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13 March – 15 August 2010
Talbot Family Treasures Wall, Level 4
State Library of Queensland
New Treasures
A showcase of State Library of Queensland’s
recent acquisitions
New Treasures brings together more than 40
extraordinary items recently added to the State
Library’s collection – revealing how the collection
continues to grow in size, scope and diversity. The
items on display are a small part of the 100,000
acquisitions added to the collection in 2008 and 2009
and contribute to our holdings of more than 2 million
items.
The State Library builds its collection through generous
donations, acquisition, legal deposit, and commissions.
The items in New Treasures have been acquired for the
John Oxley Library, the Australian Library of Art, Music
Collection and the State Reference Library.
List of Items
All items are on display from 13 March to 15 August 2010, unless
otherwise stated. Reproductions will replace originals where
suitable duplicates or rotation items are not available for midterm
display changeover.
1 Sara Bowen, Darren Bryant, Liz Deckers, Rebekah
Evans, Louise Irving, Joanna Kambourian, Tim Mosley
Port Augusta
Nauru
Maribyrnong
Lismore, NSW: Authors, 2007
paper fi re balloons, recycled
handmade paper, pulp printing,
silkscreen printing
Australian Library of Art, State
Library of Queensland
ALAAB COD (Purchased 2009)
Display period: March – May 2010
Nauru
Display period: June – August 2010
Maribyrnong
Artist Tim Mosely invited other artists to join him for an
annual collaborative gathering – the Codex Event – with the
fi nal output being an artists’ book often using the paper pulp
printing technique he developed. In 2007 the books, Port
Augusta, Nauru and Maribyrnong, were created as part of
the ‘phlight of the paper balloons’ series.
Collaborative artists involved in Codex Event 4 explored
paper balloons crossing boundaries to freedom, a metaphor
for the plight of refugees. A defl ated balloon took the form of
a book, which when opened took the shape of a boat. The
‘boats’ were named after the Australian federal government’s
detention centres used to ‘deal’ with illegal immigrants.
2 Tewantin, Noosa and District: Souvenir
Brisbane: Jackson and O’Sullivan Printers, c. 1927
printed booklet
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
P 919.432 TEW C1 (Purchased 2009)
3 Queensland Government Tourist Bureau
Lindeman Island: Great Barrier Reef
Brisbane: Bureau, c. 1940
poster. Chromolithograph on paper
Artist: ‘Rowland’
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
HPT TPU 052 (Purchased 2009)
Display period: March – May 2010
4 James Northfield (1887–1973)
Australia: Great Barrier Reef,
Queensland
Melbourne: Australian National Publicity
Association, c. 1930s
poster. Colour lithograph on linen
© Courtesy of the James Northfi eld
Heritage Art Trust, John Oxley Library,
State Library of Queensland
HPT TOU 053 (Purchased 2009)
Display period: June – August 2010
5 Ken McGregor (1959–)
William Creek & Beyond: Australian artists explore the
outback: Jason Benjamin, Hazel Dooney, Robert Jacks,
David Larwill, Jeff Makin, John Olsen, Rodney Pople, Mark
Schaller, Andrew Sibley, Tim Storrier
St Leonards, NSW: Fine Art Publishing, 2002
Artists’ profi les by Ashley Crawford, photographs by Hari Ho
Limited edition 50 presentation copies
Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland
RBHMON MACG (Purchased 2009)
Display period: March – May 2010
Pages 168 and 169
Display period: June – August 2010
Pages 170 and 171
This book documents 10 Australian artists’ exploration of
the wilderness of Lake Eyre, the Painted Desert, Dalhousie
Springs, Coober Pedy, Kings Canyon, Uluru, Kata Tjuta and
the Aboriginal settlements of Papunya and Kintore. This
copy is number 7 of a limited edition of 50 copies, each
bound in emu skin and containing an etching by John Olsen
titled, Emus passing. (This title has also been published as a
standard commercial edition.)
6 FW Thiel (Frederick William)
Brisbane from the Air: Illustrated
Brisbane: Author, 1919
printed booklet
John Oxley Library, State Library
of Queensland
P 919.431041 THI (Purchased 2009)
7 William E [Bill] Yaxley
Dusk, 2008
oil on canvas
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
Acc. 10057 (Purchased 2009)
This painting depicts the bat colony near Charters Towers.
8 Mt Aitken Estates Port Wine, produce of
Australia
The Fitzgerald commission of inquiry
commemorative port, Queensland 26 May
1987, Limited Edition
ceramic port bottle encased in wooden box
and perspex cover (Donated 2009)
To mark the twentieth anniversary of his
corruption report, The Hon. GE (Tony) Fitzgerald, AC QC,
gave State Library a collection of material relating to ‘The
Fitzgerald Inquiry’. Beginning in 1987, the inquiry attracted
worldwide attention for exposing systemic corruption within
the Bjelke-Petersen government and the police force.
Fitzgerald’s report, Commission of Inquiry into Possible
Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct was
published in 1989 and made over 100 recommendations
to the Queensland Parliament. The bottle states it was
commissioned by, and is dedicated to, the legal staff, police
offi cers, public servants and temporary staff who assisted
the commission. It shows Tony Fitzgerald’s signature.
9 David May
Portrait of Tony Fitzgerald, 1988
colour photograph (Donated 2009)
10 Queensland Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal
Activities and Associated Police Misconduct
[Fitzgerald Report] Report of a Commission of Inquiry
pursuant to orders in Council
Chairman: GE (Tony) Fitzgerald (1941–)
Brisbane: Government Printer, 1989
bound printed report
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland (Donated 2009)
Display period: March – May 2010 Page (i)
Display period: June – August 2010 Page (iii)
11 Marilyn Baldey
Sketch of court-room scene featuring
Russell Hinze, 1988
colour sketch on paper
© Australian Broadcasting
Corporation Library Sales
(Donated 2009)
12 John Spooner
Cartoon of Tony Fitzgerald holding a pineapple, c. 1988
pencil sketch on paper
(Donated 2009)
Items 8 – 12 are from the Tony Fitzgerald Collection, John
Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Acc 27051
13 TG Moyle
The Wills Tragedy, 1861
watercolour on paper
John Oxley Library, State Library of
Queensland
Acc. 8085 (Purchased 2008)
An attack occurred on 19 October 1861 at the leasehold
property ‘Cullin-la-ringo’, between Emerald and Springsure.
Horatio Spencer Howe Wills, a former newspaper publisher
and politician, had just arrived with his family, staff and
livestock when 19 of the party of 25 were massacred by
members of local tribes.
14 TP Lucas (Thomas Pennington)
The Curse and its Cure in two volumes
Brisbane: JH Reynolds, Printer, 1894
printed coverless book
Vol. 1 The Ruins of Brisbane in the Year
2000
Vol. 2 Brisbane Rebuilt in the Year 2200
John Oxley Library, State Library of
Queensland
RBJ A823.2 LUC (Digitised 2009)
Display period: March – May 2010
Vol. 1 The Ruins of Brisbane in the Year 2000
Display period: June – August 2010
Vol. 2 Brisbane Rebuilt in the Year 2200
Published in 1894 and one of the fi rst novels set in Brisbane;
The Curse and its Cure is a futuristic tale set in the year 2000
and 2200. It tells of Brisbane’s demise, due to the selfi shness
and greed of its citizens, and its subsequent resurrection.
The two fragile paper copies of this novel housed in the John
Oxley Library are possibly the only extant copies left in the
world. The Curse and its Cure was penned by Dr Thomas
Pennington Lucas, renowned for developing Lucas’ papaw
ointment which is still produced to this day.
15 Loyal Ipswich Lodge Grand United
Order of Oddfellows Medallion
silver medallion, 1850
John Oxley Library, State Library of
Queensland
Acc. 27170 (Purchased 2009)
The John Oxley Library does not
function as an art collection, but it does
collect artworks that depict Queensland. An
outstanding example is the silver medallion to commemorate
the establishment of the Ipswich branch of The Grand
United Order of Oddfellows, a friendly society dedicated
to helping individuals and their families in times of sickness
and adversity. The medallion was presented to Alexander
McLeod as founder of the Ipswich lodge. This item is
probably the oldest extant example of colonial silver with a
Queensland connection.
16 General Strike Photograph Album
photograph album, 1912
Acc. 10113 (Donated 2009)
Display period: March – May 2010
Pages 8 and 9
Display period: June – August 2010
Pages 10 and 11
17 The Lewis Estate, Woolloongabba being
subdivisions 1–37 of portion 16 of Parish
of South Brisbane
Brisbane: Watson Ferguson and Co., 1889
litho. colour estate map
John Oxley Library, State Library of
Queensland
M E0865 (Purchased 2009)
Display period: March – May 2010
The estate map advertises ‘37 splendid business & dwelling
sites to be sold by auction on the ground Sat. 11 May
1889 at 2.30 o’clock opposite the tramway stables, at
Woolloongabba’.
18 Arthur Martin & Co., Hamilton &
Raff, Warwick & Sapsford
The Heathfi eld Estate, East
Brisbane to be sold by auction
on the ground, Saturday 27th
February 1886, 2 o’clock sharp
Brisbane: Arthur Martin & Co., 1886
colour estate map
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
M E0874 (Purchased 2009)
Display period: June - August 2010

19 Queensland Cement and
Lime Company Limited
Photograph Album, Volume 1
photograph album, 1929
John Oxley Library, State
Library of Queensland
Acc. 10189 (Donated 2009)
Display period: March – May 2010 Pages 4 and 5
Display period: June – August 2010 Pages 6 and 7
20 General Motors Products of Canada Ltd
Chevrolet and GMC truck maintenance
manual 1948 models
Oshawa: General Motors Products of
Canada, 1947
printed book
State Reference Library, State Library of
Queensland
629.224 CHE 1947 (Donated 2009)
This Chevrolet and GMC truck maintenance manual is
part of a donation of over 1500 vehicle repair manuals and
automotive material from SkillsTech Australia. This collection
was previously held at the Mt Gravatt College of TAFE. The
donation covers all sorts of vehicles – the earliest being a
1926 Crossley car. Visit www.slq.qld.gov.au/garage – an
online resource for classic car collectors, restorers and
enthusiasts seeking information about pre-1970 vehicles.
21 Qantas Airways
America: Australia’s overseas airline Qantas
Sydney: Qantas Airways, c. 1950 – c. 1970
colour lithograph poster mounted on linen
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
HPT TOU 048 (Purchased 2009)
Display period: March – May 2010
22 Qantas Empire Airways; Josef Lebovic Gallery
Qantas presents the Super Constellation
Sydney: Qantas Empire Airways, 1947
colour lithograph poster mounted on linen
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
HPT TOU 044 (Purchased 2009)
Display period: June – August 2010
This very rare poster was published in 1947. Qantas didn’t
take delivery of the aircraft until 1954, when it started its new
twice-weekly transpacifi c service to North America.
23 Qantas official Rolling Stones tour airline
Australia: Qantas, 1995
black and white poster
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
HPT MUS 386 (Purchased 2009)
24 Qantas Empire Airways
Qantas Constellation: a new standard
of air transport
Sydney: Qantas Empire Airways,
c. 1950s
colour printed brochure
John Oxley Library, State Library of
Queensland
RBJ 387.73 QAN
25 Jan Barend Elwe: Louis Renard
(b. ca. 1678)
Planisphere representant toute
l’etendue du monde dans l’ordre
qu’on a suivi dans ce livre
Amsterdam, Netherlands: Renard,
1715
colour planisphere, original colour
John Oxley Library, State Library of
Queensland
RBM 100 1715 00000 E (Purchased 2009)
This map shows the planisphere
held on a broad-shouldered Atlas
with the North Pole at its centre.
Australia is shown extending across
sixty degrees so the eastern end lies north of New Zealand.
California is shown as an island and even the Great Wall of
China is visible.
26 Vincenzo Coronelli (1650–1718)
Parte del mare Pacifi co
Venice, Italy. 1691
map
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
RBM 405 1691 0000 E (Purchased 2009)
Italian theologian, monk and a geographer, Vincenzo
Coronelli, was one of the greatest engravers and map
makers of the seventeenth century. Parte del mare Pacifi co is
the right-hand part of a two-sheet map that is quite complete
on its own.
27 Alan Carter
The Alan Carter Price Guide to Antiques and Collectables
Gold Edition
Narraweena: Rainbow Publications, 2009
printed book
Replica Gold Edition
State Reference Library, State Library of Queensland
REF 745.1 2009 (Purchased 2009)
28 Woodrow and sons,
London
Sir Gordon Chalk’s top hat
and neck tie, c.1968
fur felt top hat, leather hat
box and silk neck tie
John Oxley Library, State
Library of Queensland
Acc. 9904 (Purchased 2009)
The top hat and neck tie was probably worn by Sir Gordon
Chalk to attend the Melbourne Cup in 1967. The top
hat was made in England for the Henry Bucks Store in
Melbourne and purchased by Brisbane optometrist, Trevor
Henderson. It was then passed on to ‘Big Bill’ Edwards,
another racing identity, who gave it to Sir Gordon Chalk. All
three have signed their names inside the hat. Sir Gordon was
Queensland Premier for one week, before Johannes Bjelke-
Petersen was elected Premier on 8 August 1968, after which
Sir Gordon became Treasurer until he retired in 1976.
29 Wells and Lambe
Mary Bennett Travelling Cosmetic Case, c.1790
wooden beauty case containing manicure set and empty
glass perfume bottles
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
Acc. 27048 (Donated 2009)
Mary Bennett lived in Somerset, England. A descendent,
Reginald S Hurd, brought her case when he came to
Australia in 1868. Further descendents, the children of
George Harris, kindly donated this item to the State Library in
2009.
30 Richard Mills (1949–)
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie ballet in one act after May Gibbs
Brisbane: Author, 1988
Vol. 1, Copy 1
sheet music
State Reference Library, State Library of Queensland
MUSMAN 782.95 m674 snu (Donated 2009)
Display period: March – May 2010
Pages 1 and 2
Display period: June – August 2010
Pages 99 and 100
31 Australian Ballet
Australian Ballet, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie world premiere
season with Return to the Strange Land and Suite en blanc
with The Elizabethan Philharmonic Orchestra concert master
George Ermolenko 1988 Season Programme
printed programme
Pymble: Playbill Proprietary Limited, 1988
Acc. 27196 (Donated 2009)
Display period: March – May 2010 Pages 4 and 5
Display period: June – August 2010 Pages 6 and 7
32 Portrait of Richard Mills, 1990
[Photographer unknown]
black and white photograph
Acc. 27196 (Donated 2009)
33 Richard Mills (1949–)
Manifesto
facsimile [Undated]
typewritten on paper
Acc. 27196 (Donated 2009)
34 May Gibbs (1877–1969)
The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1940
hardcover printed book
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
J A823.2 GIB (Donated 2009).
35 Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Queensland Symphony Orchestra 1999 Season
Pymble: Playbill / Showbill, 1999
colour printed programme, pages 22 and 23
Acc. 27196 (Donated 2009)
Items 31,32,33 & 35 are from the Richard Mills Collection,
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.
The State Library holds original manuscripts, papers and
published scores that have been gifted by signifi cant
Queensland musicians including Colin Brumby, Clyde Collins
and Patrick Thomas. Richard Mills, AM, recently added his
ballet, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, to his earlier gift of original
scores and material relevant to his work in Queensland.
Between 1991 and 2009, Mills was artistic advisor to the
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Musica Nova Festival and
Director of Brisbane Biennial Festivals.
36 Sarah Scragg
Dancers performing at the
Laura Aboriginal Dance
Festival, 2009
digital colour photograph
Laura Aboriginal Dance
Festival photographs, John
Oxley Library, State Library
of Queensland
Image number 10183 (Commissioned by State Library of Queensland)
This photo taken at the 2009 Laura Aboriginal Dance
Festival at Cape York has become the 50,000th
image to be stored in the State Library’s searchable
online image database.
37 Alfred Cobby
The Holy Happy Rest
Brisbane: Gordon and Gotch, c. 1900
sheet music
State Reference Library, State Library of
Queensland
AMS PVM HOL (Donated 2007)
The sheet music that recorded the death
of the Premier of Queensland, Hon. T. J.
Byrnes, in 1898, was most likely written during preparations
for his state funeral. It is dedicated to his successor, Hon.
J. R. Dickson, who died in 1901. The Holy Happy Rest has
been digitised and is available through Music Queensland,
the State Library’s online archive of historical Queensland
sheet music.
38 D Ruggles
Islamic Gardens and Landscapes
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
printed hardcover book
State Reference Library, State Library of Queensland
712.0917 2008 (Purchased 2008)
39 Kate Morton (1976–)
The Forgotten Garden
Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2008
printed book
Queensland author
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
J A823.4MOR (Purchased 2009)
40 Ann Temkin
Color chart: reinventing color 1950 to today
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2008
printed hardcover book
State Reference Library, State Library of Queensland
752 2008 (Purchased 2008)
41 Stephen J McParland
Waltzing the Plank: 40 years of surfi n’
sounds downunder: the illustrated
encyclopaedia of Australian surf music
1963-2003
North Strathfi eld, NSW: CMusic, 2004
printed book
State Reference Library, State Library of
Queensland
781.59403 2004 (Purchased 2009)
The State Library’s Music Collection provides a thematic
insight into popular culture and music publishing in Australia
during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with
Queensland material being of special interest. The following
fi ve items of sheet music are similar to many listed in Waltzing
the Plank.
42 Eaton Magoon, Edward Miller, Sir Robert Helpmann
(1909-1986)
Surfer Doll
Sydney: Belinda Music, 1960
printed music score
State Reference Library, State Library of Queensland
SM POP SUR (Donated 2009)
43 Brian Wilson
Surfer Girl
Sydney: J. Albert & Son, 1962
Lou Halmy (arranger), [Beach Boys (musical group)]
printed music score
State Reference Library, State Library of Queensland
SM POP SUR (Donated 2009)
44 Johnny Devlin (1939-) & Nat Kipner
Surfside / Lisa Maree
Sydney: Johnny Devlin Music, 1963
’As recorded by Digger Revell’s Denvermen on HMV records’
printed music score
State Reference Library, State Library of Queensland
SM POP SUR (Donated 2009)
45 Michael Carr, Shadows (Musical group)
Kon-tiki guitar solo
Sydney: J. Albert & Son, 1961
printed music score
State Reference Library, State Library of Queensland
SM POP KON (Donated 2009)
46 Steve Wahrer (d 1989)
Surfi n’ Bird
Sydney: Castle Music; Wellington: Belcas Music, c. 1963
State Reference Library, State Library of Queensland
SM POP SUR (Donated 2009)
47 Sarah Scragg (Filmmaker)
Weaving Exchange: Erub Island and Hopevale
DVD
Courtesy of Erwer Meta Arts Centre, Hope Vale Arts and
Cultural Centre, and Girringun Arts Centre
Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival, June 2009
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
Acc. 27281
More information about items in New Treasures and the State Library
Collections can be found at www.slq.qld.gov.au/whats-on/exhibit/online/tw
Acknowledgements
This exhibition was initiated by Nancy Underhill with expertise provided by
State Library of Queensland staff.