Archive for: July 2011

  1. Special Stationery in Library Stairwell

    In the late 19th to mid-20th century elaborate, decorative letterheads were used by large and small businesses alike to promote their business or products. A frieze …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/07/28/special-stationery-in-library-stairwell

  2. Foy & Gibson Catalogues

    The department store and manufacturers, Foy & Gibson, began when Mark Foy (1830–1884), a draper from Ireland who had owned various produce stores around the Bendigo …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/07/27/foy-giibson-catalogues

  3. Vale Margaret Olley

    These images come from Donald Friend, A collection of Hillendiana: Comprising vast numbers of facts and a considerable amount of fiction concerning the goldfield of Hillend …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/07/27/vale-margaret-olley

  4. Wilson Hall – An Integral Part of the University

    ‘Wilson Hall has been an integral part of the University of Melbourne landscape since the first building to bear this name was completed in 1882. Built …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/07/20/wilson-hall

  5. Hidden Treasures of the Orient

    Along with these colourful magazines from the 1930s, the Chinese rare material includes 7000 publications dating from the 1600s to 1935, as well as scrolls of …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/07/15/east-asian-rare-collections

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