James Oswald Fairfax personal and business archive, compiled ca. 1944-2016
James Oswald Fairfax personal and business archive, compiled ca. 1944-2016
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compiled ca. 1944-2016
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42.5 metres of textual material (98 boxes and 52 outsize boxes), some files contain photographs and ephemera items
Approximately 90,000 photographic prints (248 volumes and 2 boxes)
Approximately 1,656 slides (12 boxes and 1 folder)
3 transparencies
14 negatives
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Fonds
Arrangement
This collection was arranged into eight series, in accordance with the original box listing compiled by Sharon Windsor and Lisa Toulson. Series 1 and 2 were re-arranged into files by correspondent and/or subject for ease of navigation. Series 3 and 4 containing business and correspondence files are arranged into sub-series and files in their original alphabetic filing order. Series 7 was arranged numerically according to the original album numbers. Series 8 was arranged by geographic place.
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Comprises personal correspondence, photograph albums, slides, business records, family papers, drafts of his memoir My Regards to Broadway (1991), diaries and notebooks, and scrapbooks of newsclippings relating to his business and personal interests.
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James Oswald Fairfax family and personal papers, compiled ca. 1946-2016
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James Oswald Fairfax personal and business archive, compiled ca. 1944-2016
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Presented by the Executors of the Estate of the late James O Fairfax AC, June 2018
Administrative / Biographical history
James Oswald Fairfax AC, Australian company director, philanthropist and arts patron was born on 27 March 1933 to Marcie Elizabeth (Betty) Fairfax, nee Wilson, and Warwick Oswald Fairfax, (later Sir Warwick). The couple were married on 27 March 1928 and divorced in 1945.
James lived with his parents and sister, Caroline Elizabeth Oswald Fai...
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n5lXWlw9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n5lXWlw9
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9611846
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