Two volumes of press cuttings of Stewart Marjoribanks Mowle, also Wodonga Customs material and a journal in retrospect re T.B. Wilson, Sydney social life and Yarralumla (47 pp.) 1822-1851; 2 volumes "Canberra cuttings"; volumes of newspaper cuttings concerning Thomas Braidwood Wilson, Surgeon R.N. of Braidwood, the Public Service Twofold Bay, Captain Cook, ships and shipwrecks, R. Burdett Smith, M.P. for Macleay 1880-1803, agriculture and Canberra; also correspondence of P.C. Mowle, 1899-1910, 1920-1934, correspondence relating to T.B. Wilson, customs register for Wodonga, Jan. 1901 and other documents, 1859-1931.
The collection comprises ca. 90 letters sent to Kurt Selby (Silbinger), who left Austria and settled in Melbourne in 1939. The letters were written by fellow Jewish Austrians seeking his assistance to escape Austria following German occupation. Translations of some of the letters by student volunteers at the University of Melbourne are also included, along with Silbinger family birth certificates, transit passes, job references and unused forms and a CD containing scans of the entire collection of letters. Included in the collection are also two bound Honours thesis from Monash University that discuss the collection of letters - 'Communication By Letter: Preliminary Observations of Emigrant Correspondence 1938-1939' by Caroline Grainger and ' Analysis of a series of letters written by Austrian Jewish refugees attempting to escape Vienna during 1939/1939 to Melbourne Australia' by Anna Hacker.
This collection includes Moya Crossley's songs, both published and manuscript; family letters, including from Lily and Iza Crossley; family and theatrical photographs; documents; and ephemera. Also includes a tape titled 'Moya Crossley Songs'.
Flexmore Hudson (1913-1988) was an Adelaide based poet and author, publishing 6 books of poetry between 1937 and 1959. Hudson also worked as a teacher, freelance writer, and for the ABC [Australian Broadcast Network]. This collection comprises his correspondence with Australian and overseas poets, writers, scholars and artists; original notes; prose manuscripts; photographs; and business books of Poetry a quarterly literary Journal which Hudson launched in 1941 and edited for seven years.
This collection comprises personal letters, manuscripts, and a scrapbook containing cuttings of her short stories that were published, often in the 'Children's Corner' of the Tasmanian Mail. The collection includes her wooden writing slope, personal documents relating to her education, sketches and watercolours, and miscellaneous newspaper clippings. There are also receipts, invoices, and other documentation relating to her only published book Santa Claus and the Shadow. Also included in this collection is the Papers of Percy White, Beatrice's husband. Percy's archive comprises photographs, genealogical research, and correspondence between the family.
This collection comprises correspondence with the Australian and various international governments, state departments and National Council of Women branches. It also includes conference material, reports, presentation papers, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, statements, funding proposals, ephemera, newsletters, photographs and surveys.
MS 6186 comprises one volume of ABC Radio talks by Frederick T. Macartney, 1931-1934; Len Barsdell's diary of war events of 1941-1942; official circulars and correspondence with reference to military censorship, 1940-1945; Barsdell's experience with General Douglas MacArthur in the south-west Pacific in 1943-1945; newspapers and clippings, some relating to Japan's English-language press during World War II; and, the text of a radio broadcast relating to the death of war correspondent Bill Smith in action at Balikpanan, Borneo in July 1945 (1 box).
This collection comprises the work of Terence Sydney Holden's as part of the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) (1949-1989) and Patti G. Holden's work as laboratory technician at the Australian National University Botany Department. The bulk of the papers relate to Terence Holden's involvement with one of the first Australian large scale online, multi-user systems named DAD (Drums and Displays). There are several co-authored scientific articles and reprints showing formulas, methods and processes in the development of DAD later known as CSIRONET and notes on the history of the program and obituaries of some contributors. Copies of press releases, presentations, seminars, lecture papers, photographs and transparencies, highlight the program developments from the 1960's to the 1970's. Papers include invitations to speak at meeting and public events, meeting minutes, laboratory notebooks and several other research project articles dating back to 1949. Patti Holden's papers comprise diagrams and more than 20 local plant specimens for scientific botanical publications produced by Professor Pryor. A co-authored scientific journal is accompanied by a few laboratory photographs, design illustrations and mock ups for other departmental projects.
(10 ms boxes , 4 large folio boxes, 44 digital carriers, 7 audiovisual carriers)
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Includes works composed by Styles, handwritten and typeset, and related correspondence, together with photographs, concert programs, diaries, newspaper articles/reviews; there is a hard-drive of digital material including text documents, images, music and videos.
This collection features medals and certificates awarded to Dr Evelyn Ruth Scott, together with congratulatory letters and cards. Medals and awards include include a Silver Jubilee Medal from Queen Elizabeth II in 1977, the Centenary Medal in 2001, the Order of Australia in 2003 and a Queensland Greats Medal in 2003. These were awarded for Dr Scott's efforts and achievements in improving access to legal, housing, employment and medical services for Indigenous communities.