The State Library of Victoria has created a new website that invites you to share your treasures with the rest of the world. Presumably it is only for Victorians with treasures, although this is not made clear in the publicity.
Category: 2006-09
2006-09
Many of the settlers who arrived in Australia in the decades after 1788 wrote, read and recited poetry. In both its oral and written forms, poetry was much more a part of everyday life than it is today. A year after the first issue in 1803 of a local newspaper, the Sydney Gazette, an original … Continue reading The Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library
The first publication from the Fanfrolico Press, in 1925, was Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, translated by Jack Lindsay and illustrated by his brother Norman. This work was subsequently pirated in USA, for example by the New York publishers Halcyon House, Hartsdale House, Illustrated Editions Co, and Three Sirens Press. They are all undated, but early 1930s, and are all probably from the same source.
‘Jewels in Her Crown: Treasures from the Special Collections of Columbia’s Libraries’ commemorated the 250th anniversary of Columbia University. The exhibition of 250 items included books, manuscripts, archives, drawings, ephemera, musical scores and works of art.