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Papers of Cassandra Pybus, 1956-2008

Chinnery Collection, New Guinea, 1912-1937

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Photographs show New Guinea weapons, dress and decoration, religious practices, artefacts, canoes and rafts, dances and ceremonies, houses, and copper mining.

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Papers of Sir Francis Newdegate (as filmed by the AJCP), 16 June 1916-22 March 1926

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Extensive collection of personal correspondence documenting his life and official activities in both Tasmania and Western Australia, and subjects including: honours; industrial development in Tasmania; Australian political leaders; the 1917 conscription referendum; Federal-State relations; possible abolition of State Governors; and the visit of the Prince of Wales to Australia in 1920. Correspondents include Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, Lord Forster, Lord Stamfordham, L.S. Amery, Sir William Irvine, Sir Arthur Stanley, Lord Stradbroke, Sir Walter Davidson, Sir Henry Galway, Sir Elliott Lewis and Sir James Mitchell.

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Shepparton, Victoria : geographic ephemera collected by the National Library of Australia, N.D.

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Material in the Geography and Travel ephemera collection covers significant information about the geography, history, and tourist activities of places in Australia, its Antarctic and island territories. This includes geographical features, national parks and reserves, regions, cities, towns, buildings and other man-made structures. The collection includes advertising material, pamphlets, price lists, tokens, area and accommodation guides, brochures, postcards, stickers, labels and tickets.

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Papers of William Ewart Gladstone (as filmed by the AJCP), 1835-1886

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Correspondence, letters, memoranda and official papers extending from Gladstone's first post at the Colonial Office in 1835 until the collapse of his third Ministry in 1886. They deal with: the New Zealand Co; Treaty of Waitangi; Maori affairs; recall of Sir John Eardley Wilmot from Van Diemen's Land in 1846; colonial bishoprics; Australian and New Zealand constitutions; Sydney Mint; colonial tariffs; appointment of governors; establishment of settlement at Canterbury; annexation of Fiji and New Guinea; French and German activities in the Pacific; trade with Dutch East Indies; affairs of Sarawak; and North Borneo Co.

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Records of the Australian Booksellers Association, 1915-1971

Papers of Frederick Robinson Goderich, 1st Viscount (as filmed by the AJCP), 1831-1832

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The papers all date from Goderich's second period at the Colonial Office. They mainly contain requests for appointments in the Australian colonies. Correspondents include Sir Richard Bourke, Ralph Darling, Judge John Stephen and Capt. W. Windeyer.

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Jeff Carter Archive, 1950-2010

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The Jeff Carter archive documents Australian rural and working life in the latter half of the twentieth century of Australian people, places and events, social and environmental changes in Australian history, portraits of individuals or groups representing aspects of Australian life and which contribute to the social record.

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Records of the Westminster Diocesan Archives (as filmed by the AJCP), 23 August 1817-1930

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Papers of Bishop W. Poynter, Rev. R. Gradwell, Bishop J.Y. Bramston, Bishop T. Griffiths, Cardinal N.P.S. Wiseman, Cardinal H.A. Vaughan and Cardinal F. Bourne. They deal with: establishment of the New Holland Mission by Rev. J. Flynn 1818-19; selection of priests for the Mission; relations with political authorities; appointment of J.B. Polding as Vicar-Apostolic in 1834; creation of dioceses; emigration; missions in Pacific; and visit of Archbishop D. Mannix to England 1920. Correspondents include J. Flynn, P. Connolly, J.J. Therry, J.B. Polding, J.B. Pompallier and J.M.B. Serra.

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Papers of Sir Arthur Gordon (as filmed by the AJCP), 1855-1912

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Correspondence, letter-books and papers mostly dating from the period 1875-1882. They deal with: Gordon's governorships; the establishment of British rule in Fiji; legislation; land claims; the Pacific labour trade; missionaries; French ambitions in the Pacific; Samoan and Tongan affairs; military and naval defence; establishment of Western Pacific High Commission; New Zealand politics; Maori affairs; German and Queensland annexations in New Guinea; Australasian Federal Council; and church affairs. Correspondents include Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Sir Robert Herbert, Sir William Des Voeux, Sir John Thurston, Bishop J.R. Selwyn, D. Wilkinson, Sir William MacGregor, J. Gorrie, W. Carew, L. Fison and G.W. Rusden.

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