Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of New South Wales/Blue Mountains Editathon

Event details

• Date: to be confirmed
• Time: 10am - 1pm
• Venue: AMAZE gallery, State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street Sydney

The AMAZE gallery hosted an exhibition of library materials relating to the history of the scenic Blue Mountains supported by the Curio app for Android and iOS which includes text about the individual items as well.

Blue Mountains, NSW

Articles to work on:

Existing articles		Comments
Blue Mountains (New South Wales)
1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains
Greater Blue Mountains Area a World Heritage Site
Electoral district of Blue Mountains
Blue Mountains railway line
Three Sisters (Australia)
Six Foot Track
Blue Mountains Dams
Bells Line of Road
Ruined Castle

Content

A number of images from the Library's collection have been added to the Wikimedia Commons for the event and are linked below.

• Commons:File:Henry Colden Antill - journals, 1809, 1815; written in 1849 a2251067u.tif
• Commons:File:Blaxland.jpg
• Commons:File:Gregory Blaxland Esq. formerly of Brush Farm a928207u.tif
• Commons:File:William Cox - Journal, 7 July, 1814 - 6 January, 1815 a2507005u.tif
• Commons:File:William Cox, 1830 a928934u.tif
• Commons:File:Travel Journal No. 2 a1133003h.jpg
• Commons:File:William Govett notes and sketches a5504012h.jpg
• Commons:File:'Hara-o & Karadra' in Drawings and etchings of Nepean and Springwood Aboriginal men by and after Alphonse Pellion, 1819 a346007u.tif
• Commons:File:Katoomba St. Street & Clouds, Katoomba a128374u.tif
• Commons:File:Lawson's Journal.jpg
• Commons:File:Wax impression of Lawson's seal a1482020u.tif
• Commons:File:Portrait of William Lawson.jpg
• Commons:File:Letter to Philip Gidley King dated 21 November 1802 a938004u.tif
• Commons:File:Panorama of Blue Mountains scenery at Leura, 1903 a113020u.tif
• Commons:File:Part of Cox's Pass, New South Wales a128194u.tif
• Commons:File:Sketch shewing the different lines of road descending from the Blue Mountains towards Bathurst' a1480009u.tif
• Commons:File:The Devil's coach house (Grottes de Jenolan - Montagnes bleues (Australia) - Entrée de la grotto …) a1528078u.tif
• Commons:File:The Entrance, Fish River Caves a1528190u.tif
• Commons:File:View taken on Major Mitchell's Pass to the Pilgrim Decr 5th 1832 a928093u.tif
• Commons:File:Waterfall on the road to Bathurst Oct i.e. October 20 1851 a1528538u.tif
• Commons:File:William Charles Wentworth - Journal expedition across Blue Mountains a1461003.jpg
• Commons:File:William Charles Wentworth, explorer, author, barrister, landowner and statesman a4366034u.tif
• Commons:File:Campbell River a303010u.jpg
• Commons:File:Cox's Pass a303011u.jpg

References

• Crossing the Blue Mountains
• Macquarie's crossing
• Black, M. P., & Mooney, S. D. (2006). Holocene fire history from the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage area, New South Wales, Australia: the climate, humans and fire nexus. Regional Environmental Change, 6(1-2), 41-51.
• Blue Mountains Centenary Celebrations Committee, & Walker, F. (1913). Official History of the First Crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813. WE Smith, Limited.
• Breckell, Maureen. "Shades of Grey: Early Contact in the Blue Mountains." Blue Mountains Dreaming. Three Sisters Productions (1993): 114-121.
• Mackaness, G. (Ed.). (1965). Fourteen Journeys Over the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, 1813-1841 (Vol. 1). Horwitz-Grahame.
• Merriman, J. (1993). Difficult, rocky, sandy, stoney, flowery: aboriginal ecology in the Blue Mountains. Blue Mountains dreaming: the Aboriginal Heritage. Three Sisters Productions, 82-113.
• Thomas, M. (2004). The artificial horizon: imagining the Blue Mountains. Melbourne Univ. Publishing.
• Tisdell, C., & Wilson, C. (2002). World heritage listing of Australian natural sites: tourism stimulus and its economic value. Economic analysis and policy, 32, 27-50.

NB: while onsite for the editathon full access to the Library's databases is available for citing references, including JSTOR.