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Tambo, Queensland : geographic ephemera collected by the National Library of Australia, N.D.

Abstract Or Scope
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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Blackall, 2016-2017 1 brochure Box [unnumbered]

 

Records of the Australian Women Pilots' Association, 1950-2005

(1 folder + 2 folio boxes + 3 map folios)
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MS 1985 chiefly comprises eight scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings collected by the Australian Women Pilots' Association about women fliers, particularly in Australia during the 1950s and 1960s. The collection also includes newspaper cuttings, letters and photographs relating to Jean Batten's visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1970. A photocopy of an article on Pat Toole, and her flying in the Territory of New Guinea, is included. There is also the Charter that records the pilot licence numbers and signatures of foundation members of the Association who were present at the inaugural meeting held at the Royal Aero Club of New South Wales on 16 September, 1950.

Jørn Utzon Map Collection, 1960-1983

13 items in 1 map folder
Abstract Or Scope
The Jørn Utzon Map Collection consists primarily of enlarged and laminated copies of architectural plans and a document from the 'Sydney Opera House approaches' booklet. Sheets from this booklet include its cover, a document entitled 'Recommendations for car park, bus terminus and pedestrian approach to the Sydney Opera House', and site plans and section plans regarding arrivals and departures. As well as the booklet contents, the collection also contains an enlarged and laminated black and white photograph of Jørn Utzon with an architectural model; copies of a document entitled 'Joern Utzon's approaches to the Sydney Opera House' by Peter Myers and Richard Leplastrier, architects who worked on the Sydney Opera House with Utzon; and an englarged and laminated black and white photograph showing a close-up aerial view of Sydney Opera House construction.

Papers of Kenneth Russell Henderson held by Jack Waterford and Ian Campbell, 1900-2022

(1 ms box)
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This collection comprises Kenneth Henderson's unpublished draft memoirs and associated photographs. The material relating to Henderson's memoirs consists primarily of drafts of an autobiography plus a series of sketches of family and others, particularly in Sydney during the 1930s. There is a focus on life in Sydney's northern suburbs esp. North Turramurra, as an only child of a returned Australian soldier, one of three brothers - of the Henderson 'sweets' family - who had been gassed on the Western Front and spent years, in one form or another, in ex-service rehab, who himself had brought a British war bride to Australia and died in the late 1920s. There are passages about the families and houses of the area – Mollie Douglas, Charles Mackerras, H.V. Evatt, Grace Cossington Smith, Ethel Anderson, for example, as well as his own struggles/observations, in retrospect, about the area, and his own extended family. They do not embrace the war, or, very much about his post-war career, although there is a good deal of incidental material about his time in Switzerland and Indonesia. There are 'current day' reflections on Australian society generally and changes in the 1950s-60s. The photographs are mostly of people in classical music, one of Daisy Bates, whom he interviewed in 1941, some of Ethel Anderson, and writer Barbara Jefferis.
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Papers of Helen H. Wilson, 1952-1980

0.28 metres (2 boxes)
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The papers comprise correspondence, photographs, drafts and cuttings. The correspondents include Randolph Stow, Dave McColl (D.C. Thomson Co), British Broadcasting Corporation, Georgian House and other publishers.
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Papers of the Meeking family, 1846-1847, 1941-1955

(1 volume and 2 folders)
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A ship's journal or log kept by Charles William Meeking, grandfather of Charles Reginald Meeking, the journalist. Charles William Meeking died in 1885. The collection also includes 18 photographs and 6 prints primarily relating to Charles Reginald Meeking's journalism career.
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Papers of the Meeking family, 1846-1847, 1941-1955 (1 volume and 2 folders)

 

Correspondence of David Blackburn (as filmed by the AJCP), 1785-1796

19 items
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This collection includes correspondence with Margaret Blackburn, Captain A. Phillip and R. Harper. The correspondence details his naval experience, voyages, impressions of Australia and Blackburn's demise. Some of the letters are from others to Blackburn's mother and sister.

Pocket portfolio of carte de visite photographs of animal paintings by Sir Edwin Landseer, 1870

album containing 9 cartes de visite ; 6.2 x 10 cm.
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Collection includes an album with nine carte de visite with photographs of animal paintings by artist Sir Edwin Landseer.
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Extracts of the Armagh County Museum (as filmed by the AJCP), 11 December 1852-29 April 1853

2 items
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1) Raeburn manuscripts. 6 p. Typescript account of a voyage to Australia 1852-53. The journal, probably written by Samuel Pillow, concerns the voyage of the emigrant ship Digby. Mentions some of the Irish passengers by name and gives brief descriptions of events on board ship and on arrival in Melbourne.
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