Archive for October, 2010

Life in the Hill End goldfields 1872 and a mystery to solve

The Library recently digitised the Album of photographs of gold mining, buildings, residents and views at Hill End and environs, New South Wales, 1872-1873. This album is part of the B.O. Holtermann archive of Merlin and Bayliss photographic prints of New South Wales and Victoria. The album contains 550 albumin sepia toned photographs. As the [...]

Acquisitions trip to a Canberra newsagency

We didn’t pinch it from the doctor’s waiting room really…

Recently a team of people from the Library’s Australian Serials section went to a local newsagency looking for issues of new serial titles which otherwise may never have made their way into the national collection.