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Australian painting, 1788-1960
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1962
- Author
- Smith, Bernard
- Publisher
- London : Oxford University Press
- Call Number
- ND1100 S6
- Author
- Smith, Bernard
- Responsibility
- Bernard Smith
- Publisher
- London : Oxford University Press
- Published Date
- 1962
- Physical Description
- xi, 357p. : ill.
- Subjects
- Painting, Australian
- Australia in Art
- Notes
- Bibliographical footnotes
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- ND1100 S6
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
- Collection
- Art Library
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- Date
- 1960
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3002 a-c
- Description
- Three wooden boomerangs. The top of each is slightly convex and the bottom surface is flat. One arm of each boomerang is tilted at a slight angle.a) Dark wood with painted aboriginal designs, in brown, black, white and yellow. The designs include geometric designs on the tips and an insect, a pe…
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- Title
- Boomerang
- Date
- 1960
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 0.8 (a); 23.0(b); 1.5 (c) x 6.0 (a); 8.0 (b); 6.0 (c) x 50.0 (a); 53.0 (b); 48.0 (c) cm
- Description
- Three wooden boomerangs. The top of each is slightly convex and the bottom surface is flat. One arm of each boomerang is tilted at a slight angle.a) Dark wood with painted aboriginal designs, in brown, black, white and yellow. The designs include geometric designs on the tips and an insect, a person, and a kangaroo. The back is stamped “MADE IN AUSTRALIA BY Bill On--.”b) Dark wood with very detailed painted aboriginal designs on the front in black, red, white and yellow. The painting includes geometric and concentric designs, an emu, a turtle, and two people. At the centre bent it’s marked “from CHERBOURG ABORIGINAL SETTLEMENT 1960. QLD. AUST.” and the back is marked with pen ink “BILL GORHAM.”c) Light and dark wood decorated with a stylized kangaroo on the front in brown, black, yellow and white. “Darwin N.T.” is writtten with marker on the front. The tips are also painted with stripes and wavey lines. There are two illegible stamps on the back.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.3002 a-c
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- fabric
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0126
- Description
- A linen dish towel with images of Australian Aboriginal art on a beige background. Under each image is a label in black text. Towel has a thick green and thin brown border. “Aboriginal Art” s written in the centre and at the bottom is “Australia” “PURE LINEN” “DESIGNED IN AUSTRALIA BY LEIL” “FAST …
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- Title
- Dish Towel
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- fabric
- Dimensions
- 42.0 x 82.0 cm
- Description
- A linen dish towel with images of Australian Aboriginal art on a beige background. Under each image is a label in black text. Towel has a thick green and thin brown border. “Aboriginal Art” s written in the centre and at the bottom is “Australia” “PURE LINEN” “DESIGNED IN AUSTRALIA BY LEIL” “FAST COLOURS” “REG.D DESIGN 63157”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0126
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The dreamtime book ; Australian aboriginal myths in paintings
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20801
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1973
- Author
- Roberts, Ainslie
- Publisher
- Adelaide (Australia) : Rigby
- Call Number
- ND1105 R6
- Author
- Roberts, Ainslie
- Responsibility
- by Ainslie Roberts and text by Charles P. Mountford
- Publisher
- Adelaide (Australia) : Rigby
- Published Date
- 1973
- Physical Description
- 175p. : ill.
- Subjects
- Paintings, Australian
- Australia in Art
- Accession Number
- 3069
- Call Number
- ND1105 R6
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
- Collection
- Art Library
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Great Australian paintings
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20799
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1971
- Publisher
- Melbourne (Australia) : Lansdowne Press
- Call Number
- ND1100 G7
- Publisher
- Melbourne (Australia) : Lansdowne Press
- Published Date
- c1971
- Physical Description
- 72p. : ill. ports.
- Subjects
- Paintings, Australian
- Australia in Art
- Notes
- Bibliography p.72
- Accession Number
- 3069
- Call Number
- ND1100 G7
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
- Collection
- Art Library
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Miss Australia. -- 1962, Jan. 8
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- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- II.A. Main file: Alphabetical files
- Reference Code
- V190 / II.A.i. - 13
- Physical Description
- ca.24 negatives: 6 x 6 cm.
- Subject Access
- Australia, Miss
- Access Restrictions
- Access by appointment only
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- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1963
- Publisher
- National Geographic Society
- Call Number
- C13-6.1
- Publisher
- National Geographic Society
- Published Date
- 1963
- Scale
- Scale: 110 miles to 1 inch
- Relief: Bench marks
- Subjects
- Australia, Pacific
- Accession Number
- 495
- Call Number
- C13-6.1
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Souvenir Spoon Collection
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- Date
- 1915 – 1970
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0642 a-i
- Description
- Souvenir teaspoons (a) is sterling with lighthouse scene and "Atlantic City N.J." impressed in spoon and handle decorated with die cast fish, starfish and oyster shell. (b) is Birks sterling with coiled handle ending in snowshoe motif and Notre Dame Cathedral Montreal impression in spoon. (c)" is s…
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- Title
- Souvenir Spoon Collection
- Date
- 1915 – 1970
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 1.0 x 2.4 x 11.0 cm
- Description
- Souvenir teaspoons (a) is sterling with lighthouse scene and "Atlantic City N.J." impressed in spoon and handle decorated with die cast fish, starfish and oyster shell. (b) is Birks sterling with coiled handle ending in snowshoe motif and Notre Dame Cathedral Montreal impression in spoon. (c)" is sterling spoon from Courtenay, B.C. and has totem pole handle . (d) is Noel 1970 spoon (Onieda Silversmiths) with three wise men. (e) is "Melbourne, Australia, enamelled crest spoon of electroplated nickel steel. (f) is Stagecoach Barkerville spoon made in Holland. (g) is Norge (Norway) crest enamelled spoon of stainless steel. (h) is enamelled Viking ship Norge (Norway) spoon with Sortland on back of handle. (i) is Banff, Alta. spoon of "Fascination Silverplate" with green stone inset into handle.
- Subject
- households
- souvenir
- Norway
- Australia
- Montreal
- Atlantic City
- totem pole
- British Columbia
- Banff
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0642 a-i
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- Date
- 1950 – 1970
- Material
- skin, kangaroo; plastic
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1013
- Description
- Black box, "Compliments Prime Minister Australia", nearly square, fine-grained black leather with gold Australian crest (kangaroo and emu, motto below) stamped on top of lid, opens by leather hinge along back, lined in soft wood-grained brown vinyl (?) inside lid and box, inner lip 0.5 cm, stamped …
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1950 – 1970
- Material
- skin, kangaroo; plastic
- Dimensions
- 4.5 x 10.6 x 12.2 cm
- Description
- Black box, "Compliments Prime Minister Australia", nearly square, fine-grained black leather with gold Australian crest (kangaroo and emu, motto below) stamped on top of lid, opens by leather hinge along back, lined in soft wood-grained brown vinyl (?) inside lid and box, inner lip 0.5 cm, stamped in gold on base "Hickok/genuine kangaroo"
- Credit
- Gift of Walter Ashdown, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1013
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