Janie Overton - papers, 1925-1991

MLMSS 6968
H 2022/1829

fonds

1925 - 1991

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs, Objects

404299

2 boxes - 0.26 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)
Textual Records - (typescript, photocopy)
Textual Records - (typescript, carbon)
Textual Records - (typescript, processed)
Clippings
Textual Records - (printed)
Photographs
Objects

Janie Overton was a member of the Communist Party of Australia from the 1930s until it dissolved as a political party in 1991. She died in 1995.

1935; 'Defend democratic rights : this concerns you - read it', Nov. 1935 (Call No.: H 2022/1829)
1965-1970; 'Anti-Conscription Campaign - Vietnam War', being mainly printed material and including papers concerning Committee in Defiance of the National Service Act (Call No.: MLMSS 6968/1)
1925-1991; Communist Party of Australia papers, including pamphlet: Is the High Court Impartial ?, Date unknown; letter received from Louise C. Cullen, 15 Dec. 1948, with enclosed pamphlet: I Knew Mrs. Pankhurst by Thelma Cazalet Keir, M.P.; invitations; and issue of Bronte Citizen, June 1945, published by Bronte Branch of the Communist Party of Australia (Call No.: MLMSS 6968/1)
1985; Correspondence with politicians concerning the removal of a bus stop in Concord, N.S.W. (Call No.: MLMSS 6968/1)
1947-1969; 'International Women's Day & the Women's Movement', being mainly printed material, including invitations and photocopy of the New Housewives' Association Constitution, 1947-1948 (Call No.: MLMSS 6968/1)
1935, 1959; 'Lang Campaign Material', being issue of The Sun, 7 May 1935, issue Labor News, Oct. 1959 (Call No.: MLMSS 6968/1)
1946-1982; 'Personal Memorabilia', including invitations and letters received (3) from Freda Brown, 195- (Call No.: MLMSS 6968/1)
1942-1945; 'World War II newspapers', including issues of Tribune, 1942-1945, and Queensland Guardian, 10 Aug. 1945 (Call No.: MLMSS 6968/1)
1939-1969; CPA monographs and pamphlets (Call No.: MLMSS 6968/2)
Political badges, including May Day 1944, and Paddo OBU [One Big Union] (Call No.: MLMSS 6968/2)
194--197-; Photographs of Janie Overton, as well as of Seamen's Union Club children's Christmas Party, 1957, and pensioners protesting at Parliament House, Canberra, 1966 (Call No.: MLMSS 6968/2)

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