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Letters of John Challenor Relating to the Broome Pearl Industry, 1905-1906

(1 folder)
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The consignment comprises a pair of letters written by John Challenor to a trusted employee of his family's law firm in Leek, Staffordshire. The letters describe the difficulties and potential of the pearling industry in Western Australia at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Papers of Catherine DeVrye

(2 ms boxes)
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This collection comprises papers relating to DeVrye's time on the Police Board of NSW 1993-1996. This includes reports, correspondence, the Police Board submission to Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service, and the Royal Commission Interim Report. Board papers retained by DeVrye are selective, not comprehensive.
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Papers of Catherine DeVrye (2 ms boxes)

 

Papers of Eve Mahlab, 1951 - c.2022

(6 ms boxes + 8 digital carriers)
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MS Acc11.134 Papers documenting Eve Mahlab's careers as a lawyer, businesswoman, women's rights activist and public speaker. They include: news cuttings, particularly of letters written by Mahlab to newspaper editors and articles about Mahlab published in newspapers and journals; speech texts and notes; articles; submissions; biographical information; and correspondence. Groups and companies with which Mahlab was associated, and which are highlighted in the papers, include the Women's Electoral Lobby, Mahlab Recruitment, the Liberal Feminist Network, Westpac and the Australian Women Donor's Network.
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Papers of Eve Mahlab, 1951 - c.2022 (6 ms boxes + 8 digital carriers)

 

Papers of Hope Verity Fitzhardinge

5.85 metres (39 ms boxes + 1 large folio box + 1 medium folio box)
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The collection comprises diaries, notebooks, correspondence, family history papers, an MA thesis and PhD research material. It includes correspondence with L F Fitzhardinge; Verity Fitzhardinge's correspondence and notes for A Man's Man, her memoir of George Lacey Lee; her trips to New Zealand, England, Europe and Afghanistan; her bookshop business; farming; teaching at Telopea Park School and various Canberra, Queanbeyan and Glen Innes schools; job applications; and her interests in Russia and politics. The letters record details of Canberra, Queanbeyan and surrounding regions from 1930s to 1980s.
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Papers of Hope Verity Fitzhardinge 5.85 metres (39 ms boxes + 1 large folio box + 1 medium folio box)

 

Papers of Jane Macgowan relating to the Casey family, 1834-1989

24.23 metres (44 ms boxes + 14 archives boxes + 1 small folio box + 5 medium folio boxes + 5 large folio boxes + 8 map folios + 2 small phase boxes + 1 security binder + 1 negative box)
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The collection comprises records relating to the Casey family including papers from Van Diemen's Land surgeon Cornelius Gavin Casey, containing early maps of the Towns of Formby and Forthside that are now part of Devonport. The papers of his son, pastoralist and parliamentarian Richard Gardiner Casey includes notebooks and business correspondence relating to his pastoral and business activities in Queensland in the late 19th century, on the cattle station Kilfera and the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company. Additionally, there are speeches and papers of Richard Gavin Gardiner Casey's (Baron Casey) from his time as Governor of Bengal, Minister-in-Charge of the CSIR (later CSIRO) through to his position as Governor-General of Australia; Casey family photographs dating from the 1800's and official and personal photographs taken throughout Baron Casey's career; Casey family correspondence dating from the 1830s through to the 1980s; notebooks describing travels in England and Ireland in the mid nineteenth century, and drawing books, sketches and original artworks by Maie Casey and two watercolours attributed to Ellis Rowan.
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Papers of Jane Macgowan relating to the Casey family, 1834-1989 24.23 metres (44 ms boxes + 14 archives boxes + 1 small folio box + 5 medium folio boxes + 5 large folio boxes + 8 map folios + 2 small phase boxes + 1 security binder + 1 negative box)

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Papers of Katherine Stirling Kerr Cawsey, 1769-2013 (bulk 1880-1960)

7.66 metres (25 ms boxes + 3 archives boxes + 2 large folio boxes + 3 medium folio boxes + 4 card index boxes)
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The collection comprises notes and alphabetical index cards relating to Katherine Stirling Kerr Cawsey's books on the Kerr Brothers, an Anglo-French distributor of goods including copra and cocoa; original papers and diaries of her father Graham Lennox Stirling Kerr; Cawsey's notebooks and diaries; correspondence; business records relating to the Kerr Brothers Ltd and the East Santo Plantations Ltd in the New Hebrides (now the nation of Vanuatu); photographs; and scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings.
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Papers of Katherine Stirling Kerr Cawsey, 1769-2013 (bulk 1880-1960) 7.66 metres (25 ms boxes + 3 archives boxes + 2 large folio boxes + 3 medium folio boxes + 4 card index boxes)

 

Papers of Kee Lim, 1911

(1 folder)
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This collection comprises a miner's right and business license for Kee Lim, a Chinese immigrant or an Australian with Chinese heritage. The two pro forma documents, letterpress printed on recto with entries inscribed in ink and stamped "Tingha", dated "Jan. 16, 1911" and "Feb. 25, 1911" respectively. Each document is annotated on verso in traditional Chinese in calligraphy style with the same dates in both the Georgian and Chinese lunar calendars. The holder of the miner's right was Kee Lim, whose name was misspelled as Key [sic] Lim in the business license granted for gardening. Each document was valid for six months in 1911 and was a renewal of a previously expired version. The place of issue for both documents was Tingha, a small town near Inverall in NSW.
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Papers of Kee Lim, 1911 (1 folder)

 

Papers of Manfred Claasz, 1942-2005

(38 MS Boxes + 1 Medium Folio-Box + 1 packet)
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MS 7617 documents Claasz's schooldays in Ceylon, employment there as a manager of a tea plantation owned by the Scottish Tea and Lands Company of Ceylon Limited, personal and family life, emigration to Australia in 1972, and managerial jobs in ANU Press, the Australian National Gallery, Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation and Zeilan Ventures. Includes papers on establishment of tea plantations in Queensland, diaries and notebooks relating to tea planting, crop yields, field notebooks relating to tea planting and other notebooks, school notebooks and certificates, Buddhist palm-leaf manuscript written in old Singhalese script on the subject of astrology, press cuttings, printed items, photographs, notes and articles on tea, personal and business diaries, family and personal letters and some papers of the Scottish Tea and Lands Co., Ceylon.
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Papers of Manfred Claasz, 1942-2005 (38 MS Boxes + 1 Medium Folio-Box + 1 packet)

 

Papers of Marina Mar, 1918-1992

(5 ms boxes, 1 small folio box, 1 medium folio box, 1 map folio)
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This collection is relating to Marina Mar's father Harry Fay (known as Louie Mew Fay) including business correspondence (mostly in Chinese calligraphy), photographs and press cuttings. It provides valuable insight into Harry Fay's contribution to the local business, community building, cross-cultural exchanges and the Australian Chinese community.
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Papers of Marina Mar, 1918-1992 (5 ms boxes, 1 small folio box, 1 medium folio box, 1 map folio)

 

Papers of Otto Boettger, 1886-1900

0.45 metres (1 medium folio box)
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The collection comprises two detailed manuscript ledgers from Otto Boettger's practice as an optician (1886-1894), together with one volume of approximately 275 bound invoices, chronologically arranged, covering importations for his extensive engineering, surveying, optical and scientific instruments business (1892-1900). It presents a collection of unique records documenting a specialised profession in colonial Australia. The first ledger (20 October 1886 -15 July 1892), contains 21 pages of index and 102 pages of the ledger proper. Each page is designed to record the details of nine patients and the last entry is numbered 916. The second ledger (16 July 1892- 19 December 1894), contains 39 pages of index and 298 pages of the ledger proper, with each page containing details of seven patients (approximately 2086 individual records). The ledgers contain the name of the patient, often the address, the date of the consultation, the referring doctor, the prescription for the lens for each eye, and more often than not, specific details of the spectacle lenses or frames e.g. pale blue periscopic lenses / gold frame / twisted curled sides; Gold Pince-nez, Canadian; pantoscopic frame; and extra small children's frame made to order.
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Papers of Otto Boettger, 1886-1900 0.45 metres (1 medium folio box)