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Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-2014

(73 boxes + 4 cartons + 1 small carton)
Abstract Or Scope
MS 7583 comprises correspondence, board minutes, executive records, conference records and papers relating to submissions and campaigns. There are also papers relating to the International Council of Women including the periodical literature of a number of overseas Councils. The correspondence is both within and outside the organisation and includes correspondence with the Department of Transport, Postmaster General and the International Council of Women (24 boxes).
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Papers of Vikki McLeod relating to the Australian Democrats, 2002-2008

(1 ms box + 7 map-folios)
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The collection comprises documents relating to Vikki McLeod's activities as a member of the Australian Democrats and a senior Advisor to former Senator Lyn Allison. Other topics covered by the papers include Australian Democrats publications, original constitution and policy papers, manuals, policy journals, advertising materials, brochures, mousepad, notebooks, and election material, election ephemera, and oversized corflute placards for members during various Australian federal elections.
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Papers of George Ogilvie, 1943-2006

2.4 metres (13 ms boxes + 1 medium folio box)

Papers of Rolf Hennequel, 1910-1970, 1910-1970

2.31 metres (2 packets + 15 ms boxes)
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MS 2923 comprises correspondence from 1959 to 1969 with writers, publishers and book collectors in Australia and overseas, especially with P.R. Stephensen, Dorothy Blewett, Rigby Graham and Philip Ward. There are proofs of most of the Wattle Grove Press publications between 1959 and 1965, as well as notes on philology and sociology and some earlier publications of Rolf Hennequel (15 boxes, 2 fol. items).
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Records of the Hotel Canberra, 1924-1972

0.67 metres (4 boxes, 20 folders, 3 folios)
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The collection relates to the management of the Hotel Canberra and includes hotel registers, printed notices, menus, balance sheets and a variety of financial records.

Papers of Warren Fahey, [ca. 1916-2002]

3.45 metres (15 boxes) + 4 cartons + 227 sound/av carriers
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MS Acc04.048 comprises correspondence, business files, contracts, press cuttings, photographs, leaflets, posters, magazines, programs, scripts and folklore collected by Fahey. Also, sound recordings, mostly from Larrikin Entertainment.

Papers of Peter Read, 1976-1998

3 metres (10 ms boxes + 2 map folios + 4 digital carriers + 3 sound/av carriers)
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The collection comprises three distinct parts. The first, being papers relating to Reid's biography of Charles Perkins, was donated in 1991. It consists of correspondence, press cuttings, contractual negotiations, photographic orders, reviews, photographs and drafts relating to the biography. The second part consists of papers relating to Long time, olden time.

Papers of Harry Gordon, 1854-2015

(29 ms boxes, 2 small folio-boxes, 4 medium folio-boxes, 4 large folio-boxes, 1 binder, 1 folder, 13 audio/audiovisual carriers, 15 digital carriers)
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MS Acc02.143 comprises copies of newspapers and journals, some signed, and publications containing articles by Harry Gordon; material relating to the history of journalism in Australia; correspondence, 1948-2000; speeches; material relating to Gordon's published works, including Dawn Fraser (1965) and The hard way: the story of Hawthorn Football Club (1990); media accreditations, press passes and programs; documents relating to Gordon's work on the Council of the Australian War Memorial and the Australian Olympic Committee; Olympic booklets and map of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Village showing streets named by Gordon; published lectures about journalism in Australia; and, a scrapbook maintained by Gordon's mother containing photographs, letters and press clippings.
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Records of the Australian Physiological Society, 1958-1985

(4 ms boxes + 1 folio item + 3 binders + 1 audiovisual carrier)
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This collection comrpises correspondence, photographs, draft constitutions for the Society, membership lists and meeting minutes. The photographs relate to the formation of the Society in 1960 and meetings into the mid-1970s. Correspondents include Nobel prize winner Sir John Eccles and Professor Peter Bishop, former director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University (ANU).