A Virtual Treasure Trove
Summary: Louise Maher and a curator discuss items from our National Institutions.
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The National Library has a set of illustrated Japanese fairytales translated into English in the 1880s.
Dame Quentin Bryce's yellow suit and two corsages in suffragette colours are on display at the Museum of Australian Democracy.
The National Film and Sound Archive has the first recording of an Australian female country artist - Sister Dorrie's duet with Tex Morton.
The PS Enterprise is one of the world's oldest working paddle steamers and the largest item in the collection of the National Museum of Australia
A 19th century register in the National Archives documents the grim fate of the Bounty mutineers.
Tracking down an early 19th century monster man in the National Library of Australia.
Our national institutions in Canberra share some precious Christmas-themed artefacts.
A collection of items from the Busy Bee cafe in Gunnedah is on display at the National Museum of Australia.
The Museum of Australian Democracy has a set of handmade tools that belonged to apprentice carpenter Carl Cooke.
Moulded black wax cylinders produced by entrepreneur Edwin Henderson mark the start of Australia's commerical music recording industry
A delicate, threatened, purple-flowered plant is one of the treasures at the Australian National Botanic Gardens
Artist Shen Jiawei is depicted with his family in a photographic portrait by Greg Weight
Personal items belonging to 19-year old Private Ian Ray, recovered 60 years after his death in a plane crash, are on show at the Australian War Memorial
Small leather notebooks used by Italian born astronomer Pietro Baracchi are in the collection of the National Archives.
A letter by Bennelong in 1796 that was published in an 1801 German scientific journal is the first known text in English by an Indigenous Australian.
