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Papers of E. Garnet Bonney, 1944-1984

Album of Richard Jones (as filmed by the AJCP), 1840

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When Jones left Sydney to study at Cambridge in 1840 his friends presented him with an album of drawings, watercolours, engravings and poems. They depict members of the Jones Family, Sydney Heads, Hyde Park, St Philip's Church, the La Perouse Monument, and other places and people in Sydney.

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Papers of Frederick Blakeney, 1942-1986

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The papers relate to Blakeney's career as a diplomat. The collection includes file copies of correspondence written while Blakeney was the Australian Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany the U.S.S.R. and the Netherlands appointment diaries photograph albums miscellaneous photocopies typescripts notes roneoed and printed material.

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Papers of Charles Bliss, 1943-1984

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The papers comprise correspondence, cuttings, research notes, and roneoed material relating to Bliss's several publications on semantography and communications. The newspaper and journal cuttings are arranged under the headings Language, Education, Biology, History, Religion, and Pioneers of new ideas, and, together with work notes and early drafts of articles, form the basis of his two most important books Semantography (Blissymbolics) and The Invention and Discovery that will change our lives.

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Mount Beauty, 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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Records of the Killarney Corriedale Sheep Stud, 1926-1969

Wodonga, 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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Collections held by Glasgow Mitchell Library, 1827-1972

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List of cases for trial at Glasgow circuit between 1827 and 1845. It gives name, crime, date of trial, indictment, list of witnesses, verdict and sentence, including transportation.

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Collection of James Somerville relating to the pacifist movement in Australia

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This collection comprises material collected by Somerville relating to individuals and organisations active in the pacifist movement in Australia in 1940-1974. There are circulars, pamphlets and newsletters printed by organisations such as the Christian Pacifist Movement of Victoria, the Central Committee of Conscientious Objectors, the Association for International Co-operation and Disarmament (NSW) and the Peace News Limited. Correspondence between Somerville and significant Australians like H. V. Evatt related to conscientious objectors such as Leslie Warren Hoey, Lloyd Butler and Bill Tarry.

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Papers of Dora Wilcox, 1865-1954

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This collection includes diaries, manuscripts, correspondence, notes, typescripts, photographs, cutting books, cuttings, various certificates awarded to Wilcox and printed material relating to Wilcox's work as a poet and playwright, as well as to her private life. The early diaries (1914-1917) are very detailed and personal, describing her life in Switzerland, Belgium and England; as well as her first husband Jean Paul Hamelius, her writings and readings; meetings with Bertram Dobell; war news. The later diary (1938-1943) describes her life in Sydney, refering to meetings with publishers as well as Amy Mack, Margaret Preston and Blanche Lindsay, war news, PEN functions, reminiscences of William Moore. The major correspondents are: Robert de Montalk, Jean Paul Hamelius, Bertram Dobell and William Moore. The manuscripts and typescripts are of Wilcox's poems and plays. The collection also includes notes, cuttings and typescripts on Charles Meryon, the French artist who lived in New Zealand.

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