• Title
  Series 190: Doctor Herbert Vere Evatt
• Call number
  PXE 731/1943-1951
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  approximately 1949
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records
• Reference code
  412563
• Physical Description
  7 photographic prints - silver gelatin - 30 x 24 cm or smaller
  2 items of textual material - typescript - 33.0 x 20.3 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Herbert Vere Evatt (1849-1965) was born in Maitland, NSW. Educated at Fort Street High School then Sydney University, he became a lawyer and judge. He left law to enter politics and won the Sydney seat of Barton at the 1940 Federal elections, representing Labor. In 1941 he became Attorney-General and was Deputy Prime Minister in the Chifley Ministry in 1946. He played a conspicuous part in the early development of the United Nations at which he was Australia's representative, and President of the General Assembly from 1948-1949. He published several books on politics, history and the law. Source: Australian Encyclopedia, 4th edn., 1983.
• Scope and Content
  1943-1948. Evatt seated at a desk, probably at the United Nations
  1949. Evatt addresses a crowd
  1950. United Nations press release containing biographical details of Evatt and notes on his career, 4 May 1949, typescript
  1951. 'Spotlight on UN personalities number 4'. Quotes made by Evatt about the United Nations, typescript
• System of arrangement
  By numerical sequence on reverse of images
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Titled from accompanying envelope.
• General note
  
  Digital order no: Album ID : 981163
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  'N.S.W. Education Department Visual Education Centre Library' stamped on reverse. 'Sydney Morning Herald' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1949. Spotlight on Personalities #4 quotations appear stamped on reverse of photographs.
• Name
  Evatt, H. V. (Herbert Vere), 1894-1965
  United Nations.
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  boys
  
• Topic
  interiors
  authors
  crowds
  diplomats
  gavels
  headphones
  judges
  lawyers
  microphones
  portraits
  
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