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Launch into Library Research: Family History Building Blocks
Thursday
Thursday, 27 February 2020 - 10am to 3:45pm
Family history librarians will show you how to get started and where to look for the key documents to start your journey.
A new project by Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones, who has collaborated with four Sydney elders — Uncle Chicka, Aunty Esme, Aunty Sandra and Uncle Dennis — to tell a very personal story of Aboriginal Sydney.
Virtually explore the many intriguing, perplexing and playful volumes waiting to be read in your State Library.
Thousands of people travel now through Central Station every day, but how many know what once lay beneath it? Dead Central will take you on a journey back to 19th century Sydney, to rediscover a place you thought you knew.
Marking the UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages, this exhibition builds on the Library's historical collections with stories of resilience and achievement from communities throughout NSW.
An ever changing selection of fascinating items from the Library's extraordinary collection.
Sculpture busts, miniature portraits, ceramics, coins, medals, cutlery, teacups, typewriters, convict bricks and much more!
More than 300 original artworks from the Library’s unique collection of landscape and portrait paintings.
Join a specialist panel as they discuss the old Devonshire street cemetery, a place lost to living memory which continues to spark the imagination and fascination of 21st century Sydneysiders.
Love and The Silent Silver Screen: Blackmail
Sunday
Sunday, 1 March 2020 - 2pm to 3:30pm
Written and directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, Blackmail is not only a quintessential Hitchcock psychological thriller about murder and blackmail, but a superior example of silent cinema at its peak in the late 1920s.
We have a brand-new Children’s Library full of beautiful books to share with you.
Frames that Speak: An Introduction to Cartographic Cartouches
Monday
Monday, 2 March 2020 - 6pm to 7pm
The decorative frames on maps called cartouches were an important cartographic design element from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, and continue to be used on twenty-first century maps. In this talk Chet Van Duzer will discuss the early history and development of cartouches, examine some of their sources, and explain their symbolism of several remarkable cartouches in detail.
The Laughing Kookaburra was introduced into Tasmania and WA between 1881-1906 by Acclimatisation Societies.
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