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La Trobe Journal Features
These scholarly articles are reproduced from The La Trobe Journal. Exploring many hidden aspects of the Library and its collections, the Journal's articles cover topics as diverse as gold and its discovery, early tourist guides of Victoria, Henry Lawson, the story behind the Kelly armour, photography and the visual arts.
Ian Cox examines the processes involved in rebinding de Guileville's 15th-century manuscripts Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode and Pilgrimage of the Sowle, which the State Library acquired in 1936.
Caroline Clementes outlines the importance of Thomas Woolner's medallion of Charles Joseph La Trobe to the development of Woolner's career and later status as one of the finest sculptors of the Victorian period.
Juliet O'Conor explains the background of the author and the illustrator of The Legends of Moonie Jarl, the first Indigenous Australian children's book written and illustrated by the Indigenous people to whom the stories belonged.
The State Library of Victoria owns one of the earliest stained-glass windows made in Melbourne, a portrait of Shakespeare, more than three metres high. Mimi Colligan documents the extraordinary history of the window.
Shane Carmody gives a detailed account of how a copy of William Caxton’s Myrrour of the World (from which the Library's exhibition takes its name) came to the State Library - an important contribution towards the writing of a history of the collections.
Luke Gartlan examines one of the finest photograph albums of the 19th century, Views and Costumes of Japan by Austrian travel photographer Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Ratenicz.
The history of two political poster workshops which flourished in Melbourne from the 1970s to the 1990s - Redletter Community Workshop Inc. and Another Planet Posters (both later known as RedPlanet).
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