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Papers and photographs of Jim Taylor, 1914-1987

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Papers and records documenting Taylor's career as a Patrol Officer (kiap) in the New Guinea Highlands in the period 1927-49. The major component of the collection comprises photographs taken on the famous Hagen-Sepik Patrol led by Taylor in 1938-39. Taylor's patrol diary and reports, together with workbooks, field notes, letters and other papers accumulated during the expedition are represented amongst the supporting documentation. Other items of interest include materials recording the Bena-Hagen Patrol (1933-34), correspondence concerning the Leahy gold discovery, vocabularies, pocket diaries, lecture notes, papers relating to early post-World War II administrative policy and notes about Taylor's post-government career.

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Papers of Gordon Reid, 1987-1988

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The collection comprises extensive research files maintained by Professor Reid and his research assistants while researching the history of the Commonwealth Parliament. The files contain notes, articles, newspaper cuttings and printed materials, as well as photocopies of primary materials dating from as early as 1861.

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Papers of the Hughes and Knight Gregson families, 1865-1962

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The collection comprises original letters from Charlotte Louise Knight Gregson (nee Hughes) to her family of Middleton Hall, Northumberland, England after she emigrated to Australia in 1876 aged 26. Included are sketches, water colours, shipping documents, school reports and photographs. The letters detail her farming life in Harden, with comments on colonial life including the shearers' strike, suffragettes, 1890s banking crashes and bushfires. There is also mention of men going off to World War I, railway-building, the establishment of Canberra as the capital, and a relative who was part of Mawson's expedititon. Also included are letters from Frank Hughes (Charlotte Louise's brother) to his family, photographs of George Charles Knight Gregson and Frank Hughes, and a death notice and obituary of Stanly Hughes (Frank Hughes's son).

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Papers of Gareth Roberts, 1909-2001

Papers of Eric Gross, c.1931-2011

Papers of Stuart Macintyre, 1800s-2020s

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The papers were donated to the Library by Professor Macintyre in 1999. An instalment of papers previously held by the Melbourne University Archives was added in May 2000 (series 19/31-45 and 20). Records of the Centenary of Federation Victoria Committee were added in 2003. A further transfer of correspondence and related papers was received in 2006.

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Papers of the Claux Family, 1910-2001

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The collection comprises of Claux and Crick family correspondence, diaries, notebooks and photographs. The collection also documents Moira Claux's personal and professional life as a dancer with the Bodenwieser Ballet, actress and artist's model and include correspondence, scripts, drawings, scrapbooks, black and white photographs by a variety of photographers including Max Dupain and Laurence Le Guay, publications, objects, certificates and artworks by Moira's brother Eugene.

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Papers of Sir Percy Spender, 1937-1978

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Papers documenting Percy Spender's political, diplomatic and legal career including correspondence, speeches, press statements, cutting books, photographs of overseas trips and functions attended, itineraries, invitations, and printed material. The collection also includes papers of Lady Jean Spender, family photographs, papers relating to the Colombo Plan, and papers on French nuclear weapons explosions. Correspondents include Sir Robert Menzies, Sir Paul Hasluck, Sir Garfield Barwick, Sir Keith Officer, Sir Arthur Tange, Sir Alan Watt, Dr John Burton, John Foster Dulles, Dean Acheson, Thomas Mann, Felix Frankfurter, G.H. Hackworth, Ernest Bevin, Walter Crocker and Selwyn Lloyd.

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Anzacs and Anzac Day 2020 - 2029 : programs and invitations ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia, 2020 - 2029

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Material includes Order of Services, concert and event programs, song and hymn sheets, and lecture programs for events held in New South Wales, and Victoria.

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Papers of Camilla Wedgwood, 1928-1954