By Erica Wright As my time as the 2025 Vera Deacon Intern draws to a close, I want to reflect on how this opportunity has not only allowed me to contribute to a meaningful heritage project but has equipped me with a portfolio of highly employable skills. I hope this post inspires future applicants and … More Getting Career-Ready as the 2025 Vera Deacon Intern
By Erica Wright, Vera Deacon Intern 2025 (All photographs were taken by Erica Wright unless otherwise attributed.) This post continues the story of “The Treasures of Cintra House Project”, first shared earlier this year. Here I will walk you through the physical and digital journey I’ve undertaken this year with Cintra House and its archive … More Digitising the Treasures of Cintra House: Mapping the Journey
Introducing The Treasures of Cintra House Project The Treasures of Cintra House digitisation project is an exciting collaboration between the University of Newcastle Library’s Special Collections, Maitland City Council, and Catherine E Blanch the current homeowner of Cintra House; a grand 1878 residence with a rich local history. With support from the Local Heritage Fund and the homeowner, the … More Introducing the Cintra House Project
The Pender Archive represents the surviving work of three generations of Pender Family architects, based in Maitland, New South Wales (Australia) and is one of the largest and most comprehensive architectural collections in the country. A listing of all surviving plans and specifications relating to approximately 3000 projects across the Hunter Valley Region, New … More What’s in the Pender Archive?
![Plan of the Town of Maitland As Approved By His Excellency The Governor A.D. 1829 [Digitised from a reprint from July 1986 by the Central Mapping Authority, Department of Lands New South Wales, courtesy of the original A.O. 3634 held in the Archives Office of New South Wales]](https://hunterlivinghistories.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Maitland1829-365x365.jpg?crop=1)
Emeritus Professor John Fryer provided us with this reprint of this amazing plan of Maitland by the original name: Plan of the Town of Maitland As Approved By His Excellency The Governor A.D. 1829 Digitised from a mounted reprint created in July 1986 by the Central Mapping Authority, Department of Lands New South Wales. … More Maitland in 1829
“High Street, Maitland 1886” has been digitally remastered by David Sciffer from the original 1886 Mahlstedt and Gee plans, 2019. We thank Mr Sciffer for allowing the University’s Hunter Living Histories to make this work accessible to the wider research communities. Click on the image above for the high resolution version, at 17000 pixels across, … More High Street, Maitland in 1886
“Our Supplement: Maitland” Over the past weeks (in February 2019) we have been uploading high resolution digital scans of selected stories and illustrations relating to the Hunter Region from the microfilm copies The Illustrated Sydney News. These scans were done during 2009-2010 and most have been digitised and now available through the digitised newspapers on … More Maitland in 1878
FLOODS IN THE HUNTER. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63617590 DURING the late extraordinary weather, Maitland and its vicinity has been the scene of numerous disastrous floods. The frequent lulls in the downpour of rain, however temporary, were sufficient to lead the inhabitants to hope that time would be given for the waters to abate before the damage … More Floods in the Hunter (1870)
Digitised by Gionni Di Gravio from the microfilm in 2009.