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John P. Ferguson Interview, July 21, 1984
No full text.John Ferguson describes helping to set up the smokejumper program in McCall, Idaho, after his 1942 training at the Nine Mile Ranger Station in Montana and in Missoula, Montana. He recalls how he was on the first fire jump for Region 4. Ferguson discusses training jumps and fire jumps, equipment modifications, and changes in the cargo dropping system. He talks about training doctors to jump. Ferguson describes the government’s use of conscientious objectors to serve as smokejumpers during World War Two, the training of African American jumpers, the first fire death of a smokejumper in 1946, and the 1949 Mann Gulch Fire.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/smokejumpers/1052/thumbnail.jp
Item 33, Juan P. Moreno portrait with guitar for Voltage Discos/Sony (4-color offset, 17 x 25 inches), undated
No full textThe Keith Ferguson collection includes artifacts, manuscripts, and audio-visual materials from the childhood and professional career of the internationally respected musician.Keith Ferguson, noted bass guitarist, was born on July 23, 1946. He was raised in the Sixth Ward of Houston, Texas, and graduated from San Jacinto High School in 1964. Ferguson, who played left-handed, worked with Carlos Santana, Johnny Winter, Peter Kaukonen, Jimmy and Stevie Ray Vaughn. He was a founding member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds and played with groups such as Night Crawlers, Texas Cajun Trio, The Tail Gators, and Big Guitars from Texas.Ferguson was nominated for a Grammy in 1986 for his work with the Big Guitars (a strictly instrumental, Austin-based band). He also won the Austin Music Award for Best Bass Guitar in 1985, and in 1997 he was inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame. Keith Ferguson died in Austin on April 29, 1997, of liver failure
Ferguson, R P, WX7999
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/384893Surname: FERGUSON. Given Name(s) or Initials: R P. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: WX7999. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 33670.230635
Item: [2016.0049.17186] "Ferguson, R P, WX7999
Ferguson, Lloyd P, WX10033
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/384887Surname: FERGUSON. Given Name(s) or Initials: LLOYD P. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: WX10033. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 43893.230629
Item: [2016.0049.17180] "Ferguson, Lloyd P, WX10033
Ferguson, P, VX44537
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/384884Surname: FERGUSON. Given Name(s) or Initials: P. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX44537. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 4871.230626
Item: [2016.0049.17177] "Ferguson, P, VX44537
Map of Paterson, N.S.W. [cartographic material].
No full textInset: [Location diagram]; Map 68 from Ferguson Collection.; Ms. facsimile of: Tracing of the town of Paterson, County of Durham, 1833 / J.P. Langley 1870 -- Scale [1:6 336]. 8 chs to 1 in. Held by Newcastle Region Public Library.; On verso "P No. 363".; Tracing of a cadastral map of Paterson, N.S.W.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-f68.Tracing of the town of Paterson, County of Durham, 1833
Introduction
No full textFirst paragraph: In a generally enthusiastic 1862 review of African-American occultist P. B. Randolph's Dealings with the Dead ( 1861 ), the London-based Spiritual Magazine opens with one slight demurral. After lauding Randolph's account of otherworldly travels as 'one of the most remarkable of all those which this subject has brought forth', the contributor regrets that 'its first title is certainly not well adapted to it, for instead of telling us of "dealings with the dead," it speaks of and reveals to us an intensity of lifo' ('The Blending State' 278). This corrective vividly captures the dimension of Anglo-American spiritualist thought that this volume aims to foreground: its deep commitment to exploring, celebrating and, perhaps most intriguingly, shaping human biological life at both the individual and the species level. This preoccupation has been all but forgotten in the movement's subsequent popular association with sepulchrally darkened seance rooms, and sibylline mediumistic utterances. Yet for the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century believers and critics whose writings this volume privileges, modem spiritualism's new revelation, one focused and energized if not originated by the 1848 Hydesville Rappings, had nothing necromantic about it. However much they may have differed in their individual philosophies and practices, the diverse group of advocates, investigators and cynics collected here were united in the conviction that modem spiritualism revealed more about the telos of cosmic evolution, the causes of disease and health, the origins of culture and the meaning ofhumao variation than it did about the putative terrors of the grave. The disembodied citizenry of the spirit world and their earth-bound mediumistic hosts were not only the heralds of a new religion but, equally importantly, subjects for previously unimagined fonns of biological, anthropological and medical inquiry. For many of its adherents, spiritualism was nothing less than an enhanced and thoroughly modem science of life, one superior to its secular professional counterparts by virtue of its willingness to push its investigations beyond the conventional horizon of death. Far from rejecting contemporary scientific theories about the evolutionary origins oflife, racial variation and primitive culture, spiritualist seers and philosophers drew upon them to create their own rich, imaginative and diverse understandings of the present state and future destiny of the human species
Map of a portion of the estate named Paddington on the South Head Road near Sydney [cartographic material] : divided into 8 allotments a grant from the Crown to James Underwood /
No full textTracing of a portion of the Paddington Estate drawn on butter paper showing some landholders.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-f651; Ferguson Collection Map F 651
Plan of allotments in a part of Camperdown named Milton situate within the turnpike and a short distance from the boundary of the City of Sydney, [cartographic material] /
No full text"For sale by Messrs. Stubbs & Co on 1st May, 1843".; Map of allotments for sale at Camperdown with adjoining landholders.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-f567; Ferguson Collection Map F 567
Parole in Western Australia: an analysis of parole cancellations of female offenders
No full textForeword
The number of prisoners in Australian prisons has been increasing over the past decade. In Western Australia the number of female offenders has increased by 40 percent over the past five years. One contributing factor to this increase may be the re incarceration of parolees who have violated parole.
This research used the publicly available decision documents from the Prisoners Review Board in Western Australia to investigate the background details of offences, and the details of the parole violations of 41 women released in 2013–14.
Data revealed that a high proportion of women returned to prison after a very short time in the community as a result of illicit drug use. The high cost of re-incarceration is considered against a background of rehabilitation and extra support in the community that might assist released women negotiate their complex lives on release without resorting to further drug use. The paper includes a number of recommendations to consider in an effort to reduce the recidivism of female offenders
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