The Illustrated Sydney News was a monthly English language illustrated newspapaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia for the colony.[1]
History edit
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 edit
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 edit
The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP) project of the National Library of Australia.[7]
See also edit
List of Newspapers in Australia
References edit
- ^ 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)
- ^ National Library of Australia. "Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1853 - 1872)". Retrieved 2012-11-27.
- ^ Dictionary of Sydney http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/artefact/illustrated_sydney_news
- ^ http://hass.unsw.adfa.edu.au/ASEC/HOBA96_Papers/dowling.html
- ^ "GOLD CIRCULAR". The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954). NSW: National Library of Australia. 10 October 1853. p. 2. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ 'The birth of the newspaper in Australia', http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/birth-of-the-newspaper, (accessed 27 November 2012)
- ^ National Library of Australia, Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP), http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/selected_newspapers/
External links edit
- National Library of Australia Digitised historic Newspaper Title
- Press timeline: Select chronology of significant Australian press events to 2011 http://www.nla.gov.au/anplan/heritage/NewspaperChronology.html
- The birth of the newspaper in Australia http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/birth-of-the-newspaper
- Isaacs, Victor, Kirkpatrick, Rod and Russell, John (2004). Australian Newspaper History: A Bibliography http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:9521/anb_rk.pdf
- Isaacs, Victor; Kirkpatrick, Rod, Two hundred years of Sydney newspapers: A short history, Rural Press Ltd
- Illustrated Sydney News Index to Illustrations of ships, ports and places, and other items of general maritime interest 1853 to 1889 inclusive. (1990) Compiled by Vaughan Evans http://www.anmm.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/isnindex.pdf
- The Culture of Newspapers: The Slow Birth of the Modern Newspaper in Australia, 1890-1940 by Peter Dowling http://hass.unsw.adfa.edu.au/ASEC/HOBA96_Papers/dowling.html