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  M4124

Function and purpose

 This series consists of photographs and negatives of a small number of papers collected by Senator Edward John Russell in the period 1906 to 1921. They include personal letters from Prime Ministers Andrew Fisher and William Morris Hughes, leaflets from “Labor Call’’ and “The Australian Worker”, a poem written by C J Dennis for Russell, election pamphlets (one featuring John Curtin) and two certificates under seal appointing Russell to the Federal Executive Council (1914) and the Wheat Storage Commission (1917). Photographic copies of the original papers were made in 1998.

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  Photographic copies (negatives and prints)

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  Single number system imposed by National Archives, Victoria

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