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Biographical Project
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Phyllis Margery Anderson (1842-1930) Pathologist and founder of Medical Women's Society of NSW
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/anderson-phyllis-margery-5020
[Medical Women's Society of NSW records, 1970-2003 ]
Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children (Camperdown)
Kandlewiki
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Charles Bateson (1903-1974) Maritime historian
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bateson-charles-henry-9452
[Charles Bateson papers, ca. 1916-1974 ]
Convict ship Neptune
User:Odysseus_voyage14
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Noel Charles William Beadle (1914-1998) Botanist
ANBG https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/beadle-noel.html
[Beadle's published works including Flora of the Sydney region ]
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Afterthesiren
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John Belisario (1820-1900) Surgeon
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/belisario-john-2967
Belisario family miscellaneous papers
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Suzebrass
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Richard Browne (1776-1824) Convict artist
Discover Collections http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/archive/discover_collections/history_nation/macquarie/artists/browne/index.html
Collection of portraits, predominantly of Aborigines of NSW and Tasmania Select specimens from nature of the birds animals & c of NSW
Lyrebird from Richard Browne's "Select specimen's from nature of the birds animals & c of New South Wales"
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John Creed (1842-1930) Politician and Doctor
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/creed-john-mildred-3287
John Mildred Creed papers
Portrait of John Mildred Creed
ktweeddale
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Bruce Dellit (1898-1942) Architect
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dellit-charles-bruce-9947
ANZAC War Memorial and other architectural drawings
ANZAC War Memorial, Hyde Park - Drawing by Charles Bruce Dellit, Architect
gilbert.or.george (talk · contribs )
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Henry Halloran (1811-1893) Poet
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/halloran-henry-1661 Obituaries Australia http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/halloran-henry-1661
Halloran Family papers
Henry Halloran, ca. 1860-1865 - portrait
Librarianmac
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Mirrie Hill (1889-1893) Composer
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hill-mirrie-irma-jaffa-12637
Hill family - papers, music and pictorial material of Alfred Hill and Mirrie Hill, 1854-1984
Portrait of Mirrie Hill
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Sir Edward Knox (1889-1986) Businessman
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/knox-sir-edward-573 Obituaries Australia http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/knox-sir-edward-573
Knox Family papers
Sir Edward Knox portrait
User:Odysseus voyage14
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Rose Lindsay (1885-1978) Model, Printmaker, Author
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lindsay-rose-13047
Lindsay family papers, ca. 1893-1963
Rose Lindsay, ca. 1925
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John Thomas Playfair (1832-1893) Benefactor and Politician
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/playfair-john-thomas-4405 City of Sydney website http://www.sydneyaldermen.com.au/alderman/thomas-playfair/
The Playfair story, 1860-1960
John Thomas Playfair from Album of portraits collected by John William Richard Clarke, ca.1866-1909
Archivalrose (talk · contribs )
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James Henry Ashton (1819-1889) Circus proprietor
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ashton-james-5070 OA http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/ashton-james-henry-jimmy-16699
Mark St. Leon research papers…includes early history of circus in Australia, the origins of Ashton's Circus and a brief record of its travels in Australia and correspondence with James Henry Ashton, founder of Ashton's Circus
James H. Ashton, Anglo Saxon Circus, 1864
Beklee (talk · contribs )
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Una Mabel Bourne (1882-1974) Pianist and Composer
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bourne-una-mabel-5307
Una Bourne, Australian pianist, 1922 / Alice Mills, The Centreway, Melbourne
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Rev Robert Cartwright (1771-1856) Anglican clergyman
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cartwright-robert-1882 Discover Collections http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/archive/discover_collections/history_nation/religion/foundations/ofthecloth.html
Rev. Robert Cartwright, born 1771, died 1856 [framed portrait]
Odysseus_voyage14
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Edward Miller Gard Eddy (1851-1897) Chief Commissioner for Railways
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/eddy-edward-miller-gard-6084 Grace's Guide to British Industrial History http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Edward_Miller_Gard_Eddy
Mr. E.M.G. Eddy, Chief Commissioner for Railways
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Sister Laura Francis (1865-1946) Sydney Methodist Missionary/charity worker
Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography http://webjournals.ac.edu.au/ojs/index.php/ADEB/article/view/1221/1218 Discover Collections http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/archive/discover_collections/history_nation/religion/city_missions/Francis.html
Laura Francis journals, 4 August 1890-29 May 1891
Portrait photograph of Laura Francis
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James Freeman (1814-1870) photographer - Freeman Studios
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/freeman-james-3896 DAAO https://www.daao.org.au/bio/james-freeman/biography/
Freeman Studio, Sydney, studio portraits, 1855 -
Freeman and Co., Sydney, advertisement, 1900
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Phyllis Mander-Jones (1896-1984) Archivist, Librarian
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jones-phyllis-mander-12705 Australian Women's Register http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE4350b.htm
Phyllis Mander Jones papers, 1914-1983 Phyllis Mander-Jones interviewed by Baiba Berzins concerning her career at the State Library of New South Wales, 1983
Australian Institute of Librarians' inaugural meeting at Canberra, August 20, 1937 - Phyllis Mander Jones back row 6 from left
User:Odysseus_voyage14
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James Mathers (1852-1911) Sydney City Mission/ charity worker
Discover Collections http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/archive/discover_collections/history_nation/religion/city_missions/mathers.html Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography http://webjournals.ac.edu.au/ojs/index.php/ADEB/article/view/977/974
James Mathers - journals of mission work among the poor in Sydney, 1897-1911 (digitised)
James Mathers - Sydney City Mission
Odysseus_voyage14
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Richard Read Senior (1765-1829) convict artist
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/read-richard-2577 Discover Collections http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/archive/discover_collections/history_nation/macquarie/artists/read/index.html DAAO https://www.daao.org.au/bio/senior-richard-daniel-read/biography/
Richard Reid, Senior – portraits, scenes of the colony, Sydney wildlife etc.
View of the Heads Port Jackson - Richard Read Senior a128859
Afterthesiren
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Elizabeth Jane Ward (1842 - 1908) evangelist, milliner and philanthropist
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ward-elizabeth-jane-8980 Australian Women's Register http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE3972b.htm Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography http://webjournals.ac.edu.au/ojs/index.php/ADEB/article/view/720/717 Trove resources http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/744085?c=people
Out of weakness made strong: being a record of the life and labours of Mrs E.J. Ward, with photos /preface by the Rev. Canon Boyce (DS Mitchell collection)
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Austral Groves "Strella" Wilson (1894-1989) soprano
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wilson-austral-groves-strella-15795 Trove interview http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/45994015
Studio portrait of soprano Strella Wilson
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Mary Elizabeth Windeyer (1837-1912) Australian women's rights campaigner
ADB http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/windeyer-lady-mary-elizabeth-1059 Australian Women's Register http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE2168b.htm Trove resources http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/742066?c=people
Papers of Lady Windeyer 1854-1911 in Windeyer Family Papers 1829-1943
Lady Mary Elizabeth Windeyer 1890
Kandlewiki
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This table includes target articles/topics and links to relevant resources.
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Antarctica
Antarctica (SLNSW website)
Aliaretiree (talk · contribs )
A highly contested topic with multiple perspectives(see the talk page ), links to Discover Collections were added
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Australasian Antarctic Expedition
Antarctica (SLNSW website) Catalogue record for Australasian Antarctic Expedition - Records, 1 Dec. 1910 - 1 Dec. 1915, together with related and miscellaneous papers, 1874-1934, and including manuscripts of the published scientific reports with related papers, 1911-1947 (SLNSW)
Cerebusfan (talk · contribs )
Australasian Antarctic Expedition - members
Rubicon49bce (talk · contribs ) & Kakapo100 (talk · contribs )
Articles for creation: Walter Hannam , Percy Correll , Herbert Murphy , Alfred Hodgeman , Eric Webb Articles edited: Archibald Lang McLean
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Aylmer Bourke Lambert
TAL & Dai-ichi Life Derby collection of natural history watercolours, 1790s / compiled by Aylmer Bourke Lambert
Aliaretiree (talk · contribs ) Rubicon49bce (talk · contribs )
Also upload some images to Wiki Commons
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Banjo Paterson
Catalogue record for Series 02 Volume 195: A.B. Paterson - The Man from Snowy River and other verses, ca. 1895 (SLNSW) Catalogue record for Letter from A.B. Paterson, 16 June 1939, concerning origin of song 'Waltzing Matilda' (SLNSW) Subject search for Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton), 1864-1941 (SLNSW)
Mishcakes (talk · contribs )
Bungaree
Catalogue record for "Bungaree" Native Chief, NSW. N. Self Esq. (Old Sydney) (SLNSW) Subejct search for Bungaree, d.1830 (SLNSW) The story of Bungaree / [text by Patrick Fletcher]. (Catalogue record, SLNSW )Bungaree : the first Australian. (Catalogue record, SLNSW )Aboriginal Sydney : a guide to important places of the past and present / Melinda Hinkson ; photography Alana Harris. (Catalogue record, SLNSW )
Conrad Martens
Subject search for Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878 (SLNSW catalogue) Subject search for Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art (SLNSW exhibition)
David Unaipon
David Unaipon (SLNSW website) Catalogue record for 'Legendary Tales of Australian Aborigines' by David Unaipon, 1924-1925 (SLNSW)
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Elizabeth Macarthur
Macarthurs (SLNSW website) Subject search for Macarthur family (SLNSW catalogue) Subject search for Macarthur, Elizabeth, 1766-1850 (SLNSW catalogue)
Nulka111 (talk · contribs )
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Eugene von Guerard
Eugene von Guerard (SLNSW website) Catalogue record for Eugene von Guerard aggregated collection of drawings in presentation albums, 1854-1869 (SLNSW) Subject search for Von Guerard, Eugene, 1811-1901 (SLNSW catalogue)
Federation of Australia
Subject search for Federation (1901) (SLNSW catalogue)
First Fleet
The First Fleet (SLNSW website) Tales from the First Fleet (SLNSW website) Research guide (SLNSW website) The First Fleet : the real story / Alan Frost. (Catalogue record, SLNSW )1788 / by Watkin Tench ; [edited and introduced by Tim Flannery]. (Catalogue record, SLNSW )
Aliaretiree (talk · contribs ), Rubicon49bce (talk · contribs )
Article on Simple English Wikipedia also edited
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Francis Greenway
Subject search for Greenway, Francis, 1777-1837 (SLNSW catalogue) Catalogue record for Greenway family - Papers, 1814-1903, with associated papers, 1925-1933 (SLNSW)
Mcarneyaus (talk · contribs )
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Gold rushes in Australia
Eureka! The rush for gold (SLNSW website) Catalogue record for Holtermann Collection : photographs of goldfield towns in N.S.W. and Victoria; Sydney and Melbourne streets and buildings, 1871-1876 (SLNSW)
Mishcakes (talk · contribs )
Gregory Blaxland
Crossing the Blue Mountains (SLNSW website) Subject search for Blaxland, Gregory, 1778-1853 (SLNSW catalogue) Subject search for Blue Mountains (N.S.W.) -- Discovery and exploration. (SLNSW catalogue) Subject search for Crossing the Blue Mountains (SLNSW exhibition)
Journals of the First Fleet
Rubicon49bce (talk · contribs )
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Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson (SLNSW website) Subject search for Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922 (SLNSW catalogue)
Odysseus_voyage14
corrected footnotes and content
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John Lewin
Mr J W Lewin : painter & naturalist / Richard Neville. (Catalogue record, SLNSW )Catalogue record for Australian watercolour drawings and etchings, 1796-1809 / by J.W. Lewin, G.P. Harris, G.W. Evans and others ; Plates from Martyn’s conchology, ca. 1789 ; Plates of butterflies and gryllus (SLNSW) Subject search for Lewin, J. W. (John William), 1770-1819 (SLNSW catalogue)
Himalaya11
referencing and citations
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John Macarthur
Macarthurs (SLNSW website) Subject search for Macarthur family (SLNSW catalogue) Subject search for Macarthur, John, 1767-1834 (SLNSW catalogue)
Lachlan Macquarie
Macquarie era (SLNSW website) Macquarie's crossing (SLNSW website) Subject search for The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 exhibition (SLNSW)
List of war memorials in NSW
Register of War Memorials in NSW
List of Australian diarists of World War I
Rubicon49bce
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Ludwig Leichhardt
Ludwig Leichhardt (SLNSW website) Catalogue record for Ludwig Leichhardt collection, 1832-1846, with associated papers to 1931 (SLNSW) Subject search for Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848 (SLNSW catalogue)
This article is also of interest to the German Wikipedia.
Macquarie collector's chest
Catalogue record for Macquarie Collector's Chest, ca. 1818 (SLNSW) Exotica : the Macquarie Collector's Chest in the Picture Gallery / State Library of New South Wales. (Catalogue record, SLNSW )Rare & curious : the secret history of Governor Macquarie's collectors' chest / Elizabeth Ellis. (Catalogue record, SLNSW )
Mary Reibey
Catalogue record for Mary Reibey - land grant, 1812-1884 (SLNSW) Subject search for Reibey, Mary, 1777-1855 (SLNSW catalogue)
Cavebear196
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Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders' Journeys (SLNSW website) Matthew Flinders: the ultimate voyage exhibition page (via Pandora web archive) Matthew Flinders electronic archive (via Pandora web archive) Matthew Flinders : the ultimate voyage : 1 December 2003-1 February 2004 : a national touring exhibition by the State Library of New South Wales. (Catalogue record, SLNSW )
Miles Franklin
Catalogue record for Miles Franklin - Papers, 1841-1954 (SLNSW) Subject search for Franklin, Miles, 1879-1954 (SLNSW) Catalogue record for William Blackwood and Sons - Publishing file for Miles Franklin's Brent of Bin Bin novels, 1927-1948 (SLNSW)
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Newcastle, New South Wales
Subject search for Treasures of Newcastle from the Macquarie Era exhibition (SLNSW)
Nita Kibble
Catalogue record for Nita Bernice Kibble papers 1899-1959, with papers of Miss N. M. Dobbie relating to Miss Kibble, 1962-1977 (SLNSW) Catalogue record for Kibble, Nita Bernice, 1879-1962 (SLNSW)
Cavebear196
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Patrick White
Research guide (SLNSW website) Catalogue record for Selection of photographs from "Patrick White : the late years", 1977-1994 / by William Yang (SLNSW)
Cavebear196
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Pemulwuy
Pemulwuy, the rainbow warrior / Eric Willmot. (Catalogue record, SLNSW catalogue )Aboriginal Sydney : a guide to important places of the past and present / Melinda Hinkson ; photography Alana Harris. (Catalogue record, SLNSW )
Rum Rebellion
1808 Rum Rebellion (SLNSW website) Catalogue record for New South Wales Goverment Printer - Arrest of Governor Bligh January 26, 1808. Copy of the original manuscript documents. (SLNSW) Subject search for New South Wales -- History -- Rum Rebellion, 1808-1809 (SLNSW catalogue) Catalogue record for 1808: Bligh's Sydney Rebellion. (SLNSW)
Subdivision plans
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (SLNSW website) Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (SLNSW website)
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Wilhelmina Rawson
cookery book collection; Keesing fellowship
Aliaretiree (talk · contribs )
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William Bligh
Mutiny on the Bounty (SLNSW website) 1808 Rum Rebellion (SLNSW website) Subject search for Bligh, William, 1754-1817 (SLNSW) 1808: Bligh's Sydney Rebellion. (Catalogue record, SLNSW )
Luqamatra (talk · contribs )
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William Lawson
Crossing the Blue Mountains (SLNSW website) Lawson's journal (SLNSW website) Subject search for Blue Mountains (N.S.W.) -- Discovery and exploration. (SLNSW catalogue) Subject search for Crossing the Blue Mountains (SLNSW exhibition)
William Wentworth
Crossing the Blue Mountains (SLNSW website) Wentworth's journal (SLNSW website) Catalogue record for Wentworth family papers, 1783-1827 (SLNSW) Subject search for Wentworth family (SLNSW catalogue) Subject search for Wentworth, W. C. (William Charles), 1790-1872 (SLNSW catalogue) Catalogue record for William Charles Wentworth - Journal of an expedition across the Blue Mountains, 11 May-6 June 1813 (SLNSW) Subject search for Blue Mountains (N.S.W.) -- Discovery and exploration. (SLNSW catalogue) Subject search for Crossing the Blue Mountains (SLNSW exhibition)
Woollarawarre Bennelong
Subject search for Bennelong, ca. 1764-1813 (SLNSW catalogue) Subject search for Bennelong, ca. 1764-1813 -- Portraits (SLNSW catalogue) Aboriginal Sydney : a guide to important places of the past and present / Melinda Hinkson ; photography Alana Harris. (Catalogue record, SLNSW
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World War I
For previous events see WWI edit-a-thon (Australia)
World War I - diarists
Rubicon49bce (talk · contribs )
Articles created:List of Australian diarists of World War I "Did you Know?" (25 April 2014)Archie Barwick "Did you Know?" (12 August 2014) Articles edited:Charles Francis Laseron Miles Franklin Norman Thomas Gilroy Frank Hurley Eric Keast Burke William Holmes (Australian general) Stanley Savige Tom Richards (rugby union) Ion Idriess John Antill (general) Charles Frederick Cox
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Updating articles related to awards run by or associated with the Library, including:
Adding public libraries to Wikidata
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Libraries in Wales (UK) are available as Wikidata open datasets developed by CILIP Cymru Wales, National Library of Wales Wikimedian Jason Evans and LibrariesHacked.
This table records work done by the State Library of New South Wales on Wikipedia articles related to its collections.
Key:
Y article created or substantially developed by a trainee participant.
in progress