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Interview with Marie Crisp

Therese Collie interviews Marie Crisp. Marie Crisp worked in the metal trades during the second World War, joined the Vehicle Builders Union, Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union and Queensland Council of Unions, and was a member of the Communist Party of Australia and the Union of Australian Women. She was a lifelong campaigner for the rights of women workers and Aboriginal people.

Marie talks of her early life growing up in Murwillumbah (New South Wales) and central Queensland; working at Monto hospital and being a member of the Australian Workers' Union; moving to Brisbane during the second World War and working at Ford; Amalgamated Electrical Union and Metal Trades Union; joining the the Miscellaneous Workers' Union; being a member of the Communist Party and Union of Australian Women; the rights of women workers and Aboriginal people.

Interview with Bessie Lymburner

Therese Collie interviews Bessie Lymburner, born in 1919 in Patana (Wenlock), Cape York.

Bessie talks about her early life in Palm Island and Townsville; working as a nurse and for the settlement Matron and Superintendent; housing; her husband Eric Lymburner's involvement in the Palm Island strike of 1957 where him and others protested againsts the injustices of living under the act; Second World War; her children; her concerns about Aboriginal health and Comalco Mining; Aboriginal people and women.

Interview with Elena Timms

Therese Collie interviews Elena Timms (née Raccanello) born in 1941 in Stanthorpe.

Elena talks about her parents, who were Italian migrants; her experiences of growing up in Stanthorpe as a child of migrants; her and her fathers involvement in the peace and anti-war movements; working in an aluminium tube factory in Port Kembla in 1963 and school cleaner and trade unions; Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union of Australia and Trades and Labor Council; women labor union members.

Interview with Pat Bowe

Therese Collie interviews Pat Bowe, born in Herberton, Queensland in 1938. In 1991 she was in teachers staffing, having previously been a teacher and principal.

Bowe talks of her family, moving around Queensland due to her fathers job at BHP (tin exploration); her education including going to primary school during the second World War at Innot Hot Springs; being female in the 1950's and having a tertiary education with the help of her family; her father being a member of the union and Labor Party; being influenced by her family; union activities in Queensland and being the only female at meetings; equal/women's rights in the education field; some of the locations she was a Principal at - Horseshoe Bay on Magnetic island, Homestead, Hayman island, Majors Creek, and Long Pocket; discrepancy between single and married women's conditions or opportunities; her experiences teaching in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities; lessons learnt from her experience working in remote Queensland schools and as a woman; her work with the Teachers' Union - State Standing Committee of the Union and State Accommodation Committee, and how her work with the committees affected her job as a teacher; what the Queensland Teachers' Union has done for its women members, what it has achieved, and current issues; how far women teachers have come; and where her dedication to keep on fighting and struggling for better conditions for teachers, and for equal opportunities for women.

Interview with Vi Cox

Therese Collie interviews Vi Cox.

Vi talks of her early life growing up in Townsville and going to school during the second World War at Bohlevale State School; her husband Norrie Cox and his family, the Australian Railways Union; joining the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and supporting Norrie in his union activities; the difficulties women face when it came to women's issues like rape; issues she and other women in the ALP fought for; how she first became involved in the ALP and her 2 year role as secretary for the Currajong branch; her views on why ALP isn't attracting young people and what needs to be done, and what the ALP has done for women; her dedication to ALP; and her advice for young people and younger women.

Interview with Jean Bowden, [Morningside, Brisbane?]

Therese Collie interviews Jean Bowden, an active member of the Australian Telephone and Phonogram Officers Association (ATPOA). In this interview, Bowden talks about her early life growing up on the Maroochy River where her father was a sugarcane grower; her school years; her first job at the Gympie telephone exchange and being encouraged by her father to join the union; boarding at the Convent in Gympie; working at the Nambour and Yeronga telephone exchanges; joining ATPOA; her involvement in the campaign to have the Bill that barred the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service; Joyce Williams (Secretary of ATPOA); and her involvement with ATPOA.

Projects designed and documented for the Ukrainian community

Projects designed and documented for the Ukrainian Association of Queensland (UAQ). Pavlyshyn was president from 1951 to 1967 and from 1981 to 1982.

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Folder 5
Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne, proposed iconostasis, October 1965. Reduced copy.
Proposed Ukrainian Memorial Hall in Canberra, ACT, for the Ukrainian Association of the Australian Capital Territory. December 1970; Proposal with covering texts in Ukrainian and English and a sketch plan.
Ukrainian Churches in Australia (Melbourne: Monash University, Slavic Section, 1993).

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Folder 1
UAQ building – Ukrainian Community Centre at 70 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane.
Various plans.
Reconstruction of UAQ hall after fire of March 1977: RP chaired the Initiative Committee and the Construction Committee.

Folder 2
Building committee meetings and reports.
Reconstruction of UAQ hall: plans.
Reconstruction of UAQ hall: correspondence, including correspondence to secure Queensland Government grant.

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Ukrainian churches and church organisations.
Ukrainian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Protection, Brisbane. Various architectural plans.
Ukrainian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Protection, Brisbane. Specifications.
Ukrainian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Protection, Brisbane. Tenders. Various documents.

Folder 4
Construction of Ukrainian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Protection, Brisbane. Correspondence with contractor and bank.
Artwork and furnishings, Ukrainian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Protection, Brisbane. Correspondence and miscellaneous.

Folder 5
Ukrainian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Protection, Brisbane. Photographs of artwork by Myron Levytsky.
Repainting of Ukrainian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Protection, Brisbane (1992).
Alterations to residence behind Ukrainian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Protection, Brisbane (1965).

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Folder 1
Plans for Ukrainian Catholic Churches.
Plans for Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canberra. Not built.
Correspondence and Plans for Ukrainian Catholic Church in Newcastle. Not built.
Ivan Slynko. Plan for Ukrainian Catholic Church in Sunshine (Melbourne), Victoria.
Henderson and Thompson, architects. Plans for a Ukrainian Catholic Church, Maylands (Perth), Western Australia. Not Built.
Competition for design of a chapel for the Ukrainian section of the Sydney Cemetery, Rookwood. Correspondence (1967).
Proposal to build a church in Banja Luka, Yugoslavia, using RP’s plans for the Ukrainian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Protection, Brisbane (1975). Sketches, plan, correspondence.
Sketch plan for the Shrine of Our Lady of Protection in Marian Valley, Canungra, Queensland. Not built.

Folder 2
Iconostases.
Iconostasis for the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul, Melbourne. Competition entry. Plans, correspondence. Not erected.
Iconostasis for Ukrainian Catholic Church of St John the Baptist, Maylands, Perth. Correspondence and other materials.
Iconostasis for Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Transfiguration, Queanbeyan, NSW. Plans, correspondence and other materials.

Folder 3
Completion of the Ukrainian Catholic Church of St. Andrew in Sydney. Correspondence (1964).
Monument for the 1000th anniversary of Christianity in Ukraine, Canberra. Correspondence.

Folder 4
Plans for residential buildings
Headstones, Monuments
Ukranian Memorial Hall, Canberra
Cockington Greens Gardens. Advice on scale model of building representative of the Ukranian architectural tradition

Folder 5
Designs and Graphics
Stage Designs

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Folder 1
Funerary architecture. Plans and sketches

Folder 2
Plans for Reconstruction of the building of the Ukrainian Association of Queensland after its partial destruction by fire, 1976-78.

Ukrainian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Protection, 36 Broadway Street, Woolloongabba. (a) Various designs for furnishings and other details of the church; (b) Photographs of the church after completion of the sanctuary icon and iconostasis (artist: Myron Levytsky) in 1969; (c) sketches and other materials for a Ukrainian Catholic shrine at Marian Valley, Canungra, Queensland.

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