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Sassafras and myrtle forest at Mt Anne, Southwest Tasmania
Photograph by Peter Dombrovskis
From the Pictorial Collection
Reproduced with the permission of Liz Dombrovskis
Transparency courtesy of West Wind Press

In December 1996, the National Library's Pictorial Collection acquired a series of posters featuring the extraordinary landscape photographs of the late Peter Dombrovskis. An artist with a great love of nature, Dombrovskis is best remembered for his annual Tasmanian wilderness calendars, which helped make the preservation of the Tasmanian forests and woodlands popular as an environmental cause in the late 1970s and the early 1980s.

 

July 1999 Volume IX Number 10

TERRE NAPOLEON VIA PARIS, LE HAVRE, SYDNEY

Terre Napoleon: Australia through French Eyes 1800-1804 will be the next exhibition in the National Library Gallery--from 9 July to 6 October. In an article adapted from her catalogue essay, Susan Hunt, who curated the exhibition for the Museum of Sydney, shares some of her ideas about why the French expedition to Australia occurred and what it achieved

THE PEOPLE'S FOREST -- A LIVING HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH

Gregg Borschmann reveals an untold story about the Australian landscape, about us as people, and about our relationship to the land

NOT YOUR EVERYDAYTROPICAL ISLAND

Gwenda Beed Davey and Francine George visit Palm Island for the Library's Bringing Them Home Oral History Project

COLLECTIONS ON ICE

Once again Penelope Layland explores our Map Section to bring two fascinating and historical collections--of Antarctic aerial photographs and maps--into the light

FRIENDS

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

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