Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1851-1960 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
8 boxes, 2 parcels
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
William Gall was born in Ipswich in 1867. He joined the public service in 1885, beginning in the Colonial Secretary's Department. He transferred to the Audit Office in 1894, and then to the Home Secretary's Department in 1903 In 1913, he was appointed Under-Secretary for Home Affairs and Protector of Aborigines. Gall was Acting Comptroller-General of Prisons from 1926. He retired in 1934. He was a speculative investor and was interested in Queensland history.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1851-1960
Collection alternatively titled as: William James Gall Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Diaries, newspaper clippings 1892-1934, official and private correspondence, photographs, records, Prizewinners' list from Ipswich Grammar School, financial papers, invitations and programmes; inter-departmental memoranda from period as Under-Secretary for Home Affairs and Protector of Aborigines; manager and inspector list from Bank of New South Wales, mining and share prospectuses, reports and circulars; notes on Queensland and Australian history.
Bulk of papers 1880-1938.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Pre-1955 photographs - Copyright expired
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
Notes area
Note
Material in this collection may contain culturally sensitive words or descriptions of Indigenous people.
Note
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this manuscript may contain images or names of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased.
Alternative identifier(s)
Alma MMS ID
Millennium Local System Number
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Libraries Australia ID
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Gall, William James, 1867-1938 (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, SJB, 22-Nov-2022.
Revised, BS, 1-Dec-2021
Revised, Linda Justo, 3-Aug-2021. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.