Comprises papers relating to the research, writing and publication of ANZAC doctor: the life of Sir Neville Howse, Australia's first VC. Includes correspondence, photographs, copies of articles and other research material.
Comprises newscuttings, typescripts, research material, correspondence and other papers relating to Cyril Pearl's historical research, work as a journalist and other activities. The papers include some material relating to Pearl's time as a student at the University of Melbourne. The newscuttings include copies of articles written by Pearl for The Sunday telegraph, 1939-1947, and his 'On the margin' column in The Sydney morning herald, 1968-1971. There are subject files on the University of Melbourne, 1930s; inventions; flying; food; Dr L.L. Smith; Thomas Watling; jargon; Mafeking; Adelaide Ironside; Wood Jones; Hugh Robertson; housing; Richard and Anne Hughes; Ireland and the Mole tank invented by Lancelot de Mole. The collection also comprises a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of articles written by Pearl for The Star newspaper, 1933-1935, and edited copies of articles.
8.25 metres(53 boxes + 1 carton + 13 digital carriers)
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MS 9258 comprises correspondence, applications for Fellowships, press releases, minutes of meetings, financial records, Commonwealth Fund Handbooks and printed material. Correspondents include Keith Kirby, J.T. Larkin, H.C. Forster, E.K. Wickham, Lansing Hammond, J. Melville, Gorley Putt, R.L. Johnson, Eric G. Saint, L.T. Hinde, Howland Sargeant, Carleton Chapman, Roger Beale, Margaret E. Mahoney, Sheila Widra, Gordon Stephenson, H.C. Coombs, Owen Dixon, Roland Wilson, Ninian Stephen, Quigg Newton, Tracey Baxter and Gail Potter Neale.The records have been arranged in the following series: 1. Fellowship files: current Fellows (F5), 1938-1996. 2. Fellowship files: deceased Fellows, 1953-1995. 3. Fellowship files: former Fellows (F4), 1966-1977. 4. Historical files (H1-H7), 1953-1996. 5. Continuing files: numerical order (C1-C25), 1954-1987. 6. Miscellaneous files, 1983-1996. 7. Fellowship applications, 1989-1997. 8. Printed material (50 boxes, 1 carton).
The MS 9548 collection comprises correspondence, notes, manuscripts and typescripts, subject files, cuttings of articles by or about Reynolds, reprints and printed material. The bulk of the correspondence deals with conferences and seminars, publications, academic appointments, grant applications, examination of postgraduate students, study leave and book launchings. The notes, drafts and research material relate to Reynolds' books Aborigines and settlers, The other side of the frontier, The law and the land, Frontier: Aborigines, settlers and land, Dispossession: black Australians and white invaders, With the white people, Fate of a free people, Aboriginal sovereignty, This whispering in our hearts, as well as chapters in books, articles, conference papers, lectures and book reviews (40 boxes).
The bulk of the collection comprises correspondence, mainly to and from members of the Hopkins family including with her husband, Francis Hopkins, her children and grandchildren. In addition there are photographs of Hopkins, a small group of financial papers, press cuttings and a small amount of family history material.
The collection comprises Chau family correspondence, including letters addressed to Chau King-san in Canton or Melbourne. Letters to Chau King-san sometimes use the English rendering of Kangson Joe and Joe Way Doe Tong. The collection also includes family photographs, Tong family papers, official documents, postcards and two volumes of genealogy of the Chau Family written in Chinese.
MS Acc09.091 and MS Acc09.113 consignments comprise press cuttings, articles, correspondence and documents relating to policies of the National Library of Australia on collection development and information technology such as Kinetica and World 1 project, the National Document and Information System (NDIS). The World 1 project, an electric network connecting Australian and New Zealand libraries, was to be a system that would link libraries around Australia and provide electronic access to international materials not held by the Library.
MS 8183 chiefly comprises Fife family correspondence. Included are letters from William Fife to his son Nixon in Australia, 1860-1881, and correspondence between Nixon Fife and his cousins Josephine Cowan and Minnie Davidson from the United States, 1870-1945. There is a folder of papers relating to Wal Fife's 2004 publication Mary Ann's children, which is about Thomas Whittaker, Mary Ann Hardy, James Lester and their descendants. There are original letters, together with transcriptions, birth and marriage certificates and a 3rd class passenger ticket purchased by Whittaker for travel from Liverpool to Australia in 1869 aboard the SS "Great Britain". The collection also comprises material relating to the Sherwin's Flat Wyatts, 1778-1991, and includes research material, draft family histories, and family correspondence about family reunions and other matters (2 boxes, 1 security binder).
(89 ms boxes + 3 large folio boxes + 1 medium folio box + 7 small folio boxes + 3 volumes + 13 map folios + 2 elephant folios + 219 sound/av carriers + 63 digital carriers)
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The collection comprises four instalments. The original instalment MS Acc09.179 comprises research material on various topics including Chloe MacMillan, gold transfer from Nazi Germany to Lisbon, Salazar, Macau, Huambo, Luanda; documents relating to East Timor including lists of military equipment in use, United Nations documents, Timorese Constitution, 2006 violence; correspondence with Noam Chomsky on East Timor, Francesc Vendrell, United Nations, Helen Clark, Herb Feith, Arthur Tange, Francis James, Kevin Sherlock; publications including articles arising from Jolliffe's interviews with Xanana Gusmao and Konis Santana; articles by Jolliffe as filed to commissioning newspapers; photographs, mostly taken in East Timor and others from Angola, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, China, Burma, Azores, Macau; news clippings of Jolliffe's articles; journalistic and research notebooks; videos and audio tapes of stories and radio broadcasts concerning East Timor; ephemera including press cards, invitations, exhibition catalogues and World War II propaganda.The MS Acc11.188 instalment comprises manuscript and published material relating to Portugal and its colonies, specifically East Timor and Angola with some references to Macau. The contents include newspaper articles, photographs, monographs, Portuguese cabinet documents, a significant collection of postcards, realia, manuscripts and correspondence (notably with Xanana Gusmão). Much of the material is written in Portuguese.The MS Acc12.040 instalment comprises manuscript and published material relating to Portugal and its colonies, specifically East Timor and Angola with some references to Macau. The contents include newspaper articles, photographs, monographs, realia, manuscripts and correspondence. Much of the material is written in Portuguese.The MS Acc17.135 installment comprises papers from Jill Jolliffe's professional life as an investigative journalist. They include working files containing a combination of research material, notes, printed ephemera, clippings, drafts of articles, transcripts of interviews, printed emails and correspondence. There are photographic prints, modest objects, Government reports, videos and audio cassettes, extensive material regarding East Timor, the Balibo Five and the Living Memory Project, published journals containing articles by Jill Jolliffe, notebooks containing notes from interviews.