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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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Collections held by the Royal Army Medical Corps (as filmed by the AJCP), 1863-1987

125 items
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Papers 1915-1917 of Lieut. Col. M. Dunning relating to campaigns in Dardanelles and Middle East.
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Papers of Sidney Nolan

30.17 metres (147 ms boxes, 74 albums, 46 map folios, 3 phase boxes, 3 large folio boxes, 1 security binder)
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Painter, illustrator, printmaker and set designer Sir Sidney Nolan OM, AC (1917–1992) is one of Australia's most significant modernist artists. The Papers of Sidney Nolan comprise an accumulation of personal and business records, the bulk of which date from the early 1960's to early 1990's, that document his personal life and artistic career from the late 1940's until after his death in 1992. The papers comprise diaries and notebooks, personal correspondence from family and friends, business correspondence from galleries, museums, universities and publishing houses, financial records including the sale of paintings and art supplies, printed documentation and research notes in relation to his artworks, photographs, press clippings, postcards and catalogues.
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Records of the Australian Federation of Women Voters, 1920-1983

8.22 metres (1 packet + 18 archives boxes + 33 ms boxes)
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The collection comprises correspondence, minutes, conference papers, reports, newsletters, brochures, newspaper cuttings, photographs and other records. The records cover the legal and political status of women, family allowances and child endowment, women's wages and work conditions, family planning, maternity allowances, marriage and divorce laws and alimony. Additional topics of interest in the collection are the nationality of married women, landlord and tenant agreements, legal aid, prostitution, censorship, equal educational rights, moral standards and the elimination of racism and discrimination against women.
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Records of the Bank of England (as filmed by the AJCP), 1781-1960

391 items
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Accounts, correspondence, memoranda and other papers relating to Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. They originated in various departments, including Accounts, Administration, Cashier's, Exchange Control, Economic Intelligence, Governor's and Secretary's, Overseas. Among the topics covered are: issues of stocks; UK trade with the Empire; Empire Marketing Board; Empire cotton; finances of the Dutch East Indies; Empire trade; migration within the British Empire; banking legislation; banking statistics; exchange control; money supply; gold reserves; wool shipment; gold production; mineral reports; affairs of Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Reserve Bank of Australia; Bank of New Zealand; and the 1930 Niemeyer Mission to Australia. There are also some letters and petitions from convicted forgers and transportees to the Bank of England requesting assistance to purchase stores and clothing for the voyage to New South Wales.
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Collections of Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (as filmed by the AJCP), 1882-1984

167 items
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The Australian Joint Copying Project filmed selectively from the papers of: Richard Philps of his experiences as a Royal Air Force Medical Officer in POW camps in Indonesia; physiologist Professor Ernest B. Verney, including manuscripts written at University of Melbourne; surgeon Alfred H. Tubby kept while serving with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; Sir Ernst Chain; physiologist Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer; Grantley Dick-Read; Professor Sir George and Lady Pickering relating to a visit to Australia; Marie C.C. Stopes; Sir Edward Mellanby; Professor Percy C.C. Garnham; Sir Leonard Rogers; Abortion Law Reform Association; Lister Institute;
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Oskars Pumpurs Map Collection, ca. 1950-1982

1019 items in 30 folders
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Comprises published and manuscript planning maps of Canberra, including Gungahlin, Belconnen, Tuggeranong, Woden, Kambah, Watson and Hackett and architectural plans of residential and non-residential buildings as well as maps of Murrumbateman, Queanbeyan and the proposed township of West Murrumbidgee in the A.C.T. It also includes general maps relating to Australia, Victoria and New South Wales and some overseas maps.
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Papers of the Hearnshaw Family (as filmed by the AJCP), 1939-1986

13 items
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Includes: Letters 1939-47 of Leslie and Gwenneth Hearnshaw to his parents in England; Letters, written from Perth, 1947-48 of Gwenneth Hearnshaw and her mother, Mrs Dickens, to Leslie Hearnshaw; 'An Englishman in War-time New Zealand', an account by Leslie Hearnshaw while living in New Zealand 1938-47, and on subsequent visits 1964-1986; Diaries 30 January-11 February 1940, kept by Leslie and Gwenneth Hearnshaw during a holiday at Mt Egmont, New Zealand.
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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.
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