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Diary kept at Banka Banka Station, 1959

  • F2619
  • Item
  • 1959

Records daily weather conditions, station activities, work undertaken. Written in a Week on a Page Invicta Australian Economic Diary No. 7 : 1959. For almost every day there is an entry giving the temperature for the day, wind direction, rain and weather details. Activities noted for each day include who went to do which farm repairs, what creeks were running, goods and mail deliveries, illnesses, arrivals and visitors. There is a brief entry on 17 March, saying Philip (Ted) Ward had died in Longreach. There are general references to Australian Aboriginal people employed on the station, without names. Daily entries have been written by several people, some in third person and some in first person. There are no financial or asset statements or lists of workers. Inside cover has contact details for selected friends and relatives, like DL and V Edwards.
Includes colour negative of painting of Banka Banka Station by Hilda Tuxworth.

Banka Banka Station (N.T.)

Photographs of Hawaii, 1883

  • F2635
  • Item
  • 1883

Photographs taken during a world tour by G. M. L., an Australian.

G.M.L.

Letter, 1969 Mar 26 : Unley Park, SA, to Mr. G. Farmer.

  • F2636
  • Item
  • 1969

Includes 3 copies each of the following hymns (music and words) by Jas. Richards : 'Rapture', 'The King of Glory', 'Christians, awake', 'Hark! hark! what news the angels bring'.
Letter contains information on James Richards, a fiddler of Moonta; also how the hymn 'Rapture' was set to music by Maurice Paternoster, the organist at St. Augustine, Unley South Australia; how the tune used to be sung at funerals at Moonta.
Also contains information on poem by Shelley on p.17, 'To the late Charles Marguet' of Moonta, father of Claude Marguet, cartoonist to the Labor Party.

Perry, Edward Leighton

Wood cut

  • F2643
  • Item
  • [c.191-?]

Print from a pen drawing. Inscribed 'To J.D. Fryer, from Jack Lindsay'. Signed N.L. in left bottom corner.

Lindsay, Norman, 1879-1969

Edward Leo Hayes

  • F3002
  • Item
  • [199-?]

Brief biography of Father Edward Leo Hayes.

Hanlon, C. P.

Papers, 1920-1975

  • F3045
  • Item
  • 1920-1975.

Includes photographs, negatives, letter and typescript relating to radio station VK4MM, certificates.

O'Brien, Matthew

Papers, [ca. 1930] - [ca. 1937]

  • F3047
  • Item
  • [ca. 1930] - [ca. 1937]

Includes : radio scripts : The story behind the stamp (episodes [1?] - 7, 9 - 12); Around the globe with postage stamps ([Introduction], [Falkland Islands], [Mexico], [Tonga], [New Caledonia], [Egypt]); Close shaves ([Captain Hyde], [Mr. Feehan]); talk on drought-time feeding of sheep by Mr. Hyde-Shaw from series by Radio Industrial Research Institute of Australia; advertisement for Motor Development Ltd.; untitled script.
Also includes holographs by H. Shaw relating to his radio broadcasts, photographs, letterhead, stamps and postcards.

Shaw, H.

Letters from Douglas Stewart, 1968-1978

  • F3055
  • Item
  • 1968-1978.

Typescript letters on Angus and Robertson letterhead : 1968 Feb. 9th, 28th, June 25th.
Holograph personal letters : 1978 Jan. 19th, May 27th. Letters of 1968 Feb. 28th and 1968 June 25th concern publication of Witnesses of Spring : unpublished poems by Shaw Neilson, selected by Judith Wright and Val Vallis.
Letters of 1978 Jan. 19th and 1978 May 27th concern William Wordsworth : a biography by Mary Moorman.

Stewart, Douglas, 1913-1985

Essays on Australian theatre, 1984-[ca. 1985]

  • F3056
  • Item
  • 1984-[ca. 1985]

Photocopy of article, Another look at the old war-horse : Alan Seymour's The one day of the year, by Alrene Sykes and Keith Richards, published in Australasian Drama Studies, Vol. 2, no. 2 (April 1984).
Untitled article (typescript, 15 leaves), later published as the Introduction to Three Australian plays (Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin Books, 1985).

Sykes, Arlene

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