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Papers of Sir Ransley Victor Garland, 1943-2007

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Most of the papers in MS 4989 relate to the political career of Garland as a member of the Liberal Party and federal parliamentarian. The wide variety of material includes subject files, correspondence, speeches, press releases, parliamentary committee files, constituency representations and electoral papers, invitations, honours recommendations, briefings and printed material. Six series relate to ministerial portfolios held by Garland, while others concern his period in Opposition from 1972-1975, his role as high commissioner to the United Kingdom, 1981-1983. The collection also comprises files relating to Garland's business and cultural activities in Britain, concert and opera programmes, exhibition catalogues, papers relating to Garland's business travels, company annual reports and art magazines

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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

Henry Deane collection of photographs, ca. 1880 - ca. 1940

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Henry Deane, engineer and scientist, and later, botanist, arrived in Sydney January 1880 and was appointed a railway surveyor. Collection includes Deane family photographs, snapshots and portraits; snapshots of guests, including Annie Besant, at Theosophical Society garden parties in England. Also includes postcards from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Sri Lanka and Switzerland.

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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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