VPRS 10370 Records regarding the American Fleet Visit

This series contains records created by the State Cabinet Committee in the course of organising and managing festivities in connection with the visit to Melbourne of the American Great White Fleet in 1908. It is an artificially created series, these records being arranged and registered together due to their common subject matter.Several record series comprise VPRS 10370. Consult the Records Description List for a description of the contents of each unit. This series comprises outward letter books with correspondence from the Secretary to the State Cabinet Committee, financial records such as petty cash books and registers of accounts, minutes of meetings and newspaper clippings.