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Online Jigsaw Gallery

Take some time and explore our collections through jigsaws! There are many puzzles to choose from. All the images have been selected from the university’s vast Archives and Special Collections.

Keep coming back as you may find some new ones.

Paolo Giorza (1832-1914). The Geelong skating rink galop. Melbourne: Nicholson & Ascherberg, 1877. Rare Music Collection (call # is Bail Music RB A G4995 GEE.1). The Geelong skating rink galop, with cover illustration by Charles Turner, is a piece of lively dance music for piano by Milanese composer–performer Paolo Giorza, who arrived in Australia in 1871. While the circular image appears to show a frozen river and the two women are pictured dressed for the cold with fur muffs to warm their hands, the wheeled skates tell a different story. This musical work celebrates the Geelong skating rink—with adjoining ballroom—which opened for indoor skating on soundproofed wooden floors in October 1876.

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07 May 2020
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