Lady Elizabeth White - community activities, 1942-1988

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Series 26

Content Summary:

The correspondence and subject files in this series were created or kept by Lady Elizabeth White and concern her work and involvement in various Canberra community organisations, mostly from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Lady White was involved in the care of the elderly through the Thursday Club and the Goodwin Centre, in health organisations such as the Association for Better Hearing, in women's clubs including the National Council of Women, Women's International Club, and Pan-Pacific and South East Asia Association, and in public speaking organisations such as the Penguin Club and Rostrum.

There is no evidence of the way in which these files were kept, and thus have been left as a single large series arranged into rough chronological order.

[68 folders]

Immediate source of acquisition:

The original consignment of MS 7599 was collected from the home of Sir Harold White by Library staff in 1988. A number of further instalments were subsequently received from Sir Harold and members of his family.

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