Collection UQFL489 - Caroline Kelly Papers

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Identity area

Reference code

UQFL489

Title

Caroline Kelly Papers

Date(s)

  • ca. 1900-1987 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

9 boxes, 3 albums, 3 parcels

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 19... »

Archival history

When Caroline Kelly died in 1989 in northern New South Wales, her personal papers passed into the hands of her friends Grahame and Stephanie Gooding, who recognised their potential value as historical records and carefully preserved them until 2010. In ... »

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited by University of Queensland anthropology graduate students, Kim de Rijke and Anthony Jefferies. Donated by James Kelly.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Personal and professional papers of Caroline Kelly, including correspondence; financial and legal papers; unpublished poetry and stories; theatre records and publications; anthropology field notes, reports and articles; photographs and newspaper cuttings.... »

System of arrangement

Arranged into seven series:
Series A - Correspondence.
Series B - Financial and legal papers.
Series C - Other personal papers.
Series D - Theatre papers.
Series E - Anthropology papers.
Series F - Newspaper cuttings.
Series G - Photographs.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Unrestricted access, except for restricted access to the glass plate negatives in Series G-Subseries 3 (Parcel 3), and one handwritten letter in Series E-File 19 (in Box 7 Folder 19). Application for access to restricted material may be submitted to the ... »

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright varies. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright . Please attribute the Fryer Library.

Pre-1955 photographs - Out of copyright. Able to be reproduced without permission. Please attribute the Fryer Library.

Language of material

  • Australian Language
  • English

Language and script notes

Please refer to Series E - Anthropology Papers, to view the various Aboriginal languages recorded in this collection.

Finding aids

A published guide, as a CD-ROM, to the anthropological material held in this collection was compiled by the University of Queensland Anthropology School prior to donation to Fryer Library:
Kelly, Caroline; Trigger, David S., et al. (2011). The Caroline ... »

Allied materials area

Existence and location of copies

Some of this collection was digitised in 2010. These digital copies are not available in UQ eSpace.

Related units of description

For material related to Caroline Kelly's theatrical work, see the Carrie Tennant Papers, UQFL52

Related descriptions

Publication note

Material in this collection has been cited in:
Lowe KM and Law AME (2022) ‘Location of historic mass graves from the 1919 Spanish Influenza in the Aboriginal community of Cherbourg using geophysics’, Queensland archaeological research, 25:67–81, doi:10.25120/qar.25.2022.3890.

Notes area

Note

Material in this collection may contain culturally sensitive words or descriptions.
This material contains culturally sensitive depictions of Indigenous people.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that photographic works may contain ... »

Note

In different periods of her life Caroline Kelly was also known as Caroline Watson, Caroline Tennant-Watson, Caroline Tennant, Carrie Tennant or Caroline Tennant Kelly. To avoid confusion Kelly is used throughout this collection description. It was her ... »

Alternative identifier(s)

Alma MMS ID

991012459699703131

Access points

Name access points

Description control area

Status

Revised

Dates of creation revision deletion

Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 16-Oct-2024.
Revised, MSB, 13-Jul-2023.
Revised, Linda Justo, 19-Jun-2023.
Revised, SJB, 18-Nov-2022.
Revised, Linda Justo, 15-Feb-2022. Revised, AM, 19-May-2020.
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.

Related people and organizations

Physical storage

  • Box: UQFL489 Box 1
  • Box: UQFL489 Box 2
  • Box: UQFL489 Box 3
  • Box: UQFL489 Box 4
  • Box: UQFL489 Box 5
  • Box: UQFL489 Box 6
  • Box: UQFL489 Box 7
  • Box: UQFL489 Box 8
  • Box: UQFL489 Box 9
  • Album: UQFL489 Album 1
  • Album: UQFL489 Album 2
  • Album: UQFL489 Album 3
  • Parcel: UQFL489 Parcel 1
  • Parcel: UQFL489 Parcel 2
  • Parcel: UQFL489 Parcel 3