Cosme Colony Collection
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Cosme Colony Collection
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Collection Description
New Australia and Cosme were socialist colonies founded in Paraguay in 1893 and 1894 by a group of Australians led by William Lane.
The Cosme Colony Collection is a collection of documents, personal papers, photographs and realia relating to the New Australia Colony and Cosme Colony held in Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Sydney Library. The contents of the collection are described in the Index to the Cosme Colony Collection.
The New Australia Newspaper digitised items first appeared in the Sydney Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS) website.
Collection Summaryis a collection of documents, personal papers, photographs and realia relating to the New Australia Colony and Cosme Colony held in Rare Books and Special Collections.
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Map of Paraguay](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8273)
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Male chigo, female chigo, distended with eggs, the egg of the chigo](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8272)
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Embroidered Lace (Nanduti lace?)](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8271)
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Crowded street market](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8270)
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Local trading in the mountains](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8269)
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Drawing of an adult holding long gun standing over human bodies on the ground](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8268)
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Three smoking adults with jars on their heads and a child](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8267)
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Lavanderas - Bahía de Asunción: washing in the Bay of Asunción (Paraguay)](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8266)
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Bolichera ambulante: relaxing smoking female adult and a child sitting in a plantation](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8265)
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A Paraguayo farm](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8263)
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Ruined stone building](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8262)
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Salto Guairá, caide grande. Waterfalls](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8261)
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Market and Pantheon of Lopez at Asunción](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8260)
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Cathedral and Plaza de la Constitucion, Asunción](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8259)
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Busy city street and square](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8258)
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Señor Don Emilio Aceval, President of Paraguay](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8257)
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Person in formal military attire](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8256)
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Map of South America, Paraguay highlighted](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8255)
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Cosme Principles](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8254)
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Bridge over the Pirapo River](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8253)
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Allan McLeod and family, after Margaret McLeod's death](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8252)
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Alice Lane, Ettie Lane and two unidentified figures in the orchard](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8251)
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Children in front of Cosme store and printery](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8250)
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New Australia. Number 19, July 28, 1894](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8422)
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New Australia. Number 18, May 15, 1894](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8421)
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New Australia. Number 17, April 21, 1894](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8420)
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New Australia. Number 16, March 24, 1894](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8419)
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New Australia. Number 15, February 27, 1894](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8418)
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New Australia. Number 14, January 27, 1894](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8417)
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New Australia. Number 13a, December 18, 1893](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8416)
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New Australia. Number 13, November 18, 1893](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8415)
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New Australia. Number 12, September 16, 1893](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8414)
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New Australia. Number 10, August 1, 1893](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8413)
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New Australia. Number 9, July 1, 1893](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8412)
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New Australia. Number 8, May 27, 1893](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8411)
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New Australia. Number 7, April 29, 1893](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8410)
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New Australia. Number 6, April 8, 1893](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8409)
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New Australia. Number 5, March 25, 1893](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8408)
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New Australia. Number 4, February 18, 1893](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8407)
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New Australia. Number 3, December 17, 1892](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8406)
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New Australia. Number 2, December 17, 1892](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8405)
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New Australia. Number 1, November 19, 1892](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8404)
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Newspaper clipping "Expert ignored for 40 years"](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8237)
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Letters to John Lane from the Home Secretary's Office, Brisbane in 1914, and newspaper clipping](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8226)
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Wangeriburra](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8225)
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John Lane's notebook when he compiled the vocabulary of the Wangerriburra or Albert Tribe of Aboriginal people in 1915](https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/8224)
Cosme Colony Collection. University of Sydney Library, accessed 23/03/2026, https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/6392