This image of Aida Lillian
Furness dressed as Miss America, 1918 is a favourite of the collection
This image is part of the
Maryborough Wide Bay & Burnett Historical Society Inc. collection. Copies
of this image can be purchased from the Maryborough Wide Bay & Burnett
Historical Society Inc. Contact emailmuseum@maryboroughhistoricsociety.com.au
Identifier: ImagePP193
Fraser Coast Regional Council in
partnership with the Maryborough Wide Bay and Burnett Historical Society
Inc has a curated collection on Historypin found here World War One -Patriotism in the Wide Bay Region which is focussed on
the Patriotic efforts of World War 1 from 1915 and 1920.
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The online Historypin platform is projected onto the wall so visitors to the exhibit can navigate around the site. |
Some of the 25 images on display at Gatakers artspace, Kent Street Maryborough |
Anne Scheu and Niles Elvery from the State library of Queensland were also in attendance. This all began when they presented a series of three workshops at Maryborough library as part of the White Gloves Tour. Fraser Coast Libraries was lucky enough to succeed in getting a State Library of Queensland grant to create our own Historypin project. The Libraries have had the privilege of partnering with the Maryborough Wide Bay and Burnett Historical society Inc in creating the Patriotism in the Wide Bay collection on the Historypin platform, using some of the images from their amazing collection.
Ken Brooks was the Fraser Coast Libraries Historypin project officer and demonstrates the platform to the crowd. |
This project has also been the stimulus which has enabled us
to start digitising and cataloguing images – all these images can now be found
by a simple search of World War 1 through the library catalogue.
Good quality images can be purchased from the Maryborough
Wide Bay and Burnett Historical Society Inc and
they can be contacted via email museum@maryboroughhistoricsociety.com.au .The Libraries will have an ongoing partnership with the
society with a number of projects planned for the future. The next project is
Remarkable Animals of the Fraser Coast and this will be completed in time for
Heritage Week 9th – 13th May, 2016.
Historypin is a digital archive of historical and
personal photos, documents and audio-visual recollections. Please feel welcome
to add to Fraser Coast Libraries collections. It can be accessed through our
Online Public Access Catalogue found here
The Libraries
have also begun a Historypin chat group on the first Tuesday
of the month from 12-1pm, held in the Maryborough Library E-space. You
can bring photos along to scan and participate in the cross pollination of
ideas shared between local history enthusiasts. Computers and scanning
equipment are available.
The Libraries hope more people will upload images onto the
libraries’ collections or create their own collection and instructions on how
to do this are shared in this group.
Further information about Fraser Coast Libraries Local History
activities and resources can be found at here
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Tags: #Historypin #Frasercoastlibraries #Maryboroughwidebayandburnetthistoricalsociety #Qldheritagetourism #Qanzac100 #Worldwar1 #Gatakersartspace
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