This is an artificial collection of records, publications, both printed and audiovisual, and memorabilia associated with the celebration of the University’s fiftieth anniversary in 1996. It was assembled by the Pro-Chancellor Pauline Griffin and Giles Pickford in the Public Affairs Division who were involved in organising the celebrations. The material has been boxed in acid-free document cases and each of these has been treated as an item.
The registers list students holding National Undergraduate Scholarships, Oriental Studies Scholarships (later Asian Studies), and Final Year Honours Scholarships and those who received payment as Undergraduate Assistants. The registers have been retained as a consolidated record of scholarship holders.
This series includes greetings from universities in the form of scrolls, leatherbound folders and documents, a register signed by representatives of other universities, the presentation copy of Lord Bruce’s honorary Doctor of Laws degree, and printed programs and briefing papers relating to the installation of Lord Bruce as the first Chancellor on 23 October 1952. There are also two scrolls from the University of Melbourne relating to their centenary in 1953.
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.
There are three files which relate to the recruitment of Sir Keith Hancock and Sir Howard Florey’s report on the John Curtin School of Medical Research. They contain confidential correspondence which was either removed or withheld from official files.
There are fifteen reels of microfilm of the plan registry. The first two reels have their own numbering system but the others use an annual single number to identify the plans of ANU buildings and landscaping projects.
Most of the papers are agenda and minutes of the Management Board, the Executive and various committees of the Union of which Refshauge was a member. There are also minutes of the Faculty of Arts Education Committee and papers relating to the Australian Union of Students.
The first seven folders consist of Crocker’s manuscript The United Nations No Solution which was progressively sent to him by the ANU Administrative Officer in the United Kingdom in 1951. There is also a note signed by Michael Lindsey forwarding the manuscript to another unknown person. The remaining folders are of ANU material such as seminar papers, circulars, notices and agenda papers sent to Crocker when he was Australia’s High Commissioner to India.
Correspondence, press cuttings, journal articles and reviews, unpublished verse, theatre programmes and poster, 1981; photograph and other documents; Thesis: Lyn Baer, In Between: Cultural Ambivalence in the Novels of John Kolia, 1982; audio recordings on cassette tape, duplicated typescripts, and publications.
Language maps, transcripts, 16 mm film reels re Pidgin dialogue, sound reel tapes re Gugadji language, departmental report, minutes, newsletters and material relating to Prof Stephen Wurm and Tom Dutton.
Issues for Dec 1914, Oct & Nov 1915 and Jul & Sep 1916 are held in S56 (Dalgety's Wool Review), being bound into the volume for 1915-1922 of that publication. Issues for the period Jan to Sep 1916 are also held in one bound volume.
Comprised of two sets of index cards. One is A-Z by surname of Council member. The second group of cards is arranged by categories of membership, such as Ex-Officio, Senator or Member of the House of Representatives, and Student Representatives
The collection has a strong emphasis on Papua New Guinea and Myanmar, but includes other countries - Thailand, Cambodia, China and Africa. Photographs of people, family groups, villages with some place names - Goilala, Baruni, Eastern Highlands, Kimbe.
Perth. A weekly record of pastoral, agricultural, commercial and general information. Official organ of the Great Southern Sheepbreeders Association from 27 May 1937
New York. Official organ of the National Maritime Union of America, AFL-CIO. To 11 May 1937 as ISU Pilot. Vol 13 No 24 - Vol 38 Election supplement held, with many gaps
North Richmond, Victoria. Published jointly by the New South Wales Teachers' Federation, Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association, Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria and the Australian Teachers' Federation
Sydney. Commonwealth Council Circulars published by Head Office Amalgamated Engineering Union (later Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union) for distribution to State Councils and Branches
Map shows plantations that existed on Taveuni in the 1890s and relates to Brookfield’s research for the publication – ‘Tavenui: land, population and production’, Canberra: Development Studies Centre, ANU for UNESCO, 1978.
The files relate to Professor Parker’s membership of the Board of the Institute for Advanced Studies and his administration of the Department of Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences. The files have been divided into two sequences on this basis as ANU or RSSS files. The files contain correspondence and memos, copies of minutes and comments by other staff on various proposals.
This deposit contains speeches, addresses and records of public commentay. It also contains decisions of Justice PR Munro as a single member, decisions of Full Benches of which Justice Paul Munro was a member. Documents relate to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, Australian Industrial Relations Commission, Industrial Relations Society, Australian Institute of Employment Rights and the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia. Other documents are personal. Justice Munro included in his donation information about the papers of Francis Norman Wellford (Norm) Ross that were donated to the Fryer Library at the University of Queensland.
The reel-to-reel audio tapes record the sessions of the international conference ‘Medical Practice and the Community’ held at the John Curtin School of Medical Research 26-30 August 1968. Among those who spoke at the conference were the Chancellor Dr HC Coombs and the Vice-Chancellor Professor JG Crawford.
The tapes are of four evenings of lectures: Professor Sir Ernest Titterton and Dr SM Hamberger (26 March – including morning radio interview), Professor Ted Ringwood and Professor GHJ Taylor (2 April), Professor SF Harris and Dr TB Millar (9 April) and Dr B Selinger and Professor S Kaneff (16 April).
A public affairs programme produced by the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University at the Instructional Resources Unit, ANU.
Published by the Eveleigh Loco Central Shop Committee, then, Eveleigh Workshops Central Shop Committee, then, Newsletter of the Combined Unions Shop Stewards, Eveleigh Loco. Good holdings for 1950s and 1960s,
Eveleigh Loco Combined Unions Shop Stewards' Committee
Sydney. Burns Philp International Staff Magazine. Gaps in holdings. Includes Food & Fermentation Division editions and Hardware editions. Also includes 'Group News 1980 - 1990 A decade in review' and 'Burns Philp 1883 - 1983 Centenary Issue Burns Philp Group News'
Sydney. Official organ of the Minority Movement. Australian Section of the Red International of Labor Unions. Became The Trade Union Leader from July 1935
Photocopy of the originals in the Archives Office of NSW. The Returns of the Colony ('Blue Books'), NRS 1286 consist of sets of statistical returns of the Colony of New South Wales and of areas under its jurisdiction compiled annually from 1822 to 1857 by the Colonial Secretary for transmission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies in London. New South Wales Census - 1851 held with 1853 volume.
Sydney. Published fortnightly by Printers News Pty Ltd. A service publication for printing and graphic arts - circulating throughout Australia. Official publication of the Printing and Allied Trades Employers Federation of Australia
Printing and Allied Trades Employers Association of New South Wales
3 unemployment-related newsletters: Unemployment News, pubilshed by Work for Today Coalition, Carlton, Vic (issues 4-6, 15 held for 1979); Unemployment Action, published by Melbourne Unemployment Action Group, Fitzroy, Vic (issue 1 + minutes held, 1978); Unemployment Broadsheet, published by the Brotherhood of St Laurence (8 issues held, 1978-1980)
Melbourne. Federal journal of the Building Construction Employees' and Builders' Labourers' Federation. Also included under this title is the WA journal "The B.L.", Winter 1988 - Mar 1991 (incomplete)
Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders' Labourers' Federation
A survey compiled from the press, radio and various publications. Compiled monthly. Holdings 1964 - 1978 (incomplete). Includes related title at S1091A
