Did you see us on @Studio10au this morning? We had so much fun showing @danieldoody101 around our new exhibition #KillOrCure? A Taste of Medicine! 🏥 We hope to see you in our 'waiting room' soon.
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Mount Erebus, showing Fang of Lower Crater from the West, January 1911

Men working on locomotive 3557, 6 67, 11 November 1942

👋 Looking for something to do this weekend? Our Reading Rooms and galleries are open from 10am to 5pm. There are six free exhibitions to explore including #Imagine, #KillOrCure? and #Dyarubbin.
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See what's on: https://t.co/jEBjqBJ2Sb https://t.co/qKg4DUNtSn

Wallace Kirkland, 'Life' magazine photographer, Australia, 1940

📣 Just 24 hours left to win a 3-day pass to @bbwritersfest. Held from 26–28 August, this exciting regional event features 140+ writers, experts & storytellers. To be in the running, simply subscribe to #Openbook magazine by 5pm tomorrow.
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J is for Jenolan Caves, one of the most amazing limestone cave systems in the world. ✨ Located in the beautiful #BlueMountains, this natural wonder is believed to be around 340 million years old. #ThrowbackThursday #CollectionRoadTrip @BlumtsCtyCncl
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Come and find your happy place! Take a tour of our new #Imagine exhibition with curator @SarahJMorley and discover a few of her favourite collection items next Thursday 18 August from 5.30pm. 💕
Free event, register here: https://t.co/d5EMYO8hwu https://t.co/KhNAwELolS
Free event, register here: https://t.co/d5EMYO8hwu https://t.co/KhNAwELolS
To celebrate the #NatBioAward, @abcsydney asked listeners to write their life story in 50 words or less. You can read the top entries here: https://t.co/36JdEuKJfc

Did you miss this morning's #NationalBiographyAward announcement? Listen to @cassiemccullagh's interview with judges Mandy Sayer and @SquigglyRick and winner Bernadette Brennan on @abcsydney.
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A splash of colour to brighten your day. 🌸 View gorgeous original illustrations from some of Australia's best picture books on display in our #Imagine exhibition. #WatercolourWednesday
🎨 'The White Crane' by Junko Morimoto. Courtesy Isao Morimoto
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🎨 'The White Crane' by Junko Morimoto. Courtesy Isao Morimoto
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Correction! ✅ This book was published in 1719.

Have you ever found a letter hidden in the pages of a very old book? We discovered this curious note written in Latin inside 'Hugonis Grotii De jure belli ac pacis libri tres' (1790), a book about the law of war and peace. 🖋 #WorldCalligraphyDay
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Performers in the musical comedy 'Wildflower, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 1939

Congratulations to all the #NatBioAward winners and shortlisted authors! 👏 The National Biography Award is generously supported by the State Library of NSW Foundation.
Browse award winners and shortlisted works here: https://t.co/JFrkAaeqrK https://t.co/uWaW16tzIU
Browse award winners and shortlisted works here: https://t.co/JFrkAaeqrK https://t.co/uWaW16tzIU
The judges praised Bernadette Brennan’s “graceful writing and sensitive approach to an enigmatic and often contradictory personality.” #NatBioAward @AllenAndUnwin @dettebrennan
Read more: https://t.co/0UIEsI63vK
Read more: https://t.co/0UIEsI63vK

The 2022 #NationalBiographyAward winner is Bernadette Brennan for her book ‘Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears’. #NatBioAward @AllenAndUnwin @dettebrennan
See judges’ comments: https://t.co/0UIEsI63vK https://t.co/Y23ldxVr56
See judges’ comments: https://t.co/0UIEsI63vK https://t.co/Y23ldxVr56
"Haydar narrates the traumatic events of her life with steadiness and strength... [to] deliver a riveting, complex account,” said senior judge Suzanne Falkiner. #NatBioAward @panmacmillan @amani_haydar_
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Read more: https://t.co/0UIEsI63vK

Congratulations to Amani Haydar who has won the Michael Crouch Award for her debut work ‘The Mother Wound’. #NatBioAward @panmacmillan @amani_haydar_
See judges’ comments: https://t.co/0UIEsI63vK https://t.co/3lINAIUNDn
See judges’ comments: https://t.co/0UIEsI63vK https://t.co/3lINAIUNDn

⏰ It’s time! Join @cassiemccullagh on @abcsydney for the announcement of the 2022 #NatBioAward winners! With a prize pool of $42,000 it’s the nation’s richest prize for Australian biographical writing and memoir.
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Our kind of runway. Happy #BookLoversDay! 😉📚
If you fancy yourself a #bibliophile, be sure to get a Library card so you can request books and other collection material to use in our reading rooms.
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If you fancy yourself a #bibliophile, be sure to get a Library card so you can request books and other collection material to use in our reading rooms.
Sign up here: https://t.co/XsGUW4EF4H https://t.co/ofSXP05otz

Death and burial records can be incredibly useful when building your family tree. The hardest part is knowing where to look!
Join our expert librarians for a free #FamilyHistoryMonth webinar this Thursday 11 August from 2.30pm.
Register here: https://t.co/zQSIbiUAbh https://t.co/ydkljGQ5Ci
Join our expert librarians for a free #FamilyHistoryMonth webinar this Thursday 11 August from 2.30pm.
Register here: https://t.co/zQSIbiUAbh https://t.co/ydkljGQ5Ci

Kitten, on wire mesh door, 19 March 1937, by Norman Herfort

Dancers at the Tivoli Theatre, Sydney, September 1942

Meeting of strikers at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, 18 April 1909

Woman getting into a car with groceries, Sydney, September 1947

Aerial view of Woolloomooloo, Sydney, c.1925

Madame (Ada) Senyah, trapeze artist, c.1865

Building a small wooden-framed station wagon body, 17 December 1947

Joannet Island canoes, in the Louisiade Archipelago, ca. 1848, by Oswald W. B. Brierly

Gun captured at Lagos, Bight of Benin in Quadrangle Portsmouth Dockyard

Four women looking at fabrics, September 1947

Men working on locomotives in railway workshops, November 1941

View of Sculling competition from Parramatta River, Abbotsford

Drag net fishing, New South Wales, EH Turner1942

The Boyd brothers on a truck, Northern New South Wales, 1942

Allied airfield crew working on Lockheed P-38 fighter planes, New Guinea, c. 1944

Carcass of a whale caught by the Davidson family in Eden, New South Wales, c. 1900