Cover: The Poster Maiden, a lithograph from the Troedel Collection (vol. 28, p. 37) in the Picture Collection of the State Library, was designed by W(illiam) Blamire Young (1862-1935), who has been described as a major water colorist in early twentieth-century Australia. Between 1897 and 1899 he worked as the Art Advertising Manager of the Austral Cycle Agency. Advertisements for Swift's bicycles were based on this design (see left). So far as is known, the damaged copy of The Poster Maiden reproduced here is the only copy that has survived. The The work of Troedel & Co., which includes the advertising poster The ‘Eureka’ Patent Rabbit Extractor (vol. 28, p. 16) reproduced on the back cover, is discussed by Olga Tsara in this number of The La Trobe Journal.
| From the Editorial Chair | 2 | |
| Christine Downer | The Picture Collection: Where to from here? | 3 |
| Michael D. Galimany | Reactive and Proactive: Policies of Photographic Documentation in the Picture Collection, 1978–1998 | 5 |
| Christine Downer | The Language of Flowers: Henry Short's Our Adopted Country | 19 |
| Brian Hubber | Annotation: Audubon's Birds of America in the State Library | 21 |
| Kerry Agnew | Realia in the Picture Collection | 24 |
| Olga Tsara | Troedel & Co.: Master Printers and Lithographers | 31 |
| Christine Downer | Images of Empire: Sir Henry Barkly's Photograph Album, 1858–1877 | 39 |
| Mary Lewis | ‘The Great Patriotic War’: Notes on Russian Photographs in the Argus Collection | 46 |
| John Arnold | Library Profile: Augustus Tulk, Gentleman Librarian | 54 |
