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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.