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The Abbey Museum of Art & Archaeology, Brisbane
The Abbey Museum of Art & Archaeology, located in Brisbane, Queensland, aims to provide an understanding of the human past through dynamic interpretation and historical re-enactment. They provide displays and offer a diversity of events and…
The ‘Caxton Window’
An image of the ‘Caxton Window’ located in the Mitchell Reading Room at the State Library of New South Wales. This stained glass window was created in a neo-medieval figurative style by John Radecki of Ashwin and Co., Sydney in 1941. It…
The ‘Australia’ window; or ‘Oceania’ in the Sydney Town Hall
One of two neo-romanesque with rounded heads and stylised borders designed by Frenchman Lucian Henry and manufactured by Goodlet & Smith for the Sydney Town Hall auditorium, at a time when national fervour was running high in the late nineteenth…
The 1865 Building: Brunswick Uniting Church, Melbourne, Victoria
A view of original church building at the Brunswick Uniting Church, located on Sydney Road in Brunswick, Melbourne. The Brunswick Uniting Church is unusual because two churches stand on the same site. They are of distinctly different appearance but…
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The "India" Small Pox Scare
In this letter to the editor of the West Australian Sunday Times in March 1900, the correspondent “B. Knighted†complains about quarantine practices that required doctors who boarded ships docked at Albany to quarantine patients suffering…
Tasmanian Gothic: artwork by Elizabeth Barsham
Tasmanian Gothic is the website for Tasmanian artist Elizabeth Barsham (formerly E.M. Christensen). Her work is inspired by such things as medieval tapestries and the Renaissance artists Pieter Bruegel and Albrecht Dürer (according to the…
Sydney City Library, Haymarket, New South Wales
The current Sydney City Library building in Haymarket was built for the Commercial Banking Corporation of Sydney in 1875. The sandstone building on the corner of George and Hay Streets incorporates a number of architectural styles that can be traced…