• Title
  Mitchell Library, Sydney, Dec 1923 / glass negatives presented by the Daily Mail
• Creator
  N.S.W.) Daily Mail (Sydney
• Call number
  ON 7
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  Dec 1923
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  430623
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 5 glass photonegatives - 12 x 16.3 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  First floor, interior views of reading room and gallery (nos.1-4)
  1. Relics enclosed in a glass case. Included in which is the bottle containing a message which the late Sir Ross Smith dropped into the sea on his great flight across the world.
  2-3. [Reading Room, first floor]
  4. The Picture Gallery
  5. Mitchell Library [exterior view, with statue of Lieutenant General Sir Richard Bourke and cannon in foreground]
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Nos. 1,4,5 reproduced in: Daily Mail, 28 Dec 1923 `Romance of the Mitchell Library'
  References:
  The Mitchell Library - press cuttings, Volume 2, pp.86-88 (Q027.5/M)
  A source of inspiration & delight : the buildings of the State Library of New South Wales since 1826 / David J. Jones. Sydney : Library Council of New South Wales, c1988. (p.57)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824096
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Negatives of interior of Mitchell Library presented by Daily Mail, Sydney, 1924" -- on lid of original negative box.
• Name
  Bourke, Richard, Sir, 1777-1855
  Mitchell Library (N.S.W.)
  
• Subject
  State Library of New South Wales--Photographs.
  
• Topic
  interiors
  display cases
  galleries
  libraries
  pictures
  reading rooms
  statues
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1016810

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