Original consignment
- Component identifier:
- Class MS 8254
- Content Summary:
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Comprises research notes and original source material used in preparation of Downs' publication, The Australian trusteeship: Papua New Guinea, 1945-75, together with other original documents collected during Downs' career. The papers include: general correspondence and memoranda, 1935-1994; patrol diaries and reports, 1938-1955, including diary documenting Hagen-Sepik patrol, 1938; Highlands period, 1952-1968; Legislative Council and House of Assembly, 1957-1968; other papers, including material relating to the Select Committee on Constitutional Development, Gazelle Peninsula dispute and Mataungan insurrection, biographical files and records of interviews with prominent figures in the Australian administration.
Contained in 25 boxes, 1 folio box.
- Names:
- Ian Downs
Contents
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1295565).
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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