Current version: v1.1.0
This repository contains Jupyter notebooks that help you work with data from the ANU Archives. The notebooks currently focus on the Sydney Stock exchange stock and share lists. As the content note indicates:
These are large format bound volumes of the official lists that were posted up for the public to see - 3 times a day - forenoon, noon and afternoon - at the close of the trading session in the call room at the Sydney Stock Exchange. The closing prices of stocks and shares were entered in by hand on pre-printed sheets.
There are 199 volumes covering the period from 1901 to 1950, containing more than 70,000 pages. Each page is divided into columns. The number of columns varies across the collection. Each column is divided into rows labelled with printed company or stock names. The prices are written alongside the company names.
We're currently working on ways of extracting company and share names, as well as the handwritten prices, from the digitised images. For more information see this repository. The notebooks below provide ways of navigating, visualising, and using the digitised pages.
See the GLAM Workbench for more details.
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field is used to record details of holidays or other interruptions to trading (some with links to Trove).page_data_master.py
. This data is combined with the holiday data to generate the complete page and date lists above.See the GLAM Workbench or Zenodo for up-to-date citation details.
This repository is part of the GLAM Workbench.
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