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20th Century Archive
- Tom Roberts (1856-1931)
This book belongs to Barbara Lane Mullins, c. 1900
Exhibited date: October to December 2005
ML bookplate collection - Thea Proctor (1879-1966)
Ex Libris H.M. Souter, c. 1900
Exhibited date: October to December 2005
ML bookplate collection - Sydney Long (1871-1955)
Ex Libris: Sydney Long, c. 1920
Exhibited date: October to December 2005
ML bookplate collection - Pixie O’Harris
Barbara’s Book [Barbara Barnett], c. 1927
Exhibited date: October to December 2005
ML bookplate collection - Lloyd Rees (1895-1988)
Ex Libris Fred. C. V. Lane, 1927
Exhibited date: October to December 2005
ML bookplate collection - Eric Thake (1904-1982)
Jean Daley her book, 1930
Exhibited date: October to December 2005
ML 097/12 - Norman Lindsay (1879-1969)
F.C.V. Lane his book, 1943
Exhibited date: October to December 2005
ML bookplate collection - Henry Badely (1874-1951)
Nellie Melba’s bookplate, 1911
Exhibited date: July to September 2005
RB 363 - Lionel Lindsay (1874-1969)
Peter Lindsay Ex Libris, 1923
Exhibited date: July to September 2005
DL Bookplate Collection - Adrien Feint (1894-1971)
Thea Proctor’s bookplate, 1927
Exhibited date: July to September 2005
DL bookplate collection - Adrien Feint (1894-1969)
Bookplate of Elizabeth, Duchess of York, 1927
Exhibited date: July to September 2005
DL Bookplate collection - Dorothy Paul (1900-1974)
Ex Libris Sydney Long, c. 1928
Exhibited date: July to September 2005
DL bookplate collection - Adrien Feint (1894-1971)
Patrick White’s bookplate c. 1930
Exhibited date: July to September 2005
ML Safe 1/160 - Lewis Roy Davis (1897-1979)
Ex Libris Douglas Mawson, 1932
Exhibited date: July to September 2005
DL bookplate collection - Lionel Lindsay (1874-1969)
Ex Libris Robert G. Menzies, 1940 © National Library Australia
Exhibited date: July to September 2005
DL bookplate collection - Adrian Feint (1894-1971)
Sir Thomas Hughes’ Bookplate
Exhibited date: April to June 2005
DL Bookplate Collection - Adrian Feint (1894-1971)
Bookplate of the Australian Club, Sydney, 1924
Exhibited date: April to June 2005
DL Bookplate Collection - Adrian Feint (1894-1971)
Ex Libris Alice Kelso King, 1924
Exhibited date: April to June 2005
ML Bookplate collection - Adrian Feint (1894-1971)
Sydney Ure Smith’s bookplate, 1927
Exhibited date: April to June 2005
DL Bookplate collection - Adrian Feint (1894-1971)
J. R. McGregor’s bookplate, 1927
Exhibited date: April to June 2005
DGA 44 - Adrian Feint (1894-1971)
Ex Libris Thelma Cecily Clune, 1930
Exhibited date: April to June 2005
DL Bookplate collection - Adrian Feint (1894-1971)
Bookplate of the Convent of the Sacred Heart Rose Bay, 1933
Exhibited date: April to June 2005
DL Bookplate collection - Adrian Feint (1894-1971)
John Winter’s Bookplate, 1933
Exhibited date: April to June 2005
ML 097/19 - Adrian Feint (1894-1971)
Ex Libris Alison Martin, 1936
Exhibited date: April to June 2005
DGA44 - Muriel Knox Doherty (1896-1988)
Community Letter 8 August 1945, 14 August 1945
Exhibited date: January to September 2005
MLMSS 442/11/2 - Photographer unknown
David Unaipon c. 1925
Exhibited date: June 2004 - March 2005
MLA1929 - Lock of Henry Lawson's hair, 1905-1909
Exhibited date: July to December 2004
R 928 - F. J. Palmer & Son Ltd, Sydney
Henry Lawson's hat, pre-1922
Exhibited date: July to December 2004
R 660 - Henry Lawson's pen, pre-1922
Exhibited date: July to December 2004
R 64 - Henry Lawson's walking stick, pre-1922
Exhibited date: July to December 2004
LR 10 - Henry Lawson's pipe, pre-1922
Exhibited date: July to December 2004
R 63 - W. D. & H.O. Wills (Australia) Limited
Packet of Henry Lawson's Wills Vice-Regal Mixture tobacco, pre-1922 (?)
Exhibited date: July to December 2004
R 63 - Henry Lawson's necktie, pre-1922
Exhibited date: July to December 2004
R 928 - Nelson Illingworth (1862-1926)
Death mask of Henry Lawson, 1922 (dated by year of Henry Lawson's death)
Exhibited date: July to December 2004
R 774 - Nelson Illingworth (1862-1926)
Cast of Henry Lawson's right hand, 1922 (dated by year of Henry Lawson's death)
Exhibited date: July to December 2004
R 298 - Dudley V. Walford
Diary, 1914-1916 (Catalogue record)
Exhibited date: January to December 2004
ML MSS 982/1 - Sir Charles Rosenthal (1875-1954)
Diary, 1914-1918 (Catalogue record)
Exhibited date: January to December 2004
ML MSS 2739/1 - Leslie Fraser Standish Hore (1870-1935)
Sketches at Gallipoli, 1915
Exhibited date: January to December 2004
PXE 702 - Anne Donnell
Diary, 1917-1919 (Catalogue record)
Exhibited date: January to December 2004
ML MSS 1022/2 - Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar
'Australia's love song ('Core of my heart') and other poems 1907-1908', 1907-1908 (Catalogue record)
Exhibited date: January to December 2004
ML Safe 1/117 Item 1 - Jessie Jewhurst Hilder (1881-1916)
'My country', a poem [handlettered] with decorations and illustrations, 1915
Exhibited date: January to December 2004
ML A 3025 - Patrick White (1912-1990)
Thirteen Poems, Sydney?:Ruth White, 1929 or 1930
Exhibited date: April to September 2003
ML Safe 1/60 - Erik Lindberg (designer)
Nobel Prize for Literature (medal), 1973
Exhibited date: January to September 2003
ML R 643 - Patrick White (1912-1990)
Memoirs of Many in One (draft), c. 1986
Exhibited date: January to September 2003
ML MSS 5497 - G. Brusewitz (designer)
Nobel Prize for Literature (diploma), 1973
Exhibited date: January to March 2003
ML R 643 - United States Hydrographic Office
Nautical Chart, California to Hawaii [No. 527] 121st Edition May 1925] showing navigator Harry Lyon's annotations plotting path of aircraft
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
XV/63 - Broughton Ward and Chaseling
Arrival of the Southern Cross in Sydney, 10 June 1928
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
ML MSS 3359/6 - Charles Kingsford Smith (1897-1935), Harry Lyon (1885-1963), Charles Ulm (1897-1934), James Warner (1892-1970)
Messages between the crew of the Southern Cross, 1928
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
ML MSS 3359/6 - Photographer unknown
England takes the field, Sydney Cricket Ground, 1932
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
ML SPG/Cricketers, 1932 (2) - Author unknown
Cable transmitted to Radio Paris from Australia during the 2nd test of the Bodyline Series, 30 December 1932
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
ML MSS 6187X - George Oswald Browning ('Gubby') Allen (1902-1989)
Letter to Sir Walter Allen, 12 January 1933
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
ML MSS 5571 - Author unknown
Cable transmitted to Radio Paris from Australia during the 3rd test of the Bodyline Series, 14 January 1933
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
ML MSS 6187X - George Oswald Browning ('Gubby') Allen (1902-1989)
Letter to Sir Walter Allen, 18 January 1933
Exhibited date: January to June 2003
ML MSS 5571 - Will Owen
David Devant, The Egg Trick, c. 1910
Exhibited date: January to September 2007
Printed poster - Sidney Nolan
Book jacket design for Voss, 1957
Exhibited date: January to December 2007
ML 743 - Garrard & Co Ltd, London
Model of Globe Theatre, London, 1987
Exhibited date: January to December 2007
ML XR 70 - Jessie Traill
Building the Harbour Bridge III the granite workers (Edition: 5/30), 1929
ML PXD335, Vol. 3, No. 3
This Archive is being progressively created over the course of the Heritge Collection exhibition, which commenced in 2003.