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Records of the Uniting Church in Australia Frontier Services, 1897-2011

(2 Folders + 277 MS Boxes + 254 Archive Boxes + 2 Small Folio Boxes + 7 Medium Folio Boxes + 6 Large Folio Boxes + 5 Phase Boxes + 23 Volumes in bags + 2 Packets + 1 Map Folio + 5 Elephant Folios)
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The great bulk of this collection is correspondence files with various subject headings. There are also minutes, financial records, maps, plans, photographs, news cuttings, printed material. All aspects of the Australian Inland Mission (A.I.M.) are represented, including history, the Aerial Medical Service, hospitals and hostels, United Church in Northern Australia, National and State Councils, publicity material, Far North Children's Health Scheme, Federal Methodist Inland Mission, patrol padres, Rev. John Flynn and Rev. Fred McKay. Also several artefacts and pieces of A.I.M. equipment.
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Papers of Hazel Rowley

(28 boxes + 1 folder + 5 digital carriers)
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This collection comprises papers pertaining to Rowley's biographies: 'Christina Stead: A Biography (1994)', 'Richard Wright: The Life and Times (2001),' 'Tête-à-tête: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre' (2005), 'Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage' (2010). They include Rowley's correspondence with her subjects and those who knew them. In the first consignment the major correspondents are Edith Anderson, Leda and Stanley Burnshaw, Gwen Walker-Smith, Florence James, Jessie and Ettore Rella, Ruth Hall, David Stead, Ron Geering, Clifton Fadiman, Kate Llwellyn, Mary Bransten, Nadine Mendelson, Elizabeth Harrower, Gai Steel, Michael Bott, Margaret Harris, Michael Gold, Edith Anderson, Anne and Harry Bloom, Gilbert Stead, Fred Warburg, Oliver Stallybrass, Leah and Philip Harvey, and Aida Kotlarsky.In the second consignment of note is an original letter from Simone de Beauvoir, and original letters of Christina Stead. Other correspondents include Clem Christesen, Harper Lee, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, William Vanden Heuvel, Constance Webb, Richard Wright, Barbara Baer, Oliver Stallybrass and Toril Moi, There are photographs, research files, transcripts and notes of interviews, manuscripts and papers for other work on topics such as 'The Hollywood Ten' and a copy of Rowley's thesis 'The Female Experience in the Autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir and Violette Leduc'. Journals, diaries, notes and log books provide further insight into Rowley's research work conducted in Australia and overseas.
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Papers of Grace Nolan, 1929-2021

(3 ms boxes + 22 audiovisual carriers + [5] digital carriers + 10 colour photographs)
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This collection comprises folk stories told by Grace Nolan's mother, Carmela Speranza, from her birth town in Italy, collected through audio and audiovisual recordings. The collection includes manuscripts by Grace Nolan titled "More Stories My Mother Told Me" and "The Sun My Father The Moon My Mother", which further the work she began in her thesis. These writings explore the oral tradition of storytelling and provide further background and collected stories. The stories have been recorded in the original dialect and translated into English by Grace Nolan, providing insight into the life of a migrant woman in Melbourne in the 1950s. The collection also includes copies of related publications, Folklore Della Calabria Vol 1 and Vol 2 by A. Basile (Ed) and
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McArthur-Macpherson Family Papers, 1844-2009

9.8 metres (14 large folio boxes)
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The papers are made up of a combination of documents, business records, correspondence, photographs and printed ephemera from and about the properties of Diana Baillieu's ancestors in Western Victoria; clippings, family history research material (some originals and many photocopies), printed ephemera, and correspondence among members of Diana Baillieu's generation. Interspersed among the papers are documents, correspondence, printed ephemera relating to Waltzing Matilda and specifically Christina Macpherson's role in introducing A.B.Paterson to the tune for the song.
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Papers of Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson (Lord Novar), 1912-1935

(16 ms boxes + 1 archive box + 2 small tubes + 1 packet + 2 map folios)
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The bulk of the collection falls within the period 1914-1920 when Lord Novar of Raith (Sir Ronald Craufurd Munro-Ferguson) was Governor-General. It includes official despatches from Novar to the King, private letters from Novar to the King's Private Secretaries and their replies, both personal and official despatches to the Secretaries of State for the Colonies and their replies and correspondence relating to Novar's official duties as Governor-General. Voluminous personal correspondence includes letters with W.M. Hughes, G.F. Pearce and leading military and political figures in Australia and England. The subject matter of both personal and official files includes the war, including recruiting and conscription, Australian political events at State and Commonwealth levels, the Australian economy, and Australian, Japanese, and British interests in the Pacific region. Correspondents include L.S. Amery, Sir James W. Barrett, Sir Edmund Barton, General W.R. Birdwood, Sir William Bridges, Sir James Burns, Bede Clifford, Sir Joseph Cook, Andrew Fisher, Lord Forrest, Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, L.V. Harcourt, A. Bonar Law, Walter Long, Sir Alfred Milner, Lord Stamfordham, Sir George Steward, Sir Gerald Strickland, Sir Henry MacMahon, Sir John Maxwell, J.G. Legge, Sir George Houston Reid, W. Watt, and E.D. Millen.

Darryl Thompson menu collection, 1859-2014

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The Darryl Thompson Menu Collection includes menus from across Australia, domestic and international ships and airlines, several countries including France, Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and the Zollinger collection.

Rail tourism : geographic ephemera collected by the National Library of Australia, N.D.

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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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Referendum 14 October 2023 : ephemera relating to the Australian Indigenous Voice referendum, 2023

1 collection
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A collection of chiefly printed ephemera concerned with the issues and debate for and against a vote for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament referendum of 14 October 2023. The following materials are held: Brochures, booklets, banners, campaign buttons, caps, Internet webpage prints, media statements, pamphlets, posters, refrigerator magnets, stickers, sample ballot papers, speeches, T-shirts.
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2023 Referendum, 2023 2 cards Box 4