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The Illustrated Sydney News was a monthly English language illustrated newspapaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia for the colony.[1]

History

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First published on the 8 October 1853 by Walter George Mason.[2] The Illustrated Sydney News was published from 1853-1872 and again between 1881-1894.[3] In August 1888, it became the first Australian paper to reproduce a photograph using the new half-tone process.[1]. Prior to that, illustrations were wood-engravings, and took one engraver about a week to complete.[4] The first edition received mixed reviews in the Sydney Morning Herald[5]

Publishing in the NSW colony

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Most material published in the first twenty years of the New South Wales colony notified soldiers, convicts and private settlers contained 'government orders' printed on a portable wooden and iron printing press and displayed or announced aloud in public places and in churches.[6]

Digitisation

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The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP) project of the National Library of Australia.[7]

See also

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List of Newspapers in Australia

References

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  1. ^ a b Peter Dowling,'The Culture of Newspapers: The Slow Birth of the Modern Newspaper in Australia, 1890-1940', http://hass.unsw.adfa.edu.au/ASEC/HOBA96_Papers/dowling.html (accessed 27 November 2012)
  2. ^ National Library of Australia. "Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1853 - 1872)". Retrieved 2012-11-27.
  3. ^ Dictionary of Sydney http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/artefact/illustrated_sydney_news
  4. ^ http://hass.unsw.adfa.edu.au/ASEC/HOBA96_Papers/dowling.html
  5. ^ "GOLD CIRCULAR". The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954). NSW: National Library of Australia. 10 October 1853. p. 2. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  6. ^ 'The birth of the newspaper in Australia', http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/birth-of-the-newspaper, (accessed 27 November 2012)
  7. ^ National Library of Australia, Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP), http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/selected_newspapers/
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