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Elizabeth Gould: working wife, Victorian mother
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/john-gould/elizabeth-gould-1804-1841/working-wife-and-mother/Throughout her married life, Elizabeth Gould was torn between supporting her husband’s burgeoning career and raising the children they had created together.
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Museum Archives and Research Library
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/The Museum Archives and Research Library cares for the Museum’s institutional memory and its historic natural history book and journal collections dating from 1836.
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John Gould
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/john-gould/With the obsession of a collector and an eye for artistic talent, John Gould succeeded in creating one of the most recognisable and long-lasting brand names in natural history.
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Elizabeth Gould (1804-1841)
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/john-gould/elizabeth-gould-1804-1841/Read about Elizabeth Gould, the great artist behind John Gould's early illustrations.
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Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566), the grandfather of ichthyology who dissected his own son
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/guillaume-rondelet/The story of the author of the oldest book in the Australian Museum Research Library.
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“Plague is present in Sydney” – How the 1900 bubonic plague outbreak compares to COVID-19
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/plague-in-sydney/A small pamphlet from the Australian Museum Research Library reveals the public health response to the 1900 bubonic plague outbreak in Sydney.
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Six surprising facts about the Australian Museum Research Library
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/6-things-about-the-library/Librarian Adria Castellucci lets us in on some of the Australian Museum Research Library’s best kept secrets.
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Portents and prophecies: Conrad Lycosthenes, 1557
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/portents/In the wake of the end of the world, Mayan-style, let's look back at the history of humanity's fascination with portents and prophecies.
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Cultural Material in the Library's Melbourne Ward Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/research-library/guides/cultural-material-mel-ward/Discover Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural material in the Melbourne Ward Collection of the Australian Museum Research Library.
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John Gould’s Australian publications
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/john-gould/john-gould-publications/John Gould was an immensely successful publisher. Over the course of his lifetime he produced 21 titles, 15 which were folio sets. In total, with his team of artists, lithographers and colourists, he produced 2999 unique plates.
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