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Richard Bonynge and Dame Joan Sutherland collection, 1741-2015

(214 ms boxes, 436 music boxes, 13 small folio boxes, 75 medium folio boxes, 58 large folio boxes, 8 map folios, 3 small phase boxes, 2 large phase boxes, 2 oversized phase boxes, 604 sound/av carriers)
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MS 10757 encompasses Richard Bonynge and Dame Joan Sutherland's working career archive and research library, with the most substantial component comprising a vast array of music manuscripts, published scores and sets, sheet music, photocopies, and music excerpts. The archive contains a collection of singing methods, vocalises, and treatises ranging from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, used to research and develop singing techniques appropriate to different time periods and styles of vocal repertoire; as well as numerous scores and parts annotated and used by both Richard Bonynge and Joan Sutherland, including arrangements by Douglas Gamley for recordings and live performances, and Joan Sutherland's annotated libretti and performance notes.
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Papers of Brij Lal and Padma Narsey Lal, 1835-2022

(55 ms boxes + 1 large folio box + 3 folders + 1 map folio + 33 digital carriers)
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This collection comprises the papers of historian Brij Lal and ecological economist Padma Narsey Lal. Brij Lal's papers relate to research conducted into Fijian economic and political systems, including the history of Indian indentured labour in Fiji. Included are handwritten research notes, news cuttings, council papers and reports, and Brij Lal's undergraduate papers. Padma Narsey Lal's papers consist of research, reports and studies relating to the sugar industry and associated environmental issues, in particular mangrove conservation, and include over 100 slides depicting farming and infrastructure. The collection also contains recorded interviews with Jai Ram Reddy, the former attorney General of Fiji; academic Ken Gillion's research notebooks and related slides; and publications relating to Fiji, the Indian diaspora, Fijian politics, Pacific history, the Fijian sugar industry and the conservation and economic valuation of mangroves in Fiji.
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Papers of Janet Venn-Brown, 1954-2022

(31 ms boxes + 2 map folios + 3 folio box + 12 folders + 10 audiovisual carriers + 4 digital carriers)
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The original MS 10291 collection comprises papers relating to Wael Zuaiter, Palestine and Janet Venn-Brown's artistic career, including diaries and notebooks covering daily life and several trips between 1979-2006 to Jordan, Syria and Palestine; correspondence with family, friends and associates; video and audio cassettes; photographs and exhibition invites; publicity and catalogues. (18 ms boxes + 2 folio boxes + 1 shared box)
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Papers of Robbie Swan, 1951-2016

(7 MS boxes + 1 large folio box)
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This collection comprises the personal papers of Robert (Robbie) Swan and documents his life and career as a radio producer, publisher, journalist and lobbyist for the adult entertainment industry. Swan was founding editor of Matilda magazine in the 1980s and became involved in the burgeoning adult entertainment industry in Canberra as lobbyist for the Adult Video Industry Association, consequently becoming involved in debates and campaigns around censorship. In 1992 he teamed up with partner, Fiona Patten, to form the Eros Foundation and later co-founded the Australian Sex Party (now the Reason Party).
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Records of the Irish National Association of Australasia, 1917-2019

(73 MS boxes + 6 medium folio boxes + 1 Box (Rolled Items - Large) + 2 packets)
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The collection comprises the archive of the Irish National Association of Australasia, that was consolidated and catalogued as part of a project to write the history of the organisation from its founding in 1915 until 2015, and offers an insight into the social, political and cultural life of Irish Australians in Sydney and NSW. The collection includes includes hand written minutes, administrative documents, photographs, event programs and realia.
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Papers of Fay Zwicky, c.1880-2017, 1880-2017

(82 ms boxes + 1 small folio box + 5 folders + 2 digital carriers + 5 audiovisual carriers)
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The collection features Fay Zwicky's handwritten journals from 1975-2012; drafts of her writings including poetry and prose; professional and personal correspondence, 1950s-2000s, including letters of Glenda Adams, Robert Adamson, Alec Bolton, Lily Brett, David Brooks, Rosemary Dobson, Helen Garner, Gwen Harwood, Dorothy Hewett, A.D. Hope, Lily Kahan, Denise Levertov, Merv Lilley and Peter Taylor; photographs; publications, newspapers clippings and other printed material; research files and administrative papers.
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Records of the Australian Physiological Society, 1958-1985

(4 ms boxes + 1 folio item + 3 binders + 1 audiovisual carrier)
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This collection comrpises correspondence, photographs, draft constitutions for the Society, membership lists and meeting minutes. The photographs relate to the formation of the Society in 1960 and meetings into the mid-1970s. Correspondents include Nobel prize winner Sir John Eccles and Professor Peter Bishop, former director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University (ANU).
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Peter Goadby collection of photographs relating to fishing, c. 1938 - 2000s

(47 PIC albums, 59 Cold Store binders, 9 folders) (16,826 colour slides, 4885 black and white photographs, 3229 35mm negatives, 1349 colour photographs)
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The collection comprises colour photographs, black and white photographs, 35mm slides, 35mm photographic film strips, scrap books, albums, and copies of magazines. It addresses recreational and game fishing, the development of the Australian commercial and recreational fishing industries, 1960s-1970s Australian salt water fishing, and the development of fishing tackle, lures and rigs. The collection also documents fishing tournaments, fishing clubs and fish species.
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Buckland collection of railway transport photographs [selected items], 1930-1988

Described in Series 1 - 3: 28 cold store folders + 18 negative boxes + 1 map + 1 object
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This collection comprises photographic prints, slides, and negatives relating to Australian railway history.
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35 mm negatives Folder PIC Cold Store 18 (P861)

 

Papers of Michael S. Parer, 1903-2020

(16 archives boxes + 2 folders + 13 ms boxes + 2 medium folio boxes + 1 binder + 10 digital carriers + 21 audiovisual carriers)
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MS 4743 comprise notebooks, printed material and correspondence from the seminary years; photographs; cuttings, photocopies, notes and drafts of Parer's books Dreamer by day and Prophets and losses in the priesthood, and Samuel Angus; and correspondence with priests, friends, family, academics, and missionaries, which includes letters from Rev. Tony Peterson, Rev. Val Noone, Rev. Roger Pryke, Rev. David Pope and Archbishop Ronald Knox. Other papers concern the 1st Ecumenical Mission, Melbourne, 1964; the controversy surrounding the A.B.C. Television program 'This tiny ship in space,' and the associations of priests and ex-priests in Australia.
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