No.102 SEPTEMBER 2018: True portraiture: David Roberts’s “The Holy Land” and Francis Firth’s “Photographic prints of Egyptian antiquities” / Stephen Jakubowicz p6. “He didn’t pay his rent!” Commemorating Adam Lindsay Gordon in Brighton / Brigid Magner p18. In search of “Hansen, decorator’: finding Peter Hansen / Vicki Shuttleworth p33. When Maurice met Doris: reading between the lines [Maurice McCrae Blackburn, Doris Amelia Horden] / Margaret Geddes p44. The Australian premiere of Gustav Holst’s opera “Savitri”” Louise Dyer’s farewell gesture to the British Music Society in Melbourne / Daniela Kaleva p63. Two Melbourne counterculture bookshops: Source Books from America and Whole Earth Bookstore / June Torcasio p88. Coronation Street tour down under 1966; or, The day the TV people came / Adrian Schober p101.

No.103 SEPTEMBER 2019: William Barak’s paintings at State Library Victoria / Nikita Vanderbyl p6. William Barak / Myles Russell-Cook p24. ‘Personal exertion literary J.Lindsay’: Joan Lindsay papers at State Library Victoria / Catherine Padmore p28. Frances Taylor, founder and editor, guides “Woman’s World” to success / Patricia Clarke p40. Ursula O’Connor: State Library of Victoria, 1927 – 1965 / edited with an introduction by Shona Dewar p57. “A pocketful of miracles:”: the small-format Paris edition manuscript bible at State Library of Victoria / Libby Melzer p69. “By God’s gift I am what I am”: relics of the library of Carlos Baron Lumsden / Shame Carmody p84.

No.104 MARCH 2020: It’s smart to be thrifty: the story of Manton’s department store / Annette Cooper p6. Dreamer and visionary: discovering costume designer Thelma Thomas Afford / Annette Soumilas p26. Photobooks and the State Library Victoria collection / Des Cowley p39. Vincent Kelly photographic studio, Bendigo: opening up a collection of early 20th-century photographs / State Library Victoria Staff p48. Thomas Hannay, photographer in 19th-century western Victoria / Madeleine Say p63. The Ken Pound collection of children’s books / Juliet O’Conor p76. Curious creatures and bushland beasts: inspiration from the children’s book collection / Stephanie Holm p88.

No.105 SEPTEMBER 2020: Windows, reflections and shadow play in the art of Eric Thake / Alisa Bunbury p6. The surgeon and the fashion icon: in search of Florence Cooper and Reta Findlay / Annette Cooper p24. Saints and sinners: local loyalties in early Victorian football / Tim Hogan p40. A fragment of the medieval past [medieval manuscripts] / Anna Welch p51. Takejiro Hasegawa’s fairy tale series: Japanese crepe paper books / Allison O’Connell p58. Mr Coppin’s face book: an 1865 photograph album of celebrated people in America / Simon Plant p72. The social media of the early 20th century: a collection from the golden age of postcards / Gabrielle McMullen p86.

No.106 SEPTEMBER 2021: Foy & Gibson: from the sheep's back to yours / Annette Cooper p6. Collecting in the time of COVID / Toni Burton, Bridie Flynn and Greg Gerrand p23. The rise and fall of Melbourne's plaster cst collection / John Gregory p32. Self-representation in the nineteenth century / Susan Long p48. Elizabeth McArthur, early Melbourne school proprietor / Anne Marsden p60. The unofficial World War II photographs of Alfred Huggins and Syd Grant / Jim Claven p70. Thomas Bride's room full of books / Andrew McConville p84. How to deaccession a Mills bomb / Christine Bell p98.

No.107 SEPTEMBER 2022: Mining the Howard Arkeley Archive / John Gregory p6. Vali Myers: Australian artist / Toni Burton and Fiona Jeffery p22. Edna Walling's pictures [garden designer] / Olga Tsara p30. The Australian Home Beautiful and William Shum, editor 1926-46 / Sue Walker p40. When the war descended upon the suburbs: the North Melbourne air crash 1943 [4 September 1943 - Civil Defence Day] / Patrick Ferry p56. A note on State Library Victoria's first edition copy of James Joyce's Ulysses / Kevin Molloy p70. A library of the future: StartSpace [State Library of Victoria] p76. Everybody has a place: curating stories from the first 40 years of Fringe p79. A world of benefits: State Library Victoria membership p84. Every stitch is a second: the labour and love behind new acquisitions and commissions [Sarah Spencer, Mandy Nicholson, Atong Atem, Deanna Hitti, Kate Just] p86. Photographs from the 1874 German Transit of Venus Expedition to the Auckland Islands / William Tobin p92. New acquisitions from the Women Writers Fund help redress imbalance in the State Collection p102. Thomas Jeston Washbourne's photographs of Indigenous Australians / Ruth E Lawrence p107.


No.108 2023: Enlightenment': preserving the Ukrainian-Australian history of the Posvita Press / Nina Whittaker and Natalie Senjov-Makohon p6. Now we know you are there: 19th to mid 20th century professional women photographers in the Pictures Collection / Susan Long p20. From Claude Lorraine to your camera roll / Meg Sheehan p39. An evening with playwrights: Sir David Hare and Don Watson in conversation p48. Old wind: lay the mystic p55. Six Peaks speak: unsettling in Dja Dja Wurrung Country / Barry Golding p63. New collection acquisition: Clarice Beckett, Evening 1923 / Toni Burton p70. Luminous: a thousand years of Hebrew manuscripts p73. 'The famous Mrs Fanny Finch': one woman's vote echoes down the generations / Ana-Maria Traian p78. London calling? [scholarship for Australian curators] / Anna Welch p84. A collection care milestone p94. New acquisition maps Melbourne's queer history / Sarah Ryan p100. Recent acquisitions from the Women Writers Fund / Anna Welch p104. State Library Victoria: a wellspring for creativity [Monica Dux, Kate Mildenhall, Didem Caia, Lee Kofman, Emillie Collyer and Nicola Redhouse p108. Recipes from the archives / Meg Sheehan p116.