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Charles Bayliss (1850-1897)
[Interior of Garden Palace, Sydney International Exhibition Building, looking up towards the dome} (detail) 1879
gelatin silver photograph
Pictorial Collection
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The Garden Palace, an imposing, specially constructed building in the Domain, Sydney, housed Australia’s first international trade exhibition in 1879. Following the exhibition it was intended the building would serve as a museum. Before this plan was realised however, the Garden Palace was destroyed by fire in 1882.

 

April 2002 Volume XII Number 7

BURKE & WILLS: FROM MELBOURNE TO MYTH

Curator Tim Bonyhady introduces the Library’s current exhibition Burke & Wills: From Melbourne to Myth, which features a rich array of art, Aboriginal artefacts, manuscripts and scientific specimens

THE CRYSTAL PALACE & THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851

Delving into the Library’s Collection, Sylvia Marchant discovers a diverse range of material on the first world trade exhibition

MANNING CLARK HOUSE--A LEGACY

Coinciding with the publication of the Library’s Guide to the Papers of Manning Clark in the National Library of Australia, Roslyn Russell introduces Manning Clark House

THE ARMIDALE SUMMER SCHOOLS

Michelle Potter tells how the Universiry of New England’s summer schools of the 1960s and 1970s helped shape the direction of Australian dance

THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE COLLECTION

Diana Giese visits historic Gungahlin Homestead, home to the CSIRO’s Australian National Wildlife Collection

FRIENDS

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

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