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One hour before sunset

  • F564
  • Item
  • 1954

Typescript of public address given in the University of Adelaide, 16th June 1954. Accompanied by covering letter to F. W. Robinson from Jessie C.S. Traill re appeal for funds for Strehlow.

Strehlow, T. G. H. (Theodor George Henry), 1908-1978

Letter to Jack Vincent

  • F1020
  • Item
  • 1960

Handwritten letter dated 17 Jun 1960 from Father Edward Leo Hayes, Oakey (Queensland), to Jack Vincent regarding aboriginal relics.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Hayes, Edward Leo, 1889-1967

Letter, 1928 Nov. 10 : Ooldea, to Phoebe Kirwan.

  • F1519
  • Item
  • 1928

Handwritten reply to Phoebe Kirwan's suggestion that Daisy Bates write about Aboriginal people for the Brisbane Telegraph.
Includes references to cannibalism.

Bates, Daisy, 1861-1951

Papers relating to Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for Sir Evan Mackenzie

  • F1621
  • Item
  • 1977

Photocopied papers compiled in support of an amended entry on Sir Evan Mackenzie, in Australian Dictionary of Biography. The papers document a massacre of Aboriginal people on or near Mackenzie's station at Kilcoy. Included : letter from Jim Gibbney , Australian Dictionary of Biography, to Gerry Langevad, 19 Oct 1977; death certificate of Richard James Coley; "Preliminary Suggested Amendment" of Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for Sir Evan Mackenzie; and supporting notes.

Langevad, Gerry

Souvenir of official trips by the Home Secretary, Hon. James Stopford M.L.A.

  • F3091
  • Item
  • 1923-1928

Album, 32 x 28 x 5 cm, of ninety-two (92) black and white photographs presented to William James Gall of the official trips by James Stopford. The photographs feature James Stopford and William James Gall, as well as others possibly during the period from 1923 to 1928. Stopford was Home Secretary in the Queensland Government from 1923 to 1929. Gall worked as under-secretary for home affairs and protector of Aborigines from 1913 until possibly 1926.

Includes photographs of: Stopford Home for Aboriginal Girls at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement (now Cherbourg); Yhurri Gurri ceremonial arch at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement, 3-May-1928; Cherbourg Hospital; Cobbo Williams play acting with Mr Stopford at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement ca. 1925; a resident of Barambah giving a speech to welcome the members of the parliamentary party at the opening of the Stopford Home for Aboriginal Girls (The bandsmen, left to right, are Eddie Gilbert, Freddy Martin and Jimmy Dodd); the G-AUER air plane, called Hermes; photographs of a mine; and many unidentified Aboriginal and Torres Straits islander peoples.

Only the last six photographs have notations indicating that the photographs were taken by/belonged to E.W. Dabelstein. The album has the title embossed on the cover with the photographs pasted, generally two per page, onto the leaves which are made of green mid-weight card. There are some panorama photographs which have been folded to fit in the album.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Stopford, James, 1878-1936

Letters to Margaret 1999

  • F3152
  • Item
  • 1999

Bound volume of letters of appreciation to Senator Margaret Reynolds by her colleagues, on the occasion of her retirement.

Irwin, Janet

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