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Race to the Gold Diggings of Australia
London, 1850s
board game: wooden box with sliding pictorial lid (shown here);
14.0 x 19.5 x 4.5 cm (contains hand-coloured lithograph mounted on linen with lead ships and rule sheet)
Children’s Literature Research Collection, State Library of South Australia
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Race to the Gold Diggings in Australia is an early board game featuring
Australia. In the game, children raced each other to Port Phillip, in
Victoria, bound for the goldfields where, according to the game, there
were nuggets the size of boulders. The implication was clear: Australia
was a land of huge opportunity. This is one of more than 170 items
gathered from Australia’s state and territory libraries which, along
with works from the National Library’s Collection, make up the major
exhibition National Treasures from Australia’s Great Libraries, which
will travel around Australia and is currently at the National Library
(until 12 February).
January 2006 Volume XVI Number 4
TRAVElLING TREASURES: HINTS FOR THE UNWARY
Nat Williams reveals the complex process of creating the National Treasures from Australia’s Great Libraries exhibition
'BRISBANE THE FAIR' AND OTHER QUEENSLAND POSTINGS
Michele Helmrich explores the compelling wartime diaries of artist Donald Friend
AIMING FOR THE HEART
Barry York describes how Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, shocked the American public and forced changes in legislation
CONNECTING ASIA AND AUSTRALIA
Andrew Gosling examines the influence of the Theosophical Society’s teachings
OUR WOMAN IN SYDNEY
Nicola Walker discusses the Times Literary Supplement’s past and its future at Murdoch’s Fortress Wapping
FRIENDS
A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia
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