Guide to the Ferguson collection of papers relating to World War I, 1914-1941

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Collection number:: MS 3637
Creator:: John Alexander Ferguson
Extent:: 0.39 metres and (2 archive boxes + 1 packet)
Language:: English
Preferred citation:: Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Ferguson collection of papers relating to World War 1, National Library of Australia, MS 3637, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Availability:: Available
Access conditions:: Available for reference. Not for loan.

Content Summary:: Papers relating to World War I collected by J. A. Ferguson. The collection includes programs, souvenir menus, patriotic and souvenir postcards, photographs,broadsides, correspondence, music scores and official proclamations, mostly from Australian military forces serving in Europe, the Middle East, New Guinea and at sea. There are programs, menus and photographs from internment camps, known as German Concentration Camps, in Australia located at Holdsworthy, Trial Bay and Berrima, shipboard and other war theatre diaries, official printed material,letters from servicemen at the front (including to the Rev. John Ferguson and Mrs Ferguson) and later letters to J.A. Ferguson in relation to his collecting, a number of shipboard and field service magazines, and three scores of patriotic war-time songs.
Immediate Source of Acquisition:: The papers were acquired by the Library as part of the collections of Sir John Ferguson.

Conditions Governing Access:: Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1756015).
Conditions Governing Use:: Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred citation:: Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Ferguson collection of papers relating to World War 1, National Library of Australia, MS 3637, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Location of this collection:: National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia