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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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Papers of the Acland Family (as filmed by the AJCP), 1840-1902

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Correspondence, diaries, newspaper cuttings and a photograph album.
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Collections held by the Brynmor Jones Library (as filmed by the AJCP), 1817-1975

98 items
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Letters 1963-1975 of Peter Porter and other writers sent to publisher Harry Chambers concerning the poetry magazine Phoenix (closed until 2005).
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Papers of Sir Richard Owen (as filmed by the AJCP), 1796-1889

84 items
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Correspondence 1836-1883. Subjects include: discovery of fossils in Australia; observations of Tasmanian Aborigines; self-government in New South Wales; research on Australian and New Zealand fauna including platypus and moa; dispatch of Australian specimens and skulls of Maoris and Aborigines. Correspondents include W. Clift, G. Bennett, Sir Walter Buller, R. Etheridge, W.B. Clarke, Sir Julius von Haast, J.L.G. Krefft, Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, E.P. Ramsay, T.H.C. Hood and H. Woodward.
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Natural History Museum: Letters of the Keeper of Zoology Archive (as filmed by the AJCP), 1841-1973

258 items
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Correspondence 1858-1945 Subjects include: New Zealand lizards; mud fish from Hokitika, New Zealand; lizards and butterflies from New Hebrides; sponges from the Philippines; butterflies and insects from New Guinea; appointment of taxidermist for Public Library, Museum and National Gallery of Victoria; and sale of Gilbert Raynor's collection of Australian lepidoptera.
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British and Foreign Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society (as filmed by the AJCP), 02 May 1837-1895

66 items
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Letters received by Secretaries of the Aborigines Protection Society: Thomas Hodgkin (1837-1866), F.W. Chesson (1866-1888) and H.R. Fox-Bourne (1888-1909). They deal in particular with: the treatment of Aborigines in Queensland and Western Australia and of Maoris in New Zealand; charges made by Reverend J. Gribble in Western Australia; the visit of Maori chiefs to England in 1882 and 1884; the Pacific labour trade and the treatment of Pacific Islanders in Queensland; the 1875 Pacific Islanders Protection Bill; cases involving Jason, Carl and other labour vessels; the annexation of New Guinea in 1884; and land rights and race relations in Fiji and Tonga.
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Collections held by the National Maritime Museum London (as filmed by the AJCP), 1718-1957

384 items
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M3076-M3086: Catalogue Section 4: Personal Collections
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Records of the London Missionary Society (as filmed by the AJCP), 1796-1939

865 items
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As well as papers concerned with the religious activities of the missionaries, much of the material in this collection includes writings, and incidental observations, on exploration, anthropology, linguistics, trade and economics, education, publishing, agriculture and social conditions. Political events closely affected the mission stations and are documented in the Society's records, including the proclamation of a British Protectorate in eastern New Guinea in 1884.

Records of Burgon and Ball Ltd (as filmed by the AJCP), 10 January 1867-1952

115 items
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Financial and legal papers 1867-1952.
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Collections held by the Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch (as filmed by the AJCP), 16 September 1740-1962

116 items
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Various papers relating to transportation to Australia including papers for Susanna Hunt, Martha Giles, Jane Newson.
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