A Window into History: The Hume Family Collection
Event Details
- Date:
- Wednesday, 13 May 2015
- Time:
- 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
- Room:
- Fryer Library Reading Room, Level 4
- UQ Location:
- Duhig Building (St Lucia)
- URL:
- https://register.eventarc.com/29763/a-window-into-history-the-hume-family-collection
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Tanya Ziebell
- Phone:
- 56315
- Email:
- t.ziebell@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- University of Queensland Library
Event Description
- Full Description:
- The Papers of Walter Cunningham Hume (1840-1921), surveyor and Chief Commissioner for Lands for Queensland are among the Fryer Library's significant heritage collections. Photographs from the collection provide a window into the personal and public world in which the Hume family lived. The Hume Collection is part of Picture Australia.
Speakers: Dr Hilary Davies is the author of Surveying success: the Hume family in colonial Queensland. Mr Bill Kitson is the co-author, along with Dr Judith McKay, of Surveying Queensland 1839-1945 : a pictorial history. Mr Andrew Yeo has photographed the collection for preservation and access via the University's repository, UQ eSpace.
Presented as part of the 2015 Friends of the Library Program.
All welcome. Please register for catering purposes.
Directions to UQ
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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