Aerial Views of Melbourne by Charles Daniel Pratt
Charles Pratt was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1891 and was cadet with the First Wellington Rifle Company. When war broke out he quickly enlisted and saw action in… Read More ›
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From Melbourne to the stars: 5 great maps from our collection
We have well over 110,000 maps in our collection— enough to carpet metropolitan Melbourne. Here are five highlights.
State Library Victoria unlocks music archive for Melbourne Music Week
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During the nine-day music extravaganza, the Library will delve deep into the vaults to reveal some extraordinary items in its collection including never-before-displayed, rare vinyl records from the 1940s to today, and specialist fanzines inspired by the Melbourne music scene – the largest public collection of its kind in Australia.
Queen’s wharf
Buildings & streets, Such was life:
In the 1840s a burgeoning Melbourne needed a robust wharf, one to replace the current bog built over swamps.
Law making and breaking in colonial Victoria
People & professions, Social life & customs, Such was life:
Criminals, crime and justice in colonial Victoria!
774 ABC Melbourne takes up residence at the Library
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774 ABC Melbourne is packing up its Southbank headquarters to take up residence at the State Library from Friday 26 to Monday 29 February.
21,000 enjoy White Night Melbourne at the Library
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The Library was flooded with bright lights and sweeping soundscapes on Saturday 20 February for White Night Melbourne, a dusk ‘til dawn celebration of culture and creativity across the city.
Melbourne’s Joan of Arc
Melbourne’s Maid of Orléans arrived at Port Melbourne from Marseilles on 28 January 1907. Here, Pictures Librarian Gerard Hayes traces Joan’s history from a Francophile rallying point to the mysterious case of a missing crown.
A little history of the humble lamp post
The humble lamp posts on either side of Redmond Barry’s statue might tend to be overlooked, but at 124 years, they are hardy survivors. This week our Pictures team take a closer look at some of Melbourne’s oldest working street fixtures.
Slums of Melbourne
Social life & customs, Such was life:
As far back as the 1850s, slums existed in inner city Melbourne. In the 1930s, Frederick Barnett began taking photos of the slums, using them in a push for social reform.
