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Papers of Thomas C. Creyke, 1933-1977

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The papers mainly comprise family correspondence and files relating to Creyke’s reports, lectures and tours of Eastern Australia as Agricultural and Food Advisor for the British High Commission in Canberra. They also include papers relating to Creyke’s employment with the County Agricultural Committees in England and the World Bank in Washington, Indonesia and Nairobi.

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Aberdeen, New South Wales : 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 George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (as filmed by the AJCP), 1828-1855

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Correspondence mostly dated 1841-46, dealing particularly with Anglo-French rivalry in the Pacific, the French annexation of Tahiti, actions of Sir James Brooke in Sarawak, and the Dutch East Indies.

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Papers of William Alexander Osborne, 1602-1892

Records of Curtis Brown Australia, 1962-2002

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Corporate records of a literary agency. The bulk of the collection comprises agency files for authors represented by Curtis Brown Australia, and by Hickson Associates prior to acquisition by Curtis Brown in 1999. These files include correspondence between authors and agents, and publishers; accounts and royalty information; and press cuttings. Also contained are files relating to Curtis Brown offices in London and New York, files relating to overseas sub-agents, and submissions from writers seeking representation.

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Collections held by the National Library of Wales (as filmed by the AJCP), 1760-1971

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Black Books 1785-1830 of Brecon Circuit (Glamorganshire, Breconshire and Radnorshire) of Court of Great Sessions in Wales.

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Records held by the Ministry Foreign Affairs, Germany (as filmed by the AJCP), 1879-1944

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Contains records from the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt des Deutschen Reiches), later the German Foreign Ministry, and the German Embassy in London.

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Collections held by the West Sussex Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 1815-01 June 1926

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Papers of the Liberal politician and free trade campaigner Richard Cobden including three letters 1864-1865 from Sir George Bowen in Brisbane, Henry H. Brown on the Maori wars, and Archibald Michie about the Shenandoah; letter 1926 from Stanley V. Larkin; two letters 1903 to Thomas Fisher Unwin (Cobden's son-in-law) from Senator E. Pulsford and Sir Josiah Symon; 'Papers Respecting Sir James Brooke's Policy and Position with Regard to Sarawak' (1863), with related dispatches; copy of a statement 1851 regarding a grant of land in Sarawak by the Sultan of Brunei; pamphlet 'Sir Stamford Raffles and the Spice Islands' (Chambers Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, no. 53).

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Papers of Basil Lubbock (as filmed by the AJCP), 24 December 1792-13 March 1936

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Diary 14 September-27 December 1882 kept by passenger on the Superb between Melbourne and London.

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British and Foreign Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society (as filmed by the AJCP), 02 May 1837-1895

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Letters received by Secretaries of the Aborigines Protection Society: Thomas Hodgkin (1837-1866), F.W. Chesson (1866-1888) and H.R. Fox-Bourne (1888-1909). They deal in particular with: the treatment of Aborigines in Queensland and Western Australia and of Maoris in New Zealand; charges made by Reverend J. Gribble in Western Australia; the visit of Maori chiefs to England in 1882 and 1884; the Pacific labour trade and the treatment of Pacific Islanders in Queensland; the 1875 Pacific Islanders Protection Bill; cases involving Jason, Carl and other labour vessels; the annexation of New Guinea in 1884; and land rights and race relations in Fiji and Tonga.

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