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AMAZE Gallery - on display

Page from Ethel Turner’s diary, Oct & Nov 1893
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One of Ethel Turner’s many dance cards, with pencil still attached
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Seaside home – Gwen Plumb and Thelma Scott – Whale Beach, 1 February 1951  

Gwen Plumb (1912–2002) was a Sydney-born performer of international renown. She is best known for...

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'My darling pretty boy', Letter to Maurice Schwabe from Lord Alfred (‘Bosie’) Douglas,...

Maurice Salis Schwabe (1871–1915) was exiled to the antipodes by his family to avoid his...

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Ellen Tremaye alias Edward de Lacy Evans, c 1879

Edward de Lacy Evans (born Ellen Tremaye) was not the first gender transgressor to be exposed in...

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The Blunt Razor #1, William Yang, 1976
Sydneyphiles Reimagined
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Letter to George Robertson about money issues, 1909 by Henry Lawson

Letter from the Angus & Robertson archives....

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Men at Ken's Karate Klub, Kensington, William Yang, 10 April 1977
Sydneyphiles Reimagined
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David Houghton & Lindsay Kemp, Glebe, William Yang, 1976 
Sydneyphiles Reimagined
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De historia piscium libri quatuor ... 1686 by Francis Willughby

De historia piscium was written by British ichthyologist Francis Willughby. After Willughby’s...

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Flying gunard in Fischbüch, 1575 by Conrad Gesner

The flying gunard (Dactylopterus volitans) would have been sent to Gessner from the English...

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‘To Legg’s with Love: A Tribute to the Legend’, Midnight Shift, 22 January 1993, Sydney Star...

Sydney drag legend Leggs Galore (1958–1993) was born Clifford Powell in the West Indies. He moved...

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Various fish from Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes ...

This is the earliest known book on fish with colour illustrations....

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Loneliness and trade IV, from ‘A Fragment of Autobiography’

An unpublished manuscript in bound volume from the Angus & Robertson archives.

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Business card, ‘Harry Lawson, Bulletin’, c 1890

Lawson moved to Sydney with his mother after his parents’ marriage ended in 1883. It was at his...

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Card left at Henry Lawson’s gravesite during 7th anniversary commemoration, 1929

Lawson’s health and state of mind continued to decline through the last decades of his life....

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