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This collection comprises correspondence, diaries, and photographs. The majority of the material relates to Dr Kathrine Reynolds' book "The Frauenstein letters: aspects of nineteenth century migration from the Duchy of Nassau to Australia" (2009), and includes: 23 letters described as 'The Muller Letters,' written from Europe to Australia, 1850-1890, by Eva Leitz, Christina Schmitt, George Muller, Widow Gietz, and Johann Schmitt; 12 letters referred to as 'The Fuchs/Klein Letters,' written from Australia to Europe by Maria Fuchs, Jacob Klein and Katharine Klein; over 40 volumes of diaries, primarily belonging to J.H. Muller, dating from the 1870s to the 1940s; and two photograph albums relating to the Frauenstein families.
The collected essays in Migration and Cultural Contact: Germany and Australia investigate historical documents, letters, film, literature and other cultural sources to reveal how each country influenced the culture, intellectual thought and aesthetics of the other from earliest colonial times through to today.
A collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians.
What are photographs ‘doing’ in museums? Why are some photographs valued and others not? Why are some photographic practices visible and not others? What value systems and hierarchies do they reflect? What Photographs Do explores how museums are defined through their photographic practices. It focuses not on formal collections of photographs as accessioned objects, be they ‘fine art’ or ‘archival’, but on what might be termed ‘non-collections’: the huge number of photographs that are integral to the workings of museums yet ‘invisible’, existing outside the structures of ‘the collection’. These photographs, however, raise complex and ambiguous questions about the ways ...
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This brief and witty book, by the award-winning science writer Donald Goldsmith, takes on key questions about the origin and evolution of the cosmos. By clearly laying out what we currently know about the universe as a whole, Goldsmith lets us see firsthand whether modern cosmology is in a state of crisis.
18 -1905 include the Annual report of the superintendent of public schools.