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Papers of Peter Ryan, 1927-2015

(20 boxes, 4 folio boxes)
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The papers comprise correspondence, newspaper cuttings, talks, photographs, articles, research notes, reviews, handwritten notes, legal documentation, patrol reports and conference papers. The largest series in the collection relates to Manning Clark and consists of extensive newspaper cuttings, correspondence, drafts of articles and notes covering the controversy caused by Ryan's criticism in Quadrant (1993) of A History of Australia and Manning Clark as a historian generally, and claims by the Brisbane Courier Mail (1996) that Clark received an Order of Lenin medal during the Cold War.
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Papers of Norman Ellison, 1900-1971

6.36 metres (41 boxes, 4 folio boxes)
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The collection comprises correspondence, drafts and typescripts relating to Ellison's journalistic and writing career, press clippings, ephemera and photographs.
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'A' Box 12

 
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Mary Nolan photographic archive, 1963-1970s

(4783 photographic negatives)
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Comprising of 4783 negatives, mostly black and white, this collection includes family photographs and candid photographs of many post-war Australian expats in the UK, including Brett Whitely, Barbara Blackman, John Percival, Arthur Boyd, Cynthia and Sidney Nolan, John and Sweeney Reed.
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Records of the Board of Trade (as filmed by the AJCP), 1784-April 1956

771 items
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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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A, 1969-1972 Box 10

 

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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