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Pacific History Records Room collection

  • AU ANUA 406
  • Series
  • 1792 - 1982

Printed material and copies of historical publications on the South Pacific, Micronesia, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Hawaii, Samoan Islands, Philippine Islands; copies of correspondence, photocopies of ship logs, maps, thesis material, administrative papers relating to the management of the Department of Pacific and South East Asian records room, and sound reel tapes of interviews relating to the Rorovana Land Crisis, Bougainville Island, 1969.

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

Richard Gilson Pacific Research papers on Samoa

  • AU ANUA 308
  • Series
  • 1830 - 1954

Research papers, drafts and notes on the Pacific Islands, with particular focus on the Cook Islands and Samoa relating to the publications Samoa 1830-1900, 1970 and The Cook Islands 1820-1950, 1980. Including material on Fiji, French Polynesia, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (Kiribati), Niue and PNG. Papers relating to the German Administration of Western Samoa, translated into English by Mrs Trudi Newbury, and collected by R.P. Gilson from Archives New Zealand.

Gilson, Richard

Early Australian maps

  • AU ANUA 289
  • Series
  • 1848 - 1947

This small collection of folded maps is attributed to Professor Spate who acquired them for the cartographic collection in the Department of Human Geography. Some are annotated with catalogue numbers. There is also a map of France and one of Lahore in India.

Spate, Oskar Hermann Khristian

Dorothy Crozier papers

  • AU ANUA 413
  • Series
  • 1872 - 1977

Research papers and essays on the Western Pacific, particularly Tonga and Fiji; correspondence, course, conference and teaching files, project and survey files, reports, Foreign Office confidential prints 1888-1890, British legislation concerning the Pacific Islands 1872-1953, archives administration files, WPHC shelf lists, inventories and calendars, publications and photographs.

Crozier, Dorothy Felice

Joy London papers

  • AU ANUA 702
  • Series
  • 1874 - 1983

Correspondence and other papers relating to Kioloa, the Edith and Joy London Foundation and ANU; historical material, ledgers, journals, newspaper cuttings, printed material, transcripts of tape recordings, photographs, microfilm reels and slides.

London, Joy

Papers relating to the Methodist Church in Papua New Guinea and Rev Threlfall’s research on Papua New Guinea

  • AU ANUA 305
  • Series
  • 1875 - 1985

Documents and research notes relating to the Methodist Church in Papua New Guinea and Reverend Threlfall’s research on Papua New Guinea.

Items 1 - 14 : Methodist Mission Papers: Minutes and reports of New Britain District Synods, 1896 to 1941; including Study Papers presented to the 1932 Synod.
Items 15 - 24 : United Church Papers: Minutes of the New Guinea Islands Regional Synod of the United Church of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, 1969, 1971-75 and 1979-82.
Items 25 - 40: Early Contacts and Settlements: Including extracts from New Bedford Whalers’ Logs notes from the memoirs of Eduoard Hernsheim, etc.
Items 41 - 78: German New Guinea: Official reports and other documents. Chinese settlers (Cahill, Wu).
Items 79 - 88: World War I. The Expropriation of German Properties (including Pat Hopper’s thesis, 'Kicking out the Hun').
Items 89 - 99: The Australian Mandated Territory, between World Wars 1 and 2.
Items 100 - 119: Extracts from Albert Hahl, 'Governor in New Guinea'. More notes from the between-wars period.
Items 120 - 129: Geological and volcanic history, especially the 1937 and 1941-43 eruptions.
Items 130 - 142: Post-WWII material; in particular land claims and disputes on the Gazelle Peninsula; Gazelle Peninsula/Rabaul. Problems over land & multi-racial Gazelle Peninsula Local Government Council, murder of District Commissioner Jack Emanuel, the trial and notes on the Tolai situation and the establishment of provincial government.
Items 143 - 172: Gazelle Peninsula/Rabaul and the problems over land and the multi-racial council.
Items 173 - 200: Pre World War 2 material: defence arrangements in Rabaul 1939 - 1941, the Japanese invasion in January 1942, personal memoirs, interviews from persons from 1910 - post World War 2.
Items 201 - 225: Chronology of prisoners' movements, civilians and soldiers, the Chinese in Chinatown until 1943.
Items 226 - 278: Methodist and United Church Papers, notes on New Britain/New Ireland from church papers in the PNG Collection, University of Papua New Guinea Library.

Threlfall, Neville A

William McGrath papers

  • AU ANUA 792
  • Series
  • 1880 - 2010

Documents relating to McGrath's work as a land consultant, particularly regarding regions in Micronesia.

McGrath, William Adrian

Ian Maddocks' Papua New Guinea research papers

  • AU ANUA 691
  • Series
  • 1880 - 2013

Material relating mostly to Pari and Pari Village Study but also Papua New Guinea in general, particularly health and medical services. Includes research papers, photographs, genetics data, genealogical charts and notes, correspondence, notebooks, clinical data print-outs, serials, audio tapes, video tapes, CDs, index cards and maps. Material relates mostly to health of Pari people and medical services but includes material relating to a wide variety of subjects including genealogy, genetics, geography, Pari Church, anthropology, language, education, legends and stories, history, children and culture. Also includes material relating to Hiri, Motu and Koita people. Includes material in Pari and Motu languages.

Maddocks, Ian

Charles Morris Woodford papers on the Solomon Islands and other Pacific countries

  • AU ANUA 481
  • Series
  • 1886 - 1918

The collection was compiled by Charles Morris Woodford, naturalist and First Resident Commissioner of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1896 - 1915. The collection includes diaries, photographs, correspondence, sketches and research notes related to the natural history, geography and ethnography of the Solomon Islands and other Pacific Islands from 1884 - 1915, as well as family papers and documents related to the administration of Solomon Islands Protectorate. There are documents about relations between the missionaries and the traders, matters associated with labour and the alienation of land, economic activity and tourism. The collection includes Woodford's 'Journal of a voyage from Suva Fiji to the Gilbert Group' from 4 March 1884 - 22 June 1884 ; Woodford's diaries from 1886 - 1889 ; 140 photographs taken on the voyage to and residence in the Solomon Islands in 1886 ; photographs of Rennell Island and inhabitants signed by Northcote Deck c1909. Of significance are ten large photographs of various scenes of the Solomon Islands, c1901, some published in The discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendana in 1568, by Lord Amherst of Hackney and Basil Thomson (1901).

ANUA 481 is a consolidated collection of all four parts of the Woodford donation:
ANUA 481/1 is a photograph album containing 140 photographs taken in from April - October 1886 ;
ANUA 481/1 - 282 are items from 'bundles 1 - 30' ;
ANUA 481/ 283 - 317 relate to the second donation (ie PMB 1381) ;
ANUA 481/318 - 322 and 324 - 327 are eight large format photographs c1884 ;
ANUA 481/323 is a presentation plaque given to Woodford in 1905 ;
ANUA 481/329 is a collection of 126 photographs [ie PMB Photo 58]

Woodford, Charles Morris

Photographs of Papua New Guinea

  • AU ANUA 334
  • Series
  • 1895 - 1905

Black and white photographs of New Guineans, plantation workers, missionaries and buildings in Daru, Port Moresby, and Goaribari Island in Papua New Guinea

Unknown

Papers of Gordon Thomas

  • AU ANUA 584
  • Series
  • 1900 - 2004

This collection of documents and images relating to Gordon Thomas's time in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea includes correspondence with the Department of External Territories regarding persons lost on the Montevideo Maru and proclamations from the Chief of the Japanese Army during the Japanese occuptaion of Rabaul. Photographs from the 1910s and 1930s are of people and places in German New Guinea.

Thomas, Edward Llewellyn Gordon

Literary papers and lectures

  • AU ANUA 108
  • Series
  • 1901 - 1961

This series includes original poems by LH Allen, translations from Latin, Greek and German into English, translations from English into Latin, lectures on English and Classical literature, and scrapbooks.

Allen, Leslie Holdsworth

Edward Adley Owen photographs

  • AU ANUA 571
  • Series
  • circa 1909- 1910

Photographs of Fiji from an employee of the Colonial Sugar Refinery at Labasa, Fiji, originally in two albums. Removed from the original albums for conservation purposes. Items 1-65 are photographs from a 'Postcard album' and most are printed to be postcards. Items 66-89 were in a separate photograph album.

Owen, Edward Adley

Adelaide Forestry School Postgraduate records

  • AU ANUA 539
  • Series
  • 1911 - 1943

Personal and career records of graduate foresters covering graduates from the Adelaide Forestry School, the Australian Forestry School and other forestry schools (mostly overseas). The information about foresters includes secondary and tertiary education, postgraduate research school, professional qualification details of employment and publications.

Australian Forestry School

Documents for the design competition for the Federal Capital City

  • AU ANUA 140
  • Series
  • 1911 - ?

This set of printed documents, drawings and maps is one of many distributed by the Commonwealth Government for the information of competitors in the Federal Capital Design Competition in 1911.

Department of Home Affairs

Federal Capital Design Competition material

  • AU ANUA 129
  • Series
  • 1911 - 1923

This collection consists of a bound volume of papers and glass lantern slides and negatives. The volume includes instructions to competitors in the 1911 Federal Capital Design Competition, the report of the Federal Capital Designs Board and other parliamentary papers relating to Walter Burley Griffin’s winning design, including correspondence relating to AJ Macdonald’s temporary transfer ‘to assist Mr Griffin’, and reports of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works on ‘Dams for Ornamental Waters – Canberra’ and the erection of the Provisional Parliament House, Canberra. The lantern slides are of AJ Macdonald’s entry (no. 9) in the Federal Capital Design Competition which was one of the 46 short-listed designs (see www.idealcity.org.au/competition-3-shortlist-46.html). The lantern slides (8 x 8 cm) are:
•Drawing 1, Map of Contour Survey of the Site
•Drawing 2, Perspective view overlooking the Administrative Centre
Two additional lantern slides labelled A and B relate to another project for a site south of the Flinders Street station in Melbourne. There are also two glass plate negatives (22 x 17 cm) of Drawings 1 and 2 with a label ‘AJ Macdonald’s design for Federal Capital, DW Crawford’s perspective view thereof’.

Macdonald, Alexander James

Plan of Canberra City and Environs

  • AU ANUA 138
  • Series
  • 1912 - ?

There are two versions of this plan of Walter Burley Griffin’s design for Canberra City which shows the proposed site for the National University. There is a negative of a lithograph (570 x 500mm) identified as 70/CAN/174A and printed copy (940 x 670mm) identified as 70/CAN/176. Griffin's design is overlain on a 1910 contour map provided to participants in the Federal Capital Design Competition.

Federal Capital Office

Ethel Tory papers

  • AU ANUA 139
  • Series
  • 1912 - 2003

This collection includes teaching materials, publications, material relating to the theatre and travel, as well as family photographs and objects, including items of academic dress.

Tory, Ethel Elizabeth

James Tedder Solomon Islands papers

  • AU ANUA 445
  • Series
  • 1912 - 2005

Solomon Islands files collected and/or collated by subject by James Tedder. The files include the following subjects, bird life, census, national parks, the Moro Movement, land use and issues, the Solomon Islands museum, the Solomon Islands library, local government, education and broadcasting. Also includes two photograph albums on the Solomon Islands.

Tedder, James L O

Division of Pacific and Asian History Library printed material

  • AU ANUA 400
  • Series
  • 1914 - 1983

Pacific and Asian History Library materials including governmental reports from Tonga, Western Samoa, Guam, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, New Zealand, East Timor and micronesia; parliamentary papers, proceedings, publications, printed material relating to Papua New Guinea.

ANU Division of Pacific and Asian History

Mount Stromlo Observatory papers and plans

  • AU ANUA 744
  • Series
  • 1915 - 2012

Includes correspondence, insurance papers, reports, financial papers, notebooks, photographs, slides, audio-visual material, publications, annual reports, visitor books, blueprints and architectural plans related to Mount Stromlo Observatory (and its predecessor the Commonwealth Solar Observatory. This includes blueprints and drawings related to the design and construction of various telescopes and equipment at the Mount Stromlo site. The collection includes a large number of records related to the 2003 fire which destroyed much of the observatory and the subsequent insurance claims.

Mount Stromlo Observatory

Australian School of Pacific Administration printed material

  • AU ANUA 409
  • Series
  • 1916 - 1979

Printed material including course materials, Territory of Papua New Guinea education curriculum and syllabus materials, school readers and magazines, research papers and other rare publications relating to education in Papua New Guinea.

Australian School of Pacific Administration

Solomon Islands languages collection

  • AU ANUA 449
  • Series
  • 1918 - 1996

The collection consists of manuscripts and old prints collected in Malaita by Fr Donatien Coicaud and Fr Christian Kamphuis. Includes Stories (Histoires) as language word lists, exercise books, prayer books, dictionaries, biblical material, and printed material.

Coicaud, Donatien

Frank Gosson's collection of photographs from the Astrolabe mineral field (the Laloki and Dubuna Copper Mines) Papua New Guinea

  • AU ANUA 450
  • Series
  • 1918 - 1924

1 album of 40 black and white photographs taken by a miner associated with the Astrolable mineral field and the Laloki and Dubuna Mines near Port Moresby. The photographs were taken between 1918 and 1924 and include images of mining operations, storage facilities and a tramway, staff housing for the New Guinea Copper Mine, as well as the general images of the landscape and everyday events, including Rouna Falls, Bootless Bay, farming, harvesting and ploughing, a coconut plantation at Bautama (Bootless Inlet) and a funeral procession.

Gosson, Francis John

Notes and extracts on international affairs and Victorian politics

  • AU ANUA 107
  • Series
  • 1950s

This series of binders contain typescript pages which may be a manuscript for a proposed publication on international affairs between 1919 and 1948. Each binder appears to contain material for a chapter with later binders including information on dates, notes on books, and transcripts of documents. Item 9 is missing. The last item consists of annotated typescript ‘confidential notes’ about Victorian politicians, public servants and newspapers.

Eggleston, Frederic William

Aerial and non standard photographs of ANU

  • AU ANUA 16
  • Series
  • 1920 - 1980

The photographs are mostly of the Australian National University campus, including Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring. There are aerial photographs of the Acton site at different times, and photographs of events and portraits. Many are mounted on board for display purposes.

Office of the Registrar

Helen Groger-Wurm papers

  • AU ANUA 260
  • Series
  • 1921 - 2005

Diaries, 1931-2002
Film and theatre albums, 1932-1990s
Personal papers, 1921-2001
Large format material, 1920s-1982
Correspondence, 1956-2005
University research material, 1940s-1950s
Maps
Research materials, 1950s-2000
MAGNT Aboriginal Art Collection, 1960s-1970s
National Museum of Australia catalogue, 1992
Sound recordings, 1960s
Indigenous photographs, 1950s-1960s
Photograph albums, 1923-2005
Slides, 1954-1970
Movie films, 1960-1974
Super 8 films, 1974-1988
Videos, 1990-2000
Obituaries and condolences (for SA Wurm), 2001-2002

Groger-Wurm, Helen

Joyce Fildes papers

  • AU ANUA 609
  • Series
  • 1921 - 2006

Includes theses, published articles, research notes and references, photographs, correspondence, and materials relating to her involvement with the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Australian Federation of Graduate Women, the establishment of the Joyce Fildes scholarship, and her investiture with a Medal of the Order of Australia.

Fildes, Joyce Eleanor

Papers of Arthur Braisby

  • AU ANUA 500
  • Series
  • 1922 - 1945

Correspondence, memoranda and report, evacuation lists, defence plans and notes.

Braisby, Arthur L

Dr Roy Scragg papers

  • AU ANUA 773
  • Series
  • 1922 - 2022

Includes government, scientific, and medical reports and papers relating to Dr Scragg's work, mostly in Papua New Guinea, the majority circa 1950-1970. Contains files on medical staff in PNG serving under Dr Scragg which may be restricted. One box of photographs.

Scragg, Roy

Sir Jack Crawford papers, photographs and awards

  • AU ANUA 17
  • Series
  • 1922 - 1986

The papers include addresses made by Crawford from 1933 to 1982, including the Buntine Oration in 1968 and the Sir Robert Garran Oration in 1969. There are medals, degrees and certificates presented to Crawford, and photographs, including albums relating to official overseas visits as Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Trade and later as adviser to the World Bank. There are also publications relating to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Some material relates to Crawford's family including personal papers and photographs.

Crawford, John Grenfell

Stephen Wurm papers

  • AU ANUA 233
  • Series
  • 1922 - 2001

Correspondence, 1949–1987
Administrative papers, RSPAS, 1970–1994
Language journals, 1939–1966
Turkic language research notes, 1940s
Language research papers: Papua New Guinea, 1950s–90s, Solomon Islands, 1950s–90s, Pacific languages, Australian languages, 1950s–90s, languages – general, 1950s–90s
Atlases and maps, 1932–1980s
Index cards
Language recordings, 1950s–1990s: Papua New Guinea, 1956–1970,
Australian Aboriginal, 1957–1964, Solomon Islands, 1965–1970
Conferences and seminars, 1965–1970
Published articles by SA Wurm, 1940–2000
Periodicals, 1935–1981
Personal documents, 1922–1988
Awards, 1967–1988
Academic gown and large format material
Maps, 1940–1975

Some correspondence is in German and other languages, and many research materials are in other languages and scripts including short-hand. Most language recordings have not been copied for reference; some are available through Paradisec (www.paradisec.org.au).

Wurm, Stephen Adolphe

Papers relating to population in the Pacific Islands

  • AU ANUA 309
  • Series
  • 1924 - 1967

Papers relate to McArthur’s work on population in the Pacific Islands, includes research notes and census data. Also includes copies of McArthur’s work 'Population of Pacific Islands' parts 1, 3, 6-9.

McArthur, Norma Ruth

Papers of Howard Florey

  • AU ANUA 84
  • Series
  • 1924 - 1968

These records were created by Florey during his association with the Australian National University as a member of the Academic Advisory Committee, adviser to the John Curtin School of Medical Research and Chancellor. They contain Florey’s copies of official records such as minutes of meetings and correspondence with other senior University staff from the 1940s to 1960s about the establishment of the University, new buildings and staff appointments.

Florey, Howard Walter

Richard van der Riet Woolley's correspondence files

  • AU ANUA 117
  • Series
  • 1925 - 1956

The correspondence files are organised into an alphanumeric subject system and cover addresses and visits by the Commonwealth Astronomer, visits to the Observatory, meetings of the Board of Visitors (Advisory Board) and annual reports. There are some staff files and photographs of observations, eg comets, on some files.

Woolley, Richard van der Riet

Correspondence files

  • AU ANUA 536
  • Series
  • 1925 - 1951

Correspondence files arranged in subject group areas. The subject groups are Ass. (Associations, Colleges, Universities), B. (Buildings), Cal. (School Calendar), Camps (School Camps), Club, Cur. (School Curriculum), Dip. (Diploma), Employment, Eq. (Equipment, Plant, Maps, Books, Photographs), Exam. (Examination papers and results), Exh. (Exhibits, Donations), Not. (Notices), Pol. (Policy), Pubs. (Publications), Public. (Publicity), Rep. (Reports), Sch. (Scholarships, Prizes), Soc. (Social - staff-student functions), Sport, Sta. Qld (State of Queensland), Sta. NSW (State of New South Wales), Sta. Vic. (State of Victoria), Sta. S.A. (State of South Australia), Sta. W.A. (State of Western Australia), Sta. Tas. (State of Tasmania), Sta. N.Z. (New Zealand), Sta. N.I. (Norfolk Island), Sta. Philippines, Sta. Burma (Burma), Stu. (Students).

Australian Forestry School

Photographic, teaching and administrative records

  • AU ANUA 543
  • Series
  • 1925 - 1967

This deposit comprises photographs and negatives relating to field studies, research and publications; glass lantern slides of trees and forests in ACT, NSW and overseas, c. 1950s; draft and roneoed lecture notes, correspondence and notes on field and laboratory exercises by N W Jolley, C E Lane Poole and M R Jacobs, 1941-45; publications and miscellaneous papers collected by M R Jacobs, 1939-1957; reports, calculations, plans and photographs relating to a long-term study of the Murray River Red Gum at Mathoura State Forest, New South Wales; files related to Malayan and Polish students, 1950-52;

Australian Forestry School

Enrolment and academic records

  • AU ANUA 542
  • Series
  • 1926 - 1964

Enrolment and academic records of students. Each entry has birth date and place, secondary education, tertiary qualifications, practical experience, forestry school exam results and year in which Diploma was awarded.

Australian Forestry School

Country subject files from the Division of Pacific and Asian History

  • AU ANUA 420
  • Series
  • 1926 - 1986

Contains subject files and newsletters on countries kept by the Division of Pacific and Asian History: Cook Islands, Fiji, Gilbert and Ellis Island, Indonesia, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Papua/New Guinea, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), New Zealand, Nauru, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tahiti. Includes research papers and notes, governmental papers, publications, newspaper clippings, school readers and Cook Islands photostats.

ANU Division of Pacific and Asian History

Photographic Zenith Tube (PZT) records

  • AU ANUA 641
  • Series
  • 1926 - 1985

The Australian National Time Service at Mount Stromlo Observatory engages in pure research and sends out time signals which are used for the correction of clocks and as a frequency standard for the determination of exact locations in geodetic and cartographic work, as well as for southern ocean navigation. The Time Service researches, primarily, into problems connected with the motions of the earth and their seasonal and occasional determination. The Photographic Zenith Tube (PZT) is an instrument that checks the time by astronomical means, recording the passages of stars close to the zenith. The PZT was brought into regular use at the Mount Stromlo Observatory from March/April 1957. The last plate observed was on 27 August 1985. The records in this series comprise PZT observing data, Positional Astronomy (National Time Service) day books, minutes of meetings, correspondence, subject files, as well as photographs, diagrams and drawings.

Commonwealth Solar Observatory

Awards, publications and papers of Frank Fenner

  • AU ANUA 234
  • Series
  • 1926 - 2005

The awards range from primary and high school medals, war service medals, imperial and Australian honours, university degrees and honorary degrees, and science awards, such as the Copley Medal. There is a signed copy of each of the books Fenner authored or edited and two photograph albums presented to him. There is also a small collection of papers and publications relating to the John Curtin School of Medical Research, the Research School of Biological Sciences and the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, which include original correspondence.

Fenner, Frank John

JJ Graneek papers and publications

  • AU ANUA 120
  • Series
  • 1926 - 1978

There are folders of draft papers and lectures, some correspondence, photographs, a copy of Graneek’s Master of Arts thesis and a book prize presented to him in 1926.

Graneek, Jacob Jack

Australian Forestry School papers, photographs and publications

  • AU ANUA 137
  • Series
  • 1926 - 2001

This collection of records includes minutes of the AFS Student Mess and later Student Union, material about student clubs and sports teams, yearbooks, calendars, newsletters and photographs. Many of the photographs were donated at the time of the 2000 ... »reunion of students and have been sorted into annual folders. There are also three large albums and several folders of unidentified photographs

Australian Forestry School

Allan Flinders Gow collection

  • AU ANUA 634
  • Series
  • 1927 - 1997

Personal records of Gow's life in Papua New Guinea including paper files, film (8mm, 9.5mm and 35mm), photographs and slides, transparencies, paintings and ephemera. Also includes family records. Description of film reels are based on frames at the beginning of each reel and not indicative of the entire content of the film.

Gow, Allan Flinders

Student vacation reports

  • AU ANUA 540
  • Series
  • 1927 - 1960

Reports from students on field studies taken while on vacation employment. Includes reports on particular forests, overseas trips by prize-winning students, maps, diagrams and photographs.

Australian Forestry School

Arthur Burns papers

  • AU ANUA 758
  • Series
  • 1927 - 1991

Correspondence, published and unpublished papers by Arthur Burns, papers by others

Burns, Arthur Lee

School flag

  • AU ANUA 541
  • Series
  • 1927

The flag has a white or bone background, green border, emblematic tree, and motto: mihi cura futuri, and the fabric shows signs of wear and tear. The flag was designed and made by Ruth Lane Poole.

Australian Forestry School

Commonwealth Solar Observatory correspondence

  • AU ANUA 441
  • Series
  • 1927 - 1952

General correspondence files concerning instruments, optical munitions, war research and overseas visits.

Commonwealth Solar Observatory

Summaries of ethnic newspapers

  • AU ANUA 471
  • Series
  • 1927 - 1984

The summaries are translations into English of articles appearing in ethnic newspapers published in Australia. There are three runs: the 1927-1939 set are from the Italo-Australian Weekly Journal only (item 1), those from mainly 1964 are from newspapers in European languages (items 2-18), and those from 1982-1984 are in European, Arabic and Asian languages (items 19-44). The 1982-1984 set were sent weekly from the Department of Immigration to the Sociology Department in The Faculties at the Australian National University and were then sent on to the Demography Department in the Research School of Social Sciences.

ANU Department of Demography

Records of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory (Mt Stromlo) and Kurt Gottlieb

  • AU ANUA 615
  • Series
  • 1929 - 2000

Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, articles, photographs and blueprints related to the Commonwealth Solar Observatory (Mt Stromlo Observatory) and the work of Kurt Gottlieb. This includes the design and construction of various telescopes at the Mt Stromlo site, work on optical munitions and site testing and development of the Siding Spring Observatory. The collection includes a large number of photographs of Mt Stromlo equipment, buildings and staff and a large number of blueprints for telescopes, equipment and buildings.

Gottlieb, Kurt

Correspondence files, multiple number series

  • AU ANUA 53
  • Series
  • 1930 - 2000

This was the main ANU correspondence file series from 1950 to 2000, usually known as ‘Central Files’. It contains some earlier material top-numbered from the first ANU file series (ANUA 18) as well as many files of the Canberra University College (ANUA 42) from 1930 to 1960. These files were incorporated in the series by the former Registrar of the Canberra University College Thomas Owen. The files were originally controlled by a card index and file register – the information contained in these was transferred to a computerised keyword index in 1975 and in 2006 to the current Central Records System. The multiple numbers consist of a primary subject often representing a Research School, Faculty or other organisational unit, a secondary number representing a function and then the next sequential number allocated to a particular file. The primary numbers (not all have extant files) are:

  1. Vice-Chancellor’s correspondence
  2. Legislation and policy
  3. Council and Committees
  4. Administrative matters (including staff organisation)
  5. Scholars and scholarships
  6. Research School of Pacific (and Asian) Studies
  7. John Curtin School of Medical Research
  8. Research School of Physical Sciences
  9. Research School of Social Sciences
  10. Visitors, visits, conferences and seminars
  11. Library
  12. Buildings
  13. Research School of Chemistry
  14. Other organisations (including Canberra University College 14.1.0)
  15. Staff activities
  16. University House
  17. Research students
  18. Ceremonies and historic occasions
  19. Joint ventures (Institute and School)
  20. School of General Studies (see also 30–44)
  21. Research School of Biological Sciences
  22. Research School of Earth Sciences
  23. Management Services Group
  24. Research School of Mechanical Sciences (proposed)
  25. Health research
  26. Centre for Resource and Environment Studies
  27. Humanities Research Centre
  28. Office for Research in Academic Methods
  29. Social Psychiatry Research Unit
  30. School of General Studies – scholarships
  31. School of General Studies – Faculty of Arts
  32. School of General Studies – proposed faculties
  33. School of General Studies – Faculty of Economics
  34. School of General Studies – Faculty of Asian Studies
  35. School of General Studies – Faculty of Law
  36. School of General Studies – student matters
  37. School of General Studies – business matters
  38. School of General Studies – halls of residence
  39. School of General Studies – committees and boards
  40. School of General Studies – research grants
  41. School of General Studies – curriculum
  42. School of General Studies – staffing
  43. School of General Studies – general
  44. School of General Studies – Faculty of Science
  45. Freedom of Information
  46. – 49. Not used
  47. Triennial planning
  48. Policy studies
  49. Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering
  50. Institute of the Arts
  51. Faculty of Medicine (proposed)
    Many personnel files were raised in this series either under the general ‘4.2 Staff appointments’ or under the secondary ‘staff’ function of particular organisational units. These files are controlled in a separate series of staff files (ANUA 19) from several different series. This series was superseded by an annual single number series in 2000 (ANUA 239).

Office of the Registrar

Professor DA Low correspondence

  • AU ANUA 619
  • Series
  • 1930s - 2011

This series is not processed yet but contains both official and personal correspondence, addresses, articles and other material from the 1930s onwards including material relating to Haileybury School, Oxford University, Makerere University College in Uganda, the University of Sussex, the Australian National University, and the University of Cambridge. The material is organised in rough chronological order with the first box covering 1930s to 1960s, the second 1959-1970, the third 1965-1975, the fourth the 1980s, the fifth 1982-1991, the sixth 1991-1994, the seventh 1992-1996, the eighth 1997-2000 and the ninth 2001-2011. Box 10 contains offprints of articles and reviews of publications and box 11 contains a manuscript for 'Kingdoms on the Equator 1862 - 1902'.

Low, Donald Anthony

Posters from the Vietnam War

  • AU ANUA 669
  • Series
  • 1930s - 1990s

Vietnam War; Vietnamese Art

These posters, calendars and artworks were collected over the course of David Marr’s career. There are a mix of prints and originals from the 1930s to the mid 1990s. They largely focus on the Indochina Wars - particularlry the Vietnam War - and the politics of Vietnam during that time but the series also includes art and folk art not specifically related to these topics as well as material focusing on Laos, Cambodia and other regions. The perspectives of the material is mixed, work coming from North and South Vietnam, Europe (mostly France and Russia), Australia and The United States. The series contains examples of propaganda, fine art, children’s art, promotional material for private, not-for-profit and academic organisations and events, educational material, work related to charity and foreign-aid and material discussing war crimes.

Some material in this collection contains accounts of torture and images of injuries.

Marr, David George

Canberra University College annual report master set

  • AU ANUA 58
  • Series
  • 1930 - 1960

This is a photocopied set of Annual Reports for the Canberra University College, copied from parliamentary papers and other sources. The 1937 and 1938 reports which were missing are draft reports and were copied from the CS Daley papers (National Archives: CP487/1, item 14).

Canberra University College

Canberra University College and ANU Library accession registers

  • AU ANUA 125
  • Series
  • 1930 - 1974

The registers record all accessions of books to the Canberra University College Library and from 1960, to the ANU Library. Details recorded include: title, author, publisher, and when received. The D prefix in item 1 refers to books related to the course in Diplomatic Studies. The G prefix refers to Gifts – the donor’s name is also recorded. The microfiche are of a card catalogue which continued the earlier accession registers.

Canberra University College

Canberra University College calendars

  • AU ANUA 229
  • Series
  • 1930 - 1960

These books were printed annually for the year ahead and include information about the College including a calendar of dates, members of the Council and committees, members of staff, legislation affecting the College, information about prerequisites, enrolment, assessment, fees, and courses offered (such as syllabus, number of lectures and tutorials, and recommended reading). They also include a list of graduates, current students, scholarships and prizes (including past winners). This is a complete set from the first edition in 1930-1931 to 1960.

Canberra University College

Peter Sack land court decisions in Papua New Guinea

  • AU ANUA 385
  • Series
  • 1930 - 1974

Copies of judgements from the Land Titles Commission, Native Land Commission and New Guinea Central Court relating to Dr Sack’s work on land tenure in Papua New Guinea. Includes copies of transcripts of evidence before the Land Titles Commission on the matter of DA1 and DA 180 [Items 1-25]; copies of judgements of the Central Court of New Guinea (became the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Guinea in 1934) [Items 26-33]; copies of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea - Papua New Guinea Law Reports (PNGLR); copies of Unreported Judgements - PNG Central Court, PNG Supreme Court and PNG National Courts, and background notes.

Sack, Peter Georg

Correspondence files

  • AU ANUA 42
  • Series
  • 1930 - 1961

This is the main correspondence file series of the Canberra University College before it amalgamated with the Australian National University in 1960. Most of the files were top-numbered into the ANU multiple number Central Files series (ANUA 53) or destroyed. The remnant of the series are files relating to housing assistance to staff members and staff files.

Canberra University College

Canberra University College Council minutes

  • AU ANUA 133
  • Series
  • 1930 - 1960

These are leather-bound volumes of the original signed minutes of the Council. Agenda papers such as reports from committees are also included.

Canberra University College

Student record cards

  • AU ANUA 97
  • Series
  • 1932 - 1990

The cards relate to undergraduate students at the Canberra University College from 1932, and from 1960 to undergraduate and Masters degree students in the School of General Studies (from 1980, The Faculties) at the Australian National University. This summary indicates the relevant box numbers:

CUC student record cards, 1952–1960, 1–4
ANU ‘Non-Current’ Student Record Sheets, arranged by Faculty, students enrolled 1961–62 but course not completed, 5
ANU ‘Completed’ Student Record Sheets, 1962–1964, 5
ANU ‘Non current’ Student Record Sheets, arranged by Faculty, students enrolled 1962–63 but course not completed, 5–6
ANU ‘Higher Degree’ Record Sheets, two alphabetical runs for Masters’ degrees, completed and not-completed, 1960s, 6
CUC Matriculation Roll – lists of those who signed the roll, 1951–1957, 7
CUC Student record cards ‘1957 and previous years’ (blue), [1932]–1957, 7–8
ANU Course cards Arts A–Z (orange), 1960–1963, 9
ANU Discipline (white), 1960s, 9
CUC University Entrance for Adults – special English test (blue), 1950s, 9
ANU Masters of Arts/Economics/Science, 1961, 9
ANU Course cards Arts A–Z (blue), 1961–1963, 9–10
ANU Course cards Law A–Z (cream), 1961–1963, 10
ANU Course cards Science A–Z (green), 1961–1963, 10
ANU Course cards Economics A–Z (yellow), 1961–1963, 11
ANU Course cards Oriental Studies A–Z (pink), 1961–1963, 11
ANU Student Record Cards ‘non-current’ students who did not complete their course, 1960s to 1990s, 12–42
ANU ‘Graduates’ Student Record Cards, students who graduated 1960s to 1990s, 42–69

Canberra University College

Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme student files

  • AU ANUA 425
  • Series
  • 1932 - 1955

Post-war reconstruction training files of Canberra University College students. Files contain correspondence and a small number of files include photographs.

Canberra University College

Honorary Doctor of Literature degree

  • AU ANUA 64
  • Series
  • 1933

The honorary Doctor of Literature degree was awarded to Mary Anne Hutton by the National University of Ireland on 26 October 1933. It is believed to have been awarded in recognition for her contribution to Irish scholarship through her translation of the Tain Bo Cuailgne (The Tain). The degree is held in its original leather scroll case and was transferred to the Archives with similar scroll cases containing greetings on the installation of the first Chancellor. The scroll case also contains a single-page highly-decorated manuscript of unknown origin, which includes the Paternoster, Ave Maria and Gloria Patri.

Hutton, Mary Anne

Prometheus master set

  • AU ANUA 66
  • Series
  • 1933 - 1958

This annual (but intermittent) literary magazine of the Students’ Association includes articles, poetry, prose and reviews by staff and students, as well as advertisements from mostly local businesses. Issues up till 1958 were published by the Canberra University College Student’s Association and from 1966 by the ANU Students’ Association. No issues were published in the periods 1942–1948, 1951–1955, and 1959–1965.

Canberra University College Students' Association

Eric Fry papers

  • AU ANUA 238
  • Series
  • 1936 - 2004

The papers range from school and university awards and photographs, to research notes and lectures over a thirty-year teaching career. There are also drafts of unpublished books, draft chapters of the book 'Tale of Two Trippers' (Items 22-33), and correspondence with colleagues and students. Includes cassette tapes of lectures (Items 111-114), research papers on Monty Miller (Items 117-126), lectures and research material for a book on Australian history 1949-72 (Items 127-147), draft history of the Australian National University (Items 148-160), ANU PhD bonnet and gown.

Fry, Eric Charles

Wes Whitten papers

  • AU ANUA 468
  • Series
  • 1936 - 2007

Papers relating to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) including transcripts of interviews for the Inquiry into the Use of Pituitary Derived Hormones in Australia and CJD (1993-1997) and other animal studies, correspondence, transcripts, reports and submissions, publications, arbitration material, medical records, working diaries, obituaries, CV and press cuttings. Items 137-175 contain APQ legal documents, and mainly transcripts of interviews for the Inquiry into the Use of Pituitary Derived Hormones in Australia and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (referred to here as the CJD Inquiry).

Whitten, Wesley Kingston

ANU Department of Applied Mathematics papers and publications

  • AU ANUA 224
  • Series
  • 1937 - 2001

The series includes Cambridge lecture notes and thesis, correspondence and minutes from the Department of Applied Mathematics, material relating to the Yerkes Observatory, photographs of staff, glass plates of astronomical observations, and reprints of articles by Archibald Brown, notes for articles published in physics and mathematical journals. There are also several books in French, German and English.

ANU Department of Applied Mathematics, School of General Studies

Les Groube papers

  • AU ANUA 769
  • Series
  • 1938 - 2018

Groube, Leslie Montague

Papers of Laurence Fitzhardinge

  • AU ANUA 83
  • Series
  • 1938 - 1971

This collection of papers includes correspondence with colleagues in other universities, correspondence about the archival profession, Research School of Social Sciences seminar papers, and papers relating to association of the ANU and Canberra University College. There are also records documenting Fitzhardinge's research for his biography of Prime Minister William Morris Hughes.

Fitzhardinge, Laurence Frederic

Papers of Ernest Spinner

  • AU ANUA 265
  • Series
  • 1939 - 2007

Series description incomplete

Spinner, Ernest

Heinz Arndt papers

  • AU ANUA 80
  • Series
  • 1939 - 2002

The folders of reprints were maintained by Arndt but are not comprehensive as he was a prolific writer and wrote for many journals and newspapers on subjects ranging from economics to defence to immigration to development, diplomacy and regional affairs including Indonesia, Malaysia, Timor and the Pacific, to wages and employment, money, banking, monetary theory, the balance of payments, protection, aid, and macroeconomic policy. The folders are mostly chronological with a gap from 1991 to 1993. There are separate folders for Quadrant and translations, and there is also a manuscript for a book. Item 19 is a folder containing notices of meetings and papers relating to the Economic League for European Co-operation with correspondence addressed to Arndt.

Arndt, Heinz Wolfgang

Memoirs of Samuel Schumack

  • AU ANUA 128
  • Series
  • 1939 - 1941

This is a typescript version of Shumack’s memoirs which relate to the early days of Canberra. He lived at ‘Duntroon’ from 1856 and then at ‘Springvale’ in Weetangera from 1866 to 1940. There is additional material such as obituaries, copies of death notices and letters at the back of the volume relating to Shumack, other family members and John Gale (1831–1929), Queanbeyan journalist.

Shumack, Samuel

Marie Reay anthropology collection

  • AU ANUA 440
  • Series
  • 1940 - 2006

Research papers and notes on PNG elections, Kuma, Aboriginal Australians and gender relations; fieldwork notebooks, correspondence, draft manuscripts and completed MA thesis, sketches of kinship diagrams, reports and publications, financial records, newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, sound cassettes and reel tapes. Includes material from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS).

Reay, Marie Olive

Brian J. Egloff papers

  • AU ANUA ANUA 729
  • Series
  • 1940 - 2023

Contains items related to: Egloff's thesis research, excavation at Wanigela, Collingwood Bay and Trobiand Island research notes, Northern District research notes, Goodenough Island research notes (with Peter Lauer), Ubir language materials, Rainu kinship studies; papers related to the Tam Ting Caves, Laos (conservation project); and a collection of papers relating to Egloff's tenure at the Papua New Guinea Museum and Art Gallery.

Egloff, Brian J.

Reverend Harry T. Williams, Megalithic art structures found on Normandy Island, Papua.

  • AU ANUA 606
  • Series
  • c1940

Reverend Henry Williams was a Methodist Missionary on Normandy Island 1930 - 1945. In December 1940, during a pastoral and medical patrol to Sewa Bay, the inhabitants spoke of strange stones with unusual markings, which prompted Reverend Williams to record the site and conduct further research. The paper is in three parts, with varying contents including: Introduction ; The site of the stones ; General observations on the site ; The story of the stones ; A curious cave terminal ; The engravers and their tools ; Features in the designs ; The builders from whence? ; Primitive engravers. Includes text, maps, plates and hand-drawn illustrations.

Williams, Harry T

Report on coastwatching activity on Bougainville Island 1941 - 1943

  • AU ANUA 601
  • Series
  • 1941 - 1943

Photocopy of original transcript, Parts I-XI and appendices A-L, includes detailed contents list, 148pp. Part 1 Introduction: Australian administration in the northern (mandated) Solomons on the outbreak of war with Japan ; Part 2: The evacuation of Kieta - Read takes over civil administration - The Japanese bomb Buka Passage and Kieta ; Part 3: The Japanese invasion ; Part 4: Awaiting allied offensive ; Part 5: American attack in Solomons ; Part 6: Victory in Guadalcanal ; Part 7: Suspension of coastwatching on Bougainville Island ; Part 8: Evacuation ; Part 9: Recommendations ; Part 10: Techniques of coastwatching ; Part 11: Miscellaneous

Read, William John (Jack)

Papua New Guinea aerial photographs

  • AU ANUA 502
  • Series
  • 1942 - 1973

Aerial photographs of the Rabaul area, Papua New Guinea, including Sortie Works, defence areas, forests, Keravat, Kokopo, and Ataliklikun Bay.

Granger, Ken

Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association collection

  • AU ANUA 487
  • Series
  • c. 1942 - 1974

Press clippings from Hawaiian and other US press on the Pacific Islands, articles and reports. The files are arranged by the following subjects: American Samoa, American Polynesia, Anglo-American Rivalry for Pacific Islands, Arno Atoll (Marshall Islands), the Bounty and genetics, Canton Island and Enderbury Island, Caroline Island, Christmas Island, Clipperton Island, Easter Island, Falcon Island, Fanning Island, Fiji, French Polynesia (Tahiti, Marquesas, Tuamotus, Australs), Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Guam, Hawaii, Hoorn Islands, Howland Island, Hull Island, Japanese Mandate Islands, Jarvis, Howland and Baker Islands, Johnston Island, Kapingamarangi Atoll, Kingman Reef, Lord Howe Island, Mangareva, Mariannas Island, Marquesas Islands, Marshall Islands (Kwajalein Island), Michener and the Pacific, Micronesia, Midway Island, Nauru and Ocean Island, New Caledonia, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), New Zealand, Palau, Palmyra Island, Papua New Guinea, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Pitcairn Island, Ponape, Rose Island, Saipan and Tinian, Solomon Islands, Swains Island, Tonga, Torres Strait, US Trust Territory, Vostok Island, Wake Island, Washington Island, Western Samoa, World War II. Also loose press cuttings on Micronesia Independence, nuclear testing and strategic policy.

Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association

Published papers of ANU staff

  • AU ANUA 90
  • Series
  • 1942 - 1981

This is a collection of folders containing published papers, usually off-prints, written by academic staff of the University.

University Library

Janet Crawford papers

  • AU ANUA 467
  • Series
  • 1943 - 1978

Certificates, medals, family photographs, printed material and correspondence. Includes a slide collection.

Crawford, Janet Elspeth

Papers on the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the Seychelles

  • AU ANUA 368
  • Series
  • 1943 - 1992

Contains research papers, academic articles, speeches, diaries, correspondence and government publications on the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the Seychelles. Papers re general Pacific Islands matters, including Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand and the South Pacific Commission, constitutional development, and press cuttings. The collection was compiled by Allan during his time as an administrator in these Islands and as a researcher.

Allan, Colin Hamilton

Subject files of correspondence and reports

  • AU ANUA 45
  • Series
  • 1943 – 1981

These files appear to have been assembled for the ANU History Project as early original and duplicated correspondence and reports have been placed in more recent ANU file covers.

ANU History Project

Dorothy Cameron Papers

  • AU ANUA 264
  • Series
  • 1943 - 2004

Processing of this series is not completed.

Cameron, Dorothy Olive

Pauline Griffin papers

  • AU ANUA 352
  • Series
  • 1944 - 2009

The papers cover many aspects of Ms Griffin’s career as a social worker and personnel manager, and later as an industrial relations commissioner and ANU Pro-Chancellor and member of the ANU Council. They include correspondence, speeches, reports, photographs and two audiotapes of presentations.

Griffin, Pauline Marcus

Papers of Noel Dunbar

  • AU ANUA 36
  • Series
  • 1944 - 2006

The papers include notes and theses on Physics and correspondence with other physicists, travel diaries, appointment diaries as Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the Australian National University, correspondence relating to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, correspondence and other papers as Chairman of the Universities Council of the Tertiary Education Commission, invitations, cassette tapes of his ANU farewell function, a radio interview and an address by Lord Rutherford, photographs of ANU buildings, functions and staff, and personal correspondence with ANU staff and professional contacts.

Dunbar, David Noel Ferguson

Research material on immigration

  • AU ANUA 394
  • Series
  • 1944 - 1979

The research material consists of speeches, articles, statistics and reports, many gathered when Hawkins worked in the Department of Immigration as a research officer. There is a copy of Hawkin's draft Masters thesis on immigration policy and practice, 1942-1949.

Hawkins, Len

Bryant Allen collection

  • AU ANUA 777
  • Series
  • 1944 - 2022

Unprocessed. Awaiting final survey by Bryant Allen.

Allen, Bryant

Alan Ward research papers on Pacific Island land matters

  • AU ANUA 272
  • Series
  • 1945 - 1997

Almost half of this record group is concerned with PNG. These papers were gathered when Ward was Lecturer in History at the University of Papua New Guinea and adviser to the Land Evaluation and Demarcation Project Study (LEAD). The collection includes correspondence, notes, articles and papers, draft legislation and press cuttings.

A small portion of these papers relate to politics and land matters in Australia, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Africa, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Banaba, French Polynesia and Guadeloupe.

The remainder of the documents are mainly concerned with New Caledonia between 1947 and 1990 and were assembled by Ward at La Trobe University, Melbourne, through the 1980s, particularly during the years of political uncertainty in the French Territory from 1984 to 1990

Ward, Alan Dudley

Binder of library training material

  • AU ANUA 390
  • Series
  • 1945 - 1948

The binder contains handwritten notes of lectures (by Harold White, CL Drake and others) and summaries of reference books relating to library classification (including the Bliss system), reference work and book production. It appears that the material was used and added to for training purposes within the ANU Library.

Woolcock, Maude Joan

Album of promotional photographs of the Australian National University

  • AU ANUA 13
  • Series
  • 1945 - 1950

There are four copies of the album: one appears to be a file copy as it includes a list of photograph numbers in the back. Another is annotated to say that it was used in the London Office 1949-1952 (approx.). It is likely that the albums were compiled to show prospective staff members the facilities available at the University and in Canberra, as there are photographs of buildings, homes, churches, schools and recreational facilities. The 41 black and white photographs were taken by the Commonwealth Department of Information and are endorsed with a single number with L prefix so are closely related to a National Archives' series of photographs (CRS A1200).

Office of the Registrar

Charles Price papers on immigration and demography

  • AU ANUA 72
  • Series
  • 1945 - 2000

This collection relates primarily to Dr Price’s work in the Department of Demography from 1952 to 1985. It includes correspondence files, research files, statistical compilations, computer printouts, index cards to research materials, press cuttings, publications and copies of lectures and articles. There are files relating to Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs projects and to Price’s membership of the National Population Council, the Immigration Advisory Council, the Good Neighbour Council ACT, the Australian Council of Churches’ Refugee Advisory Council, and the Burgmann College Council, and some departmental administrative files.

Price, Charles Archibald

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