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Boxes 2-3
Notebook, Radio Aurora, Ross Sea Base, Cape Evans, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 20 June 1915-28 September 1915
Correspondence re AWA, SY Aurora, Antarctica, 12 December 1914-16 May 1916
Wireless operator timesheet/log on S.Y. Aurora, Antarctica, 31 March 1914-27 March 1916
Statements of account of the Estate of the late Frank W Hooke, 10 October 1934 and letter from Government House, Melbourne, 14 June 1915 and other miscellaneous material including drivers license, newspaper clippings and photographs 
Letters of congratulations on knighthood from business associates, dignitaries and politicians including Robert Menzies, 1957. Includes photograph of Lionel Hooke receiving knighthood, 1957 / L.J. Dwyer, Canberra
Letters of thanks and congratulations to Lionel Hooke, AWA, 8 October 1931-15 December 1958
Memorial speeches and photographs for Sir Lionel Hooke, 1973-1974, including letters and newspaper clippings
Printed ephemera relating to AWA and Royal visits, 1953-1960

Series 3: Sir Lionel Hooke papers mainly relating to his knighthood and the Aurora Trans-Antarctic expedition

2CH Radio Personality Quest judges

Photographs are captioned on reverse, and include:

Site testing for the high power long wave transocean service, Australia-England, 1922: AWA's first "mobile laboratory", operated by Eric Burbury and Charles Tapp. Photo probably taken near Mulgoa;
Marconi station at Queenscliff, Victoria, which first bridged the Bass Strait with wireless signals in 1906;
Marconi station at Devonport, Tasmania;
Part of the 300 kilowatt synchronous spark transmitting apparatus at Caernarvon, Wales, from which wireless signals were first sent direct to Australia on 22 September 1918; 
Dame Nellie Melba's broadcast from the Marconi works, Chelmsford, England, on 15 June 1920;
Marconi opening the Sydney Electrical and Radio Exhibition, 1930, by operating a key in his yacht "Elettra", to switch on 2800 lights at Sydney Town Hall;
Original 2FC 5kw transmitter at Pennant Hills;
Laurence Halbert & Arthur Cochrane, 2FC announcers, c.1926;
The first cathode ray tube television receiver built at the Marconi works, Chelmsford, England, and used in Australia for the historic 1932 transmissions;
Dedication of marble bust of Guglielmo Marconi in the garden of the AWA Radio-Electric Works, Ashfield on 14 March 1964, with Sir Lionel Hooke, then Chairman of AWA, and the inventor's son, Marchese Giulio Marconi, who unveiled the bust

Photographs used in the Marconi centenary exhibition in the State Library vestibule, April-July 1974, including photographs of a bust of Marconi, Ashfield

PXD 1330
Box 1 
Album containing 14 photographic prints relating to AMA supporting proposed VCI with New Zealand Minister for Industries and Commerce

Album with black cover containing 122 photographic prints mostly of AWA devices

Folder labeled 'R - Miscellaneous' containing 40 photographic prints mostly of works inside AWA premises at Knox St, Chippendale, NSW and Clarence St, Sydney, NSW

Folder labled 'O - Valve Transmitters' containing 70 photographic prints

Box 2 
Folder labeled 'C - Receivers' containing 84 photographic prints

Folder labeled 'W - Rectifiers and Transformers' containing 26 photographic prints 

113 photographs including AWA premises in York St and Clarence St, Sydney; Ashfield, NSW and Queen St, Melbourne; Royal visit to AWA Ashfield; Sir Lionel Hooke; 'Golden Jubilee of Broadcasting Exhibition, 1923-1973'; Marconi School of Wireless, Sydney

Box 3
3 albums containing 140 photographic prints in total relating to Beam Wireless Transmitting Stations at Ballan and Rockback, Victoria

Album containing 73 photographic prints including Barranjack area and dam (including wireless station), Gundagai Station, radio and towers in Queensland, Perth and Willoughby, NSW

Album containing 26 colour photographic prints of AWA buildings and work areas

161 photographic prints including images of AWA equipment and others, especially relating to aircraft

Box 4 
Album containing 64 pictures of 'Dedication of Tidbinbilla 64 Metre Antenna, 13 April, 1973'

400 photographic prints mostly showing AWA products in use and being manufactured 

1 copy of 'The Wireless World', April 1915-March 1916

3 radio charts

2 typescript sheets and 2 copied pages of Wireless Weekly, September 17, 1926

Box 5 
Album containing 199 photographic prints showing construction of AWA building, 'Wireless House', in York St, Sydney. Prepared by Colin Ferguson of AWA, October 1938

Album containing 24 photographs relating to the introduction of television to New Zealand in 1951. Photographs mostly by Robin C. Wood photography. Also includes many newspaper clippings

158 photographic prints including Marconi - historical photographs and unveiling of bust, 1964, Australia; La Perouse Radio Centre; AWA at Bassendean, W.A. and others

Box 6 
Album containing 17 black and white photographic prints of AWA staff and family functions

391 photographic prints mostly showing VIP visitors to AWA Ashfield, portraits of prominent staff and AWA cocktail parties and events
 
Box 7 
Album titled, 'Marconi Jubilee - 1897-1947', containing 24 photographic prints 

373 photographic prints mostly showing scenes of AWA functions, AWA transmitters, portraits of prominent staff and VIP visitors to AWA premises such as Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother

Box 8 
450 photographic prints attached to sheets (formally in an album). Includes images of testing underwater television cables, typewriter demonstrations, 'Wireless House', Ashfield works and manufacturing tables, Rydalmere valve works, mobile radio telephones, VIP visitors to REW Ashfield, public address systems during 1954 Royal Tour, coastal radio transmitters, Doonside transmitting station, 2CH broadcast transmitters, marine radar, 'Princess of Tasmania' radio equipment, television transmitters, data processors, AWA Silverwater plant, Piezo crystal, traffic signals at Crows Nest, NSW, telephone production, Marconi School, telecommunications at Jan Smutts Airport, NRMA Marine, Sydney Trade Fair 1961, Skyphone V.H.F, Skyranger H.F., DME Equipment, television transmission tower, Perth, W.A.

17 further photographs including images of construction of 'Wireless House' and official opening of Beam Wireless Service, Australia-Great Britain, 8 April, 1927

PXE 1523
Box 1 
Pamphlet published by AWA titled, 'Australia's Own Electronics Organisation', contains 44 promotional photographs with accompanying text

Pamphlet published by AWA containing 22 colour photographs of AWA premises around Sydney

298 photographic prints including images relating to various aspects of police radio, television production, telecommunications exhibition in Martin Place, Sydney, 1974, construction of 'Wireless House', various AMA premises, flooding in Grafton, NSW, 1963 

Box 2
427 photographic prints including images of aircraft part manufacture, telephones, radio transmitters, phonographs, mobile transmitters and card type switchboards, military and aircraft radio, Sydney Radiola Conventions, Sydney, 1930s-1940s, AWA cricket team, 1935-1936, AWA workers in war time, AWA valve works, lifeboat receivers, AWA premises, early radio designs

ON 543
Folder 1
112 35 mm (19 strips) negatives showing AWA laboratories

Folder 2
6 negatives of the Queen Mother's visit to AWA Ashfield, 1958

Box 3
4 glass negatives of early facsimile equipment, installation of short wave transmitter and operator twin turntable disk reproducer (late 1920s), Fisk showing Mark Hambourg International Radio Telephone, 1930s

3 glass negatives of the opening of the Australia-New Zealand Radiophone. Appeared in the January 1931 issue of 'The Radiogram'. Also, La Perouse, NSW, transmitter station

4 glass negatives including interior view of original shop at Wireless House, Morris Service Van and transmitter hall at Pennant Hills, NSW, 1920s

Box 4
17 glass negatives all AWA related including pictures of Tom Redfern, Eric Burbury and Harry De Dassel

Box 5
13 glass negatives mostly of AWA Radiola radios from the 1920s as well as a hospital radio

SLIDES 270
89 colour slides relating to a 1969 AWA Exhibition and various AWA factories

3 colour slides showing a woman radio operator at Kuala Lumpar airport

Forms part of MLMSS 2954 ADD-ON 1910

Photographs collected by Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), 1914-1985

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Series 3: Sir Lionel Hooke papers mainly relating to his knighthood and the Aurora Trans-Antarctic expedition

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Photographs used in the Marconi centenary exhibition in the State Library vestibule, April-July 1974, including photographs of a bust of Marconi, Ashfield

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Photographs collected by Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), 1914-1985

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