This image is of what is considered Sydney’s main street….George St.
Staff Picks [Sydney 1866 – Cross dressing scandal or malicious libel?]
…This small group of documents shows how a relatively trivial incident came to the attention of the Colonial authorities in late June/early July 1866, and how it was promptly dealt with. The papers were duly filed by a clerk of the Colonial Secretary’s Office, and there they remained undisturbed for 120 years.
January 2010: Link roundup post
Our first link post for the year of just some of the interesting items we have found online.
The Archivist and The Aardvark [a comic strip]
Here’s a blast from the past: we recently ran across the short-lived but much loved in-house comic strip The Archivist and the Aardvark. Created by Michael R Allen it was first published in an internal staff newsletter in 1976.
Creating a digital gallery (part 5 – putting it all online)
8:53am – Physically, and perhaps philosophically, I am a digital version of my original self. I am reporting from inside ‘the network’. It appears my investigation is almost at an end.
Creating a digital gallery (part 4 – digitisation and transcription)
The latest “Day in the Life of…” from an archive in the State Records NSW collection. This informative series focuses on how to add a digital gallery to your website, featuring our latest online exhibition “Lachlan Macquarie: visionary and builder”
Creating a digital gallery – Macquarie through the magnifying glass (or part 3 – research)
3:13pm – I listen as some of the Macquarie ‘docs’ tell fond stories of the good ol’ days, known as B.M. (Before Microfilm). Researchers in the reading room would get excited to see Lachlan Macquarie’s initials “LM” personally scrawled by him…
Creating a digital gallery (part 2 – conservation check)
11:54am – Oddly enough, the majority of conservation required is actually to repair damage sustained from old conservation techniques.
Creating a digital gallery (part 1 – the planning committee)
9:27am – There are two people in the ‘meeting room’. They are part of a larger syndicate group called the ‘Exhibition Committee’. Members come from far and wide across the organisation – I hear talk that they each represent a different phase of the project.