Scrapbooks. ca. 1854-1932.

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Scrapbooks. ca. 1854-1932.

Contains press cuttings, letters, postcards, photographs and ephemera relating to Federation, to his family and to general subjects. Includes material by or concerning C.E.W. Bean, Kenneth Binns, General W.R. Birdwood, Paul de Castella, R.H. Croll, A.W. Crowe, C.J. Dennis, Theodore Fink, C. Web Gilbert, Sir Littleton Groom, Mrs Aeneas Gunn, Harold Herbert, C.W. Janssen, Fred Johns, David Low, members of the Roberts family, especially his son Francis William Roberts, Percival Serle, John Shirlow, Nathan Spielvogel and Frank Tate, as well as a number of places and organisations with which Roberts was associated.

127 v. (12.6 m.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7037211

Libraries Australia

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Johns, Fred, 1868-1932

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Migrating to Adelaide in 1884, Fred Johns joined the literary staff of The Register in 1885, and from 1914 was Chief of the Hansard Staff in South Australia. He edited The Navy Messenger (Adelaide, 1921-1923) for the SA Branch of the Navy League. Although Johns published a book of original verse and the collection Journalist's Jottings in the 1920s, he is best known for his biographical research. He compiled a volume of biographies of contemporary Australians, Johns' Notable Australians (1906) w...

Gunn, Jeannie, 1870-1961

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Author of We of the Never Never. From the description of Manuscripts and correspondence [manuscript]. [19--] (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225632986 Mrs Aeneas Gunn was an Australian writer, basing her works on her experiences on an outback station. Her works include 'We of the Never-Never', and 'The little black princess of the Never-Never'. From the description of Letters : Melbourne, to Mr. and Mrs F.A. Lane [manuscript]. 1937-1961. (Libraries Aus...

Shirlow, John, 1869-1936

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Dennis, C. J. (Clarence James), 1876-1938

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C.J. Dennis, poet, short-story writer and journalist, author of The songs of a sentimental bloke (1915). From the description of A Love song [manuscript]. 1916. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225825151 ...

Roberts, Francis William, d. 1918.

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F. W. Roberts was killed in action, 1 Sep. 1918. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225765379 ...

Roberts, John Garibaldi.

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John Garibaldi Roberts was born at Italian Gully, Vic. in 1860. He attended school in Scarsdale and Cape Clear and moved to Ballarat in 1877. In 1885, he joined the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company, was appointed manager of the cable system at the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board in 1920, and retired in 1923. An avid reader, book collector and theatregoer, he entertained literary and artistic friends at his weekend retreat in Kallista, Vic. He died in 1933. From the des...

Gilbert, C. Web

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Croll, R. H. (Robert Henderson), 1869-1947

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Australian author. From the description of Papers, 1926-1934. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 24561210 Poet and journalist. The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke was published in 1915 and was an immediate success. From the description of Collection of C.J. Dennis manuscripts [manuscripts]. 1913-1931. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225644682 Robert Henderson Croll was a Melbourne public servant and part-time journalist. He was active...