No. 61 AUTUMN 1998: Aborigines and settlers in the Port Phillip District 1835-1850 p5. James Dredge at the Goulburn River p17. Annotation: a letter from Port Phillip p27. Aborigines of Australia under civilisation: as seen in colonial illustrated newspapers p33. Index to illustrations of Aborigines in illustrated newspapers of colonial Australia p45. Library profile: Geoffrey Serle p53.

No. 62 SPRING 1998: The Picture Collection: where to from here? p3. Policies of photographic documentation in the Picture Collection 1978-98 p5. Henry Short: 'Our adopted country' p19. Annotation: Audubon: 'Birds of America' in the State Library p21. Realia in the Picture Collection p24. Troedel and Co.: master printers and lithographers p31. Sir Henry Barkly: photograph album 1858-77 p39. Notes on Russian photographs in the 'Argus' collection p46. Library profile: Augustus Tulk, gentleman librarian p54.

No. 63 AUTUMN 1999: Obituary: Mary Baillieu p3. The 1996 Stephen Murray-Smith memorial lecture: right words p5. The early careers of Stephen Murray-Smith and Ken Gott p17. Annotation: Albert Jacka VC and the conscription debate p31. The great 'white woman' controversy p37. Jane Duff: heroism p46. Library profile: Stephen Murray-Smith p56.

No. 64 SPRING 1999: Reflections on life and art / John Yule p3. Sidney Nolan: Poems p9. Albert Tucker: photographs p18. Annotation: 'Experiment with death' by Max Harris p23. A note on Barrie Reid p30. Reed and Harris: publishers of the avant garde p33. A checklist of Reed and Harris publications p45. Library profile: Margaret Ingham p57.

No. 65 AUTUMN 2000: Millie Gibson blooms again p5. Jack Cato's Melbourne: an interview with John Cato p17. Walter Woodbury: panorama of Melbourne p28. Cartoons in the La Trobe picture collection p39. Stan Cross and 'Smith's Weekly' p45. Library profile: Ernest Roland Pitt p57.

No. 66 SPRING 2000: Early european images of Australian animals p3. Ned Kelly: Jerilderie letter p33. The true story of the Kelly armour p38. Bernard O'Dowd: his 'Whitman cabinet' p49. John Holroyd, bookman p54.

No. 67 AUTUMN 2001: The Madagascar, lost gold ship p3. A German impression of the Australian goldfields p11. S.T. Gill's 'Digger's wedding' p15. Gold in Australia: image and text in the 'Illustrated London News' p24. Annotation: 'Bright visions of gold': a digger's kerchief p39. An essay on printing in gold p45. Library profile: Marcus Clarke at the public library p55.

No. 68 SPRING 2001: Obituary: Estelle Canning 1957-2000 p3. The Map Section of the State Library p4. Maps for building research p17. Skene and Slight's 'Continental Australia' p31. Annotation: Ludwig Becker's 'First camp from Duroadoo' p39. Jean Baptiste Lehimas de Arrieta: the first Spanish settler in Australia? p43. Shipboard life of nineteenth century lady travellers to Australia p51. Library profile: Keith Murdoch p63.

No. 69 AUTUMN 2002: Vane Lindesay: a bookman recollects p3. Women's work: illustrating the natural wonders of the colonies p11. John Macgregor: private library p30. Australian cedar bookcases, Rare Books Room, State Library of Victoria p39. George Russell: library p43. Some recent findings on the provenance of the Kelly Gang armour p45. Ned Kelly: death mask p51. Edward / Ellen De Lacy Evans p59. Patsy Adam-Smith p69.

No. 70 SPRING 2002: Thomas Carlyle Lothian: Lawson's Melbourne publisher p5.

No. 71 AUTUMN 2003: Charles Joseph La Trobe: an appreciation p5. Benjamin and Christian Ignatius La Trobe in the Moravian Church p17. C.J. La Trobe: extracts from private journals p43. The creation of a civil servant: La Trobe in the West Indies p67. Victoria's first Governor p85. La Trobe, Lake Boga and the 'Enemy of Souls': the first Moravian Mission in Australia p97. Cultivating civilisation at Port Phillip: La Trobe's colonial experience p113. Letters from the colony / C.J. La Trobe p130. La Trobe's marriage with his 'deceased wife's sister' p143. Charles Joseph La Trobe in the State Library: a bibliography p151.

No. 72 SPRING 2003: The library after 150 years p4. The State Library of Victoria: a chronology 1853-2003 p7. Address presented by the Trustees to His Excellency Major-General Macarthur, Acting Governor of Victoria, at the opening of the library, 11 February 1856 p17. 'The pride of Melbourne': impressions of the library in words and pictures p21. The dome p43. The State Library: the challenge of redevelopment p64. Wall quotations in the La Trobe Reading Room p71. Library profile: Edmund La Touche Armstrong p81.

No. 73 AUTUMN 2004: Redmond Barry articles: Patron of the arts and antipodes. A black letter lawyer. Through green-tinted glasses: Barry, Kelly and Irish sentiment. Chancellor Barry. Redmond Barry and libraries. Leading by example: Barry in the library. Library trustees at work: letters from Barry to Childers 1859-60. Notes on Barry and the origins of the picture collection. The 'red-hot' problem. 'Thrusting forward': a note on the armorial bearings. Redeeming an obligation: Aboriginal culture at the 1866 exhibition. Barry, Tennyson and the 'stately virgins'.

No. 74 SPRING 2004: The artist and the musician: William and Horrie [Horace] Dargie p5. Will Alma [1905-1993], master magician p15. Library donor, Magnus Victor Anderson 1884-1966 p25. Painted horses: a racegoer's note p37. Early tourist guides of Victoria p43. A city child lost in the bush [Lewis Vieusseux, Dandenong Ranges] p53. Bogue Luffmann: Principles of Gardening for Australia p62. Lionel Elmore, passionate conservationist p71. Library profile: Frederic Wood Jones p84.

No. 75 AUTUMN 2005: The Museum of Art and Picture Gallery at the Melbourne Public Library 1860-70 p5. Paintings at the State Library p21. 'Black Thursday' by William Strutt [painting] p27. Selected paintings from the Cowen Gallery p35. Conserving paintings at the State Library p43. Robert Hoddle and nineteenth century genre painting p49. [Louis] Buvelot p63. 'The old stockman's hut' by Edward La Trobe Bateman [painting] p73. Fletcher's of Collins Street: Melbourne's leading 19th century art dealer, Alexander Fletcher p77. Political posters in the Red Planet Archive p94.

No. 76 SPRING 2005: Views and costumes of Japan: a photograph album of Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Ratenicz p5. Colonialism and photography at Ebenezer and Ramahyuck [mission station] p27. John Hunter Kerr: photographs of aborigines at Fernyhurst, Victoria 1850s p49. John Hunter Kerr: photographer p71. Johnstone and O'Shannessy's 1885 [photographic] studio p77. Tracing the origins of Australian fashion photography p87. Helmut Newton: Australian years p105.

No. 77 AUTUMN 2006: William Caxton p5. Elves and fairies: a case study in Australian Art Publishing p49.

No. 78 SPRING 2006: Charlwood & Son, printers and booksellers: some family notes p5. Life before and after bookselling: the curious career of Benjamin Suggitt Nayler p11. Arthur Greening, publisher of 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' p39. A memorial for Kurt Offenburg at the State Library p56. Casting the spell: magic in books p71. Hugh McCrae as comic illustrator p87. The Shakespeare window at the State Library p94. Conservation of the Shakespeare window p104.

No. 79 AUTUMN 2007: The library of Robert Carl Sticht p5. A note on A.H. Spencer and the 'Hill of Content' bookshop p27. A little master's piece p31. Geofroy Tory's 1531 Books of Hours p43. Linnaeus Tripe's 'Views of Burma' p55. 'The legends of Moonie Jarl': our first indigenous children's book p67. A life of scholarship: A.B. Foxcroft at the Melbourne Public Library p82.

No. 80 SPRING 2007: Forty years on: the library and the journal p4. A circle of learning: personal memories / Marjorie Tipping p5. Tristan Buesst, first president of the Friends of La Trobe library / Wallace Kirsop p15. Researching in the library / Keith Dunstan p20. Remembering the La Trobe Library / Dianne Reilly, Paul de Serville, John Arnold p22. On being the editor / Tony Marshall p38. A note on the history of the journal / John Arnold p41. Charles Joseph La Trobe p44. A letter from 'Jolimont en Murs' / C.J. La Trobe p45. Thomas Woolner's portrait medallion of C.J. La Trobe / Caroline Clemente p52. 'More beautiful than Port Phillip': the La Trobe family in Van Diemen's Land / John Barnes p65. Vice-Regal reading in Van Diemen's Land / Joan and Wallace Kirsop p75. La Trobe and the Melbourne Public Library / John Barnes p79. The Melbourne scene p84. John Batman's [Batman] place in the village / Shane Carmody p85. The Melbourne deed p89. A royal duke in Melbourne: S.T. Gill's [Gill] 1867 drawings / Madeleine Say p102. The double diary keeper [Frederick Charles Standish 1824-1883 and Curtis Candler 1827-1911] / Paul de Serville p109. Stretching the Australian imagination: Melbourne as a conservative city / Paul Fox p124. Notes on contributors p143.

No.81 AUTUMN 2008: Facsimilies, libraries and the politics of scholarship / David McKitterick p4. The mediaeval court at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition / Louise D'Arcens p26. The St George legend in Australia / Andrew Lynch p40. The history and context of Emmanuel Fremiet's 1906 cast of 'Jeanne d'Arc' / Ted Gott p53. Fragmentary manuscripts in 'The Mediaeval Imagination' exhibition / Libby Melzer p69. The rebinding of de Guileville's 'Pilgrimage of the the lyfe of the Manhode' and 'Pilgrimage of the sowle' / Ian Cox p82. William H. Robinson, booksellers and the Public Library of Victoria / Shane Carmody p91. Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Speght and Wade's boat / Stephanie Trigg p106. Ptolemy's 'Almagest': its dates and the dating of Oxford, All Souls College ms.95 / John N. Crossley p118. Why study Ptolemy's 'Almagest'?: the evidence of MS Melbourne, State Library of Victoria, Sinclair 224 / Charles Burnett p126.

No. 82 SPRING 2008: The cultural challenge of Antarctica: the 2007 Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture / Tom Griffiths p4. Stephen Murray-Smith: his legacy / John McLaren p19. The Keith Jack diaries and the Ross Sea Party, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917 / Andrew McConville p27. The Vic Spitzer collection: books of high adventure, intrepid travel and exotic places / Chris Elmore p43. Alex Gurney: creator of Bluey and Curly / Vane Lindesay p59. The creation of modern Greece: travel, art and philhellenism in the collection of the State Library of Victoria / Spiridoula Demetriou p66. A group of books from Redmond Barry's Library / Fiona Salisbury p88. A note in the margins: reading with Redmond Barry / Shane Carmody p104. Leaving their mark: graffiti in the Dome / Marg McCormack p113. A Kent Group and Bass Strait bibliography: selected contributions to Bass Strait studies by Stephen Murray-Smith / David Murray-Smith p118. Notes on contributors p120.

No. 83 MAY 2009: Sweet Yarra, run softly / Chris Wallace-Crabbe [Melbourne] p4-11. Crime and architecture: designing a centre for Australian crime fiction [June Wright, Arthur Upfield, Sidney Hobson Courtier] / Derham Groves p13-25. Three neglected women writers of the 1930s: Jean Campbell, 'Capel Boake' (Doris Boake Kerr) and 'Georgia Rivers' (Marjorie Clark) / Gavin De Lacy p26-40. Joan Lindsay: a time for everything / Terence O'Neill p41-55. Remembering the Palmers [Vance and Nettie Palmer] / John Barnes p56-67. 'A fine ruddy mess': the publication of Nettie Palmer's 'Fourteen years' / Robin Lucas p68-76. Moods of love and committment: Laurence Collinson in Melbourne / Graham Willett p77-90. Unique copy or clandestine edition?: the 'Fraser' copy of Frank Hardy's 'Power without glory' / Des Cowley p91-100. Sunshine and shambles: the Peter Mathers papers / Peter Pierce p101-107. A letter of introduction for Mr Andrew M. McCrae and his four sons / Angus Trumble p109-112. Theatre in the Neild scrapbooks [James Edward Neild] / Mimi Colligan p113-119. Notes on contributors p120.

No. 84 DECEMBER 2009: Early Australian Christmas cards and some examples produced in Victoria preserved by the Murtoa postmaster / Michael Aitken p3. Becoming 'Correa': Jean Galbraith and 'Australian native flowers' / Meredith Fletcher p11. The mere fancy sketches of Ned Kelly / Stephen Gaunson p23. An Irish radical and his nephew: the papers of John Mitchel and Sir William Hill Irvine / Kevin Molloy p34. Agitation propaganda posters in the State Library of Victoria: production, perception, preservation / Olga Tsara p48. This book belongs to ...: European bookplate collections in the State Library of Victoria / Christine Downer p61. Setting the scene: the theatre drawings of William Pitt / Terry Sawyer p76. Treasured ephemera: chronicles of the early history of professional chamber music in Melbourne / Daniela Kaleva p93. The gentleman's Piers Plowman: John Mitford and his annotated copy of the 1550 edition of William Langland's great poem / Lawrence Warner p104. A bibliography of the works of Joan Lindsay / Terence O'Neill p113. Endnotes p119. Notes on contributors p132.

No. 85 MAY 2010: Theme: Indigenous Victorians: repressed, resourceful and respected [aborigines]. Repressed, resourceful and respected / Lynette Russell p3. George Augustus Robinson on Charles Joseph La Trobe: personal insights into a problematical relationship / Ian D. Clark p13. Aboriginal guiding to and on the goldfields / Fred Cahir p22. Aboriginal cricket at Coranderrk / Barry Judd p37. James Dawson scrapbook: advocacy and antipathy in colonial Western Victoria / Raymond Madden p55. My mate Ellen: cross-cultural friendship between women in a 'pioneer memoir' / Victoria Haskins and Shannon Schedlich-Day p70. Fishers and farmers: historicising the Gunditjmara freshwater fishery, Western Victoria / Ian J. McNiven and Damein Bell p83. Collaborating: photographs of Koories in the State Library of Victoria / Maxine Briggs, Jane Lydon and Madeleine Say p106. Possum skins [skin] cloaks: tradition, continuity and change / Helen Gibbins p125. At the grass roots of white support: Victorian Aboriginal Advancement League branches 1957-1972 / Richard Broome p141. Fighting Lake Tyers / Sue Taffe p157. A guide to government Acts, reports and regulations relating to indigenous Victorians / Jane Miller p172. Endnotes p183. Notes on contributors p207.

No. 86 DECEMBER 2010: The Burke and Wills papers in the State Library of Victoria / Dave Phoenix p3. The early livestock trade between Gippsland and Van Diemen's Land: insights from the 1844 journal of Patrick Coady Buckley / Wayne Caldow p23. Discovering the lost bust of George Augustus Robinson / Gareth Knapman p37. In search of Marcus Clarke: a memoir / Laurie Hergenhan p53. Painting and prints of Herr Carl Kahler: the Melbourne Cup series 1887-89 / Andrew Montana p65. J.J. Clark: child prodigy architect and his winning but ill-fated design for a Free Public Library in Sydney / Andrew Dodd p84. W.R. Sedon and Melbourne's Sedon Galleries / Benjamin Thomas p97. The Universal Science Group in post-war Melbourne / Chris Elmore p114. The State Library of Victoria's copy of Aroideae Maximilanae [donated by Ferdinand Von Mueller] / Walter Struve p126. WEG: William Ellis Green 1923-2008 / Vane Lindesay p131.

No. 87 MAY 2011: Queen city of the south: gay and lesbian Melbourne. Making an exhibition of ourselves: GLQ history as public history / Graham Willett p4. Melbourne's homosexual subcultures in the interwar years / Wayne Murdoch p19. The Australia, the Woolshed and Sexual Gaze / Richard Peterson p32. Aspects of gay and lesbian life in seventies Melbourne / Michael Hurley p44. Young gays: towards a history of youth, queer sexualities and education in Australia / Daniel Marshall p60. Miss Newcomb's teapot / Bev Roberts p74. Rennie Ellis at Gay Pride Week, September 1973 / Graham Willett and Jo Ritale p86. Questions arise: homosexual eroticism in a nineteenth century family photographic album / Susan Long p94. Love's coming of age: Australian socialist and communist parties and sexuality / Liz Ross p107. The naked saint: Sir J. Edgar Boehm's St George and the Dragon / Shane Carmody p116. Barrett Reid: a charismatic chameleon / Phyllis Papps p136. Agents of social change? LGBT voices in Australian museums / Kate Davison p149. Towards homosexual equality in Victoria / Graham Carbery p164. Interview with Haddon Storey / Graham Carbery p167. Melbourne's queer history: a bibliography / Graham Willett and Gary Jaynes p174.

No. 88 DECEMBER 2011: Inventing the Melbourne Cup / Andrew Lemon p4. 1861-62: seminal years in the publishing history of illustrated newspapers in colonial Australia / Peter Dowling p13. The opening of the Museum of Art at the Melbourne Public Library, 24 May 1861 / Alison Inglis, Fiona Moore and Pamela Tuckett p27. The Victorian Art Exhibition 1864-65 / Michael Watson p40. Images of Melbourne published in the illustrated newspapers, 1860-1862 p52. Two paintings depicting the tragic end to the Victorian Exploring Expedition, 1860-1861 p57. The library publicises its collection: the first catalogue of the Melbourne Public Library / John Arnold p63. The battle for the lands: glimpses from a squatter's correspondence / Maggie Black p65. 'View of Melbourne from the Observatory 1858' by George Rowe / Gerard Hayes p80. Death in the picture collection: four inquests, three suicides and a drowning / Christine Bell p84. Charles La Trobe in Neuchatel: a research report / John Barnes p92. Father and son: John Goulson Burtt and John Wesley Burtt / Madeleine Say p102. The mystery of the Peruvian photographs / Olga Tsara p118. Momentous for time and eternity: the photographic portrait of Miss Marion Henty / Suzanne McWha p129. The search for artistic professionalism in Melbourne: the activities of the Buonarotti Club, 1883-1887 / Stephen F. Mead p136. Images relating to Melbourne in the illustrated Australian newspapers 1860-62 / Peter Dowling p148.

No. 89 MAY 2012: Isolation, integration, identity: the Muslim experience in Australia. An introduction to Islam p9. The first Islamic Museum of Australia p20. Islamic schools in Australia p36. Remembering Muslim histories of Australia p48. Excavating the past: Australian Muslims p63. Persian and Islamic architecture in Melbourne: a personal search p81. Profiles of prominent Victorian Muslims p101. Muslim participation in multi-faith initiatives in Victoria p115. Race in the lives of white Muslim converts in Australia p124. Muslim women commentators in the Australian media p140. Young Muslims of Australia: anatomy of a mulitcultural success story p151. Victorian Muslims: a profile p164. Select bibliographies on 'Islam' and 'Muslims in Australia' p169.

No. 90 DECEMBER 2012: Lazarus rising / Shane Carmody p2. Desperately seeking Samuel: a diary lost and found [Samuel Lazarus 1837-1923; Charles James Evans 1827-1881] / Clare Wright p6. George Hyde Pownall: painter of cityscapes / Michael E. Humphries p22. A goat and a McCubbin in the State Library: Frederick McCubbin's 'Melbourne Gaol in sunlight from the Public Library grounds' [painting] / Katherine Kovacic p41. Louise Hanson-Dyer: 'Melbourne centenary music book': a celebration / Daniela Kaleva p48. The doll theatre project: designing a theatre for Ray Lawlor's Doll Trilogy [Summer of the seventeenth doll / Ray Lawlor] / Derham Groves p59. The art of light: a survey of stained glass in Victoria / Bronwyn Hughes p78. [James Ferguson (1818-1894) and James Urie (1828-1890) p79; John Lamb Lyon (1835-1916) p80; Brooks, Robinson & Co. p85; John Hughes p87; William Montgomery (1850-1927) p88 (portrait p84); Napier and Christian Waller p92; Alan Sumner (1911-1994) p95]. Completing the picture: William Grant, poster production and the lithographer's role [lithography, printing, F.W. Niven & Co.] / Colin Holden p99. Testimonies from white Australia: oral history interviews with Chinese immigrants and their descendants / Morag Loh p112. One of Mawson's 'forgotten men': Robert Bage and his Antarctic diary / Chris Elmore p125. The Captain's notebook: J.K. Davis at Eden, 1912 [John King Davis (1884-1967); Eden, NSW] / Anna Lucas p136. The Codex Sancti Paschalis and the 'Fossanova' manuscripts of the Phillipps Collection / Constant J. Mews and Anna Welch p151.

No. 91 JUNE 2013: Persian cultural crossroads.

No. 92 DECEMBER 2013: Building the dome [at the State Library]: an illustrated account / Miles Lewis p4. 'An architecture to excite an interest': grand visions for Melbourne's public library / Harriet Edquist p52. Remembering Redmond Barry, 1813-2013: 'Melbourne memorials' / Sue Reynolds p62. William Brahe and the establishment of central Australia's first weather station during the Burke and Wills Expedition / Dave Phoenix p68. Public squabbling over the membership of the foundation committee of the Melbourne Mechanics' Institution [Institute, Athenaeum] / Anne Marsden p80. Land boom advertising: a socio-spatial mapping of the 1885 subdivision of Cremorne [Melbourne, Vic.] / James P. Lesh p97. The Victorian diaries of a Welsh swagman (1869-1894) [Joseph Jenkins] / Rachel Solomon p107. 'A tolerable interpreter': Robert Bell and the Chinese on the Ballarat goldfields / Dennis Bryans p126. Melbourne modern versus Sydney picturesque?: tales of two cities in print 1891-1934 / Colin Holden p144. Recording an illustrious past: extracts from the Antarctic diary of Robert Bage / Chris Elmore p162.