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Sound as historical material: developing a new way of cataloguing, describing and accessing sound in the archive - Part 2

Guest blogger: Seth Ellis - 2019 Mittelheuser Scholar-in-Residence. I spent the Mittelheuser scholarship-in-residence experimenting with…

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Houses in the Ipswich region underwater during the 2011 Queensland floods

Remembering the 2011 Queensland floods

This year marks 10 years since the devastating Queensland floods of January 2011. Parts of…

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Diary and portrait of Gustavus Birch

Diary of Gustavus Birch 1873-1874

Preserving the past to inform the future ... To fully understand the significance of Birch’s…

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Ms Josephine Bedford and Dr Lilian Cooper in a horse and buggy in Brisbane 1900

Dr Lilian Cooper and Ms Josephine Bedford

The legacy of Dr Lilian Cooper and her lifelong companion Ms Mary Josephine Bedford is…

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Private Alfred Powell seated far right with other soldiers from the 26th Australian Infantry Battalion at the Enoggera training camp Brisbane 1915

Soldiers of the 26th Australian Infantry Battalion

Readers of the John Oxley Library Blog may remember a post about the digitisation of…

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Aboriginal group from the Herbert River District ca 1878

NAIDOC 2020 - Always Was, Always Will Be

State Library of Queensland is committed to providing a deeper understanding of Aboriginal and Torres…

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