Collections

Album of Manuscripts of Australasian and Pacific Interest collected by Rex Nan Kivell, 1722-1961

Album of newspaper and journal clippings, photographs and postcards of Sydney and Melbourne, Approximately 1900

Album of paper currency items, c1812-1873

Abstract Or Scope

This collection comprises money and treasury notes from Levuka and Noumea, together with notes on early Fijian paper currency read before the Australian Numismatic Society by P.J. Marks (undated). There is also paper money from Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and a letter from W. S. Weigh Son enclosing I.O.U.'s for various amounts.

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Album of photographs including scenes in Naples, Port Said, Melbourne, Sydney and Hobart, Approximately 1880

Album of photographs of a voyage to Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney in 1878 by Frederick Green in S.S. Aconcagua, approximately 1878

Album of photographs of Naples, Fremantle, Perth, Albany, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand and New York, approximately 1880, Approximately 1880-1930

Album of photographs of scenes in Victoria, Hobart, Jenolan Caves, N.Z. and South America, Approximately 1880-1895

Album of Richard Jones (as filmed by the AJCP), 1840

Abstract Or Scope

When Jones left Sydney to study at Cambridge in 1840 his friends presented him with an album of drawings, watercolours, engravings and poems. They depict members of the Jones Family, Sydney Heads, Hyde Park, St Philip's Church, the La Perouse Monument, and other places and people in Sydney.

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Album of Sir John Murray (as filmed by the AJCP), 1914

Abstract Or Scope

Newspaper cuttings concerning the death of Sir John Murray on 13 March 1914. They are taken from English as well as French, German, Canadian, American and Australian newspapers and describe his death in a car accident, the execution of his will and the establishment of a bequest to commemorate his work.

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Albums and scrapbooks of Lady Ethel Stonehaven (as filmed by the AJCP), 1889-1898, 1923-1941

Abstract Or Scope

The material filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project includes scrapbooks 1923-46 of Lady Stonehaven and photograph albums 1889-89 and 1927-30 of Lady Hilda Keith-Falconer. They include content relating to Canberra, Central Australia, New Guinea, South Australia, Hobart, Singapore, New Zealand and Malaysia.

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