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1934-1995;  Correspondence regarding professional engagements and the conferring of and congratulations on receiving the Medal of the Order of Australia and the Archbishop of Sydney Citation  (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/1)
1940-1994;  Newscuttings and photographs (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/1)
1936-1951;  Diaries for the years 1936 and 1946-1951 (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/1)
Undated;  edited photocopy of the manuscript of, Wonderful Wireless (1983) (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/1)
Undated;  File: 'Writings' containing draft letters to editors of newspapers, fragments, jottings and short articles (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/1)
Undated;  two notebooks containing both original and copies of poems and prose, some original work under the pen name 'N.M. Quinlan' (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/1)
1968-1991;  File: 'Concertcare for Sick & Elderly I'. Promotional material, newscuttings and correspondence with the Australia Council, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Queensland Performing Arts Trust, National Film and Sound Archives, Anthony Steel & Associates and Evie Hayes  (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/2)
1985-1991;  File: 'Sydney Town Hall Shows', correspondence with Council of the City of Sydney and the Police Community Relations Bureau, newscuttings and promotional material (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/2)
1978-1983;  File: 'Production Papers. Shows in Town Hall, Bowral, Queensland', correspondence with the Sydney Opera House Trust, Australia Council, Queensland Arts Council and the National Film and Sound Archive, newscuttings and promotional material (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/2)
1992-1996;  File: 'Big Hotel Shows' containing administrative arragements for concert morning teas held at the Regent, Manly Pacific, Sheraton on the Park and ANA Hotels (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/3)
1980s;  File: 'Melba Memories' containing arrangements for a Dame Nellie Melba tribute  show  (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/3)
1950-1991;  File: 'Opera House Show' containing arrangements for the Exhibition of Australian Theatre (1971), other exhibitions and miscellaneous material. Also includes many newscuttings from the 1950s on various performances.  (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/3)
Undated;  File: 'The Clubs' containing research material for a proposed book and photographic exhibition on performers who have contributed to the growth of clubs in Australia (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/3)
1986-1987;  File: 'Showboats. Artists Names' containing research notes for a publication on the Sydney Harbour Showboats between 1938 to the mid 1950s (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/3)
?-1994;  File: 'Showboats Contacts' containing research notes, newscuttings, correspondence and photographs (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/3)
1987-1997;  File: 'Showboats Research/Writing' containing research notes, newscuttings, correspondence, photographs and report on grant expenditure (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/3)
Undated;  File: 'Show-Boat. Photo Research' containing photographs and notes (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/3)
1989-1998;  File: 'IASA. Interviews 1987 N.F.& S.A.' containing contract with the National Film and Sound Archive to conduct interviews with individuals whose careers cover radio, television, musical comedy and theatre. Includes lists of interviewees, correspondence and research notes. (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/3)
1955-1989;  File: 'Curtain Call (book)' containing correspondence, research notes, photographs, artwork and newscuttings (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/4)
1941-1996;  File: 'Showbiz File. Publicity' containing newscuttings, programs and theatre magazines  (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/4)
1933-1987;  File of programs and photographs for performances in which Nancye Bridges participated (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/4)
1906-1975;  File: 'Town Hall Programs' containing programs, playbills and photographs (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/4)
1909-1977;  File: 'Bridges International' containing programs, playbills and publicity material (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/4)
1935-1998;  File: 'Bridges Press Clippings' containing newscuttings and related material (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/4)
1991;  `Golden Days of Radio. Australia's Heritage in Stamps' by Mimi Colligan (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/4)

1930s-1980s;  Sound recordings. Includes interviews by Nancye Bridges, for `Curtain Call' and `Wonderful Wireless', with Jenny Howard, Bobby Le Brun, Ronnie Shand, Hilda Statler, Peter Burgess, Peggy Toppano, Bessie Dunn, Lloyd Martin, Frank Cleary, Desmond Show, Syd Piddington, John Hunter, Perc Campbell, Queenie Paul, Queenie Ashton, Colin Croft, Harry Griffiths, Babs McKinnon, Hal Lashwood, Evie Hayes, Malcolm Elliott, Abe Romaine, Dick Fair, Hal Saunders, Dorothy Foster, Geoff Mac, Hal Saunders, W.K. Cole, Irene Wren, Stevie Doo, Captain Kramer, Eddie Williams, Kevin O'Gorman, Tony Sheldon, Ethel Lang and others.  (Call No.: MLOH 325/1-56)

Undated;  Photographs of Australian show business performers and personalities gathered both during her career and in the course of research for her books. Also includes personal photographs of Concertcare and Old Time shows during the 1970s and 1980s (Call No.: MLMSS 6727/5,6,7,8X)

undated;  gramophone record, unidentified 78 RPM (Call No.: GR 267)
1930s?;  gramophone record, 78 RPM of Nancye and Babe Bridges performing E Pari Ra, Canoe Song, War Song, and Maori Farewell (Call No.: GR 268)

Nancye Bridges - papers, 1906-1998

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1. Bert Newton and Graham Kennedy in 1960.

2. Judi Farr, Gwen Plumb, Gordon Chater, June Salter, Queenie Ashton.

3. Len London.

4. Unidentified - 3  men on lounge.

5. Unifentified - 4 men walking down street.

6. Harry Griffiths and Willie Fennell.

7. Gwen Plumb and Elsa Jacoby.

8. Smoky Dawson and his wife Florence, Marshall Crosby and Gordon Chater. The Kellog Show in 1950.

9. Smoky Dawson, Max Reddy, Neil O'Brien, Lou Toppano.

10. Queenie Ashton, Willie Fennell, Roy Rene, Hal Lashwood.

11. Noel Judd, Leonard Teale, Babs MacKinnon, Joe McCormak and Keith Walshe.

12. Edward Howell with his wife Therese Desmond who wrote and played the daily radio serial 'Fred and Maggie Everybody'.

13. Nancye and Babe Bridges, Tivoli Sydney, 1956.

14. Meg Bridges, 1944.

15. Laurence Halbert directing a rehearsal of the play 'The man who stayed at home' broadcast through 2FC on 26.3.1931. Among the cast are Ethel Lang, Theresse Desmond, Nancye Stewart, Bill Mitchell, Ellis Price and John Dunne. From the ABC Studios, 96 Market St., Sydney.

16. The studio of 2FC Farmers in the 1920s. Ewans Chapple at the piano accompanying an unidentified singer.

17. Wedding photo of Bob and Dolly Dyer, 5 September, 1940.

18. Meg Bridges and Eric Pearce at the 2CH Cabaret Dance at the Trocadero, 1939.

19. Buster Noble.

20. Meg Bridges and 2 unidentified people in Sydney.

21. Jack Davey.

22. Printed copy of Dame Nellie Melba broadcasting to the world from London in 1920.

23-32. Includes 10 photographs dated 1983 taken at the launching of Nancye Bridges' 'Wonderful wireless', photos of Bridges sisters and of prominent radio people, including, Doug Hills, Perc Campbell, Colin Croft, Ed Williams, Jim Gussey, Nancye and Meg Bridges, Smoky Dawson, Queenie Ashton, Nola and Betty Lester, Harry Griffiths, Kate Revice.

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10 colour slides of an unidentified man in an armchair.

Australian radio personalities, pictorial material, 1930-1983

Buster Noble and either Des Tanner, Stewart Harvey or Len London (?) on the Hour of Song radio program, 2UW Radio Theatre

Hour of Song stars Val Cooney and Buster Noble on the Hour of Song, 2UW Radio Theatre

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Nancye Bridges - papers, 1906-1998

Australian radio personalities, pictorial material, 1930-1983

Buster Noble and either Des Tanner, Stewart Harvey or Len London (?) on the Hour of Song radio program, 2UW Radio Theatre

Hour of Song stars Val Cooney and Buster Noble on the Hour of Song, 2UW Radio Theatre

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