Published by State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) Press, Sydney, 2018
ISBN 10: 1925831078 ISBN 13: 9781925831078
Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
Paperback large single poster size sheet which folds into eight octavo pages, very good plus condition, black & white text-photos, minimal edgewear. 8 pp. This pamphlet is part of an exhibition held from 4 October 2018 to 5 May 2019 at the State Library of New South Wales. This pamphlet tells the story of British immigrants made good. The Macpherson family lived in Sydney from 1833. The family photographed their leisured lives, the bush around them, strangers in the street, and the beach. They filmed the world around them before the war changed things forever. In 2014, when the family donated their collection of 688 glass-plate negatives to the library little was known about its contents. Careful cleaning and digitising, meant that the images could be looked at closely in new ways. The expertise of the online community, the detective work of studying places and faces, analysing evidence, putting together fragments of information to reveal identities, locations, times and events meant that the story could start to fall into place.