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Records of the Board of Trade (as filmed by the AJCP), 1784-April 1956

771 items
Abstract Or Scope
Select items were copied by the AJCP from the following Series and Record Groups: Central Administrative Records; Records of the Commercial, Companies, Labour, Railways and Statistics Department; Department of Overseas Trade; Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen; Records of Allied Organisations.
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Papers of Ian J. Mason, 1874-2021

(52 ms boxes + 7 large folio boxes)
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MS Acc11.034 comprises papers collected by Mason during the writing of a book on Australian oologists, 1835-2009. They consist largely of an alphabetical sequence of files containing information on approximately 250 egg collectors, including personal details, photographs, correspondence, family histories and lists of egg clutches they collected.MS Acc22.028 comprises reference material that Ian J. Mason collated and created for use in: "Passions in Ornithology: A Century of Australian Egg Collectors. And Passions in Ornithology: A Century of Australian Egg Collectors (Supplementary Edition)". It includes: biographical accounts of egg collectors; photographs, negatives and prints relating to birds and egg collecting including an album of bird photographs from Norman Chaffer and J. Ramsay; correspondence, notes, articles and egg data cards and among others.

Papers of Henry Bournes Higgins, 1840-1976

2.70 metres (11 ms boxes + 3 archive boxes + 2 medium phase boxes + 1 small folio box + 1 folio packet + 2 packets)
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The greater part of the H. B. Higgins correspondence concerns his work as first president of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Court (1906-22), and the politics of the period as they affected his position and authority; among his correspondents are the leading politicians and legal figures of the day. There is also correspondence relating to Higgins' support for Irish Home Rule (1911-21), and some personal correspondence notably with his niece Nettie Palmer (nee Higgins). In addition there are notebooks of Higgins' speeches, legal extracts, private journals including an account of Henry's voyage to Australia in 1870, and a family tour of India and Europe in 1886, and volumes of press cuttings.

Papers of Maie Casey, 1831-1987

5.32 metres (38 boxes, 1 folio item)
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The collection comprises correspondence, diaries, notebooks, speeches, drafts, articles, poetry, subject files, Ellis Rowan source material, art work, photographs and other papers relating to Maie Casey's interests in art and family history, her books An Australian story (1962), Melba revisited (1975) and Rare encounters (1980), her involvement in the International Sculpture Competition (1953) and her role as the wife of the Governor of Bengal and Governor-General of Australia. There are also some papers of John Cotton, Theodotus John Sumner, Sir Charles Ryan and Ellis Rowan.

Papers of Jim Keeffe, 1965-1972

48.9 metres (269 boxes + 14 folio items)
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Records of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, 1906-1999

16.49 metres (73 ms boxes + 3 archive boxes + 14 cartons + 1 phase box)
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The collection broadly comprises Federal Parliamentary Labor Party Caucus minutes, 1906-1998; Caucus correspondence files, including general correspondence, correspondence with ALP branches and correspondence with the ALP National Secretariat; Caucus committee files, including minutes of meetings, correspondence, submissions and reports; conference files; and other papers.
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Ephemera relating to the Australian federal election campaigns, 1901-2022

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Covers mainly printed materials issued by the parties, independents, lobby groups for both Houses of Parliament for most elections from 1901 to date including referenda. The range of ephemera includes bumper stickers, posters, visiting cards, cartoons, newspapers, electorate reports, postcards, voting forms. Features some unusual non-print political collectibles such as banners, balloons, flags, clothing, buttons, badges, hats, sound recordings, coffee bean poll. From 1996 it includes paper copies of material found on the Internet. All materials are either bound or unbound.
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Papers of Wendy Beckett, 1928-1997

(8 ms boxes + 1 large folio box + 37 sound/av carriers)
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The collection includes interviews, articles, press clippings, correspondence, drafts, financial records and other papers maintained by Beckett while researching her biography Peggy Glanville-Hicks (Angus Robertson, 1992). There are also papers relating to a proposed documentary film on Glanville-Hicks' life. Correspondents include Yehudi Menuhin, Gore Vidal, Leonard Bernstein, and Peter Sculthorpe. Further papers include drafts and final copies of Beckett's work, in particular her plays, including radio plays, and also an outline for an intended novel, a libretto for 'Beckett', transcripts of interviews by Beckett with Lawrence Durrell and Paul Bowles, proposals for using these interviews and other related papers.
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Papers of Liza Lim, 1979-2008

14.65 metres (31 archive boxes + 10 folio boxes + 4 elephant folios + 55 sound/av carriers + 5 digital carriers)
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Electric vehicles and charging stations, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, 2023, 2023

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Collection documents various electric vehicles and charging stations located in Cuthbert, Esperance, Jurien Bay, Margaret River, and Rockingham in Western Australia, Adelaide, Ceduna and Whyalla in South Australia, and Nelson and Ballarat in Victoria. The electric vehicles include the Tesla Model S, Tesla Model Y, Tesla Model 3 Long Range, BYD Atto 3 model, and Hyundai Kona Electric.