Good memories are hard to come by, and even harder to capture, however this was not the case for Jean Lorrell Guihot (nee, White), who sadly passed away on Christmas day, 2017. Mrs. Guihot’s collection of scrapbooks document the history of Newcastle and the Hunter Region, as well as its people. The following 6 scrapbooks … More Jean Guihot, Newcastle in Cut-Outs
This work is conducted in memory and respectfully honours the First Australian People, the Aboriginal People of this land. The following is a brief outline of the 3D digitisation process used by staff, students and volunteers at the UON’s GLAMx Digitisation Lab. The process uses Artec 3D SPIDER Professional Handheld 3D Scanner and software. Several … More 3D Scanning – Artec Professional handheld scanner
The people of Newcastle and the Hunter Region are all invited to come along to the Newcastle Art Gallery on the 27th May 2014 at 2pm, to formally thank the TROVE team for their wonderful work in digitising our Region’s Newspapers. An event has been organised – Read All About It: A Treasure Trove of … More Read All About It: Newcastle and the Hunter Thanks the TROVE team
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2178450 The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser Saturday 26 December 1818 Page 1 of 4 GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL ORDERS. Government House, Parramatta, Thursday, 24th December, 1818 CIVIL DEPARTMENT. HIS EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR, in relieving Captain JAMES WALLIS, of the 46th Regiment, from the Command of the Settlement at Newcastle, by the Appointment of … More The Achievements of Captain Wallis Commandant 1818
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13484259 The Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 24 May 1881 Page 6 of 10 THE NEWCASTLE FORTIFICATIONS. (BY OUR SPECIAL REPORTER.) On Saturday last Colonel P. H. Scratchley, R.E., C.M.G., and Colonel C. F. Roberts, visited Newcastle for the purpose of inspecting the hill known as Signal Hill, near Nobby’s, upon which the fort recommended by … More The Newcastle Fortifications – SMH 24 May 1881
The Mitchell Library has digitised a circa 1860s linen copy of one of the earliest drawings of early Newcastle when only a fledgling settlement in 1804. Its creator was artist Ferdinand Bauer, 1760 – 1826, and the drawing is located in the library’s collections at Call Number SV1B/Newc/1800-1809/1, and measures 8 1/2 x 15 3/8 … More Ferdinand Bauer 1804 View of Newcastle
We are greatly honoured to host the online digital version of Les Reedman’s landmark work, ‘Early Architects of the Hunter Region: A Hundred Years to 1940’. Read it online here: https://downloads.newcastle.edu.au/library/cultural%20collections/flipbooks/reedman/#p=1 This work is an anthology connecting the development of the Hunter Valley with the architects living and practicing architecture within the region. It outlines … More Early Architects of the Hunter Region
Video: NBN News Broadcast 29 October 2008 featuring Mr Gionni Di Gravio (Chair of the University of Newcastle’s Coal River Working Party) and Dene Hawken (Awabakal Descendent) interviewed by Paul Lobb. Professor John Fryer submitted an application for dual naming for Nobbys/Whibayganba to the Geographical Names Board (GNB) in October 2008. The application was accompanied … More Nobbys (Whibayganba)
For the complete Field Books relating to Sir Thomas Mitchell’s Survey’s of Newcastle please see the following items kindly supplied by the State Library of New South Wales. 1828. Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone (1792-1855) Field Book – Port Jackson and Newcastle, 1828 (C 40) 55MB PDF (Courtesy of the State Library of New … More Mitchell’s 1828 Field Book
Many years ago, in the late 1990s I attended a Heritage Seminar Workshop at the University’s Design Studios. One of the presenters (Mr George Drewery) that day handed out CDrom copies of a Virtual Convict Lumber Yard that he created as a 3D Quicktime Movie display. It was a great piece of work and we … More The Virtual Convict Lumber Yard circa 1840