Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1988-2006 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
24 boxes, 1 parcel, 2 albums.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Herb Wharton was born in Cunnamulla, Queensland and began work as a drover in his teenage years. His maternal grandmother was of the Kooma people and his grandfathers were Irish and English. He has travelled extensively throughout Australia and abroad and is a prominent lecturer in Australian indigenous literature and culture. He has published essays, poetry and book reviews. He was highly commended in the 1990 David Unaipon Award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1988-2005.
Collection alternatively titled as: Herb Wharton Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Manuscript drafts of books and poetry, correspondence, diaries, speeches, notes, taped interviews, newspaper cuttings, photographs.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
In copyright. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
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
Digital copies of some items held in Fryer Library (Restricted) collection in UQ eSpace.
Related units of description
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 audio recordings in this collection, and in UQ eSpace, may contain voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased.
Alternative identifier(s)
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Millennium Local System Number
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Libraries Australia ID
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Wharton, Herb, 1936- (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
Updated, AM, 08-Sep-2021.
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.