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New to our collection: Silk Theatre Handbill

Fryer Library was delighted to recently add to its collection a silk theatre handbill. With black print on cream silk and a fringed edging, it is a very early example of this genre in Brisbane.

In the news: Voyage de decouvertes aux terres Australes

Charles Alexandre Lesueur's (1778-1846) illustrations of Australiana have recently been featured in the press.

Happy Birthday, Bram Stoker

8 November marks 165 years since author Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland. Fryer Library holds two letters written by Stoker. The first dates from December 1884 and was sent to Edmund Hodgson Yates; the other dates from July 1903 and was sent to Edmund's son, Edmund Smedley Yates.

Fryer receives records of T.B. Sailors, Soldiers & Airmen's Association of Queensland

Last Friday the University of Queensland formally accepted a gift of over $3million from the T.B. Sailors', Soldiers' & Airmen's Association of Queensland. The recently disbanded Association has donated its assets to UQ's Centre for Military and Veterans' Health for ongoing research of tuberculosis, and the Association's historical records are now part of the Fryer Library collection. The records have been catalogued as a lasting legacy of the organisation's contribution to supporting veterans with TB.

Melbourne Cup Day

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Vogel award winning titles on display

Writing? Under 35? Written at least 30,000 words? Interested in The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award?

September Treasure of the Month

While most of our iconic images of adventurous archaeologists are born from page or screen (perhaps, Cairo Jim, Indiana Jones, or Murder in Mesopotamia?) this September, Fryer's treasure of the month explores the life of John Henry Iliffe - a noted British Archaeologist and the first curator of the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum - whose life, archaeological work, and contribution to the Antiquities collection at UQ are captured in his papers…<

Research @ Fryer: UQ students exploring collections

Staff members have had an exciting week sharing Fryer's collections with UQ students.

Queensland Literary Awards prize-winners

Frank Moorhouse won the Fiction category of the Queensland Literary Awards last night for his book Cold light, the final in his Palais de Nations trilogy. In accepting the prize, Mr Moorhouse said:

The Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection

Poe_Coliseum.jpgThe Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection is a digital goldmine for Poe enthusiasts, students and researchers looking for primary sources, and writers and artists who want to dig deeper into Poe's life and work and see original, hand-w