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Barossa Valley Vintage Festival : programs and invitations ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia, 1950-

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Material in the Programs and invitations ephemera collection programs contain programs relating to the Barossa Valley Vintage Festival. The first festival was staged in Nuriootpa in 1947. The two days event celebrating the end of a successful vintage with its rich history in quality food, wine, art, and culture.
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Papers of Neil Manton, 1955-2007

(11 ms boxes + 4 sound/av carriers + 2 digital carriers)
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The original consignment, MS 9811, comprises correspondence, minutes of meetings, postcards, newspaper cuttings, cablegrams, invitations, magazine articles, books, slides and cassette tapes. There is also a collection of photographs with an annotated index. This material was assembled during the course of Manton's work as a consultant specialising in the arts and cultures of Singapore, Malaysia and Indochina. It relates to Cambodia's history and post Khmer Rouge cultural, social and political re-development with a particular focus on the processes of silk weaving. The collection also documents Manton's activities in encouraging Australian participation in the re-establishment of some of Cambodia's fine art processes.
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Fairfax collection of photographs relating to greyhounds and greyhound racing in Australia, 1903-1994 (bulk 1960s-1980s)

(1904 black and white photographs)
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This collection comprises black and white photographic prints relating to greyhound racing in Australia. The majority of photographs in the collection date from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Oskars Pumpurs Map Collection, ca. 1950-1982

1019 items in 30 folders
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Comprises published and manuscript planning maps of Canberra, including Gungahlin, Belconnen, Tuggeranong, Woden, Kambah, Watson and Hackett and architectural plans of residential and non-residential buildings as well as maps of Murrumbateman, Queanbeyan and the proposed township of West Murrumbidgee in the A.C.T. It also includes general maps relating to Australia, Victoria and New South Wales and some overseas maps.

Minton, Yvonne (singer) : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, [1960?]-

1 collection.
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Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of programs and related items of Yvonne Minton including various concert programs of her performances.
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Papers of Sidney Nolan

30.17 metres (147 ms boxes, 74 albums, 46 map folios, 3 phase boxes, 3 large folio boxes, 1 security binder)
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Painter, illustrator, printmaker and set designer Sir Sidney Nolan OM, AC (1917–1992) is one of Australia's most significant modernist artists. The Papers of Sidney Nolan comprise an accumulation of personal and business records, the bulk of which date from the early 1960's to early 1990's, that document his personal life and artistic career from the late 1940's until after his death in 1992. The papers comprise diaries and notebooks, personal correspondence from family and friends, business correspondence from galleries, museums, universities and publishing houses, financial records including the sale of paintings and art supplies, printed documentation and research notes in relation to his artworks, photographs, press clippings, postcards and catalogues.
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Records of the Australian Society of Authors, 1963-c.1999

(16 ms boxes + 5 archives boxes + 94 sound/av carriers + 9 digital carriers)
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MS 4572 includes correspondence, notes, articles and drafts of the journal The Australian author, reports, newsletters and minutes of meetings of the Australian Society of Authors, financial papers such as receipt books and accounts and copies of the journal, Broadside. They relate to the organisation of the Society in 1963, the publishing of The Australian author and the problems involved in writing and publishing. The records also include correspondence, notes and minutes of the Australian Writers' Guild, papers relating to an inquiry into conditions of writers made in 1969 and transcripts of ASA seminars held in 1968.The correspondents in MS 4572 include G.C. O'Donnel, Dal Stivens, Frank Watts, J. Hellyer, Geoffrey Dutton, K.S. Prichard, Xavier Herbert, Nettie Palmer, Dymphna Cusack, A.D. Hope, T. Inglis Moore, Kylie Tennant, Keith Ewers, C.B. Christesen, J.M. Douglas Pringle and Morris West.The Acc01/218 instalment includes translations drafted under the ASA Translation Grants Program, a project funded in 1999 by the Literature Fund of the Australia Council. Most of the translations are from English to foreign languages, with a few foreign titles which have been translated into English. Titles include, David Williamson's Travelling north (Vietnamese), Patrick White's The vivisector (Greek), Xavier Herbert's Capricornia (Chinese), Peter Carey's Illywacker (Russian) and Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay's New Guinea diary (Russian to English).
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Collection of books and reports received from the Victorian Government Library Service, 1910-2013

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This collections consists of books and reports donated to the National Library of Australia by the Victorian Government Library Service between 2014 and 2019. Items mainly cover subjects pertaining to the environment and primary industries, including, but not limited to: forestry, fisheries, water resources, soil salinity and conservation, farming, land management and nature conservation.

Papers of Clyde Cameron, 1924-2007

30.45 metres (129 MS Boxes + 19 Archive Boxes + 1 Small Folio Box + 6 Medium Folio Box + 124 Volumes + 2 Folders) + 142 Sound/Digital carriers
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MS 4614 comprises correspondence, diaries, memoirs, a wide range of Australian Labor Party material, including minutes, reports, articles, book reviews, press releases and speeches, Australian Workers' Union rule books and other publications, and other material including an extensive collection of pamphlets. Much of the collection has been collated, indexed and bound by Cameron.
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