In 2010 there are very few Australians alive that can remember back to the first commemoration of ANZAC Day in 1916……
Category Archives: Collections in NSW
Hidden Stories: Acknowledging World War One Nurses as Soldier Settlers
Australian women who served overseas during World War One as nurses were entitled to apply for land under the Returned Soldiers Settlement Scheme…
Can you date and locate these court houses?
Unidentified Court Houses
Can you date this photograph – Moree railway station
This week we are heading into regional NSW to Moree. The image below has a variety of subjects which may help you identify a date…
Staff Picks [Archives that literally saved my life]
…while every Archive is originally made for a sound administrative purpose, you can never predict what added value it might acquire in time…
Can you date and locate this photograph? [unidentified townscapes]
This fortnight’s “Can you date?” post is brought to you by Jillian Kohlhagen and June Dietrich from CSU Regional Archives. They have not one but three connected photographs they are trying to place.
Can you date this Photograph? [Police Uniform, Armidale]
Bill Oates, University Archivist for the University of New England has requested help in dating a photograph. As UNE is a member of State Record’s Regional Repository network we thought we would lend a hand.
Can you date this Photograph? [Market and Sussex Streets, Sydney]
Continuing on with Sydney streets theme we now have an image showing the corner of Market and Sussex Streets
Archival detective work in action at the University of Newcastle
The Jarry – Gray manuscript was purchased in March 2001 as an early settler’s diary by the University of Newcastle Cultural Collections’ then archivist Denis Rowe. Mr Rowe retired soon after and it stayed under lock and key until late 2005….