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Papers of Andrew Taylor, 1953-2004

(37 boxes)
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MS 5740 comprises family correspondence, 1955-1975. These letters were written by Andrew Taylor to his family whilst he was at Scotch College, 1955-1957, University of Melbourne, 1958-1960, Puckapunyal Army Camp, 1959, and during his periods studying overseas in London, Rome, Florence, 1963-1965, Buffalo, New York, New Haven and San Francisco, 1970-1971 and 1974-1975. The collection also includes drafts of Taylor's poetry: Beyond silence, The invention of fire, Ice fishing, The cat's chin and ears: a bestiary, The drummer, Cool change, and Parabolas. There are notebooks kept during Taylor's visit to the United States in 1974-1975. Also, correspondence with Roger McDonald of Queensland University Press, 1970-1975. Also included are letters to Beate Haliol-Josephi, 1975-1976, "exacting parallel the writing of a love poem" The crystal absences, the trout (a love poem written during Beate's absence), and the first version of The crystal absences, the trout, completed on 3 March 1976.
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Papers of Barry York, 1890-2010

(66 boxes) + 15 cartons + 1 small folio box + 1 packet + 3 folders
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MS 6947 comprises drafts, correspondence and research notes, some relating to books by York: The Maltese in Australia (1986), Canberra: our Italian heritage (with Salvatore Gambale and Aldo Bongiorno, 1988), Josephine Zammit M.B.E.: a Maltese woman in Australia (1989), Student revolt: La Trobe University 1967 to 1973 (1989), Metropolitan ghettoes and ethnic concentrations (1990), Emmanuel Attard: from Gozo (Malta) to Gallipoli and Australia (1994), Empire and race: the Maltese in Australia 1881-1949 (1990), and, Our multicultural heritage 1788-1945: an annotated guide to the collections of the National Library of Australia (1995). Other papers include those relating to the campaign for the release of Bill O'Meally; the Ned Kelly centenary celebrations, 1980; Bob Hawke; Charles Darwin; general correspondence 1991-1996 as well as correspondence relating to the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1986-1996; a copy of York's doctoral thesis on Maltese immigration in Australia; and one Eureka flag and flagpole.
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Papers of David Foster, 1991-2010

0.75 metres (5 boxes + 3 sound/av carriers)
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Papers of Laurie and Bronwyn Thomas, 1937-1995

(9 boxes) (4 ms cartons + 66 ms boxes + 1 wooden box) + 24 Obsolete Carriers
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The papers in MS 4921 consist of letters from Cynthia and Sidney Nolan, Will Ashton, Henry Bell, William Rose, Rex Rienits, Sir Russell Drysdale, Ian Fairweather and Daryl Lindsay and others, as well as cuttings, photographs and printed material. They cover most periods of Laurie Thomas' career, including his work in Cambridge following his award of a Gowrie Travelling Scholarship, his work as a student and then lecturer at Melbourne University, and the University of Western Australia, his periods as director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and of the Queensland Art Gallery, his journalism for the Australian, and his notes for various publications. The collection also contains several files of correspondence, cuttings and other papers, 1965-1969, on the selection of the director of the National Gallery in Canberra (9 boxes).
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Papers of Mary Braidwood Mowle, 1764-1990

(1 ms box + 1 map folio)
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Collection comprises three volumes of diaries (1850-1851 and 1853-1854) of Mary Braidwood Mowle; correspondence between Mowle and her father, husband and children; few miscellaneous publications and photocopies; Daguerreotype of Mary Braidwood Mowle; 1764 indenture, Robert Hodgson to Robert Hobb; family line of Thomas Braidwood Wilson; "So soon forgotten: a story of two Tasmanian families" by Don Norman (1980); "Back to Braidwood celebrations: 22nd November to 29th November 1925" (souviner publication).
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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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Papers of Andrew Crocker, 1970-1988

0.75 metres (2 ms boxes and 1 medium folio box)
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Papers documenting Andrew Crocker's role as art coordinator at the Papunya Western Desert community in the 1980s.They include scrapbooks, news cuttings, articles by and about Crocker, articles by other writers, correspondence, children's drawings and photographs. The photographs, largely uncaptioned, include images of Papunya Tula artists and their work. Correspondents include Charles Duguid, Malcolm Fraser and Edward de Bono.
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Minutes of evidence and reports, Commonwealth Housing Commission, 1943-1944

1.44 metres (8 archives boxes)
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Evidence covering each state given by government departments and instrumentalities, associations, municipalities, country shires and the manufacturing sector. Evidence incomplete from New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. Also one folder of reports to National Works Council. Evidence in typescript form.
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