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Migrant Ellum Deen's application to re-enter Australia – memorandum

Internal memorandum about Ellum Deen, with annotations

Internal memorandum about Ellum Deen, with annotations.

Internal memorandum about Ellum Deen, with annotations

Internal memorandum about Ellum Deen, with annotations.

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Creator:

Department of External Affairs, Melbourne

Date:

1913

Citation:

A1, 1914/16459

Keywords:

  • White Australia policy
  • Muslim
  • Ellum Deen
  • India

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Letter to AH Pritchard, Secretary, The Austral–Indian Society

Letter regarding Ellum Deen's request to re-enter Australia

This is a letter to the Secretary of the Austral–Indian Society regarding Ellum Deen's request to re-enter Australia.

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Receipt showing goods purchased by Indian migrant Ellum Deen.

Receipt showing goods purchased by Indian migrant Ellum Deen

This is a receipt from wholesale importer, Latoof & Callil showing the goods purchased by Ellum Deen on 12 October 1904.

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Letter from Indian migrant Ellum Deen seeking support to re-enter Australia.

Letter from Indian migrant Ellum Deen seeking support to re-enter Australia

This is a letter to A. H. Pritchard, Secretary of the Austral–Indian Society from Ellum Deen seeking support for re-entry to Australia.

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Receipt and personal greeting for Indian migrant Ellum Deen.

Receipt and personal greeting for Indian migrant Ellum Deen

This is a receipt from 27 February 1905 for Ellum Deen from wholesaler Latoof and Callil. The card includes a personal greeting.

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Letter to the Secretary, Department of External Affairs

Documents in support of migrant Ellum Deen – letter from The Austral-Indian Society to Department of External Affairs

Letter about Ellum Deen – from AH Pritchard, Secretary, The Austral-Indian Society to Secretary Department External Affairs.

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Licence for a hawker trading on foot.

Licence for a hawker trading on foot – Ellum Deen

A Victorian licence for a hawker trading on foot — 54 Vict. No. 1097. This licence was granted on 13 December 1904, by the Court of Petty Sessions, Benalla.

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Letter to the Collector of Customs, Melbourne.

Ellum Deen seeking return to Australia – letter to Collector of Customs, Melbourne

A handwritten letter from Ellum Deen to the Collector of Customs, Melbourne, in 1913.

Record

Letter to the Secretary, Department of External Affairs, regarding Ellum Deen.

The case of Indian migrant Ellum Deen – letter to Department of External Affairs

Letter to the Secretary, Department of External Affairs, regarding Ellum Deen.

Record

Letter to AH Pritchard, Secretary, The Austral-Indian Society, regarding the case of Ellum Deen.

Approval for migrant Ellum Deen to return to Australia

Letter to AH Pritchard, Secretary, The Austral-Indian Society, regarding the case of Ellum Deen.

Record

Why Pritchard never acted on this request.

Austral-Indian Society secretary's lack of action on Ellum Deen request

This is a file note from 1914 questioning why AH Pritchard, Secretary, The Austral-Indian Society, never acted on a request from Ellum Deen.

Record

Identification photograph of Indian migrant Ellum Deen.

Identification photograph of Indian migrant Ellum Deen

This is a black-and-white formal portrait of Ellum Deen, taken in India in 1913.

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