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New Australia Colony, Paraguay, May 1985, 1985

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Collection features images relating to the New Australia Colony and Cosme Colony socialist utopian colonies established in Paraguay in 1893 and 1894 by a group of Australians migrants led by William Lane. The photographer, Peter Solness, visited for the month of May in 1985 researching the descendants of the New Australia movement of 1892. It contains a series of portraits of the last Australian born member of the original colony, Don Guillermo (Bill) Wood, his brothers Don Norman Wood and Wallace Wood, Rod McLeaod, who spent his life on the colony, as well as their descendants. Some of their descendants were still living in the colony, with others living in other parts of Paraguay. Bill Wood, Norman Wood and Wallace Wood are the children of William Wood and Lillian Wood, Bill only 8 months when they left Australia. The collection also features views of Camp Cosme, the colony and general scenes of Paraguay. The images and story were published in an article "Ginger Meggs in Paraguay" by Peter Solness in the Good Weekend Magazine, 26 January 1986.

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Collections held by the Nottingham University Library (as filmed by the AJCP), 1840-1942

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Papers of Vernon Family, comprising journal 1857-1860 of HMS Cordelia, captained by C.E.H. Vernon, on voyage to Australia and the Western Pacific and correspondence book 1856-1861 of HMS Iris.

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Elizabethan Trust Opera Company : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, N.D.

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Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of programs and related items for Australian performing arts organisations, Australian artists performing overseas, professional productions performed in Australia (including those featuring overseas performers) and overseas performances of Australian plays, music, etc.

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Papers of Dan Sprod, 1938-2018

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MS 8429 contains material on Blubber Head Press and Dan Sprod's career as a librarian at both the National Library of Australia and the Morris Miller Library at the University of Tasmania, and author and editor of numerous books. There are also papers relating to his professional and research interests, including Tasmanian Art Advisory Board, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts and the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme. The papers, arranged into 14 series, include correspondence, research material, notes, handwritten drafts, typescripts, financial papers, minutes of meetings and reports.MS Acc07.077 comprises a letter from Ira Raymond, of the Australian Consulate, New York, to Dan Sprod dated 31 October, 1956.MS Acc10.033 comprises papers reflecting Sprod's roles as publisher and writer. They include: correspondence relating to books published by Blubber Head Press and books written by Sprod, together with Sprod's research, grant applications and speaking engagements; draft proofs of various publications; and business records. Publication titles represented in the papers include: Major Mitchell's map 1834: the saga of the survey of the nineteen counties, by Alan E.J. Andrews (1992); A salute to watercolour, by Max Angus (1996); Sprod's The usurper: Jorgen Jorgenson and his turbulent life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land 1780-1841 (2001); and his Leichhardt's expeditioners: in the Australian wilderness 1844-1845 (2006). In addition there are papers relating to the Ludwig Leichhardt Expedition Exposition in Queensland in 2004.MS Acc22.018 includes research notebooks for Dan Sprod's various publications, appointment diaries covering the period 1960 to 2018, and correspondence. Correspondents include other National Library of Australia staff members Mollie Thomson, Charles Dornbusch and Ira Raymond. The collection also includes one small notebook related to Sprod's move with his wife and three young sons to take up the position in the Australian Consulate General office in New York.

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Papers of David Sissons, 1950-2006

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Series 1 (3 boxes) of this collection comprises copies of Sisson's writings from his completed research. The remainder of the collection (57 boxes), comprises source materials accumulated in the course of various research ventures relating to Australian-Japanese relations. They include photocopies, correspondence and holograph notes.

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Album of photographs of scenes in Victoria, Hobart, Jenolan Caves, N.Z. and South America, Approximately 1880-1895

Papua New Guinea : ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia, 1981-1985

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Ephemera material under various categories including Books, Jobs, Government and Politics, Tourism, Visits, Church, Programs and Art Catalogues.

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[Melbourne and scenes in Victoria, 1925-1926 from Victorian Government Railways], [ca. 1926 - 1926], 1925-1926

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Photographs of streets, buildings, the botanic gardens, animals, Mt. Buffalo and Murray River. The collection was donated by Mr Kennet A. Yeomans; Each photograph has a description typed on reverse written by him.

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Papers of Kate McNamara, ca. 1959-2018

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This collection comprises correspondence, drafts of plays and poems, diaries, journals, cuttings, and ephemera.

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Timor-Leste elections 2007, 2007

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Material produced for the 1st and 2nd round presidential elections held in East Timor on April 9 and May 9 and the Parliamentary elections held on June 30, 2007. Includes material issued by various political parties, presidential candidates and government agencies, such as posters, booklets, flyers, forms, CDs/DVDs, how to vote information, stickers, badges, and election observer I.D. Most material produced by STAE, CNE, UNDP.

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