Becarevic Collection: Recollections of Exploration and Voyage

Recollections of Exploration and Voyage

 

Exhibition

 

Panizzi Gallery UOW Library
7 May — 24 June, 2018

Travellers’ narratives never cease to ignite the imagination.  Early explorers – those filling in the blank spaces on the map – were the rock stars and celebrities of their time. Sea voyages were dangerous and successful expeditions guaranteed a place in society and history books. 

Drawn from our Becarevic Collection and curated by UOW Archives, this exhibition illustrates the evolution of the traveller and the documentation of their journeys and experiences.
 

Online Exhibition Contents

▾ The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, 1789
▾ Flinders' Voyage to Terra Australia, vol. 1 and 2, 1814
▾ M.F. Peron Voyage de Decouvertes, Aux Terres Australes. Historique, 1807
▾ Sydney, 1853. Plates bound in an album printed from engravings by Frederick Terry
▾ Gurre Kamilaroi, William Ridley, engravings by W Mason, 1856
▾ Official Record of the Sydney International Exhibition, 1879
▾ Street incidents: 21 photographs with descriptive letter press/photographs by John Thomson
▾ Beautiful Illawarra, by the South Coast Tourists Association, 1903
▾ Stereoscope cards – WWI Realistic Travel Series, 1914-1920
▾ Henry Arthur Pringle Photographic Album 1887 – 1893
▾ Curator's Talk - UOW Archives Manager Grant White