Follow the search for the Macquarie Pier Foundation and Inscription Stone laid in 1818 at the Newcastle breakwater.
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.
February 2010: Link roundup post
Just some of the interesting items we have found online.
Conservation Tip No. 4: A Method of Rehousing Glass Plate Negatives
Glass plate negatives are extremely fragile and need to be handled very carefully. The glass is old and brittle and plates may have been cracked or broken and will sustain further damage if not treated with care.
Old State – New States: New England and the New State Movement
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.
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
Poll: Stakeholders & Web 2.0
Government 2.0 is a key means for renewing the public sector; offering new tools for public servants to engage and respond to the community; empower the enthusiastic, share ideas and further develop their expertise through networks of knowledge with fellow professionals and others.
Emerging Technologies For the Provision of Access to Archives: issues, challenges and ideas
“Web 2.0 and 3.0 will not change archives. But they do provide tools with which archives can change themselves. Doing so will require many old and different questions to be re-examined.”
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….