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David Mitchell, the Mitchell Library and Australiana - Australia's Culture PortalIn 1907 David Scott Mitchell (1836–1907), a wealthy and obsessive collector of books, made a gift to the people of Australia. David Scott Mitchell, donor of the Mitchell Collection. David Scott Mitchell's revolving bookcase, Bequest of David Scott ...
In 1788 the First Fleet landed at Camp Cove in Port Jackson with the 'cargo' of convicts which helped establish the penal colony of New South Wales. One in five of the convicts to arrive in the penal colony (1788-1823) was female and they made up the lar...
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TEXT Vol 1 No 2 - Susan Hawthorne Unstopped Mouths (website TEXT - The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs )Images of women's hair styles from around the world - esp. whistling woman's mouth - hyperlink back to unstopped/stopped mouths Is it because a whistling mouth looks like a kissing mouth? Boston, Beacon Press/London, The Women's Press 1989: 113-147; Agne...
A. Grenfell Price, Founders and Pioneers of South Australia; E. Hodder, The History of South Australia; The Times, 7 and 12 November 1879. IV, V and VI; The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 July 1914; R. Else Mitchell, Journal and Proceedings Royal Australian Hi...
ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR GENERAL MICHAEL JEFFERY AC CVO MC GOVERNOR- GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA ON THE OCCASION OF A CIVIC RECEPTION HOSTED BY THE WOLLONGONG CITY COUNCIL WOLLONGONG CITY COUNCIL ADMINISTRATION CENTRE 11 NOVEMBER 2005 ...
In 1907 David Scott Mitchell (1836–1907), a wealthy and obsessive collector of books, made a gift to the people of Australia. David Scott Mitchell, donor of the Mitchell Collection. David Scott Mitchell's revolving bookcase, Bequest of David Scott ...
In 1788 the First Fleet landed at Camp Cove in Port Jackson with the 'cargo' of convicts which helped establish the penal colony of New South Wales. One in five of the convicts to arrive in the penal colony (1788-1823) was female and they made up the lar...
By 1828, most employment in the Wollongong region was timber getting and land clearing for farming – it’s a story repeated by pioneers throughout Australia. Take for example various programs at the University of Wollongong, named Australia&rsq...
> + H6730 Horsedrawn milk cart, Australia, 1...> + A8357 Toy horse and cart, cast metal hor... > > Reiby Hall was built as a gospel church in Station Street in 1905. Gospel wagon, prayer cart, made and used by Reiby Gospel Hall, Sydney, New South Wales, ...
Home Listings Heritage Databases Heritage Database Search Heritage Item Click on the BACK button of your browser to return to the previous page. Kyle House is aesthetically significant as an important example of Inter-War Art Deco style emphasising vertic...
Macquarie Place was the first and main town square of colonial Sydney and is a surviving remnant of the first town centre of Sydney beside First Government House (now demolished) and on the original foreshores of Sydney Cove before the shoreline was exten...
Crops and seed from the first successful Government Farm, worked by convicts, kept the infant colony from starvation in 1789. The most notable instance was the Castle Hill uprising when Irish convicts at the Castle Hill Government Farm rebelled and marche...
> + H6730 Horsedrawn milk cart, Australia, 1...> + A8357 Toy horse and cart, cast metal hor... > > Reiby Hall was built as a gospel church in Station Street in 1905. Gospel wagon, prayer cart, made and used by Reiby Gospel Hall, Sydney, New South Wales, ...
> + H6730 Horsedrawn milk cart, Australia, 1...> + A8357 Toy horse and cart, cast metal hor... > > Reiby Hall was built as a gospel church in Station Street in 1905. Gospel wagon, prayer cart, made and used by Reiby Gospel Hall, Sydney, New South Wales, ...
Jessie Street Gardens is in Loftus Street at Circular Quay in front of the Gateway building. The Board approved the name Jessie Street Park on 14 August 1990. Council changed the name to Jessie Street Gardens and the gardens were officially inaugurated ...
> + H6730 Horsedrawn milk cart, Australia, 1...> + A8357 Toy horse and cart, cast metal hor... > > Reiby Hall was built as a gospel church in Station Street in 1905. Gospel wagon, prayer cart, made and used by Reiby Gospel Hall, Sydney, New South Wales, ...
> + H6730 Horsedrawn milk cart, Australia, 1...> + A8357 Toy horse and cart, cast metal hor... > > Reiby Hall was built as a gospel church in Station Street in 1905. Gospel wagon, prayer cart, made and used by Reiby Gospel Hall, Sydney, New South Wales, ...
> + H6730 Horsedrawn milk cart, Australia, 1...> + A8357 Toy horse and cart, cast metal hor... > > Reiby Hall was built as a gospel church in Station Street in 1905. Gospel wagon, prayer cart, made and used by Reiby Gospel Hall, Sydney, New South Wales, ...
Grandpa Pencil takes a brief look at some of Australia's famous women. Daisy Bates came to Australia from Ireland in 1884. Mary Reiby was transported to Australia at the age of 13 for a childish prank....
2006 Art Melbourne 06 Icon Gallery (two person), Vic> 2006, 05, Sydney Art Fair, Icon Gallery (two person), NSW> 2005, 04, 03 Taylor Gallery, Sydney, NSW> 2004 Icon Gallery, Sydney, NSW, “Parallel Stories”> 2003 Gold Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotla...
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