COLLECTIONS
New to our collections at the State Library of Queensland.
Dr Barbara Piscitelli AM Children's Art ArchiveDr Piscitelli specialises in the area of arts education and her research has included investigation of how children learn in museums and how arts education affects middle school students in disadvantaged communities. She is a regular reviewer for the Australian Journal of Early Childhood, and her publications also appear in art, museum and education journals. She is on the Board of Directors for the Collections Council of Australia and is a member of the Board of the Queensland Museum. The majority of drawings and paintings in the Children's Art Archive are from Queensland children and depict their social worlds, their human rights and their futures. The Queensland collection is multicultural in scope and includes examples of the art of Indigenous children from Cape York, Torres Strait Islands and urban Brisbane.
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UNESCO Australian Memory of the World RegisterThe Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party, along with the Margaret Lawrie Collection of Torres Strait Island Materials, have been added to UNESCO's Australian Memory of the World Register. These are the first items from the State Library of Queensland's collections to appear on the Register. Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party to the people of Queensland The Manifesto can be regarded as one of the formative documents of the present day Australian Labor Party. It was written at a time of political and social upheaval in Queensland, with the Labor movement looking for alternatives to industrial action to progress its aims. Margaret Lawrie Collection of Torres Strait Island Materials The Margaret Lawrie Collection of Torres Strait Islands Material is the culmination of the life's work of Margaret Lawrie, documenting the history, languages and cultures of the Torres Strait Islander peoples. Margaret Lawrie became interested in the history and cultures of the Torres Strait Islander peoples and spent significant periods within the various Torres Strait Islands communities. She gathered first hand information and material about the myths, legends, languages, history, art and culture of the region. |
The English and Australian cookery bookThis book is the earliest known Australian cookery book. The author, Edward Abbot (1801-1869) of Bellerive, Tasmania had extensive land holdings of 3000 acres on the South Esk River. He was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly between 1856-1864 and of the Legislative Council between 1864-1867. Abbot styled himself as an 'Australian aristologist', i.e. someone who is skilled in the art of fine dining. His book, however, has been dubbed 'more of a culinary scrap-book of jottings, curiosities and recipes for colonial gentry than an organised handbook' (Bannerman, p. 13). Abbott must indeed have been an adventurous diner, experimenting with local food stuffs such as wild duck and pigeon, wattle and mutton birds, native turkey and black swan. Although most of the recipes were drawn from British cooking, this book also contains a recipe for damper, and more exotic dishes like Slippery Bob, which consisted mainly of fried lambs' brains. |
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