Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1888-1975. (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
9 boxes, 1 parcel
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Paul Ambrose Tripcony was born on 12 April 1901 at Myora Mission, on North Stradbroke Island. His parents were Thomas Buchanan Tripcony (1870-1958) and his wife, Mary Rose Tyrrell Rollins (1867-1939). Paul Tripcony was one of eight children. He worked as a grader driver, machinery man, and roadmaker. Tripcony was interested in Australian aborigines and their culture and collected aboriginal artefacts. He had an extensive collection of both Australian and overseas literature, which covered his wide range of interests from politics to poetry. Paul Tripcony died on 12 August 1975.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1888-1975
Collection alternatively titled as: Paul Tripcony Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Certificates and testimonials, outgoing and incoming correspondence, photographs, financial papers, booksellers' catalogues and newsletters, publishers' announcements, political and pressure group leaflets, maps of Moreton Bay Islands, notices and plans of Moreton Bay land for sale, newspaper cuttings, subject files on people and organisations, periodicals, notes and notebooks.
Most papers cover the period 1950s-1970s.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
Material from this collection has been cited in:
Kirkwood, Sandra. (2016). Music museum curatorship: Reclaiming rights and responsibilities for musicking on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), Australia. In Simpson, Andrew and Hammond, Gina (eds). (2016). A Cultural Cacophony: Museum Perspectives and Projects. Canberra: Museums Galleries Australia.
Notes area
Note
This collection may contain culturally sensitive words or descriptions, some of which might not normally be used in certain public or community contexts.
Note
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this manuscript may contain images or names of people now deceased.
Alternative identifier(s)
Alma MMS ID
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Tripcony, Paul, 1901-1975 (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, SJB, 22-Nov-2022.
Revised, Linda Justo, 7-Apr-2022. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.