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    Design layout sheets with drawings for Allan Gamble's book 'Sydney', 1979, and an original drawing of the Mitchell Library Reading Room, 1976 / drawings by Allan Gamble; Andew Halford, book designer for Methuen Australia

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    PXD 1362

    Record identifier

    YoldlDG9

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    Design layout sheets with drawings for Allan Gamble's book 'Sydney', 1979, and an original drawing of the Mitchell Library Reading Room, 1976 / drawings by Allan Gamble; Andew Halford, book designer for Methuen Australia

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    Design layout sheets with drawings for Allan Gamble's book 'Sydney', 1979, and an original drawing of the Mitchell Library Reading Room, 1976 / drawings by Allan Gamble; Andew Halford, book designer for Methuen Australia

    Full title

    Design layout sheets with drawings for Allan Gamble's book 'Sydney', 1979, and an original drawing of the Mitchell Library Reading Room, 1976 / drawings by Allan Gamble; Andew Halford, book designer for Methuen Australia

    Author / Creator

    Gamble, Allan, 1907-2001

    Date

    1976-1979

    Call Numbers

    PXD 1362

    Record Identifier

    YoldlDG9

    Formats

    Pictures, Drawings and Photographs

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    1 drawing - 37.8 x 55.9 cm - pen and ink

    79 photographs - 36.3 x 57.5 cm or less - gelatin silver, chiefly black & white

    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Fonds

    Access and use

    Copying Conditions

    Copyright status : In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years

    Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

    Terms of use

    Ask a Librarian online or in the reading room.

    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Mitchell Library Reading Room Sydney Town Hall (Sydney, N.S.W.) Queen Victoria Building (Sydney, N.S.W.) St. Andrew's Cathedral (Sydney, N.S.W.) Bank of New South Wales (cnr. George & Bathurst Streets, Sydney, N.S.W.) Busby's Bore Fountain (Sydney, N.S.W.) State Theatre (Sydney, N.S.W.) Regent Theatre (Sydney, N.S.W.) Plaza Theatre (Sydney, N.S.W.) Chief Secretary's Building (Macquarie and Bridge Streets, Sydney, N.S.W.) Department of Education (Bridge Street, Sydney, N.S.W.) Lands Department Building (Sydney, N.S.W.) Burns, Philp & Co. (Bridge Street, Sydney, N.S.W.) Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.) State Conservatorium of Music (Sydney, N.S.W.) Mitchell Library (N.S.W.)--Photographs. Parliament House (Sydney, N.S.W.) Sydney Hospital (Macquarie Street, Sydney, N.S.W.) History House (133 Macquarie Street, Sydney, N.S.W.) State Office Block (Bent Street, Sydney, N.S.W.) Art Gallery of New South Wales Woolloomooloo (N.S.W.) Martin Place (Sydney, N.S.W.) Australia and New Zealand Bank (corner Martin Place and George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.) Colonial Mutual Life Building (Sydney, N.S.W.) Commonwealth Bank (Elizabeth Street and Martin Place, Sydney, N.S.W.) MLC Centre (Sydney, N.S.W.) King George Tower (Sydney, N.S.W.) Strand Arcade (Sydney, N.S.W.) St. James' Church (Sydney, N.S.W.) St. Mary's Cathedral (Sydney, N.S.W.) Archibald Memorial Fountain (Sydney, N.S.W.) Great Synagogue (Sydney, N.S.W.) Mark Foys Ltd. (Liverpool Street, Sydney, N.S.W.) Central Railway Station (Sydney, N.S.W.) Central Police Court (Liverpool Street, Sydney, N.S.W.) Trades Hall (Goulburn Street, Sydney, N.S.W.) Anthony Hordern & Sons (George Street, Haymarket, N.S.W.) Circular Quay (Sydney, N.S.W.) Customs House (Alfred Street, Sydney, N.S.W.) Argyle Cut (Sydney, N.S.W.) Holy Trinity Church (Millers Point, N.S.W.) Sydney Observatory (N.S.W.) Darling Harbour (N.S.W.) National Trust Centre (Upper Fort Street, Millers Point, N.S.W.) Sydney Harbour Bridge (Sydney, N.S.W.) Sydney Opera House (N.S.W.) National Mutual Building (George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.) Gresham Hotel (corner York and Druitt Streets, Sydney, N.S.W) Shelbourne Hotel (Sussex Street, Sydney, N.S.W.) Pyrmont (N.S.W.) interiors official buildings city & town buildings parliamentary buildings office buildings clock towers spiral staircases entrance gates streetlights streetscapes city & town views banks drinking fountains fountains post offices sculptures pulpits columns flower stalls theatre foyers sandstone buildings ironwork stained-glass windows domes synagogues cathedrals hospitals department stores theatres & cinemas arcades churches bridges commercial establishments Historic buildings--New South Wales--Sydney. Sydney (N.S.W.)--Buildings, structures, etc. Methuen of Australia (publishers)

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    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    PXD 1362/Folders 1-8Photographs of sketches from around Sydney with comments from the book designer for the printer, Macarthur Press at Parramatta. PXD 1362/Folder 8 also includes an original drawing of the Mitchell Library Reading Room.

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    Design layout sheets with drawings for Allan Gamble's book 'Sydney', 1979, and an original drawing of the Mitchell Library Reading Room, 1976 / drawings by Allan Gamble; Andew Halford, book designer for Methuen Australia

    — AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

    Author / Creator

    Author / Artists

    — NOTES

    General note

    Not included: title pages, foreword (by the Hon. Neville Wran, Q.C., M.P. Premier of New South Wales), preface (by Allan Gamble), contents, and the introduction to the first section, Central Civic Group, Folio 1. Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.4654 as part of the eRecords Project 2013-14

    Signature / Inscriptions

    Instructions to printer written in pencil on backing sheetsDrawing of the Mitchell Reading Room titled, signed and dated: 'Reading Room, Library of New South Wales', 'Gamble '76'

    Date note

    Dates on original drawings photographed for book layout range from 1972 to1978

    Conservation note

    All prints have been stuck to large sheets of paper with sticky tape. The sticky tape has deteriorated and the prints are coming loose from the sheets that have instructions for the printers.

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Source

    Presented by Allan Gamble, 1980
    Pic.Acc.4654

    Administrative / Biographical history

    Born in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1907, Allan Gamble was an architect and artist. He was well known for the series of books and prints he produced of Sydney University where he was a lecturer in architecture. In 1979 Methuen Australia published his book 'Sydney: drawings' in a limited edition of 310 copies. Allan Gamble died in 2001.Reference:Australian Art Auction Records. http://www.artrecord.com/index.cfm/artist/677-gamble-allan/ (accessed 22.7.2013)...

    Identifiers

    — PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS

    Call Numbers

    PXD 1362

    Record Identifier

    YoldlDG9

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YoldlDG9

    — OTHER IDENTIFIERS

    Reference code

    1046051

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