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The library was established with a bequest from Stephen Mitchell, a wealthy tobacco manufacturer, whose company, Stephen Mitchell and Son, would become one of the constituent members of the Imperial Tobacco Company. It contains the largest public reference library in Europe, with 1,213,000 volumes. While composed mainly of reference material it also has a substantial lending facility which began in 2005. The original North Street building with its distinctive copper dome surmounted a bronze statue by Thomas Clapperton, entitled Literature, often referred to as Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, opened in 1911.
Athena. Sculptor: John Mossman, 1875-77.
One of the series of monumental figures on the Granville Street facade of the Mitchell Library.
The Mitchell Library is a large public library in Glasgow.
The library was established with a bequest from Stephen Mitchell, a wealthy tobacco manufacturer, whose company, Stephen Mitchell & Son, would become one of the constituent members of the Imperial Tobacco Company.
It contains the largest public reference library in Europe, with 1,213,000 volumes.
The original North Street building with its distinctive copper dome surmounted a bronze statue by Thomas Clapperton, entitled Literature, often referred to as Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, opened in 1911.
The Tasman Map is hand drawn on delicate Japanese paper. It bears the arms of the City of Amsterdam. Just below the Tropic of Capricorn are the tracks of Abel Tasman's two ships Heemskerck and Zeehaen.
The map combines the results of Abel Tasman's first (1642-1643) and second (1644) voyages with those of earlier Dutch navigators. It shows a surprisingly accurate general outline of the Australian coastline.
Princess George of Greece presented the original Tasman Map to the Library in 1931. The origins of the map are uncertain. Once thought to have been drawn under Tasman's personal supervision - possibly by his chief pilot, Franz Jacobszoon Visscher - it now seems likely that the map was created c. 1695, derived from an imperfect original map, itself compiled in 1644 from authentic original maps, including those of Tasman's two voyages.
In recognition of the Tasman Map's significance, a stunning marble mosaic reproduction forms part of the floor of the historic Mitchell Library vestibule at the State Library of New South Wales. The mosaic, which was created by Sydney craftsmen the Melocco Brothers in 1939, took many hours of painstaking and accurate work to complete.
Sculptor: John Mossman (1817-1890).
A side view of Apollo between two female musicians, representing Music (1875-77), on the facade of the St Andrew's Halls, Granville Street, now the entrance to the Mitchell Library and theatre. She seems to be playing something like a sitar.
Although the sandstone of the building has been cleaned, the sculpture remains blackened by pollution.
Acquired by Glasgow Life in 2014
This autograph manuscript by Robert Burns (1759-96), Ye Banks and Braes O’ Bonnie Doon, was acquired at auction for the collection of the Mitchell Library. The manuscript was written on paper which bears the Royal Hanoverian watermark, evidence of Burns’s employment with His Majesty’s Customs and Excise. An original composition rather than an adaptation of traditional verses such as Auld Lang Syne, it was first published in August 1792 in James Johnston’s Scots Musical Museum IV. Only one other manuscript exists of the later version, in the collection of the British Library.
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Picture credit: CSG CIC, Museums and Libraries Collection; Special Collections
IMAGE INFO
- Photographer's viewpoint is looking north from an elevated position.
- Note that the foreshore promenade only fronts Cronulla Park & the Cecil Ballroom & Cafe at this time. Later it will be significantly extended both north & south.
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SOURCE INFO
- One copy of a nitrate photo-negative, 9 x 15 cm real photo postcard from the "Samuel Wood - postcard photo-negatives of Cronulla, ca. 1928-1932 Collection".
- The original was digitized by the State Library of New South Wales
- The digitized original is available from the SLNSW online collection here:
digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps...
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CREDITS
- Samuel Wood (1876-1957) for the original B&W real photo postcard.
- Mitchell & State Libraries of New South Wales for their valuable work in digitizing, archiving & making available online this rare historical content.
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COPYRIGHT STATUS
- Per SLNSW advice:
Out of copyright: created before 1955
- Regarding my own work in creating this unique cropped, restored & duo-toned version from the digitized original, I have applied "Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike".
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PROCESS INFO
- I downloaded a copy of the digitized original (very badly faded with uneven exposure).
- Using Adobe Photoshop CS Windows, I enlarged by ~150% , repaired many artifacts, adjusted areas of uneven exposure, restored contrast & sharpness & used an adjusted sepia duo-tone curve for better tonal range.
For mrwaterslide
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The Mitchell Library is a large public library and centre of the public library system of Glasgow, Scotland. It was established with a bequest from Stephen Mitchell, a wealthy tobacco manufacturer, whose company, Stephen Mitchell and Son, would become one of the constituent members of the Imperial Tobacco Company. It contains the largest public reference library in Europe, with 1,213,000 volumes. While composed mainly of reference material it also has a substantial lending facility which began in 2005. The original North Street building with its distinctive copper dome surmounted a bronze statue by Thomas Clapperton, entitled Literature, often referred to as Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, opened in 1911. The architectural competition for the library's design took place in 1906 and was won by William. B. Whitie.
Cairds in the Mitchell leebrar in Glesca ('Glasgow') that haes a puckle saws, or sangs, that's sib tae buses, an sprung fae Glesca speak. Ane o them is fae the sang 'ye cannae shove yer grannie affa a bus...acause she's yer mammie's mammie (an aw that)'. Anither ane is 'c'mon, get aff' -something a clippie micht say tae a body that thay daena want tae let on the bus.
Photie taen bi Katrina MacLeod.
The Tasman Map is hand drawn on delicate Japanese paper. It bears the arms of the City of Amsterdam. Just below the Tropic of Capricorn are the tracks of Abel Tasman's two ships Heemskerck and Zeehaen.
The map combines the results of Abel Tasman's first (1642-1643) and second (1644) voyages with those of earlier Dutch navigators. It shows a surprisingly accurate general outline of the Australian coastline.
Princess George of Greece presented the original Tasman Map to the Library in 1931. The origins of the map are uncertain. Once thought to have been drawn under Tasman's personal supervision - possibly by his chief pilot, Franz Jacobszoon Visscher - it now seems likely that the map was created c. 1695, derived from an imperfect original map, itself compiled in 1644 from authentic original maps, including those of Tasman's two voyages.
In recognition of the Tasman Map's significance, a stunning marble mosaic reproduction forms part of the floor of the historic Mitchell Library vestibule at the State Library of New South Wales. The mosaic, which was created by Sydney craftsmen the Melocco Brothers in 1939, took many hours of painstaking and accurate work to complete.
Tonight I was at my book group at the Mitchell Library. It's a regular event and last time I was there I took a photo of the exterior, so this time I decided to take a photo of the interior. It is a gorgeous building, and I love this corridor as it's slightly echo-y and smells of books.
Tonight we were discussing "The Time Traveller's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger. The reactions were mixed, but I absolutely loved it. I found it incredibly moving - so much so that I started blubbing while reading it on the train on the way to work one morning. It took me a good 15 minutes in work to compose myself and had to go and indulge in retail therapy at lunchtime to get over it!
Book group tonight, involving cake, coffee and chat. We've been very shabby about reading and discussing books - this one was selected months ago and not everyone has read it yet. Still, the gossip was good and we had lots of laughs.
Cake was Black Forest Gateau as I was feeling a bit retro and I broke with tradition and had a coffee instead of tea. Lovely!
I repeatedly photograph the Mossman statues on the Granville Street facade of Glasgow's Mitchell Library, particularly so when the light catches the anti-pigeon spikes, giving them a slightly punk appearance. This group representing 'Literature' - Dante looking rather bored at the feet of Homer.
Sculptor: John Mossman, 1878. The Mossman family dominated sculpture in Glasgow during the Victorian period. John Mossman (1817-90) studied under his father, William Mossman Senior (1793-1851), and also under Baron Carlo Marochetti.
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NSW State Heritage Register - Database no. 5045212
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The Mitchell Library on North Street by night. The library opened in 1911 and is Europe's largest public reference library with 1,130,000 volumes.
Taken during a night-time wander with friends from my local camera club.
The Mitchell Library was officially opened on 8 March 1910, and opened to the public the next day, 9 March.
www.onehundred.sl.nsw.gov.au/100-years/DS-Mitchell-and-th...
Format: Glass plate negative
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I have visited this place to research and study original documents at different times for over forty years. In 2009 I came here to study some documents relating to the visit to Australia of ornithologist John Gould (1804-1881) and his wife (and artist) Elizabeth Gould (1804-1837). John Gould, and his wife and other artists produced The Birds of Australia and The Mammals of Australia, which are now treasured productions of ornithology.
The Mitchell wing forms the older section of the State Library of New South Wales in Macquarie Street, Sydney, Australia. The Mitchell Library, named in honour of David Scott Mitchell, will celebrate its centenary in 2010. It has an internationally renowned collection of historical material comprising over 5 million items.
This panel sculpted in high relief on the building's exterior is modelled on one of the figures of a horse and rider in the Panathenaic procession, from the Parthenon sculptures currently housed in the British Museum. Beside the sculpture is an attached Ionic column.
The copper dome of Glasgow's Mitchell Library, the largest council-run library in Europe. The benefactor was, of course, Andrew Carnegie.
SOURCE INFO
- The original photo was digitized by the State Library of New South Wales from the donated original.
- The digitized original is available from the SLNSW online collection here:
collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yr86W6bn
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CREDITS
- Photographer Samuel Hood for the original B&W image.
- Mitchell & State Libraries of New South Wales for their valuable work in digitizing, archiving & making available online this rare historical content.
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COPYRIGHT STATUS
- Per SLNSW advice:
Out of copyright: created before 1955
- Regarding my own work in creating this unique, cropped & restored sepia version from the copy of the digitized original, I have applied a Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" Copyright.
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PROCESS INFO
- I downloaded a copy of the publicly available digitized B&W original [very grainy].
- Latest B&W version re-processed using AI enlargement & enhancement software.
Cast iron lamps on James Sellars' St Andrew's Halls of 1877.
The halls were destroyed by fire in 1962 and this is now the façade of the Mitchell Library's 1980s extension. Recently restored.
Shafts to City Railway tunnels near Mitchell Library [from the Sydney Harbour Bridge photo albums]
Dated: 20/1/1930
Digital ID: 12685_a007_a00704_8735000006r
Rights: www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions
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Watercolour by James Auld, a page from the exhibition catalogue (54 pages, yours for a donation) for "A Grand Obsession : DS Mitchell", currently at the State Library of NSW. I'd definitely recommend a visit. See my related photos...
www.atmitchell.com/events/exhibitions/2007/mitchell/
James Tyrrell was a seminal figure in Australian bookselling - www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120335b.htm
The State Library of NSW is the oldest library in Australia. In 1869 the NSW Government purchased the Australian Subscription Library, which had been established in 1826, to form the Sydney Free Public Library, the first truly public library for the people of NSW. The Mitchell Library, the first library in the country to concentrate entirely on Australian content, opened in 1910. By 1869 the subscription library was hopelessly in debt, and the New South Wales Government was persuaded to buy it for £5100 (£1500 for the books and £3600 for the building). In September 1869, the Sydney Free Public Library opened its doors with a stock of 20 000 volumes.
The Mitchell Wing: The Library soon outgrew its premises, and a new wing was built in the mid-1880s. By the turn of the century this too was outgrown, and plans were prepared for a completely new ‘national’ library building. The stimulus for this was David Scott Mitchell’s offer of his immense and unrivalled collection of Australiana to the people of New South Wales. One condition of his offer was that a new building be erected to house the collection as a separate library. Work on the Mitchell Wing started in 1906 and was completed in 1910. It houses the Mitchell Library reading rooms, work areas and galleries.
The Dixson Wing: It was another 20 years before more building took place on the site of the national library. The Dixson Wing, completed in 1929, was added to the south side of the Mitchell Wing to provide storage and gallery space for the extensive collection of historical paintings presented by Sir William Dixson.
In 1939 work began on the central portion of the building, which includes the portico, the ornate vestibule with its reproduction of the Tasman Map in marble mosaic, and the main reading room. The building was ready for occupation in June 1942, and the Library was at last under one roof.
In 1964, the final section of the sandstone Mitchell Wing, uniform in style, was added to the south east corner. Within 10 years the Library had outgrown this space too.
He seems to be frowning over a problem - if he stoops to pick up the can, the building comes down.
Sculptor: William Mossman Junior, 1878, sandstone. The Mossman family dominated sculpture in Glasgow during the Victorian period. William Mossman (1824-84) studied under his father, William Mossman Senior (1793-1851), and also under Baron Carlo Marochetti.
The old and young giants stand sentry at the entrance of the Greek Revival St Andrew's Halls (Architect: James Sellars), used now as the main entrance to the Mitchell Library.
The Mitchell Library is the largest public reference library in Europe. The library was established with a bequest from Stephen Mitchell, a wealthy tobacco manufacturer, whose company, Stephen Mitchell and Son, would become one of the constituent members of the Imperial Tobacco Company.
There are over 1,213,000 volumes along with newspaper archive, ships drawings, council papers.
The roof dome is copper and topped with a statue of Minerva, The Roman Goddess of wisdom.
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Series of light projections at night over the historic buildings on Macquarie Street in Sydney, Australia in the weeks until Christmas.
This one is the Mitchell Library or the State Library of New South Wales.
The State Library of NSW is the oldest library in Australia. In 1869 the NSW Government purchased the Australian Subscription Library, which had been established in 1826, to form the Sydney Free Public Library, the first truly public library for the people of NSW. The Mitchell Library, the first library in the country to concentrate entirely on Australian content, opened in 1910. By 1869 the subscription library was hopelessly in debt, and the New South Wales Government was persuaded to buy it for £5100 (£1500 for the books and £3600 for the building). In September 1869, the Sydney Free Public Library opened its doors with a stock of 20 000 volumes.
The Mitchell Wing: The Library soon outgrew its premises, and a new wing was built in the mid-1880s. By the turn of the century this too was outgrown, and plans were prepared for a completely new ‘national’ library building. The stimulus for this was David Scott Mitchell’s offer of his immense and unrivalled collection of Australiana to the people of New South Wales. One condition of his offer was that a new building be erected to house the collection as a separate library. Work on the Mitchell Wing started in 1906 and was completed in 1910. It houses the Mitchell Library reading rooms, work areas and galleries.
The Dixson Wing: It was another 20 years before more building took place on the site of the national library. The Dixson Wing, completed in 1929, was added to the south side of the Mitchell Wing to provide storage and gallery space for the extensive collection of historical paintings presented by Sir William Dixson.
In 1939 work began on the central portion of the building, which includes the portico, the ornate vestibule with its reproduction of the Tasman Map in marble mosaic, and the main reading room. The building was ready for occupation in June 1942, and the Library was at last under one roof.
In 1964, the final section of the sandstone Mitchell Wing, uniform in style, was added to the south east corner. Within 10 years the Library had outgrown this space too.