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Cover of the National Library of Australia News August 2005 with a black and white photograph of Mrs Street is greeted by a storm of applause on her arrival at a dinner given in her honour by the United Associations of Women From the Jessie Street Papers (1889–1970). Manuscript Collection, MS 2683/11/11
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Mrs Street is greeted by a storm of applause on her arrival at a dinner given in her honour by the United Associations of Women
From the Jessie Street Papers (1889–1970)
Manuscript Collection, MS 2683/11/11

 
Jessie Street founded the United Associations of Women in 1929 and held the office of president from its inception until 1942. As a feminist campaigner, political activist, and a persistent representative on behalf of the underprivileged in Australia and abroad, Jessie Street made a valuable and enduring contribution to the development of human rights in the 20th century. Her papers in the National Library’s Manuscript Collection (MS 2683) provide evidence of an extraordinary life (see article).

August 2005 Volume XV Number 11

THE LEGACY OF JESSIE STREET

 

Lenore Coltheart researches the papers of the indefatigable Jessie Street and reveals an exceptional woman of diverse activity and influence

JOHN BUCKLAND AND HIS TRAINS
  Bob Parker recalls the life and work of railway enthusiast John Buckland through his examination of the photographs, papers and books that form the Buckland Collection
IMMIGRATION MINISTERS IN MANUSCRIPTS
 

In the second instalment on Australia’s Immigration Ministers, Barry York looks at the Manuscript Collection

‘THE MIRACLE AT BIRDSVILLE’
 

Judith McKay salutes the end of an era for one of Australia’s remotest communities

PHOTOGRAPHY SPEAKS: IMAGES TELLING TALES

Curator Kate Rhodes introduces the forthcoming touring exhibition Good Looking: Narrative Photographs Past and Present, from the National Gallery of Victoria

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