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High Society (musical) : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, [1990?]-

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High Society is a musical comedy with a book by Arthur Kopit and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The musical is based on Philip Barry's 1939 stage comedy The Philadelphia Story and the subsequent 1956 musical film adaptation, High Society, which features Porter's songs. The musical includes most of the music featured in the movie, along with several songs selected from other Porter musicals. It premiered on Broadway in 1998 and has since been revived.

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Hinge and Bracket : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, 1972-

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Dr. Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket were the stage personae of the English musical performance and female impersonation artists George Logan and Patrick Fyffe, who toured to Australia under the title Hinge and Bracket. Active in theatre, radio and television between 1972 and Fyffe's death in 2002, this comedic partnership entertained the public in the guise of two elderly eccentric spinsters, living genteel lives in the village of Stackton Tressel and seemingly celebrating their former "careers" on the provincial operatic stage. The two ladies generally performed together, but on rare occasions did appear separately, although George Logan declined to continue the characterisation of Dr. Hinge after Fyffe died. Hinge and Bracket toured to Australia in 1976, 1980, 1988, and in 1989 with their show "The Importance of Being Earnest".

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Photographs of Coombe Cottage, Coldstream, near Lilydale, Victoria, home of Dame Nellie Melba by Edwin G. Adamson, ca. 191-

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Includes mounted photographs of some of the rooms and garden of Coombe Cottage, all signed by Nellie Melba.

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Records of the Prison Commission (as filmed by the AJCP), 1816-1866

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Select items were copied by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) from Home Office and Prison Commission Prison Records: Series 1 (PCOM2) including registers of prisoners in County Middlesex, Dorset and various ships.

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Hurstville Light Opera Company : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia

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Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of programs and related items of the Hurstville Light Opera Company including flyers, and theatre programs such as half a sixpence, Australia remembers 1945-1995, Call me Madam, and Brigadoon.

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Illustrations to the Idylls of the Kings [sic] by Sophia Sinnett, 1865

Papers of Merv Williams, 1883-1979

Index to despatches relating to the colony of Victoria 1851-1860 prepared by Mathilde E Deane (as filmed by AJCP), 1925

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Index to Despatches relating to the Colony of Victoria 1851-1860 … serving as an index to Colonial Office, Victoria. Original correspondence and entry books (despatches) 1851-1860 and War Office. Out-letters Secretary of State (Victorian dispatches) 1851-1854, compiled by Mathilde E Deane (b. 1870).

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Index to Royal Navy ships, Janet D. Hine (as filmed by the AJCP), 1955-1956

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Index of Royal Navy ships, 1698-1861, compiled in 1955-56.

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Indian Australian Association of South Australia : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, 1967-

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Indian Australian Association of South Australia (IAASA) is a not-for-profit organisation which was established in 1967 and a constitution was formulated in 1971 for the explicit purpose of promoting Indian culture in Australia. The aim of IAASA is to involve all South Australians, not only Indian heritage migrants, to develop a spirit of cooperation, unity and interaction between Indian and Australian communities to promote harmony. IAASA functions as a peak body for all the Indian regional and cultural organisations and is the first port of call for the government for any issue concerning the Indian community.

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