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Documenting a Nation:
Australian Archives – The First Fifty Years
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Documenting a Nation was published by the Australian Archives in 1994 to celebrate our 50th anniversary. You can also download the sequel, Changes and Choices, which tells our history from 1994 to 2004.
Golder, H, Documenting a Nation: Australian Archives – The First Fifty Years, Australian Archives in association with AGPS Press, Canberra, 1994.
| Contents | Acrobat 5.0 |
| Contents, Foreword, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations | Go to – PDF 800kb |
| 1. Prehistory of the National Archives, 1901 to 1942 | Go to – PDF 1.5mb |
| 2. A fledgling archives system, 1942 to 1961 | Go to – PDF 2.5mb |
| 3. ‘Plugging away’, 1961 to 1974 | Go to – PDF 2mb |
| 4. Challenge and consolidation, 1974 to 1994 | Go to – PFD 3.5mb |
| 5. Using the Australian Archives | Go to – PDF 1mb |
| Notes, Facts & figures, Recent publications, Locations, Index | Go to – PDF 1.5mb |
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