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  1. Bryce Ross kept the artist's name secret. Who was it sketching the gold diggings and looking to publish in #Melbourne or elsewhere?

    Ross was an institution on the Victorian diggings in 1852. He reported weekly for the Melbourne Herald and his "Mems from the Mount [Alexander]" were reprinted in colonial newspapers. His office was at what is now Chewton near #Castlemaine. Ross was one of thousands of #SouthAustralia'ns on the diggings.

    And why can't we find the artist's original field sketches?

    #historyAU #TroveAU #1850s #S_T_Gill #Bendigo

    My new article: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill

  2. Bryce Ross kept the artist's name secret. Who was it sketching the gold diggings and looking to publish in #Melbourne or elsewhere?

    Ross was an institution on the Victorian diggings in 1852. He reported weekly for the Melbourne Herald and his "Mems from the Mount [Alexander]" were reprinted in colonial newspapers. His office was at what is now Chewton near #Castlemaine. Ross was one of thousands of #SouthAustralia'ns on the diggings.

    And why can't we find the artist's original field sketches?

    #historyAU #TroveAU #1850s #S_T_Gill #Bendigo

    My new article: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill

  3. Bryce Ross kept the artist's name secret. Who was it sketching the gold diggings and looking to publish in #Melbourne or elsewhere?

    Ross was an institution on the Victorian diggings in 1852. He reported weekly for the Melbourne Herald and his "Mems from the Mount [Alexander]" were reprinted in colonial newspapers. His office was at what is now Chewton near #Castlemaine. Ross was one of thousands of #SouthAustralia'ns on the diggings.

    And why can't we find the artist's original field sketches?

    #historyAU #TroveAU #1850s #S_T_Gill #Bendigo

    My new article: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill

  4. S. T. Gill is arguably Australia's most recognisable colonial artist. The story of Gill's 1852 passage from #SouthAustralia to the #Victoria goldfields has been a confused one. But it can now be teased out with help of digitised newspapers and a database approach. Who he went with adds to a sense of story.

    My new article: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill

    #TroveAU #1850s #S_T_Gill

  5. S. T. Gill is arguably Australia's most recognisable colonial artist. The story of Gill's 1852 passage from #SouthAustralia to the #Victoria goldfields has been a confused one. But it can now be teased out with help of digitised newspapers and a database approach. Who he went with adds to a sense of story.

    My new article: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill

    #TroveAU #1850s #S_T_Gill

  6. S. T. Gill is arguably Australia's most recognisable colonial artist. The story of Gill's 1852 passage from #SouthAustralia to the #Victoria goldfields has been a confused one. But it can now be teased out with help of digitised newspapers and a database approach. Who he went with adds to a sense of story.

    My new article: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill

    #TroveAU #1850s #S_T_Gill

  7. S. T. Gill is arguably Australia's most recognisable colonial artist. The story of Gill's 1852 passage from #SouthAustralia to the #Victoria goldfields has been a confused one. But it can now be teased out with help of digitised newspapers and a database approach. Who he went with adds to a sense of story.

    My new article: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill

    #TroveAU #1850s

  8. S. T. Gill is arguably Australia's most recognisable colonial artist. The story of Gill's 1852 passage from #SouthAustralia to the #Victoria goldfields has been a confused one. But it can now be teased out with help of digitised newspapers and a database approach. Who he went with adds to a sense of story.

    My new article: coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill

    #TroveAU #1850s

  9. Australian National and State Libraries have been quitting / archiving Twitter/X recently. #ausGLAM

    #StateLibraryNSW - 5 May
    #TroveAU - 10 July
    #NationalLibraryAU - 10 July
    NSLA National & State Libraries Australasia - 30 July
    VIC - last tweeted in February
    WA - archive date not specified

    QLD - still active
    #StateLibrarySA - still active

  10. @wragge Taking @wragge 's #Trove newspaper issues by state and year (CSV), I further looked into the impact of the 1852 Victorian #goldRush on newspapers. (It was hard to get staff with so many at the diggings.) From this data there is a big impact on #SouthAustralia and #Victoria itself and a smaller impact on #Tasmania.

    #historyAU #TroveAU #newspaperHistory #1850s

  11. @wragge Taking @wragge 's #Trove newspaper issues by state and year (CSV), I further looked into the impact of the 1852 Victorian #goldRush on newspapers. (It was hard to get staff with so many at the diggings.) From this data there is a big impact on #SouthAustralia and #Victoria itself and a smaller impact on #Tasmania.

    #historyAU #TroveAU #newspaperHistory #1850s

  12. @wragge Taking @wragge 's #Trove newspaper issues by state and year (CSV), I further looked into the impact of the 1852 Victorian #goldRush on newspapers. (It was hard to get staff with so many at the diggings.) From this data there is a big impact on #SouthAustralia and #Victoria itself and a smaller impact on #Tasmania.

    #historyAU #TroveAU #newspaperHistory #1850s

  13. @wragge Taking @wragge 's #Trove newspaper issues by state and year (CSV), I further looked into the impact of the 1852 Victorian #goldRush on newspapers. (It was hard to get staff with so many at the diggings.) From this data there is a big impact on #SouthAustralia and #Victoria itself and a smaller impact on #Tasmania.

    #historyAU #TroveAU #newspaperHistory #1850s

  14. I followed this up, wondering if the gold rush shows up as a newspaper business disruption more broadly across #TroveAU.

    I used @wragge ‘s #GLAMWorkBench to "Visualise the total number of newspaper articles in #Trove by year and state". I specified #1840s and #1850s as the date range. Attached workbench screenshot and chart showing a significant drop in articles in gold rush 1852.
    Use GLAMWorkBench - glam-workbench.net/trove-newsp

  15. I followed this up, wondering if the gold rush shows up as a newspaper business disruption more broadly across #TroveAU.

    I used @wragge ‘s #GLAMWorkBench to "Visualise the total number of newspaper articles in #Trove by year and state". I specified #1840s and #1850s as the date range. Attached workbench screenshot and chart showing a significant drop in articles in gold rush 1852.
    Use GLAMWorkBench - glam-workbench.net/trove-newsp

  16. I followed this up, wondering if the gold rush shows up as a newspaper business disruption more broadly across #TroveAU.

    I used @wragge ‘s #GLAMWorkBench to "Visualise the total number of newspaper articles in #Trove by year and state". I specified #1840s and #1850s as the date range. Attached workbench screenshot and chart showing a significant drop in articles in gold rush 1852.
    Use GLAMWorkBench - glam-workbench.net/trove-newsp

  17. I followed this up, wondering if the gold rush shows up as a newspaper business disruption more broadly across #TroveAU.

    I used @wragge ‘s #GLAMWorkBench to "Visualise the total number of newspaper articles in #Trove by year and state". I specified #1840s and #1850s as the date range. Attached workbench screenshot and chart showing a significant drop in articles in gold rush 1852.
    Use GLAMWorkBench - glam-workbench.net/trove-newsp

  18. I followed this up, wondering if the gold rush shows up as a newspaper business disruption more broadly across #TroveAU.

    I used @wragge ‘s #GLAMWorkBench to "Visualise the total number of newspaper articles in #Trove by year and state". I specified #1840s and #1850s as the date range. Attached workbench screenshot and chart showing a significant drop in articles in gold rush 1852.
    Use GLAMWorkBench - glam-workbench.net/trove-newsp

  19. Looks like an interesting webinar today (from the ALIA Digitisation & Preservation Group):

    "Speakers from Trove, Wikimedia, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library discuss internal and external engagement for digitised collections. […] it is crucial to assess whether we effectively connect, communicate, and collaborate with others"

    alia.org.au/EventDetail?EventK

    #events #ALIA #digitization #WikimediaAustralia #TroveAU