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Correspondence and Records relating to works of art, 1940s

Approximately 100 letters (including telegrams) from 29 Apr 1940 to 21 Nov 1949. Correspondents include: A.B. Burton; Public Library of New South Wales regarding the doors; Hennessy, Hennessy & Co.; Brisbane Crematorium; Moir & Sutherland; T.C. Davis (High Commissioner for Canada) regarding his purchase of "Blackie"; Rev. Colin C. Chittleborough of St. Jude's Rectory, Brighton; Queensland National Art Gallery regarding the "Lloyd Rees" Sculpture; David Jones' Art Gallery; Mary Corkery, Artists' Agent; Royal S.A. Society of Arts; John Eldershaw regarding the bust of Professor Duhig; Mary P. Harris; National Gallery of Victoria.

Moongalba photographs

Album 3 - Photographs 15.2 to 15.68 are a sequence taken at Moongalba Camp and other locations on North Stradbroke Island, circa Aug-Sep 1973. Captions for most of these photographs were added at a later date by family members. All are from 1973 unless otherwise indicated. Photographs 15.69 to 15.131 are mainly photographs of friends and relatives of Kath Walker, including many children.

Scrape paintings

Ink and paint; 17 scrape painting designs; from the Sydney studio. One design on a page from The Sydney Morning Herald dated, Saturday 27 Jul 1940.

Negatives of New Guinea

  • F3856
  • File
  • ca. 1940-1950

This file is comprised of a folder of 101 negatives, 11 x 7 cm. Images of mostly landscapes, with some of ships, workers at a building site, local indigenous people, what appears to be a WWII memorial. Original box marked 'New Guinea' and appeared to have the name 'Reg Sly' in pencil on the back.

Challenge

Challenge, a play in one act was most likely written in the 1940s. There is one typescript and three carbon copy typescripts, 12 leaves, undated.

Newspaper cutting and note about the poem Doomed by Margaret Compton Saunders

  • F2011
  • File
  • 1939

Newspaper cutting of the poem Doomed by Margaret Compton (June) Sauders that Kath Watson removed from the The Courier-Mail, 5 Jan 1939, p. 3. Accompanied by a typescript note written by Kath Thomas in July 1979 about the poem.

Included with the poem and note in an envelope with the handwritten inscription "Enclosed in 1942 Australian Poetry (from Flexmore Hudson) and the Christmas Greetings from Rex Ingamells, and F.H. Jindyworobak 1943", with two small handwritten notes from Rex Ingamells and Flexmore Hudson, thanking Kath Watson for her contribution to poetry.

Thomas, Kath, 1911-1994

Newspaper cuttings, 1939 to 1985

This file consists of one school exercise book of newspaper cuttings featuring Kath Walker and a folder one folder of newspaper cuttings, many undated, on various subjects related to Aboriginal civil and human rights. Articles about her political statements with miscellaneous articles about other Aboriginal people, and about the poor living conditions, education and welfare of Aboriginal people throughout Australia. Some articles on other Aboriginal activists.

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