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Date(s)
- 1886-2005 (Creation)
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Collection
Extent and medium
42 boxes, 2 parcels.
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Administrative history
The first local branch of the WCTU was formed in Sydney in 1882. The movement did not begin to grow in Australia until 1885 when Mary Leavitt, the first world missionary of the American WCTU, toured the colonies and helped found ten new branches, five in Queensland alone. The following year the Queensland branches came together to establish the WCTUQ. Conservative in outlook, the Union’s primary mission was to promote total abstinence from alcohol, but it also campaigned on a range of other issues relating to the social position of women, most notably female suffrage, which it saw as beneficial to the entire community and as a means to further its own agenda through women’s power at the ballot box. The WCTUQ played a significant role in Queensland social reform politics throughout the 1890s and in the leadup to the winning of (white) female suffrage in Queensland in 1905. Although it remained in existence throughout the twentieth century, the era prior to WW1 marked the highpoint of the WCTUQ’s influence in Queensland.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Records, 1886-2005
Collection alternatively titled as: Women's Christian Temperance Union of Queensland Collection.
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Scope and content
Minutes, correspondence, membership rolls, reports, leaflets, scrapbooks, photographs, ephemera created or collected by the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Queensland (WCTUQ).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The intellectual arrangement and physical arrangement of this collection differ. Please check box listing at the end of the finding aid document.
Arranged into series in the PDF Finding aid:
Series A: Executive Minutes
Series B: Local Branch Minutes
Series C: State Convention Minutes and Roll Books, Organising Board Minutes
Series D: State and Union Correspondence and Affiliation Correspondence
Series E: Committee Account Books, Other Various Account Books and Account and Financial Statements
Series F: Other Committee Minutes, Reports and Other Material
Series G: Literature Resource Books
Series H: Miscellaneous Roll Books
Series I: Temperance Recitations and Dialogues
Series J: Scrapbooks and Newspaper Cuttings
Series K: Miscellaneous Material
Series L: Photographs
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Unrestricted access.
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Copyright varies.
Language of material
- English
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Publication note
Material from this collection has been cited in:
Jordan D (2024) ‘The Men Are Asked to Leave: Coalescence and Women’s Autonomy, 1894’, in Australian Women’s Justice, Routledge, doi:10.4324/9781003384298-6.
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Migrated
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 19-Aug-2024.
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.