Collection UQFL52 - Carrie Tennant Papers

Identity area

Reference code

UQFL52

Title

Carrie Tennant Papers

Date(s)

  • 1924-1932. (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

1 box.

Context area

Name of creator

(1899-1989)

Biographical history

Emily Caroline Watson was born in Manchester in 1899, she moved to Australia in the 1920s and became involved in the theatre, first in Brisbane and then in Sydney. During this time, she used her mother's maiden name and was known as Carrie Tennant. In 1929, Caroline married Francis Kelly and took his surname. She founded the Community Playhouse, the first theatre in New South Wales devoted to producing Australian drama, in 1929, followed by the Play Society in 1931. She edited The Community Magazine: Official Magazine of the Community Play-house from 1930 to 1931. In the 1930s she enrolled in a Diploma in Anthropology at the University of Sydney and went on to conduct anthropological fieldwork in Aboriginal communities at Fraser Island and Cherbourg in Queensland and at Burnt Bridge in New South Wales. During the Second World War she began a major survey of non-British settlement in Australia for the Commonwealth Government, a project that continued until the late 1940s. Towards the end of her working life, she served as a consulting anthropologist to the State Planning Authority of New South Wales. Caroline Kelly died on 1 September 1989 in Kyogle.

Archival history

Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1924-1932
Collection alternatively titled as: Caroline Kelly Collection, Caroline Kelly Papers

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Correspondence 1928 to 1932; press clippings 1924 to 1931.

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

For material related to Caroline Kelly's anthropological work, see the Caroline Kelly Papers, UQFL489 Series D Theatre papers.

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Notes area

Alternative identifier(s)

Alma MMS ID

991003633439703131

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Rules and/or conventions used

Status

Migrated

Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

Revised 24 April 2019; title changed, link to UQFL489
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.

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Script(s)

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