Photographs and research material related to Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television progra...
Photographs and research material related to Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television program 'The Italians' ca. 1983-1985.
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Date
ca. 1983-1985
Call Numbers
PXD 523 , PXE 1387 , ON 142
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Formats
Pictures, Photographs, Prints and Manuscripts
Physical Description
Contents
1 transparency slide - 7 x 7 cm - colour
57 sheets of negative strips - Kodak, Ilford; 35 x 20 cm each sheet - black & white, 2 colour
1 photocopy of drawing - 43.5 x 35.5 cm - hand-tinted watercolour, mounted on board
34 5x4" - negatives : black & white ; 10 x 10.5 cm each
36 photographs - 10.5 x 9 cm each - Polaroid, colour
139 photographs - 40 x 50 cm or smaller - black & white, mounted on cardboard
353 photocopies - 29.5 x 21 cm each - black & white, on paper
855 photographs - 20.5 x 26 cm or smaller - black & white
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Fonds
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Physical Access Conditions
Access to this pictures collection via appointment only. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian : ON 142
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
9 boxes in total
The series and the book written by Gianfranco Cresciani traces the Italian migrant experience in Australia, the forces which spurred Italians to emigrate to the ‘Lucky Country’ and the reasons they do not emigrate any longer.
7 episodes/chapters: 1. ‘A Country of Emigrants’; 2. ‘Italians Discover Australia 1788-1900’;...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Photographs and research material related to Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television program 'The Italians' ca. 1983-1985.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
See related material at MLMSS 4538
Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.5822 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-13
Contextual Information
Source
Pic.Acc.5822
Administrative / Biographical history
Over the last 200 years, 26 million Italians left their country in search of fortune abroad, the largest national diaspora in human history. Traditionally they migrated to America and to countries then undergoing a stage of rapid industrialization and rural development, and with a great need of unskilled and semi-skilled labour.
Italian migrants...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXD 523 , PXE 1387 , ON 142
Record Identifier
nQR2jrZ1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nQR2jrZ1
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Reference code
909930
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