State Library of New South Wales
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Christmas Decorations, Lunar Park, Sydney, December 1941 uploaded 4 December
Bowsprit of the S.Y. Aurora, 1911-12 uploaded 2 December
Colin Wyatt SLNSW_FL9723806 uploaded 30 November
Lion fish in Taronga Zoo aquarium, Sydney, 1938 uploaded 27 November
Children outside the migration centre, Uranquinty, New South Wales, 1950 uploaded 26 November
Children at the migration centre, Uranquinty, New South Wales, 18 January, 1950 uploaded 25 November
Female model with hat and dog brooch, 1938 uploaded 24 November
Australian artists Tom Roberts and GVF Mann painting on boat, 1896 uploaded 20 November
Lionel Van Praag, 20 December 1940, Sydney, by Robert Rice uploaded 18 November
Atomic bomb Variety Revue nightclub, Manila, Philippines, 14 November 1945 uploaded 14 November
Poppie Olive Cotton SLNSW_FL14226442 uploaded 11 November
Great Public Schools Carnival 1938 uploaded 10 November
Robin Stanton 1949 SLNSW_FL16215043 uploaded 6 November
Country trains, railway indicator board, Central Station, Sydney, 1940 uploaded 4 November
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Ice mask, C.T. Madigan, between 1911-1914 / photograph by Frank Hurley
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Bowsprit of the S.Y. Aurora, 1911-12
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John Carson. new Knee OP on 12th said:
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Colin Wyatt SLNSW_FL9723806
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Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
"With his marriage on the rocks and fearing his wife was having an affair, ex-champion skier Colin Wyatt decided to cope the only way he could think of.
He began stealing rare butterflies.
What unfolded over the following months in the late 1940s would become a bizarre search spanning multiple museums and crossing international waters.
It would also involve thousands upon thousands of tiny flying insects.
Hundreds of 'the best specimens' taken from museums across Australia
The first sign of trouble came in early 1947 — some 825 specimens of rare Australian butterflies had disappeared from the Melbourne Museum's George Lyell collection.
When Melbourne raised the alarm, other museums checked their own collections ... "
More - www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-02/history-butterfly-theft-au...
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Jazz Guy said:
Lower left hand corner... I think that is a blotter to dry off signatures on documents. What year did ball point pens replace quill pens? There's a plot twist in a movie titled "Angel Heart" that involves this.
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Jazz Guy said:
And now the big question... Is the bottle of gin in the drawer on his left or on his right? :-)
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State Library of New South Wales said:
I read 'The Butterfly Thief' by Walter Marsh over the weekend and saw the image was in the Library collections. Really amazing that he was able to get them all over to the UK as well..
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Narelle Jarvis said:
What a story! So where was this picture taken and what is he doing with the photographs?
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