

BETWEEN POETRY AND PROSE. ORAL HISTORY AS A NEW KIND OF LITERATURE

Barry York finds a poetic rhythm in an oral history interview with Ted Bull, political activist and former secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation, who died in 1997

MAKING AUSTRALIA HOME

Anne Willsford listens to some oral history interviews, sifts through photographs and reports and considers how migration to Australia has changed over the last 50 years

GATEWAYS TO KNOWLEDGE

A redesigned Web site and workstations with Internet access are the new entry points to the research and information services provided by the Library. Diana Giese interviews some members of the team that created this new order

FRIENDS

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

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