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Kapunda, South Australia : geographic ephemera collected by the National Library of Australia, N.D.

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Material in the Geography and Travel ephemera collection covers significant information about the geography, history, and tourist activities of places in Australia, its Antarctic and island territories. This includes geographical features, national parks and reserves, regions, cities, towns, buildings and other man-made structures. The collection includes advertising material, pamphlets, price lists, tokens, area and accommodation guides, brochures, postcards, stickers, labels and tickets.
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Retirement : ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia, 2018-12-21

Flyers
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Information brochures and advertising.
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Papers of Ernest and Virtie Crome, 1784-1987

(166 boxes + 30 small folio boxes + 16 medium folio boxes + 22 large folio boxes + 1 large volume + 90 albums + 45 elephant folio items)
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The papers reflect Ernest Crome's long passion for aviation history and airmails. The collection comprises material collected by Crome, whether given to him directly by aviators or their families, or acquired commercially.
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Papers of Bruce Smeaton, 1945-2014

(27 ms boxes + 48 small music folio boxes + 14 medium folio boxes + 7 small folio boxes + 17 large music folio boxes + 1 archival bag + 7 elephant folios + 4 large folio boxes + 1 phase box)
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The Papers of Bruce Smeaton comprise original feature film, television drama and television commercial scores, working notes and parts, along with initial sketches for cues, composed and orchestrated by Smeaton between 1975-2005. The film scores include Picnic at Hanging Rock, the Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, the Devil's Playground, the Cars That Ate Paris, Monkey Grip, Grendel Grendel Grendal, Roxanne starring Steve Martin and Plenty starring Meryl Streep. The television scores include Seven Little Australians, Ben Hall, A Town Like Alice, The Eureka Stockade, Patrol Boat and Castaway. Also included are newsletters for the Composers and Songwriters Guild of Australia, a group formed in Sydney in the 1970's, for which Smeaton was an editor.
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Papers of Sir John Cramer, 1912-1981

5.32 metres (38 boxes + 4 folios)
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The collection includes correpondence, diaries, speeches and notes, cuttings and cutting books, photographs, personal documents and invitations, financial papers and ptinted material.
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R. C. Strangman photographic archive, 1910-1980

(5 ms boxes, 2 folio boxes, 14 Cold Store binders, 11 PIC albums, 2 oversize objects, 2 digital carriers)
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This collection comprises R.C. Strangmans photographic archive containing many 35mm colour slides documenting Canberra scenes, and other Black and white photographs and negatives including some taken during his military service in World War 1; Photographic equipment, accessories and notebooks; books and ephemera featuring Strangmans photography; correspondance; and documents related to Strangman's military service, photography work, estate and death.
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Papers of Paul McGuire, 1878-1987

10.92 metres (78 boxes, 1 folio box)
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The papers include manuscripts, lectures, essays, official papers, literary correspondence, speeches, diaries, notebooks, subject files, photographs, newspaper cuttings, publications and other papers relating to McGuire's literary career, his official position as Minister and Ambassador to Italy and his interest in Catholic issues.
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Richard Bonynge and Dame Joan Sutherland collection, 1741-2015

(214 ms boxes, 436 music boxes, 13 small folio boxes, 75 medium folio boxes, 58 large folio boxes, 8 map folios, 3 small phase boxes, 2 large phase boxes, 2 oversized phase boxes, 604 sound/av carriers)
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MS 10757 encompasses Richard Bonynge and Dame Joan Sutherland's working career archive and research library, with the most substantial component comprising a vast array of music manuscripts, published scores and sets, sheet music, photocopies, and music excerpts. The archive contains a collection of singing methods, vocalises, and treatises ranging from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, used to research and develop singing techniques appropriate to different time periods and styles of vocal repertoire; as well as numerous scores and parts annotated and used by both Richard Bonynge and Joan Sutherland, including arrangements by Douglas Gamley for recordings and live performances, and Joan Sutherland's annotated libretti and performance notes.
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Australia : geographic ephemera collected by the National Library of Australia, N.D.

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Material in the Geography and Travel ephemera collection covers significant information about the geography, history, and tourist activities of places in Australia, its Antarctic and island territories. This includes geographical features, national parks and reserves, regions, cities, towns, buildings and other man-made structures. The collection includes advertising material, pamphlets, price lists, tokens, area and accommodation guides, brochures, postcards, stickers, labels and tickets.
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Lance Nelson photographic archive, 1961 - 2010

4.5 metres (11 ms boxes, 3 folio boxes, 17 folders)
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The Lance Nelson photographic archive encompasses his entire career working as a documentary, freelance, commercial, corporate and stock photographer, internationally and in Australia. The collection comprises approximately 320 35 mm colour transparencies; 50,000 black and white negatives; 300 black and white prints; documents including personal and commercial correspondence, research notes, transcripts, note books, maps and published work including company annual reports and brochures. Includes proofs from Nelson's work for Annals magazine (Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, 1966-1973) documenting the Northern Territory missions at Port Keats (Wadeye), Bathurst Island, Tiwi and Daly River; Papua New Guinea missions at D'Entrecasteaux Islands from Milne Bay to Rossel Island and Trobriand Island; contact sheets from Boggabri Country Town Family project; contact sheets of trip to Indonesia in 1966 documenting all major islands, families, farming, mining and culture for a publication: 'Mask of Time : an Indonesian discovery'.
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Papers of Eleanor Cullis-Hill, 1938-1940

0.15 metres (1 box, 1 folio, 20 large folders)
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The material provides a selection of the work of the Sydney architect, Eleanor Beresford Cullis-Hill (n. Grant) from 1938 to 1980. The architectural drawings, photographs and papers give details on the original designs and additions to 19 projects, primarily domestic architecture but also including two kindergartens, a school and a church.

Hince 1 collection, 1700-1970

(2238 music items)
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Collection of instrumental and vocal music, covering a broad musical repertoire. A large proportion of it is European and includes a variety of vocal music including art songs, choral music and operatic works as well as piano music, symphonies, orchestral music and miniature scores. Some editions from the 18th and 19th centuries are included.
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Papers of Graeme M. Clark, 1944-2015

(162 boxes) + 7 cartons + 1 small folio box + 2 medium folio boxes + 1 large folio box + 3 map folios + 1 container
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The Papers of Graeme M. Clark comprises material relating to Professor Clark's career and the development of the bionic ear or cochlear implant. Papers include correspondence, notebooks and diaries, research and development material, audio tapes, photographs and slides, lecture notes, speeches, press clippings and other material, certificates, biographical material and publications by or relating to Clark.
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Collection of exhibition posters from galleries in Victoria, 1971-1988

(13 posters)
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Collection of posters advertising various exhibitions held at galleries in Victoria including the National Gallery of Victoria, Exhibition Gallery (Monash University), Museum of Victoria and Realities Gallery.
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Papers of Jack Lindsay, 1893-1989

32.61 metres (209 ms boxes + 7 archive boxes)
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MS 7168 comprises letters to family, Australian and overseas writers, artists and others; drafts of published and unpublished works with background material (notes, photocopies and cuttings) relating to those works; and, diaries including trip diaries. Lindsay's letters are arranged chronologically with alphabetical indexes. Much of the collection comprises papers arranged by Lindsay according to his activities, especially publication projects, including books on William Blake, Gustave Courbet, William Hogarth, William Morris, and J.M.W. Turner, and interests in subjects such as alchemy, anthropology, art, Marxism and science.
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Papers of Peter Sculthorpe

45.20 metres (167 ms boxes + 3 large folio boxes + 33 medium folio boxes + 11 small folio boxes + 3 map folios + 169 sound/av carriers + 108 digital carriers)
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MS 9676 is an extensive collection that documents fully Peter Sculthorpe's career as one of Australia's most distinguished composer. Commencing with early newspaper cuttings and other items about himself, Sculthorpe has amassed a large archive of papers relating to all aspects of his career. The papers comprise correspondence, music scores, subject files, writings by and about Sculthorpe, programs, reviews, financial records, general administrative papers and photographs.
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2MBS Box 133

 

Australian theory of music collection, 1920-1970

(187 scores and volumes)
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Collection of material published by various Australian publishers giving examples of different musical forms. The material is issued predominantly for the public examinations in music conducted by the Universities of Melbourne, Adelaide, Tasmania and Western Australia, the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and the State Conservatorium of Music New South Wales on behalf of the Australian Music Examinations Board.

Royal Military College, Duntroon : ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia, 14 June 1930-09 March 1984

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Celebration memorabilia catalogue. Support organisations information. Queen Elizabeth The Second's Banner. Musical performances. A memorial. A job advertisement.
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Papers of Sydney Tomholt, 1919-1973

2.8 metres (20 boxes, 3 folio items)
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Represented in the papers is a large sequence of draft manuscripts and associated papers relating to Tomholt's chief work, an unfinished trilogy based on the life of Governor Macquarie, in which he was involved in meticulous research for over 20 years. Also filed in the collection are two letters from George Bernard Shaw to Tomholt (dated 1919), and correspondence with a number of Australian writers and intellectuals with whom Tomholt maintained a close association, such as C.K. Bliss, Tom Inglis Moore, R.D. FitzGerald, Hugh McCrae, R.G. Howarth, Nancy Keesing and Rosemary Dobson.

John Hoyle Cookery Collection, 1884-1995

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The John Hoyle Cookery Collection comprises historical cookbooks chiefly from Australia. Cookbooks from New Zealand and England are also represented. Cookbooks of many varieties are included such as recipe books for home, students and professional use covering a wide range of cuisines. In addition there is a strong collection of cookbooks issued as advertising material from organisations selling, or advocating for, appliances, foods and other products. Many of the titles are listed in Hoyle, J. An annotated bibliography of Australian domestic cookery books, 1860s to 1950