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Posted on February 14, 2011 by William Oates
Here’s one for Valentine’s Day. This is an image from one of the (North) coastal photographic collections held at the University of New England and Regional Archives .
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Posted on September 8, 2010 by William Oates
A particularly chilly night set a thick frost across the region. Ice crystals form on solid surfaces like cars and footpaths. Our hardy researcher walked out to see the sights and happened past some rural graves with engraved sandstone slabs
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Posted on April 28, 2010 by William Oates
In 2010 there are very few Australians alive that can remember back to the first commemoration of ANZAC Day in 1916……
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Posted on February 17, 2010 by William Oates
The residents of rural New South Wales have for generations maintained an uneasy relationship with the capital city. A long standing joke in the bush was that the initials N.S.W. stood for Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong.
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Posted on December 21, 2009 by William Oates
Only a few years previously during World War Two, Armidale was the chosen location for storing material held by the Mitchell Library. To argue within five years that the same locality could not be trusted to manage government records inflamed local sensitivities.
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Posted on November 11, 2009 by William Oates
…….look closely at the walking sticks, stiff poses and empty sleeves. Captured here is a reminder of the immense impact of World War One on young Australians.
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Posted on November 5, 2009 by William Oates
It is an interesting fact that many frontier locations like Wellingrove, lost population and government services as circumstances changed over time. Government records from this period sometimes strayed from official custody and some remain undiscovered to this day.
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Posted on July 21, 2009 by William Oates
The exact location of the photo is critical to the process. Without knowing your location on the planet, you cannot work out the location of the sun to get the date and time.
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Posted on June 9, 2009 by William Oates
This is a guest post from William Oates, University Archivist, Heritage Centre University of New England. The team at the University of New England (UNE) and Regional Archives has been trialling dating some of the photographs in their collection using the shadows cast by the sun. The two photos in this post are from a [...]
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