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Lewis, Essington (1881 - 1961)

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Accession Title:Essington Lewis - Records
Reference:92/87
Date Range:1896 - 1899
Description:Letters from John Lewis, Kooringa, S.A., to Essington Lewis (one of his sons) at Dalhousie Springs, S.A. (6); and photocopy of letter Essington Lewis to Gilbert Lewis (a brother) 24 December 1896 of which original already held. 1. 3.3.;1899, 1 p.ms. 4. 26.4.1899, 1 p.m. 2. 13.3.1899, 1 p.ms. 5. 21.7.1899, 2 p.ms. 3. 14.4.1899, 2 pp.ms. 6. 21.8.1899, 1 p.ms.
Quantity:0.01 m
Access:Open

Accession Title:Essington Lewis - Records
Reference:93/130
Date Range:1980
Description:Two binders containing photocopies of notes taken by Dr John Johnson of interviews with people associated with Essington Lewis during his career, as a research assistant for BHP Ltd.
Quantity:0.1 m

Accession Title:Essington Lewis - Records
Reference:72/17
Date Range:1883 - 1956
Description:Photographs - reprints of those used in Geoffrey Blainey's The Steel Master.
Quantity:0.32 m
Access:Open

Accession Title:Essington Lewis - Records
Reference:72/40
Date Range:1932 - 1973
Description:Landscape Pty. Ltd. (Lewis' Tallabrook property) minutes; correspondence; accounts; liquidation papers 1932-1973.
Quantity:28 boxes
Access:Open

Accession Title:Essington Lewis - Records
Reference:72/38
Date Range:1923 - 1954
Description:Correspondence, A-Z 1923 - ; BHP invitations; estate papers; diaries; itineraries; Lawn Tennis Association of Australia material 1952-4; material relating to membership of other clubs.
Quantity:12 deed boxes and 63 archives boxes
Access:Restricted

Accession Title:Essington Lewis - Records
Reference:78/104
Date Range:1933 - 1949
Description:Copies of outward correspondence 1940-1944; record book of important correspondence; copies of reports; Defence Sub-Committee report; copies of report on overseas visit 1944-1945; notebook containing technical information; index to minutes 1940; munitions diary 1944; details of invitations; copies of "Australian Munitions Digest" 1941-1946; christmas cards; photograph album 1944; correspondence files relating to Lewis' activiteis as Direcor-General 1939-1943; list of files; correspondence files relating to Advisory Panel on Industrial Organisation 1938-1940; correspondence files with Business Board; personal correspondence; miscellaneous publications; newspaper clippings; copies of index to Panel files; information files; maps and charts; digest of decisions and announcements.
Formats:Microfilm.
Quantity:51 rolls
Access:Open

Accession Title:Essington Lewis - Records
Reference:92/47
Date Range:1924
Description:Photograph album containing black and white photographs (some 200) of places of interest along the route taken from Oodnadatta to Darwin from 5 June to 4 July 1924; typescript diary account of the trip, commencing from Adelaide. Marriage certificate of James Cowan and Sarah Ann Warren at Two Wells, District of Gawler, 1873.
Quantity:1 album
Access:Open
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