Posts tonen met het label Australië. Alle posts tonen
Posts tonen met het label Australië. Alle posts tonen

29 maart 2026

Hopelijk ver genoeg van de boom

W.E.L.H. Crowther, bibliophile
W.E.L.H. Crowther, bibliophile, door Florence Rodway

De afgebeelde man is William Crowther (Tasmanië, 1887–1981), zoon van Edward Crowther (1843–1931) en kleinzoon van de in Haarlem geboren William Lodewyk Crowther (1817–1885). Deze voorvader werd uiteindelijk premier van Tasmanië, maar is vooral bekend vanwege de vermeende verminking van de stoffelijke resten van William Lanne. Van Lanne werd destijds (1869) abusievelijk gedacht dat hij de laatste mannelijke Tasmaanse Aboriginal was. Crowther zou diens schedel hebben verwijderd en naar het Royal College of Surgeons in Londen hebben gestuurd.

Op 9 januari 1889 werd in Franklin Square in Hobart een bronzen standbeeld van grootvader Crowther opgericht, gefinancierd door publieke bijdragen. Op 15 augustus 2022 stemde de gemeenteraad van Hobart met 7 tegen 4 vóór het verwijderen van dit standbeeld uit de openbare ruimte in Franklin Square, als gebaar van verzoening.
Standbeeld van  Crowther in Franklin Square, Hobart
Standbeeld William Lodewyk Crowther, Franklin Square, Hobart. 
Foto: Shkuru Afshar.

De bibliograaf en verzamelaar William Crowther, met wiens verstilde portret we deze post begonnen, was vanaf 1955 actief als ere-adviseur voor Australische bibliografie bij de State Library of Tasmania. Hij verzamelde veel informatie over de geschiedenis van de geneeskunde en de natuurhistorie in Tasmanië. In 1963 schonk hij de verzameling skelet­resten van Aboriginals die zich in familiebezit bevond aan het Tasmanian Museum. Vanaf 1964 werd zijn collectie van meer dan 15.000 boeken, manuscripten en historisch materiaal geleidelijk overgedragen aan dezelfde State Library.


William Crowther (1788–1839)
   │
   └── huwelijk met Sarah Pearson (1795–1863)
         │
         └── William Lodewijk (Lodewyk) Crowther (1817–1885)
               Arts, naturalist, premier van Tasmanië
               │
               └── huwelijk met Sarah Victoria Marie Louise Guillod
                     │
                     └── Edward Lodewyk Crowther (1843–1931)
                           Arts, politicus in Tasmanië
                           │
                           └── huwelijk met Emily Augusta Lillie
                                 │
                                 └── William Edward Lodewyk Crowther (1887–1981)
                                       Bibliograaf, verzamelaar, adviseur State Library

16 mei 2024

De gelamineerde ansichtkaart

Gelamineerde ansichtkaart uit Australië, voorkant
Deze week heb ik voor het eerst via Postcrossing een gelamineerde kaart ontvangen. De achterkant was beschreven, vervolgens is de kaart gelamineerd en ten slotte is er een postzegel op geplakt. Op zich een aardig idee: de kaart blijft netjes en leesbaar, en eventuele stickers van postbedrijven (in sommige landen een ramp) zijn makkelijk te verwijderen. Toch weet ik niet of ik dit ook zou doen, de totaalervaring is toch net even anders. Maar het is een mooie aanvulling op het rariteitenkabinet.
Gelamineerde ansichtkaart uit Australië, detail van achterkant met postzegel

20 januari 2023

Don't be shame. Be game.

'Condoman Says: Don't Be Shame Be Game' 1991 Public Health poster published by the Commonwealth Department of Health.(Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
'Condoman Says: Don't Be Shame Be Game' 1991 Public Health poster published by the Commonwealth Department of Health.(Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images). 


20 april 2018

The End of Innocence, Peter Waples-Crowe

Painting: The End of Innocence 1
Painting: The End of Innocence 2
Painting: The End of Innocence 3
Painting: The End of Innocence 4
Peter Waples-Crowe:
“I went on a trip to Asia early in the year and as I wandered around Thailand and Hong Kong I started to think about Aboriginality in a global perspective. This series of works are a response to feeling overwhelmed by globalisation, consumerism and celebrity.”

Source: Culture Victoria
'I want to be a proud, queer elder': Meet Aboriginal artist Peter Waples-Crowe (ABC News)

Flood in the Forest

Painting: Flood in the Forest
Culture Victoria:
This painting tells the story of how Woongies (Aboriginal People) used the forest in the flood time when there were still ceremonies held in certain areas. There was an abundance of food as animals would go to dry ground making them easier to be caught. There was plenty of fish and mouth-watering crayfish. The white figures are Mookies (spirits). It is the Yorta-Yorta belief that the Mookies are still there today.

ZETA THOMSON Yorta Yorta/Wurundjeri



Emu egg (dingo)

Emu egg, dingo
Culture Victoria:

Lindsay Kirby's artwork of Australian animals reflect both the traditional style of his Paakintji heritage and influences from Aboriginal artists of other regions.

LINDSAY KIRBY Paakintji/Yitti Yitti/Nyari Nyari/Wiradjuri



Wiradjuri/Yorta Yorta

Carved emu egg, Wiradjuri/Yorta Yorta
Culture Victoria:

Wiradjuri/Yorta Yorta

Born 1950, Balranald, New South Wales

Resides Kerang, Victoria

Esther began carving emu eggs in 1977 when her father Sam Kirby died. Sam Kirby was well known for his fine carving work and his ability to ‘do anything’ with the eggs. She had learned all his techniques by watching him and took up the carving to keep his name going. Esther’s common subjects are landscapes featuring figures and stories from Aboriginal mythology.

Amongst several other exhibitions, Esther’s work was included in the exhibition Women’s Work Land and Spirit at the 1995 International Women’s Conference in Beijing.



Aboriginal man ornamented for a corroboree

Aboriginal man ornamented for a corroboree
Daintree, Richard, 1832-1878 & Antoine Fauchery, 1823-1861, photographers
Aboriginal man ornamented for a corroboree, standing, full face, whole-length
[ca. 1858]

Culture Victoria:
This image was taken by Antoine Fauchery and Richard Daintree between late 1857 and early 1859 for inclusion in their Photographic Series Sun Pictures of Victoria, The album consists of fifty albumen silver prints, twelve of which are photographs of Indigenous Victorians.

Cultural Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander users of this website are warned that this story contains images of deceased persons and places that could cause sorrow.



27 januari 2018

The slick Yank (in Melbourne)

That goes double. The slick Yank (In Melbourne): Take your sweet time at the front Aussie-- I got my hands full right now-- with your sweet toots at home.
That goes double. The slick Yank (In Melbourne): Take your sweet time at the front Aussie-- I got my hands full right now-- with your sweet toots at home.

Via: Japanese psyop during WWII

26 september 2017

Frank Long, the discoverer of Zeehan silver fields

Title: Frank Long, the discoverer of Zeehan silver fields
Publication Information: Hobart : Anson, [18--]
Physical description: 1photograph : b&w ; 16 X 10 cm.
Format: photograph image (online)
Notes: Exact size of image: 152 X 93 mm.
Title inscribed in pencil on verso in unknown hand.
Online version of this image available.
Summary: Frank Long standing on his head in front of a painted studio backdrop.
Citation: Digitised item from: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office

17 december 2013

Native dignity

Melbourne. Printed for the Proprietor by DeGruchy & Leigh, 43, Elizabeth St.

PRIMARY ARTIST: S.T. Gill (1818–1880)
TITLE: Native dignity.
DATE MADE: 1866
TECHNIQUE: lithograph, printed in black ink, from one stone
Via: CENTRE FOR AUSTRALIAN ART

26 november 2013

Number 1 Rabbit Proof Fence

Number 1 Rabbit Proof Fence

"Construction of the Number 1 Rabbit Proof Fence began in 1901. It stretched 1834 kilometres from the south coast to the northwest coast, along a line north of Burracoppon, 230 kilometres east of Perth. Unfortunately by 1902 rabbits had already been found west of the fence line."

Via: The Rabbit Proof Fence (Western Perspectives on a Nation, Library and Information Service of Western Australia)

20 juni 2012

Zoe

Title: [J. N. Maskelyne's automaton, "Zoe"]
Description: Shows John Nevil Maskelyne whole-length, standing next to a figure of a girl seated on a stool drawing, figure is supposedly an automaton. William George Alma (1904 - 1993) was a magician, collector and manufacturer of magic apparatus.
Subject: Maskelyne, John Nevil, 1839-1917.
Subject: Magicians -- England Robots -- England
Image number: P.340/NO.169
Format: photograph : gelatin silver ; 11 x 8 cm.
Managed by: Item held by State Library of Victoria
Collection or series: IspartOf W. G. Alma conjuring collection. Photographs
Date or place: [ca. 19--]
Reproduction rights: State Library of Victoria.
Via: Picture Australia.

24 februari 2012

Man on a penny-farthing bicycle being chased by his sister


Title: Man on a penny-farthing bicycle being chased by his sister - West Wyalong, NSW
Level of Description: Series
Date of Work: c 1900
Type of Material: Graphic Materials
Call Number: At Work and Play - 02829
Supplementary Identifiers: Original item no. BCP 02829
General Note: Maggie and Bob Speirs
Topic: bicycles, men, women
Place: West Wyalong (N.S.W.)
Digital order no.: bcp_02829
Via State Library, New Soiuth Wales

24 januari 2012

Martha Needle

Martha Needle
W. Mason & Co. Photographers. c.1880s/90s.
National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Old Melbourne

Martha Needle was hanged in 1894. Martha was an attractive woman with an apparently kindly disposition, but she was insane by any modern standards. Her friends were shocked when it was discovered she had poisoned her husband, daughters and prospective brother-in-law. She had grown up in a violent and abusive household, and had shown signs of mental instability as an adolescent, but had grown into a beautiful young woman and married at seventeen. After her children's deaths, before she was apprehended, she spent the insurance money on an elaborate family grave which she visited regularly.

She was hanged at the age of thirty. Martha had been raised in an unstable family and wreaked havoc on her own. Her story is unusual because her crimes arose not out of the severe circumstances of colonial Victoria but from universal, age-old family and personal dysfunction.


Via Culture Victoria


06 november 2010

Call to boycott Barbie with built-in camera

Barbie... now with built-in camera, casing privacy concerns.
MATTEL'S trademark vinyl doll is getting older but she has embraced technology - Barbie's new built-in camera abilities are worrying some privacy advocates and psychologists.

The Barbie Video Girl doll has been criticised for enabling children to film themselves and others using a hidden camera in Barbie's necklace.

The doll, which retails for about $110, also has a small colour LCD screen in her back and the capacity to record 30 minutes of video, which can be transferred to a computer.

A clinical psychologist, Sally-Anne McCormack, said the doll had the potential to be used unwisely online and called on parents to boycott the product. "Essentially, it's a hidden camera," the mother of four said. "Children don't look at video clips the way that adults do, and there might be inappropriate shots that they upload onto YouTube."

Bron: Call to boycott Barbie with built-in camera (Brisbane Times, Daniella Miletic)

18 mei 2010

24 februari 2010

Van Heusen

Van Heusen toen:

4 out of 5 men want Oxfords ... in these new Van Heusen styles
it's daring, it's audacious, it's the bolder look in shirts
Show het it's a man's world
Van Heusen nu:




De laatste van deze onderste drie is onlangs geweerd in Australië. De foto zou in Brisbane op de achterkant van bussen komen maar werd uiteindelijk te gewaagd geacht.