Curator's Choice

In this presentation Maggie Patton discusses an infrastructure report to rival today’s nation building projects.

Sarah Morley discusses the impact of the gold rush on surrounding communities, particularly the challenges faced by postal contractors transporting gold between townships

The collections of the State Library hold over a million images — each one capturing a moment in time.  

How did the portrait come to be at the Library? And how does this little-known work relate to Russell’s artistic practice, as recorded in letters to his friend Tom Roberts, also part of the Library’s collections.

Join curator Ronald Briggs as he discusses the images which provide a visual account of this important and consequential act of defiance.

Join Curator Margot Riley for this online tour of some of the many striking political posters found among the more than 10,000 Australian posters in the Mitchell Library collection at the State Library of NSW.

In 2008, the ACP photo archive, including the negatives for PIX magazine, were donated to the Library and recently digitised. Indigenous curator Ronald Briggs will share some of the stories behind the people, places and events recorded in these images.

The Library has a wonderful collection of rare atlases that are historic, beautiful and informative.

This talk will introduce works by these lesser-known photographers and discuss the thousands of photographs and drawings collated by Mawson and donated to the Library between 1923 and 1947.  

Join curator Geoff Barker as he talks about links between Arthur Onslow and the photographs pasted into this remarkable book. 

Sarah Morley will share examples from the Library’s collection, illustrating the development of May Gibbs’ lengthy career as a comic strip artist.

Curator Elise Edmonds will talk about the impact of these two pandemics, 100 years apart, on the people of NSW. 

Join us online for the story of an extraordinary project taken on by two determined individuals to document the old cemetery before it was cleared to make way for Sydney’s Central Station.