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National Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries

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DateBetween 10th March 2006 and 26th August 2007LocationState Library of South Australia - Flinders University Art GalleryDescription

A landmark exhibition that told a rich and remarkable story about our history, our nation, our treasures ... and our libraries.

National Treasures from Australia’s Great Libraries brought together, for the first time, more than 170 extraordinary items that shaped our nation. Drawn from the magnificent collections of Australia’s National, State and Territory libraries, the exhibition contained a diverse range of manuscripts, maps, drawings, paintings and objects—from the everyday to the exotic—all linked to Australia.

National Treasures from Australia’s Great Libraries included familiar icons such as Cook’s Endeavour Journal, Ned Kelly’s helmet and Donald Bradman’s favourite bat.

Spanning the earliest European depiction of the Southern Cross drawn in the 16th Century, through our convict and colonial era, two world wars, recent innovations and our constant obsessions with sport, food and wine, it gave fresh insight into the diversity and breadth of our history and what it means to be Australian.

This exhibition was an initiative of the Council of Australian State Libraries (CASL) and was managed by the National Library of Australia.

The items included on this website, are only those from the State Library of South Australia's collections.

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The Battlefields of Anzac

State Dinner in honour of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales : [menu]

ANZAC Dinner : [menu]

State banquet in commemoration of the completion of the first one hundred years of Australian settlement : [menu]

United Service Lodge no. 37, S.A.C. : [menu]

Dinner in honour of the overseas delegates, Commonwealth Press Union, South Australian Hotel, Adelaide, November 19th 1955 : [menu]

A penny dreadful: Blue cap the Bushranger or the Australian Dick Turpin

A Mother's offering to her children

The book of household management

The Mary cookery book : the most practical Australian cook book ever printed

Patent specification. Mechanical motion. Sheep shears. No. 15,624, 1909. D. Unaipon, SA

Anzac souvenir

The Birds of Australia

Hendon Ammunition Factory Social Club letter cards

Terra Australis nondum cognita

Premier voyage de James Cook autour du monde

Souvenir, Kapunda and district, peace celebrations, 1919

Arcana, or, The Museum of natural history : containing the most recent discovered objects embellished with coloured plates ... combining a general survey of nature

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Euchim war game ; rules for Euchim & six extra games enclosed

Called to arms: a new military game

Australian Bushmen game

Graphic design for wine cask

Don Bradman's Australian team blazer, 1946-1947

Bat used by Don Bradman to score 334 runs in 1930

Race to the gold diggings of Australia

Blackwood book chest presented to Duke and Duchess of York, 1901

The life of emigration [dissected puzzle]

Model of the 'Investigator'

Dugouts and Trenches

Manuscript

Letter from Prime Minister Hughes

Letter from Dame Nellie Melba

Letter to T.B. Wemyss from Sgt. Spencer

Letter to T.B. Wemyss from Ernest Magor

Letter written by William Howitt to Eliza Acton

Order book

Diary of W.A. Crowder

World War I Souvenir Album: "Our Bit in the Great War"

Admella Shipwreck Reward and Relief Fund

Stump Jump Plough

Artwork

Skipper sketchbook

Don Bradman in How I play cricket

Drawings of vehicle parts for both the EJ and EH Holden

By children of Ernabella

The "Star of Greece"

Sketches of Australian fishes, etc.

Photograph

Vickers Vimy and crew

Presentation of cheque to Ross Smith by Prime Minister Hughes

Photograph of England-Australia flight

Concentration camp

Transcript

Letter to T.B Wemyss from Ernest Magor [Transcript]

Letter to T.B. Wemyss from Sgt. Spencer [Transcript]

Diary of W.A. Crowder [Transcript]

Emery, J.B.
Sketches of Australian fishes

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Curator/sNational Library of Australia

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Website linkNational Treasures from Australia's Great LibrariesAcknowledgementTim Bonyhady, author of this introductory essay, is an art historian and lawyer whose books include Images in Opposition: Australian Landscape Painting 1801-1890, Burke and Wills: From Melbourne to Myth and the prize-winning The Colonial Earth. He is the Director of the Australian National University’s Australian Centre for Environmental Law.

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