The La Trobe Journal
is published by the State Library of Victoria Foundation twice yearly in May and December. Formerly the La Trobe Library Journal, it was published from 1968 to 1997 by the Friends of the State Library (since amalgamated with the State Library of Victoria Foundation).
Editorial Committee: John Arnold (Editor), Michael van Leeuwen, Shane Carmody, Anne Colman, Des Cowley, Kevin Molloy, Greg Kratzmann and Dianne Reilly. Administrative assistant: Jennie Harrison.
Volunteer editorial assistant: Amy Hawley.
Proof readers: Suzette Chapple, Anne Colman, Ellie Dargaville, Kevin Molloy, and Lurline Stuart.
Editorial address: Editor, the La Trobe Journal, State Library of Victoria Foundation, 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000. E-mail: john.arnold@monash.edu
Contributions are invited on scholarly topics and are subject to refereeing. Opinions expressed in the La Trobe Journal are those of the individual contributors and no responsibility is accepted for them by the Editorial Committee or the State Library of Victoria Foundation.
Copyright of material published in the La Trobe Journal is vested in the author.
The State Library of Victoria Foundation acknowledges the support of the School of Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, in providing time relief for the Editor.
Members of the State Library of Victoria Foundation receive the La Trobe Journal free as part of their membership. Single copies may be purchased from Readings.
Illustration Credits
Page 5. Reproduced with the kind permission of the National Library of Australia.
Page 67. Reproduced with the kind permission of the Victorian Parliamentary Library.
Page 73 (top image) and
page 75. Reproduced courtesy of the descendents of Steuart and Isabella Black.
All other images except those on
pages 97 and
99, which have been downloaded from the web, are from the collections of the State Library of Victoria and have been supplied by the Imaging Studio at the State Library or downloaded from Library's on-line catalogue.
Cover illustration
View [of Melbourne] from Observatory in Flagstaff Gardens
Albumen silver photograph (23.9 × 36.2cm) by Charles Nettleton, 1866. Pictures Collection, State Library of Victoria, H88.22/16.
