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Lance Nelson photographic archive, 1961 - 2010

4.5 metres (11 ms boxes, 3 folio boxes, 17 folders)
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The Lance Nelson photographic archive encompasses his entire career working as a documentary, freelance, commercial, corporate and stock photographer, internationally and in Australia. The collection comprises approximately 320 35 mm colour transparencies; 50,000 black and white negatives; 300 black and white prints; documents including personal and commercial correspondence, research notes, transcripts, note books, maps and published work including company annual reports and brochures. Includes proofs from Nelson's work for Annals magazine (Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, 1966-1973) documenting the Northern Territory missions at Port Keats (Wadeye), Bathurst Island, Tiwi and Daly River; Papua New Guinea missions at D'Entrecasteaux Islands from Milne Bay to Rossel Island and Trobriand Island; contact sheets from Boggabri Country Town Family project; contact sheets of trip to Indonesia in 1966 documenting all major islands, families, farming, mining and culture for a publication: 'Mask of Time : an Indonesian discovery'.
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Papers of Charles and John Ulm, 1803-2015

2.97 metres (8 boxes + 2 folio boxes + 1 folio packet + 3 folders + 1 packet)
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MS 9923 comprises papers collected by Charles Ulm as well as those collected by his son, John. The papers comprise newspaper cuttings, stamps, commemorative envelopes, correspondence, brochures, research notes, articles, reviews, certificates, talks, handwritten notes, photocopies of government records, business papers, photographs, maps and ephemera. The largest series in the collection is the commemorative and philatelic material, comprising stamps, commemorative envelopes, tribute albums, newspaper cuttings, articles and reviews relating to the 50th anniversary of the first trans-Pacific flight. The 1928 flight saw Charles Ulm fly with Charles Kingsford-Smith on the Southern Cross from Oakland, California to Brisbane, Australia (8 boxes, 1 fol. box).

Papers of the Hughes and Knight Gregson families, 1865-1962

(3 large folio boxes + 4 map folios + 13 folders + 2 volumes) + 2 PDF documents
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The collection comprises original letters from Charlotte Louise Knight Gregson (nee Hughes) to her family of Middleton Hall, Northumberland, England after she emigrated to Australia in 1876 aged 26. Included are sketches, water colours, shipping documents, school reports and photographs. The letters detail her farming life in Harden, with comments on colonial life including the shearers' strike, suffragettes, 1890s banking crashes and bushfires. There is also mention of men going off to World War I, railway-building, the establishment of Canberra as the capital, and a relative who was part of Mawson's expedititon. Also included are letters from Frank Hughes (Charlotte Louise's brother) to his family, photographs of George Charles Knight Gregson and Frank Hughes, and a death notice and obituary of Stanly Hughes (Frank Hughes's son).

Papers of the Claux Family, 1910-2001

5.64 metres (12 ms boxes + 1 medium folio box + 3 map folios + 7 sound/av carriers)
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The collection comprises of Claux and Crick family correspondence, diaries, notebooks and photographs. The collection also documents Moira Claux's personal and professional life as a dancer with the Bodenwieser Ballet, actress and artist's model and include correspondence, scripts, drawings, scrapbooks, black and white photographs by a variety of photographers including Max Dupain and Laurence Le Guay, publications, objects, certificates and artworks by Moira's brother Eugene.

Papers of Hazel Rowley

(28 boxes + 1 folder + 5 digital carriers)
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This collection comprises papers pertaining to Rowley's biographies: 'Christina Stead: A Biography (1994)', 'Richard Wright: The Life and Times (2001),' 'Tête-à-tête: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre' (2005), 'Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage' (2010). They include Rowley's correspondence with her subjects and those who knew them. In the first consignment the major correspondents are Edith Anderson, Leda and Stanley Burnshaw, Gwen Walker-Smith, Florence James, Jessie and Ettore Rella, Ruth Hall, David Stead, Ron Geering, Clifton Fadiman, Kate Llwellyn, Mary Bransten, Nadine Mendelson, Elizabeth Harrower, Gai Steel, Michael Bott, Margaret Harris, Michael Gold, Edith Anderson, Anne and Harry Bloom, Gilbert Stead, Fred Warburg, Oliver Stallybrass, Leah and Philip Harvey, and Aida Kotlarsky.In the second consignment of note is an original letter from Simone de Beauvoir, and original letters of Christina Stead. Other correspondents include Clem Christesen, Harper Lee, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, William Vanden Heuvel, Constance Webb, Richard Wright, Barbara Baer, Oliver Stallybrass and Toril Moi, There are photographs, research files, transcripts and notes of interviews, manuscripts and papers for other work on topics such as 'The Hollywood Ten' and a copy of Rowley's thesis 'The Female Experience in the Autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir and Violette Leduc'. Journals, diaries, notes and log books provide further insight into Rowley's research work conducted in Australia and overseas.
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Papers of Grace Nolan, 1929-2021

(3 ms boxes + 22 audiovisual carriers + [5] digital carriers + 10 colour photographs)
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This collection comprises folk stories told by Grace Nolan's mother, Carmela Speranza, from her birth town in Italy, collected through audio and audiovisual recordings. The collection includes manuscripts by Grace Nolan titled "More Stories My Mother Told Me" and "The Sun My Father The Moon My Mother", which further the work she began in her thesis. These writings explore the oral tradition of storytelling and provide further background and collected stories. The stories have been recorded in the original dialect and translated into English by Grace Nolan, providing insight into the life of a migrant woman in Melbourne in the 1950s. The collection also includes copies of related publications, Folklore Della Calabria Vol 1 and Vol 2 by A. Basile (Ed) and
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McArthur-Macpherson Family Papers, 1844-2009

9.8 metres (14 large folio boxes)
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The papers are made up of a combination of documents, business records, correspondence, photographs and printed ephemera from and about the properties of Diana Baillieu's ancestors in Western Victoria; clippings, family history research material (some originals and many photocopies), printed ephemera, and correspondence among members of Diana Baillieu's generation. Interspersed among the papers are documents, correspondence, printed ephemera relating to Waltzing Matilda and specifically Christina Macpherson's role in introducing A.B.Paterson to the tune for the song.
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Papers of Dame Rachel Cleland, 1885-2002

(63 boxes)
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The MS 9601 collection comprises correspondence, drafts, speeches, photographs and papers relating to the Aboriginal land rights and environmental causes Rachel Cleland supported in Australia.
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Papers of Dennis Altman, 1961-2021

(23 ms boxes + 1 archives box + 1 map folio + 2 folders)
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The collection comprises papers documenting academic and gay right's campaigner Dennis Altman's career as a writer and his roles in Australian and international HIV/AIDS organisations. Includes correspondence to and from academics, publishers, politicians, leaders of homosexual movements and admirers.
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Papers of the Cuckson Family, c.1947-2014

(3 boxes + 1 folio box + 2 files)
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MS Acc08.075: Comprises the collections previously catalogued as Australian Historic Records Register entries 1955 and 2251, as well as additional papers added by Cuckson family members and former employees of W.E. Cuckson Son Pty Ltd. Includes early notes about the factory; photographs of the WEC factory and social activities and amenities; some company records including minutes of meetings; a selection of tapes and zippers; some ballet school records; newspaper cuttings, ephemera and magazines relating to the factory; writings by Erich Engel Cuckson, including about his philosophy; and a diary of Marie Cuckson. Also includes more recent papers such as biographical writings, including recollections by Hans Lewis, a diary of Bill Davey, writings about Eric Engel Cuckson by various people, and photographs. Catalogue by Barbara Cuckson located in box 1.MS Acc16.118: This addition comprises two booklets, "St Marys 1950s" to Commemorate St Marys Public School's 150 years celebration by Barbara Cuckson, and an illustrated timeline of Erich Engel Cuckson's activities until 1942; another timeline of E. E. Cuckson; three short biographies of E. E. Cuckson; a revised timeline of W. E.Cuckson Industries; a timeline of E. E. Cuckson from 1942 to 1950; information about the Bodenwieser and Cuckson connection; two newspaper clippings about the 50 year celebration 1999; a list of published references to E. E. Cuckson; information about the relationship between W. E. Cuckson Industries and Rondo Building Servies (Boral and CSR); documents relating to the new RBS building, which opened in 2010; documents relating to the RBS 50 year celebration 2014.