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Series 4: Personal papers, 1920-1947

 

Item 62 Passport and visa
(i) issued 3 September 1940 (ii) issued 16 August 1920
Item 63 Identification card, Army, Film and Photographic Unit, 17 May 1945
Item 64 Identification card (civilian), British forces in Egypt, 1947
Item 65 British forces identification card, 1946
Item 66 Press card for the Anglo-Egyptian negotiations, 1946
Item 67 Press ticket
Press ticket to the military ceremony at Handing over of Cita del Barracks, 4 July 1946
Item 68 British Information Services, 'To whom it may concern'
24 August 1946. A reference for Frank Hurley to allow him to carry out his work.
Item 69 Certificate of pilgrimage to the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, 1 October 1945
Item 70 2 Letters
Manuscript letter (draft) from Hurley to Charles R. Martin (1 July 1944) and letter from Hurley to C. Martin concerning Martin and Hurley.
Item 71 2 Letters
Two letters to F. Hurley and one concerning him.
Item 71a 'The Lost Tribe'
American magazines, an album of cuttings (elephant folio)
Item 71b Negative index: State Electricity Commission of Victoria, taken at Yallourn and Kiewa, 1947
Item 71c Index to Tasmanian negatives, 1939
Item 71d Various
The tombs of Sakkara, by Mrs Quibell, 2nd revised edition (1925); A trip through Upper Galilee, by Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon (n.d.) containing a letter from J.B Glubb to Hurley; The sites of the crucifixion and the resurrection, by Ernest Tatham Richmond (1934); Notes on the ancient cities of Cyrenaica, by J.B. Ward Perkins 2nd ed. (n.d.); The great pyramids, by Alec C. Cury (n.d.) and Handbook of Cyrenaica, parts 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11.
Item 71e 'The Holy City: commentary for the film strip', by Frank Hurley (n.d.)
Item 71f Maps
Item 72 Exercise book containing revisions for the 4th printing of Australia
Item 73 Cradle of creation (folio)
Item 74 Diary 'C' on Papua New Guinea (see also Series 1, Item 8)
Item 75 Typescripts of 'Fruitgrowing in Tasmania'
Prepared by the Horticultural Division, Agricultural Dept. and 'Notes on the history of the hop industry in Tasmania', by Henry W. Shoobridge.
Item 75a Letter to Hurley from Director, Tasmanian Government Tourist and Immigration Department, 1947
Item 75b Handwritten note on the Great Barrier Reef
Item 76 Unveiling of the Cook statue at Hyde Park, Sydney, order of procession and program of proceedings, 1879, copy of the Thomson diary (part missing), 1854, miscellaneous letters and other papers.
Item 77 Three typed pages of Greek phrases translated into English and with biblical references.
Item 78 'The oldest Christian church in the world'
Three typescript pages relating to Hurley's negatives of Palestine in World War II and his book The Holy City: a camera study of the Holy City and its borderlands (1949).
Item 79 Handwritten draft and typescripts for 'Petra: story of the rose red city half as old as time, by Frank Hurley CBE'
Item 80 Manuscript notebook containing an index to negatives
Item 81-82 Two manuscript notebooks containing an index to photographs taken in South Australia
Item 83 Manuscript notebook containing an index to photographs taken in Western Australia
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