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Papers of Eileen Watt, 1927-2009

0.36 metres (2 boxes, 1 packet, 1 folder)
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Journals kept from 1975 to 1981, in which Eileen Watt writes about political events in Australia and overseas, social, economic and environmental issues, women's affairs and cultural events, and aspects of personal and family life; seven photographs, including the annual meeting of the Australian League of Nations Union, Canberra, 1938.
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1932 Box 1

 

Papers of Sir William Keys, 1949-2000

(47 ms boxes + 1 large folio box + 2 binders + 2 packets + 1 audiovisual carrier + 1 digital carrier + 1 piece)
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Comprises personal correspondence, files on the RSL and other servicemen's organisations, business files, papers relating to Keys' book Flowers in winter, speeches, newspaper cuttings, photograph albums and loose photographs.
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Papers of P. G. Taylor, 1922-1967

17.79 metres (93 archive boxes + 1 medium folio box + 1 large folio box)
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Papers of Ulrich Ellis, 1900-1983

6.5 metres (41 boxes + 5 folios)
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Ulrich Ellis was Political Secretary to the Federal Country Party Leader from 1928-1936, and the papers in the first consignment particularly cover the formation and history of the Country Party throughout Australia. They include correspondence, pamphlets, policy speeches, minutes of meetings, press cuttings and notes for Ellis's book A History of the Australian Country Party, 1963. They concern Sir Earle Page, Bruce, Lyons and Menzies among others.
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Donald Ian McDonald collection of slides, approximately 1960-1969

452 slides : colour ; 35 mm
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Collection of images taken by Donald Ian McDonald in the 1960s documenting significant buildings and landmarks in cities and towns in South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, and Western Australia.
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Byrne Goodrick and Ian Angus Map Collection, 1925-1956

58 maps, 1018 data sheets and 4 booklets items in 6 boxes + 6 folders + 1 canvas pouch + 1 wooden box
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Papers of Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru collected by D.A. Low, 1896-1981

9.54 metres (8 boxes + 115 volumes)
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The collection consists largely of photocopies of the papers of Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, 1875 – 1949, which were collected, copied and bound by Professor D. A. Low. The original collection is held in full in the National Library of India, Calcutta. The collection documents the Indian National Movement for Independence focussing on the years 1920 to 1949.
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Papers of Sir Philip Strong, c.1900-2007

0.18 metres (1 archives box + 11 sound/av carriers)
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MS 3921 comprises papers relating to Philip Strong's years in New Guinea including a number of addresses to the Synod, processed letters to the missionary staff and pastoral messages. There is a typescript copy of Strong's recollections of his first three years in New Guinea written in 1942, a copy of his book Out of great tribulation (1947) and about 25 pamphlets all relating to Anglican missionary activity in New Guinea. The collection also includes about 15 pamphlets relating to the period when Strong was archbishop of Brisbane and primate of Australia.The Acc07.047 instalment comprises correspondence, photographs, diaries, publications, prayer books, sermons, notebooks and drawings.The Acc09.116 instalment comprises papers documenting Strong's childhood, education and professional life in the Anglican Church. They include correspondence, diaries, notes and notebooks, sermons and addresses, publications and reminiscences of wartime Papua New Guinea.The Acc13.109 instalment comprises 40 diaries and some correspondence relating to Sir Philip Strong's time in New Guinea.
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Papers of the Brown Family (as filmed by the AJCP), 1829-1899

945 items
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Correspondence, initially between James Hoey, who migrated to Victoria in 1852 with his brother Thomas, and the Brown Family, describing life in Melbourne. Maggie Brown travelled to Australia in 1854 to marry James Hoey and their letters to the family in Scotland relate domestic news and tell of conditions on the goldfields at Bendigo and Eaglehawk, where Thomas and James Hoey began prospecting in 1856 with their brother-in-law John Buckie. Jane Hay Brown arrived in Australia in 1859 on the Royal Charter to care for her sister Maggie, who died later that year. All correspondents refer to activities of fellow Scots in Australia.
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Papers of June Factor, 1939-2020

(114 boxes + 1 carton + 2 folders)
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MS Acc02.228 comprises files of papers relating to Children's Radio 3CR including letters, communications with the Institute of Early Childhood Development, teaching outlines and notes, dating from the 1980s (1 box).
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Papers of Sidney William Jackson, 1888-1936

0.96 metres (6 boxes)
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The collection consists of correspondence relating mainly to the disposal of the Jacksonian Oological Collection, field note books and data books, drawings of natural specimens, photographs taken mainly on expeditions, press cuttings and printed matter.
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Papers of R. Selkirk Panton, 1901-1991

2.21 metres (13 boxes + 2 folios)
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The collection contains material from three main stages of Panton's life: 1926-1940, derived from Panton's pre-war life in Europe; 1940-1944, during the period of his internment by the Germans in Denmark; 1945-1951, his return to active reporting, including attendance of the Nuremberg war crime trials and reporting on the Korean War. Other papers concern the journalistic and charity work he undertook following his return to Australia in 1952 and draft materials for planned autobiographical works.
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Papers of Lucky Grills, c. 1940-2007

(22 ms boxes + 1 medium folio box + 6 map folios + 395 sound/av carriers + 27 digital carriers)

Papers of Coralie Hinkley, 1936-2022

(14 ms boxes, 1 large folio-box, 3 map-folios, 31 audiovisual carriers, 3 digital carriers)
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Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this collection may contain content that may be culturally sensitive. Please also be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions within these works which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
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Records of Edgley International, 1962-2006

32.4 metres (173 boxes + 43 folio items + 10 sound/av carriers)

Papers of Alec Costin, 1912 - 2020

60 boxes + 16 albums + 2 custom boxes + 1 medium folio box + 1 small folio box
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An internationally respected Australian alpine ecologist, scientist, activist and government advisor, Alec Costin was instrumental in the conservation of the Australian Alps over the course of eight decades from 1946 through to the 21st century. The collection comprises a broad set of records created and/or compiled by Alec Costin during the course of his life and work. The records span from 1912 to 2020 and include papers, reports, correspondence, publications, manuscripts, photographs, slides, data sheets, diagrams and graphs.
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11 slides, c.1995 Album MS Cold Store 19

 

Papers of William Halse Rivers Rivers (as filmed by the AJCP), 1898-1922

78 items
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Papers include correspondence, notes, notebooks, typescripts, photographs and cuttings concerning social anthropology of the Torres Strait, New Hebrides, Tonga, Samoa, Hawaii, Fiji and Solomon Islands. Subjects include: notes on Ambrym; social organisation; marriage and childbirth; kinship, Mekeo system; totemism; medicine and funeral customs.

Papers of Julie Lewis, 1931-1995

7.15 metres (39 boxes + 2 cartons + 1 folio box + 53 sound/av carriers)
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MS 9507 provides a comprehensive record of Julie Lewis' literary career. The bulk of the papers relate to her work as a biographer. For each book there is a mixture of typescripts, correspondence with publishers, research material, reviews, and papers concerning the launchings. Lewis was a thorough researcher and there are many letters relating to her research.
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1978-82 Box 1

 

Papers of Hugh Anderson, c. 1890-2003

28.05 metres (116 ms boxes + 1 small-folio box + 14 medium folio-boxes + 6 large folio-boxes + 11 sound/av carriers)
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"MS 6946 comprises personal and business correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, galley proofs, journal articles, newscuttings, notes, printing quotes, reports and reviews. The papers reflect Hugh Anderson's diverse range of interests as a teacher, writer, historian, publisher, folklorist and also his interest in Chinese writings."
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Papers of Margaret Reynolds, 1973-2005

(85 boxes + 12 cartons + 2 box files + 1 elephant folio + 5 sound/av carriers)
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MS 9579 comprises correspondence, newspaper cuttings, press releases, photocopies, ephemera and printed material. The principal subjects are indigenous and race relations issues, reproductive rights, women and the Order of Australia, immigration, uranium mining, defence, drug law reform, peace movement and the Gulf War. The correspondents include fellow ministers, various organisations (such as Amnesty International, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and Women's Electoral Lobby), Lowitja O'Donoghue, Father Frank Brennan, Noel Pearson, Pat Dodson and Kennedy Graham.
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Papers of Dennis Altman, 1961-2021

(23 ms boxes + 1 archives box + 1 map folio + 2 folders)
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The collection comprises papers documenting academic and gay right's campaigner Dennis Altman's career as a writer and his roles in Australian and international HIV/AIDS organisations. Includes correspondence to and from academics, publishers, politicians, leaders of homosexual movements and admirers.
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Papers of Anne Summers, c. 1940-2018

(103 ms boxes + 45 archives boxes + 2 small folio boxes + 5 medium folio boxes + 5 large folio boxes + 30 map folios + 1 ms carton + 1 folder)
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MS 7073 comprises manuscripts, research notes, typescript drafts, galley proofs, draft notes and correspondence concerning writing and publication of Summers' book Damned whores and God's police, and her autobiography Ducks on the pond. Correspondents include Henry Mayer, Melanie Beresford, Ann Curthoys and staff of Penguin Books. The collection includes a cuttings book containing press cuttings about Summers and Damned whores and God's police; files of research notes; cuttings; and, correspondence on a wide range of topics including women and poverty, single parents, family, Caroline Chisholm, child care, Aboriginal Australians, rape reform proposals, suicide, women unionists, education, prostitution, racism, Womens' Electoral Lobby, Adela Pankhurst Walsh, women and the media. The collection also includes material relating to the journal Refractory girl and the publication of Her story: Australian women in print 1788-1975. There are papers and material relating to Gamble for power; papers relating to the "free Sandra Willson" campaign and Ms and Sassy magazines; transcripts and video tapes relating to the ABC TV program "Anne Summers in conversation with six Aussie men" (1994); and, various papers relating to women's issues (66 boxes, 7 fol. boxes).The Acc07.177 instalment includes a wide range of correspondence; files on various publishers and projects; and, material relating to The end of equality, Ms and Sassy magazines, Good weekend and Greenpeace International (19 boxes).
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Records of the Anti-Nuclear and Anti-Uranium Collective (Friends of the Earth Australia), 1970-2020

(117 ms boxes) + 2 large folio boxes + 1 medium folio box + 1 non-standard phase box + 4 oversized phase boxes + 1 folio packet + 3 audiovisual carriers + 8 digital carriers
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Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this collection may contain names, recordings and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. Please also be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions within these works which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive. Other content that may be distressing and/or culturally sensitive includes material relating to; the Kakadu conservation zone inquiry; The repercussions of British nuclear tests at Maralinga; the Kungka Tjuta-Aboriginal Land Rights Movement; social impact studies in the Western Desert Puntukurnuparna/Rundall River region; and First Nations peoples accounts, case studies and perspectives on native title, nuclear testing and mining. Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP): This material contains Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations peoples, including photographs, first-hand accounts, case studies and perspectives of the Mardu, Mirarr, Arabana, Yankunytjatjara, Adnyamathanha and Burduna communities. First Nations language groups represented in the collection include: Adnyamathanha; Kuwarra; Burduna; Arabana; Yolngu Matha and Umoona. Restrictions on access and use of this material may apply. Contact the National Library of Australia for further information. Content Summary: This collection comprises material relating to the policy, activities and structure of the Anti-Nuclear and Anti-Uranium Collective (Friends of the Earth, Australia). It includes minute books, correspondence, submissions to government bodies, pamphlets, periodicals/newsletters and other unique manuscript material, as well as audio-visual material (photographs, film, and sound) and an extensive collection of posters and rally banners. Significant subjects and campaigns covered in this archive include: Roxby Downs Blockade, Maralinga, Jabiluka, as well as continual efforts to fight against the establishment of nuclear power stations within Australia, and against a national/international waste dump. Australia's First Nations Australians (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders) voices have played an integral part in this movement and are strongly represented throughout this collection.
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Papers of Warren Fahey, 1907-2024

33 ms boxes + 4 cartons + 1 binder + 1 map-folio + 2 folio-packet + 229 audiovisual carriers + 29 digital carriers
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MS Acc04.048 comprises correspondence, business files, contracts, press cuttings, photographs, leaflets, posters, magazines, programs, scripts and folklore collected by Fahey. Also, sound recordings, mostly from Larrikin Entertainment.
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Papers of the Hyslop and Fleming families, 1939-2013

(1 ms box + 1 small folio box + 2 binders + 104 negatives + 3 colour photograph + 7 audiovisual carriers)
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MS Acc13.205 comprises material relating to Dorothy Hyslop (née Fleming) and her family. Box 1 contains photographs, clippings, speech notes and correspondence relating to the Parliament House Embroidery project and Dorothy Hyslop's nomination for an Order of Australia medal; ACT Embroidery Guild exhibition catalogues, and Dorothy Hyslop's correspondence, notes, invitations, clippings relating to the Guild; a copy of the Deed of Gift from Embroidery Guild to the National Museum and related correspondence; planning, design notes and correspondence relating to the Parliament House embroidery. Folio box contains material relating to the Fleming family, such as the document presented to Dorothy's grandfather (a teacher) signed by his pupils including Isaac Isaacs; a photograph album complied by Dorothy's fiance Francis Cole who died in the Second World War, and miscellaneous material including a note from Elizabeth David to Gabrielle Hyslop (1 box, 1 small folio box , 104 negatives, 3 colour photograph, 7 audiovisual carriers).
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Papers of Graham Richardson, 1986-2001

(10 ms boxes + 341 audiovisual carriers)
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This collection comprises records of Graham Richardson OA, covering political events from 1986 to 1994 relating to his portfolios and party activities. Records include transcripts and 341 audio recordings of Richardson's interviews some during his role as a media commentator through 1995 to 2001. There are copies of speeches and press conferences; press releases and his personal set of press cuttings reflecting his opinion of articles of importance from newspapers across Australia.
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Papers of Percy J. Marks, ca.1850-1941

0.3 metres (2 boxes + 1 folio)
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The collection contains material relating to Australian currency, including photographs and glass negatives, albums, paper currency, correspondence, medals and coins, newspaper clippings and other printed material.
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Posters advertising Australian music concerts, tour dates and festivals, 1983-2020

47 posters
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Collection of posters advertising Australian music bands concerts and music festivals, details of the performers venues and tour dates. Includes bands such as Urban Sea Shanties, Cold Chisel with Living End, Jimmy Barnes: 30:30 Hindsight Greatest Hits Tour, Tina Arena Reset Tour and portrait of Australian rock band 1927. A number of music festivals advertised featuring full line up information: Queensland Music Festival (QMF); the 20th Anniversary Caxton Street Seafood and Wine Festival, featuring Wolfmother, Eurogliders and Sheppard; the 15th Annual Arts and Music Festival, Splendour in the Grass, North Byron Bay Parklands; and Earth Frequency Festival, featuring Quanta and Spoonbill.
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Posters promoting Premier's Reading Challenge and book publications, 2005-2014

21 posters
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Collection of promotional posters for NSW Premier's Reading Challenge from 2005 to 2014 which are presented by NSW Government; principal partner Dymocks Children's Charities; technology partner, Microsoft; press media partner, The Sun-Herald and OPSM. Also includes posters advertising best sellers and reading programmes pubilshed by Macmillan Australia, Collins Dove, Jacaranda Press, Martin Educational and Longman Cheshire.
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Sydney Festival : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, N.D.

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Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of programs and related items for Australian performing arts organisations, Australian artists performing overseas, professional productions performed in Australia (including those featuring overseas performers) and overseas performances of Australian plays, music, etc.
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1990

 
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1991

 

Papers of Barbara Thiering, 1967-2011

(20 ms boxes, 30 digital carriers)
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This collection comprises the working papers of feminist theologian Barbara Thiering and includes manuscripts and background research for her articles and publications on the New Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls along with newspaper clippings, reviews and photographs.
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12 Apostles Digital-Carriers-Box 66

 

Great Ocean Road, Victoria : 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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Papers of Moffatt Oxenbould and Graeme Ewer, 1890-2016, 1890-2016

(51 boxes) + 3 fol. box + 3 map folios + 54 items + 1 packet + 1 oversize carton + 8 audio carriers
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This collection comprises papers relating to the lives and careers of Moffatt Oxenbould and Graeme Ewer, particularly Oxenbould's tenure at Opera Australia, as well as material relating to Australian performing arts history. The material includes correspondence, original opera set and costume designs, photographs, scrapbooks, Edwardian postcards, ephemera, appointment diaries and journals, newsclippings, magazines and other printed material, cassette recordings, artworks and realia.

Papers of Frank Hardy, 1931-1988

(242 ms boxes + 1 small folio box + 9 medium folio boxes + 1 large folio box + 1 elephant folio)
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MS 4887 comprises correspondence, notes, drafts and research material relating to Hardy's published works; diaries; notebooks; press cuttings; tape recordings; photographs; cartoons and sketches by Hardy, Ambrose Dyson, Bruce Petty, Counihan and Vane; autobiographical notes; radio and television scripts; papers connected with political and literary organizations; material relating to the Power without glory trial; biographical and critical material on Henry Lawson, Russian poet Evgenii Yevtushenko, and writings by others.There is correspondence with publishers and fellow writers in Australia and overseas, 1946-1973; and letters from Martin Boyd, Eric Lambert, the Palmers, Neville Shute, Jack Lindsay, Howard Fast, Owen Webster, family, friends and Communist Party comrades. Photographs include Hardy in Russia, Europe, the United States and Australia, historical material of revolutionary Russia and postwar Poland (242 boxes, 11 fol. boxes, 1 elephant folio).

Records of the Tomato Press, 1971-1976

1.2 metres (4 ms boxes + 1 large folio box)
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Perth, Western 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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Records of Australian Business Limited, 1911-2000

2.73 metres (8 ms boxes + 1 archives box + 1 medium folio box + 1 elephant folio)

Collections held by the Gloucestershire Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 1771-1950

43 items
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Records 1837-40 and 1914 of Parishes of Bisley, Dursley and Dymock. Subjects include emigration to Australia and Canada, Poor Law Commission and World War I.
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Collections held by the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale (as filmed by the AJCP), 24 September 1838-02 July 1971

19 items
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Papers 1838-82 of Frederick Walker, Son Dickie, solicitors, relating to lease and conveyance of lands in Australia and New Zealand.
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Papers of Marcie Muir, c.1960-2007

9.93 m. metres (46 boxes + 5 folio boxes + 1 packet + 24 digital carriers + 1 sound/av carrier)
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The collection comprises unpublished writing by Marcie Muir on Australian children's literature, correspondence with publishers, writers, children's book enthusiasts, libraries, floppy disks, ledgers and other files relating to research.
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Papers of W. H. Keith Young, 1950-1983

1.2 metres (4 small folio-boxes) + 155 sound/AV carriers
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The collection comprises manuscript music scores, tape recordings, notebooks and other papers that provide a complete record of Dr Young's long career as a choirmaster and composer.
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Papers of Sir Saul Samuel (as filmed by AJCP), 1837-1900

237 items
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The correspondence has been arranged chronologically, with letters from Charles Cowper, Lord Belmore, Sir Henry Parkes and the Samuel Family separated into distinct groups. Most of the correspondence with Charles Cowper is dated 1870 and relates to Samuel's resignation from the Executive Council. The letters from Lord Belmore are dated 1868-85, with many written 1868-72, when he was Governor of New South Wales. The largest group contains letters from a number of correspondents dealing with personal matters and official business such as appointments, securing loans and relations with the Colonial Office.
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Papers of Elizabeth Riddell, 1982-1990

0.15 metres (1 box)
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The collection includes drafts of poems and reviews by Riddell and correspondence with Barrett Reid and Stephen Murray-Smith.

Collections held by the Tate Gallery Library Archive (as filmed by the AJCP), 17 June 1912-May 1980

24 items
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Letters 1953-56 of Grace English regarding the loan of a colour drawing by Ethel Walker for the exhibition British Watercolours 1914-53.
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