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Letter from Sir Phillip Stephens to Captain James Cook, 1776-07-20

0.03 metres (1 volume)
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The collection comprises a letter written from the Admiralty Office to Captain Cook, Resolution Sloop, informing him that Doctor Forster had submitted specimens of New Zealand flax 'prepared by a Foreign Lady to a degree of fineness and whiteness which could be little expected' and requesting him to bring from New Zealand, if he should touch there, a quantity of the seeds. Also included is a handwritten note describing the contents of the letter plus a photocopied list of Forster letters held in the Mitchell Library.
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Harry Lyon Map Collection, 1902-1925

14 items in 1 map folder
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United States hydrographic charts with manuscript plots by Harry Lyon, navigator for the record-breaking journey of the Southern Cross crossing of the Pacific Ocean from Oakland, California to Brisbane in 1928, captained by Charles Kingsford Smith.
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Harry Lyon Map Collection, 1902-1925 14 items in 1 map folder

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No. 2020, 1903

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No. 2021, 1902

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Papers relating to Sir Herbert Kingsley Paine and Helen Waldsax, 1895-2002

1.65 metres (1 MS Box + 1 Map-folio)
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This small collection contains personal papers relating to South Australian Bankruptcy Court Judge Sir Herbert Kingsley Paine and his daughter Helen Waldsax (nee Paine), who was an advocate for woman's rights and equality and served as President of the Watford Branch of the National Council of Women. It consists of letters, school reports, certificates, newspaper clippings such as obituaries and interviews, photographs, articles and a booklet by Helen Waldsax on the history of the Watford Branch.
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Zerefos, Helen (opera singer) : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, 1961-

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Helen Zerefos OAM (born 8 November 1937) is an Australian coloratura soprano. Her career has spanned more than 50 years on stage, television, in nightclubs, concerts and recordings. Her career was launched in 1961, at a time when musical variety shows were popular on television. She won the Australian Entertainment MO Awards three times in 2006, 2008, and 2015. She was the first person of Greek heritage to be a regular artist on Australian television. She is also a tireless charity worker for the Aging Research Centre at Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital.
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Letters of Henry Thomas and Horatio Holyoake (as filmed by the AJCP), 1854-1885

6 items
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Correspondence from Horatio and Henry Holyoake to their brother George and to their mother. The letters, written from Ballarat, Blackwood and Melbourne, describe work and life on the Victorian goldfields and comment on Victorian parliamentarians and politics. They refer to the high standing of G.J. Holyoake in Australia and the support that he had received in the Argus, and contain news of family matters.
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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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High Society, 1993-1994 1 program (2 copies, each has different advertisement), 3 flyers. Folder 1

 

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-

photographs : silver gelatin ; 15.4 x 20.4 cm.
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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

36 items
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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

1 collection.
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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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