This collection holds extensive documentation, photographs and correspondence spanning Britain’s colonial era. It includes the Empire Marketing Board posters from the 1930s, which promoted exports and imports across Britain’s colonial empire, including India, Australia, and New Zealand. Unique colonial papers include constitutional documents for the American and Australian colonies, plus treaties and correspondence signed by early presidents of the USA and the first governors of Australia.
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Imperial calendar, 1901
Empire Marketing Board 1926-1939, Dairying in Australia
Empire Marketing Board 1929, Butter imports from the Irish Free State
Presentation for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee from the Daughters of the American Revolution
Empire Marketing Board 1926-1939, 'The Empire Shop'
Empire Marketing Board 1927, 'Highways of Empire'
Election of burgesses at the General Assembly, James City, Virginia
Grant for Massachusetts, given to Robert Gorges, December 1622
Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Netherland to Nicolls and the British, 1664
First American newspaper, published in Boston, 1690
Five Nations Treaty, New York, 1701
Letter describing the progress of the American War of Independence
Imperial calendar, 1901
Empire Marketing Board 1926-1939, Dairying in Australia
Empire Marketing Board 1929, Butter imports from the Irish Free State
Presentation for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee from the Daughters of the American Revolution
Empire Marketing Board 1926-1939, 'The Empire Shop'
Empire Marketing Board 1927, 'Highways of Empire'
Election of burgesses at the General Assembly, James City, Virginia
Grant for Massachusetts, given to Robert Gorges, December 1622
Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Netherland to Nicolls and the British, 1664
First American newspaper, published in Boston, 1690
Five Nations Treaty, New York, 1701
Letter describing the progress of the American War of Independence