Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [19--]-[196-] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
119 boxes and parcels, approx. 3000 items.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Father Hayes was born in 1889 at Frederickton, New South Wales, and began book collecting at age seven. He commenced studies for the priesthood at St Columbia's College, Springwood, in 1911 and was ordained after further study at St Patrick's, Manly, in 1918. Over the course of 70 years he amassed one of the greatest collections of Australiana, including more than 25,000 volumes, 30,000 manuscript items, 1,500 Indigenous artefacts, maps, stamps, coins, weapons, geological specimens, cattle bells, and a variety of other material. On 19 - 20 October 1967 a convoy of removal trucks transported eighty large crates and 400 cartons of material to The University of Queensland Library at St Lucia, doubling its holdings on Australian subjects and effectively putting the Library on the map as an institution capable of supporting high-level research in Australian studies -- excerpted from Found in Fryer.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, [19--]-[196-]
Collection alternatively titled as: Father Edward Leo Hayes Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Acquired from Father Leo Hayes.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Collected correspondence and manuscript material on literary and historical matters, mostly in Queensland and New South Wales. Also personal papers of Father Hayes, relating to his activities as parish priest; bookplates, photographs, realia.
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.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged into series and files by library processing staff.
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
Print inventories available:
(1) The venerable archdeacon Edward Leo Hayes collection, [compiled by S.J. Page] (Brisbane; s.n., 1970)
(2) Catalogue of manuscripts from the Hayes Collection in the University of Queensland Library, edited by Margaret Brenan, Marianne Ehrhardt and Carol Hetherington (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Library, 1976).
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:
Aird, Michael; Mapar, Mandana; & Memmott, Paul (2015). Wild Australia : Meston's Wild Australia Show 1892-1893. University of Queensland Anthropology Museum, St. Lucia, Qld
Bellanta, M. (2014). 'Bury Me Deep Down Below: Masculine Sentimentality on the Turn-of-the-Century Australian Frontier', Outskirts, 31.
Clements, Gail. 'Colonial science: F. M. Bailey and the proposed supplement to Flora Australiensis', Historical Records of Australian Science, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1998: 149-162.
Holland, Alison (2015). Just relations : the story of Mary Bennett's crusade for Aboriginal rights. UWA Publishing, Crawley, Western Australia
Lydon, Jane (2016). Photography, humanitarianism, empire. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Lydon, Jane (2014). 'The Bloody Skirt of Settlement: Arthur Vogan and Anti-Slavery in 1890s Australia', Australian Historical Studies, 45:1, 46-70
McConnel, Katherine (2002). 'The people's stories: Queensland and Federation'. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Culture, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2002: 161-169. Cultural Heritage Series.
Strauss, Jennifer (1997). 'Un/ Australian activities: Mary Gilmore's versions from the Spanish', Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2, Oct 1997: 156-164.
Saunders K (1984) Indentured labour in the British Empire, 1834-1920, Croom Helm, London.
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.
Alternative identifier(s)
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Hayes, Edward Leo, 1889-1967 (Subject)
Genre access points
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Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, BS, 9-Dec-2021
Revised, AM, 27-May-2020.
Revised, AM, 31-Mar-2020.
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.