The Resource Stories from the sandstone : quarantine incriptions from Australia's immigrant past, Peter Hobbins, Ursula K Frederick, Anne Clarke
Stories from the sandstone : quarantine incriptions from Australia's immigrant past, Peter Hobbins, Ursula K Frederick, Anne Clarke
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- Summary
- Sailing to Australia in 1835, 16-year-old John Dawson watched in alarm as three of his sisters developed smallpox. Although all survived this dreaded disease, their faces bore tell-tale scars for the rest of their lives. Yet John left an even more enduring memento of his family's perilous voyage in the soft sandstone of North Head, at the entrance to Sydney Harbour. Carving a lengthy message proclaiming that the Dawsons had landed here to perform quarantine, John began a tradition that continued until Sydney's Quarantine Station finally closed in 1984. During its 150 years of operation, nearly 16,000 people were held in isolation on this headland. Interned for days, weeks or even months, many followed John's example, leaving an extraordinary gallery of more than 1600 carved and painted sandstone inscriptions. Combining intensive archaeological investigation and historical research, this book illuminates Australia's past through the portal of these intriguing and often evocative inscriptions, as well as North Head's numerous headstones. Drawing upon historical records, diaries and other writings, the book highlights the dramatic personal and social effects of diseases that once terrified the community. This book conveys the compelling personal stories of lives lived not just in despair, but also in hope for the future. The result is a captivating and intensely felt picture of the making of our society
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 304 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: 'Fearful of contagion': Sydney's etched landscape of quarantine
- 1: 'Landed here to perform quarantine': beginning a tradition
- 2: '341 emigrants from Southampton': mass transport, morals and measles in the age of sail
- 3: 'gentleman scoundrel': building and breaking communities in Quarantine --4: '1881': smallpox, epidemics and the shifting social contract
- 5: 'Quis separabit': class, comradeship and the new commonwealth of Australia
- 6: 'Smallpox Hill': Asian presences in and out of quarantine
- 7: 'By the sad and mournful sea': bubonic plague and the reconstruction of Sydney
- 8: 'Suomi': sailing into Australia's multicultural and military past
- 9: 'Sister hargreaves': RMS Niagara, world war and global disease
- 10: 'So say we all': disease and the interruption of leisure
- 11: 'Speedbird'; aviation and the transformation of disease mobility
- 12: 'Born to be a stoway': immigration detention and a new graffiti tradition
- Isbn
- 9780994310767
- Label
- Stories from the sandstone : quarantine incriptions from Australia's immigrant past
- Title
- Stories from the sandstone
- Title remainder
- quarantine incriptions from Australia's immigrant past
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Hobbins, Ursula K Frederick, Anne Clarke
- Title variation
- Stories from the sandstone
- Title variation remainder
- quarantine incriptions from Australias immigrant past
- Subject
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- trueImmigrants -- Australia
- trueImmigrants -- Australia -- Biography
- trueImmigration and emigration
- trueInscriptions
- Inscriptions -- New South Wales | Sydney
- North Head Quarantine Station -- History
- trueAustralian
- Sandstone -- Etching -- New South Wales | Sydney
- trueSmallpox
- trueQuarantine
- trueCommunicable diseases -- Patients
- Communicable diseases -- Patients -- New South Wales | Sydney -- Biography
- trueEpitaphs
- Epitaphs -- New South Wales | Sydney
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Sailing to Australia in 1835, 16-year-old John Dawson watched in alarm as three of his sisters developed smallpox. Although all survived this dreaded disease, their faces bore tell-tale scars for the rest of their lives. Yet John left an even more enduring memento of his family's perilous voyage in the soft sandstone of North Head, at the entrance to Sydney Harbour. Carving a lengthy message proclaiming that the Dawsons had landed here to perform quarantine, John began a tradition that continued until Sydney's Quarantine Station finally closed in 1984. During its 150 years of operation, nearly 16,000 people were held in isolation on this headland. Interned for days, weeks or even months, many followed John's example, leaving an extraordinary gallery of more than 1600 carved and painted sandstone inscriptions. Combining intensive archaeological investigation and historical research, this book illuminates Australia's past through the portal of these intriguing and often evocative inscriptions, as well as North Head's numerous headstones. Drawing upon historical records, diaries and other writings, the book highlights the dramatic personal and social effects of diseases that once terrified the community. This book conveys the compelling personal stories of lives lived not just in despair, but also in hope for the future. The result is a captivating and intensely felt picture of the making of our society
- Award
- NSW Premier's History Awards, Community and Regional History Prize, 2017
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- 10600368
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1969-
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- Hobbins, Peter
- Dewey number
- 994.41
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- facsimiles
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- 1970-
- 1959-
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- Frederick, Ursula
- Clarke, Anne
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- True
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- North Head Quarantine Station
- Inscriptions
- Sandstone
- Epitaphs
- Communicable diseases
- Immigrants
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- quarantine incriptions from Australia's immigrant past
- Label
- Stories from the sandstone : quarantine incriptions from Australia's immigrant past, Peter Hobbins, Ursula K Frederick, Anne Clarke
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 290-295) and index
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- volume
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- Contents
- Introduction: 'Fearful of contagion': Sydney's etched landscape of quarantine -- 1: 'Landed here to perform quarantine': beginning a tradition -- 2: '341 emigrants from Southampton': mass transport, morals and measles in the age of sail -- 3: 'gentleman scoundrel': building and breaking communities in Quarantine --4: '1881': smallpox, epidemics and the shifting social contract -- 5: 'Quis separabit': class, comradeship and the new commonwealth of Australia -- 6: 'Smallpox Hill': Asian presences in and out of quarantine -- 7: 'By the sad and mournful sea': bubonic plague and the reconstruction of Sydney -- 8: 'Suomi': sailing into Australia's multicultural and military past -- 9: 'Sister hargreaves': RMS Niagara, world war and global disease -- 10: 'So say we all': disease and the interruption of leisure -- 11: 'Speedbird'; aviation and the transformation of disease mobility -- 12: 'Born to be a stoway': immigration detention and a new graffiti tradition
- Control code
- 000057931451
- Extent
- 304 pages
- Isbn
- 9780994310767
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), portraits, facsimiles, maps, plans, photographs ; 24 cm.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)953921124
- Label
- Stories from the sandstone : quarantine incriptions from Australia's immigrant past, Peter Hobbins, Ursula K Frederick, Anne Clarke
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 290-295) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- cartographic image
- still image
- text
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- cri
- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
- Introduction: 'Fearful of contagion': Sydney's etched landscape of quarantine -- 1: 'Landed here to perform quarantine': beginning a tradition -- 2: '341 emigrants from Southampton': mass transport, morals and measles in the age of sail -- 3: 'gentleman scoundrel': building and breaking communities in Quarantine --4: '1881': smallpox, epidemics and the shifting social contract -- 5: 'Quis separabit': class, comradeship and the new commonwealth of Australia -- 6: 'Smallpox Hill': Asian presences in and out of quarantine -- 7: 'By the sad and mournful sea': bubonic plague and the reconstruction of Sydney -- 8: 'Suomi': sailing into Australia's multicultural and military past -- 9: 'Sister hargreaves': RMS Niagara, world war and global disease -- 10: 'So say we all': disease and the interruption of leisure -- 11: 'Speedbird'; aviation and the transformation of disease mobility -- 12: 'Born to be a stoway': immigration detention and a new graffiti tradition
- Control code
- 000057931451
- Extent
- 304 pages
- Isbn
- 9780994310767
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), portraits, facsimiles, maps, plans, photographs ; 24 cm.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)953921124
Subject
- trueImmigrants -- Australia
- trueImmigrants -- Australia -- Biography
- trueImmigration and emigration
- trueInscriptions
- Inscriptions -- New South Wales | Sydney
- North Head Quarantine Station -- History
- trueAustralian
- Sandstone -- Etching -- New South Wales | Sydney
- trueSmallpox
- trueQuarantine
- trueCommunicable diseases -- Patients
- Communicable diseases -- Patients -- New South Wales | Sydney -- Biography
- trueEpitaphs
- Epitaphs -- New South Wales | Sydney
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