The below is a must for us to check after so many trips to Sydney to go the State & Mitchell Libraries for research - I though i had check & seen everything but Here at home using the database I found a painting of Ulladulla 1857 of William Sturrock who was the postal master til the 1880s at time of print 1857 he was working at Wardens Store. Yes I will be ordering a copy of this for my collection Cathy Dunn From: "Alan Ventress" <aventres@ilanet.slnsw.gov.au> I am pleased to announce that PICMAN, the Mitchell Library's database of its pictures and manuscript collections, is now available on the Internet at http://www.slnsw.gov.au/picman/picman.htm. PICMAN contains catalogue records of material in the pictures and manuscripts collections of the Mitchell Library, Dixson Library and Dixson Galleries which have been catalogued since 1992. It includes records of personal papers and private archives, paintings, drawings, photographs, objects, posters, architectural plans as well as six digitised photographic collections. PICMAN contains about 97000 records. 2300 of these are manuscript records, 7100 are pictures records and about 88000 are individual records for the digital images. The digitised photographic collections range from the 1870s to the 1980's. They have been drawn from six separate collections - such as the 1870s Holtermann collection of regional NSW and Sydney, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition collection of 1911-1914, the 1930-50s commercial work of the Sam Hood studio and the 1960s, '70s and '80s work of the Australian Photographic Agency (APA). Because of copyright law, some the APA images cannot be delivered over the Internet, and so must be viewed at the Library. We hope to add a further 200000 images in the new year, when the old Government Printing Office video discs are loaded onto PICMAN. Digitised images of other parts of the collections, such as significant purchases or acquisitions, will be added from time to time. PICMAN takes over from the familiar card catalogues, but does not replace or duplicate them. While compared to the card catalogues PICMAN has only been operational for a comparatively brief period, it already provides access to important material and should be consulted as well when searching the Library's collections. Alan Ventress Mitchell Librarian State Library of New South Wales