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Communist Party of Australia aggregated collection, ca. 1917-1992

Communist Party of Australia aggregated collection, ca. 1917-1992

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1Lj2R649

Communist Party of Australia aggregated collection, ca. 1917-1992

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Full title

Communist Party of Australia aggregated collection, ca. 1917-1992

Date

ca. 1917-1992

Record Identifier

1Lj2R649

Reference Code

826044
Physical Description

Contents

8 boxes textual material

140 boxes, 19 'X' items

16 sound tape reels, 5 sound cassettes, and 2 videotape reels

4 albums (192 photographic prints and 1 printed item)

1 box

4 metal forms

74 boxes and 3 outsize items

64 drawings

68 photographic prints

2 posters

1 banner

3 boxes textual material

1 folder textual material

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Fonds

Access and use

Access Conditions

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Scope and Contents

Contents

This aggregated collection comprises:

COLLECTION 01:
Communist Party of Australia, records, 1922-23, 1945-1967
Presented by L. Aarons, 1972

COLLECTION 02:
Communist Party of Australia records and pictorial material, ca. 1917-1987
Presented by Brian Aarons, 1987

COLLECTION 03:
Communist Party of Australia - fur...

Alternative Titles

Full title

Communist Party of Australia aggregated collection, ca. 1917-1992

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

Published information

See bibliographies in Communism in Australia : a resource bibliography / compiled by Beverley Symons with Andrew Wells and Stuart Macintyre([Canberra] : National Library of Australia, 1994), and Communism in Australia : a supplementary resource bibliography, c. 1994-2001 / compiled by Beverley Symons ; with the assistance of Stuart Macintyre ([Newt...

Contextual Information

Source

Presented by the Communist Party of Australia, 1972-2000

Administrative / Biographical history

The Communist Party of Australia was formed in 1920 and dissolved in 1991.

Among its media activities, the Party published Tribune, a weekly newspaper (1939 - 3 April 1991), and The Australian Left Review and a radio broadcast in New South Wales in the 1950s, “The Voice of the Countryside”.

As a legal political party, it contested st...

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Primary Identifiers

Record Identifier

1Lj2R649

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Reference code

826044

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