Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1939-2010 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
1 box, 1 folder
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Ted Crofts, son of Nick and Winifred Crofts of Nambour, earned a Diploma of Architecture at the Central Technical College in 1941. He then joined the Army and served in New Guinea as a Lieutenant until 1945. After the war he married Helen Story, with whom he later had three daughters, and completed the Diploma of Architecture at the University of Queensland. In 1947 Crofts entered private practice with Dean Prangley and Colin Tesch. He also lectured at Queensland Institute of Technology (now Queensland University of Technology) and was a skillful watercolourist who as a young man had studied under Melville Haysom. He died in 2007.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Daughter of Edward Crofts.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1939-2010
Collection alternatively titled as: Ted Crofts Collection
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Biographical notes on Ted Crofts; two student drawings; twenty x 35mm slides from the early private collection of Ted Crofts (Prangley and Crofts, Architects); seven Christmas cards featuring sketches by Crofts; and drafting equipment.
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
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Alma MMS ID
OCLC Number
Libraries Australia ID
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Prangley, Dean Stocker, 1917-1998 (Subject)
- Crofts, Ted (Edward Wentworth Nicholson), 1919-2007 (Subject)
- Prangley Crofts and Partners (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
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Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 6-Feb-2023. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.