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Collection of ALIA posters, 1987-2016, 1987-2016

(68 posters)
Abstract Or Scope
Collection of Australian Library Information Association (ALIA) posters relating to Australian Library Week, Library and Information Week, National Simultaneous Storytime, Summer Reading Club, Australian Library Promotion Coucil and Online Public Access Initiative.

Engadine Musical Society : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, 1976-

1 collection.
Abstract Or Scope
Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of programs and related items of the Engadine Musical Society including flyers, and theatre programs such as the Sentimental bloke, the Mikado, Annie, Annie get your gun, Oliver, Another touch of Christmas, Leader of the pack, Oklahoma!, the King and I, Fiddler on the roof, the Wizard of Oz, the Merry widow, Anything goes, Cinderella, Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat, Jesus Christ superstar, Chicago, Alice in wonderland, Big, Grease, Oliver, 30th anniversary celebration!, and Christmas concert.
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Records of Gourock Ropework & Company (as filmed by the AJCP), 1882-1971

15 items
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The records comprise financial papers, correspondence and legal papers relating to the company's operations in Australia and New Zealand. Correspondents include F.M. Munro, David Fell, George D. Cockburn, J. Matthews and A. Battye.
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Papers of Jamie and Michael Kassler, 1678-2021

(11 ms boxes + 2 medium folio boxes + 1 large folio box + 4 map folios)
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The collection features correspondence, music scores, artworks, manuscripts, printed and published works and related papers. The correspondence is primarily with composers, music scholars and musicologists, as well as scientists working in the field of robotics.

Papers of Dominica and Kate Nelson, 1983-1987

0.6 metres (4 ms boxes + 1 sound/av carrier)
Abstract Or Scope
The collection comprises correspondence, draft chapters, final chapters, galley proofs and book reviews for the book Sweet mothers, sweet maids : journeys from Catholic childhoods edited by Dominica and Kate Nelson.

Papers of Rosemary Dobson, 1923-2004

(21 MS Boxes + 4 Archive Boxes)
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The papers of MS 4955 include a considerable amount of correspondence about literary, business and personal matters, drafts of poems, drafts of reviews, index cards, press cuttings, sketches, material about writers' festivals, details of seminars, papers relating to Moscow trefoil and Seven Russian poets, papers relating to Francis Webb and information about poetry competitions. Major correspondents are Margaret Horder, Christina Stead, Francis Webb, Nan McDonald, Geoffrey Bingham, Claire O'Brien, Elizabeth Marsh, Denise Levertov, Ray Mathew, Alan Tregaskis, Lady Casey, Patrick White, David Marr, David Campbell, R.D. FitzGerald, A.D. Hope, Douglas Stewart, James McAuley and Judith Wright (25 boxes).

Papers of Earl Ewers, ca. 1880-2007

3.15 metres (9 ms boxes + 1 carton + 1 map folio)
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The Ewers Papers include correspondence, diaries, notebooks, photographs, family documents and publications relating to several members of Ewers' family. The main focus of the papers is Latvian migration to Australia, but there is also a good deal of general information Australian social life and economic conditions. Much of this is revealed through documents of Ewers' grandfather, J.S. Anderson, who owned several businesses. Also significant are papers of William M. Nixon, Ewers' great-great grandfather, who was an early Australian photographer.

Papers of Patricia Wrightson, c. 1950-2000

4.65 metres (18 ms boxes + 1 medium folio box + 3 non-standard containers)
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Papers of Ruth Cracknell, 1943-1998

(24 ms boxes + 1 large folio-box)
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The collection very much reflects Ruth Cracknell's public persona, comprising papers relating specifically to her career as an actor, with very little of her private life. There are scripts, programs and photographs of many of the productions in which she appeared, together with newspaper cuttings and printed material containing reviews of shows or interviews with Cracknell. The correspondence in the collection comprises a large number of congratulatory letters, notes, cards and telegrams, mostly from the public, but some from other performers and friends. There is a small amount of general business correspondence.