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Records of the Australian National Research Council, 1919-1954

4.5 metres (66 boxes)
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The papers include Executive Council minute books (1926-1953); and minutes of general meetings (1921-1955); correspondence for the years 1920-1954, largely arranged by subject, concerning the internal administration of the Council, its many activities and affiliations within Australia in the cause of scientific research, and its links with overseas bodies, including the International Research Council; a complete set of Australian Social Science Abstracts; press cuttings concerning the work of Australian scientists (1922-1927); and the financial records of the Council, being bank books, balance sheets, receipt books and ledgers.
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Papers and correspondence of Henry Handel Richardson, 1852-1983

13.15 metres (18 ms boxes + 4 archives boxes + 33 security binders + 1 small folio box + 1 medium phase box + 1 large folio box + 2 map folios + 2 volumes + 1 scrapbook + 2 folio packets + 93 books)
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Drafts, including manuscripts, of Neils Lyhne, The young Cosima, Myself When Young, The End of a Childhood Ultima Thule. Original typescript versions of: Maurice Guest, The Getting of Wisdom, Myself When Young. Final copies of: Maurice Guest, The Getting of Wisdom, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony The Young Cosima. Notes photos for The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. Letters to writer Oliver Stonor 1929-1946, copies of 50 letters 1931-1933 to Jacob Schwartz photocopies of letters 1911-1946, to Mary Kernot. (Many of the original handwritten drafts of her works were destroyed in Henry Handel Richardson's lifetime). Original manuscript music scores by Richardson; correspondence with Paul Solanges 1910-1914 notes on his translation of 'Maurice Guest'; albums of newspaper cuttings; editions of her books and books used by her in researching 'The young Cosima'. Also, a copy of a record, (1953) of Walter Lindesay Richardson MD at the Yarra Bend Asylum 1878-1879.
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Papers of Sir Neville Howse, 1910-1967

0.75 metres (2 ms boxes + 1 medium folio box)
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'Suma' Howse family farm outside Orange, N.S.W. Now Orange airport. 'Nareena' Howse family home in Orange, N.S.W. 'Killiney' Howse family home in Orange, N.S.W.
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Papers of John Joseph Davoren, 1922-1971

4.79 metres (8 archive boxes + 5 ms boxes + 1 ms carton + 1 large folio box + 1 medium phase box + 1 map folio)
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The papers reflect Davoren's legal work and include briefs, addresses to juries, and copies of journal and seminar articles. There is also correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, cash ledger and address books and some printed items.
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Papers of Anna Reynolds, 1998-2004

(503 digital files)
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This collection primarily comprises material created and maintained by Anna Reynolds during her time as founder and coordinator of the Climate Action Network Australia (CANA), 1998-2001. CANA is "... a network of organisations working together to protect people from climate change and its impacts, to safeguard our natural environment, and to build a fairer and healthier Australia". The collection includes conference programs, reports, correspondence, budget and funding files, website content, files relating to the World Wildlife Fund, media releases, planning and briefing documentation, subject files, tax campaigns, CANA directories, presentations, submissions and meeting files.

Papers of Peter Freeman, 1800-2021

(161 ms boxes + 62 binders + 4 large folio boxes + 19 medium folio boxes + 26 digital carriers)
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MS 6421 comprises correspondence, drafts and photographs for publication by Oxford University Press of Peter Freeman's 1982 book The homestead: a Riverina anthology.
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Papers of Michael Noonan, 1891-1997 (bulk 1945-1997)

15.96 metres (114 ms boxes + 1 small folio box + 1 packet + 2 map folios + 3 sound/av carriers + 9 digital carriers)
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The papers comprise Michael Noonan's literary output as a scriptwriter for radio, television and film and as a novelist and biographer from the 1940s until the publication of his autobiography in 1995. The literary papers include drafts, plot outlines, film treatments, notebooks, research materials and business correspondence. The collection also includes family and general correspondence, personal documents, legal papers and photographs. Major correspondents include Bill and Ann Moloney, Harvey Unna (agent), Kurt Hellmer (agent), Nadine Hopkins, Catherine Ingall, Chips Rafferty, Harry Rosengrave and Ted Willis.
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Papers collected by Leon Kashnor, 1650-1870

(1 medium folio box + 15 archives boxes + 10 folios)
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The main bulk of the manuscripts is made up of some fifteen hundred pieces from the Townshend papers relating chiefly to the period 1688 to 1753. Apart from the principal group the collection includes Gregory King's Observations and conclusions natural and political, upon the state and condition of England etc.. some letters of John Stuart Mill, a number of letters from Robert Owen, (a small group written mainly by Chartists to J.A. Roebuck), (and a considerable group of letters and other material of W.J. Linton).
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Papers of Geoffrey Bolton, 1931-2015

(70 ms boxes + 1 card box)
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The collection documents Geoffrey Bolton's professional life as an historian, academic and author. They include correspondence, reviews, notes, projects, lectures, speeches, conference papers, drafts of writings, cuttings, photographs and other printed material. Subjects include Bolton's association with The Oxford History of Australia, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Constitutional Centenary Foundation and the Australian Bicentennial History Project; papers relating to publications include 'A fine country to starve in', 'Being whitefella', 'Richard Daintree: a photographic memoir', 'Spoils and Spoilers: Australians make their environment 1788-1980', 'A Thousand miles away : a history of north Queensland to 1920', 'Dick Boyer, an Australian humanist', 'Paul Hasluck : a life' and 'Edmund Barton'.
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Records of the Australian Reproductive Health Alliance, 1989-2012

(119 ms boxes + 1 elephant folio item + 1 rolled items box)
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Papers of Ken Ferguson, 1936-2007

18.45 metres (101 ms boxes + 1 large folio box + 6 small folio boxes + 1 medium elephant folio)
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March 4 Justice: ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia, 2021-03-15

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Held on the 15th of March 2021, the March 4 Justice protests were a grass roots movement. Initiated in response to recent reporting regarding the alleged rape of political staffer Brittany Higgins at Parliament House and alleged historical rape allegations against then Attorney General Christian Porter, the protests were largely organised via social media. Janine Hendry is credited as sending the Tweet that started the movement (march4justice.org, The Guardian Australia).
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Joyce Evans archive, 1946-2017

71561 items (96 MS boxes + 3 large folio boxes + 10128 120mm negatives (B&W + colour) + 52339 35mm negatives (B&W + colour) + 3209 negatives, various sizes (B&W + colour) + 31 audio cassettes + 2 audio CDs + 1 VHS + 417 photographs (B&W) + 2383 photographs (colour) + 983 colour polaroid photographs + 2068 contact sheets)
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The collection includes business notes, teaching materials, correspondence, exhibition ephemera and planning notes, valuations, oral histories, journals, financial records, and photographic material.
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Mary Broderick Lowe photographic archive, 1955-1981

2025 slides
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This collection comprises 2025 slides mostly capturing views of Canberra and the surrounding Australian Capital Territory region, including the Snowy Mountains, New South Wales. It also includes views from various locations in the Northern Territory, Tasmania, Adelaide and New South Wales, and New Zealand.
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Papers of Margaret Lasica, 1935-1997

(27 boxes + 6 folio boxes + 1 elephant folio item + 1 packet)
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The Papers of Margaret Lasica are professional and personal papers documenting Lasica's involvement with a variety of Australian dance companies, her professional reading, and the Modern Dance History Project and Archive. The most extensive components of the collection are those relating to the Modern Dance Ensemble, and The Modern Dance History Project and Archive, which was initiated by Lasica to document the early history of modern dance in Australia.
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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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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

Papers of Charles and John Ulm, 1803-2015

2.97 metres (8 boxes + 2 folio boxes + 1 folio packet + 3 folders + 1 packet)
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MS 9923 comprises papers collected by Charles Ulm as well as those collected by his son, John. The papers comprise newspaper cuttings, stamps, commemorative envelopes, correspondence, brochures, research notes, articles, reviews, certificates, talks, handwritten notes, photocopies of government records, business papers, photographs, maps and ephemera. The largest series in the collection is the commemorative and philatelic material, comprising stamps, commemorative envelopes, tribute albums, newspaper cuttings, articles and reviews relating to the 50th anniversary of the first trans-Pacific flight. The 1928 flight saw Charles Ulm fly with Charles Kingsford-Smith on the Southern Cross from Oakland, California to Brisbane, Australia (8 boxes, 1 fol. box).

Papers of Harold Arthur Fraser, 1881-1986

6.4 metres (40 boxes + 1 folio + 1 elephant item)
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The papers of agriculturalist and soil conservationist H. A. Fraser were donated to the Library by Mr Fraser in 1987.
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Records of the War Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 1770-1960

1358 items
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The War Office records cover a wide variety of material relating to both Colonial and Australian involvements in armed conflicts. Amongst the records filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project are documents and correspondence of the Commander- in-Chief, Secretary-at-War, Secretary of State and Judge-Advocate General.
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Anne Summers Women's Collection, 1931-2017

796 items
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The Anne Summers Women's Collection (ASWC) comprises of 796 books collected since the 1960s. This material is a unique record of the intellectual development of feminists engaging with transnational intellectual networks and social history of those times, including the impact of feminism on shaping social policy in Australia. The majority of materials in this collection are books published by various publishers including a number of government publications. The content covers a wide range of topics including women's rights, women's history, biographies, women and business, women in politics, sex roles, diversity, parenting, affirmative action for women, women and the media etc. There are also a small number of flyers, pamphlets, journal articles and speeches included in this collection. Most of of the volumes in this collection have handwritten annotations by Anne Summers. The collection also includes wide-ranging accompanying materials originally inserted into individual volumes, such as postcards, bookmarks, post-it notes, newspaper cuttings, press releases, invitations, letters, etc.

Papers of Gordon Hannington Luce, c.1912-1978

7.84 metres (57 boxes + 6 folio boxes + 1 map folio)
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The books and papers of Gordon H. Luce, the eminent scholar of Burmese history, were purchased from his family in 1980, one year after his death. Further additional papers were received in 1985 and 1987.

Papers of Edwin G. Tscharke, 1930-1998

5.1 metres (30 ms boxes + 1 large folio box)
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The collection documents aspects of life in remote Papua New Guinea, and in particular the process of establishing a primary care health facility with local community involvement.

Anzacs and Anzac Day 2010 - 2019 : programs and invitations ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia, 2010 - 2019

1 collection
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Material includes Order of Services, concert and event programs, song and hymn sheets, and lecture programs for events held in Australia, Turkey, The United Kingdom, Thailand, France, Malaysia, Abu Dhabi, and New Zealand.

Papers of Bernard Smith, 1902-2011

(113 ms boxes + 2 elephant folios + 1 large folio +1 archives box + 3 large folio boxes)
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MS 8680 comprises correspondence, principally with Jack Lindsay, 1979-1988, handwritten drafts, notes and typescripts of talks, lectures, addresses, book reviews and articles. There are a large number of drafts of articles, later published in journals and newspapers such as Meanjin, Art and Australia and the Age.
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[Nimrod Theatre Company : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia], 1970 - 1988

1 collection
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The Nimrod Theatre Company, also known simply as The Nimrod, was an Australian theatre company in Sydney, New South Wales. It was founded by in 1970 by Australian actors John Bell, Richard Wherrett and Ken Horler, and produced "good new Australian drama". The Company was originally located in Nimrod Street, Kings Cross, in a building which is now home to Griffin Theatre Company. The company moved in 1974 to Belvoir Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, but retained its original name. From 1981-1988 it also played in the Seymour Centre theatres, but ceased operations in 1988. Subsequently, the Surry Hills venue became known as the Belvoir St Theatre.
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