Papers, reports and photographs of The Amalgamated Glass Bottle Workers' Union, The Zetland Glass Bottle Works Ltd, The Australian Glass Manufacturers Company and other glass making information.

Minute books of general and executive meetings (3 volumes).

Auburn. Official organ of the Lidcombe Unemployed and Relief Workers. Vol 1 no 1 - Vol 3 no 6 held

Presscopy letterbooks, correspondence, legal agreements, and financial records of JC Young and Company, Paterson, Ray, Palmer and Company, Paterson, Laing and Company, and Paterson, Laing and Bruce Limited.

Agreements, minute books, correspondence, financial and legal records, shipping documents, map (Great Northern Railway), and plan of works of the Australian Coking Company

Minutes of the Woonona Lodge (1889-1894) and financial records (1885-1893) of the Illawarra Coal Miners' Protective Association, and minutes, letter books, financial records, and membership records of the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association and the Amalgamated Miners' Association, Illawarra Branch. Minutes of the Balmain Sinkers' Association (1904-1907) and the United Order of Druids - Woonoona Lodge (1892 -1908), and material identified as Australian Labour Federation, Illawarra District Council and from 1916, Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation. Includes printed material from 1890 to 1954.

This is a copy of an MA thesis on the history of the Australian Agricultural Company written in 1933, and covering the company’s history from 1824 to 1932.

The Labor Council of New South Wales organised a "Pan-Pacific Trade Union Conference' in September 1926. This conference resulted in the setting up of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat (PPTUS) to which the Labor Council was then affiliated and to which many of the Labor Council leadership were part of. The PPTUS published a journal, the Pan-Pacific Worker, which by 1929 absorbed the Council's 'Labor Monthly' journal, (see 'In the Case of Oppression: the Life and Times of the Labor Council of New South Wales p. 200). Issues held; vols. 1-4 (Apr 1928 - Jan 1932).

Minutes and branch rules of the Canberra Times Chapel and copies of awards.

Melbourne. Issued by the Conference of State Government Organisations, then the State Instrumentalities Unions Committee. Vol. 1 nos. 1 - 5 held.

This collection has only one item: The Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International Year-book 1931, published by the Secretariat of the Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International, Vienna. The Amalgamated Post Workers' Union of Australia was affiliated with the international body.

Correspondence files, papers relating to the Metropolitan Gas Company and arbitration transcripts.

Melbourne. A monthly journal of Insurance, Banking and Finance. Printed and published by McCarron, Bird & Co, Collins Street, Melbourne. Years held: 1911 - 1919, 1923 - 1924, 1926 - 1928, 1930 - 1931

Official Bulletin issued by the strike committee, Brisbane, 1912, report of the All Australian Trade Union Congress, February 1930, The Worker, 1908, 1910, 1922, 1929.

Melbourne. For the Trade Union Room and Home. Jan 1924 - Sep 1932 May 1923 [?] incorporates Socialist, Feb 1924 Ross's Monthly, also Clothing Trades Gazette. Four issues held: Vol 1 no 1, 15 Jan 1924;

AML&F Co Ltd Sydney Office individual ledgers consisting of station accounts and special clients accounts, with index. Ledgers 18-1 (A-D 1916 - 1917) and 19-1 (A-D, 1917 - 1918) were not received from the company.

A copy of a typed manuscript of Hannett's A Diary from Russia, 1929, together with photographs, credentials and related correspondence of the Executive of the Red International of Labour Unions to the Labour Council of NSW. The material was collated by Graham Stutchbury and is introduced by him.

Microfilm copy of financial records, cash books, certificates issued, brewing manual, stock and order books. Includes ledgers of Allt's Brewery and Wine and Spirit Company (1888 - 1895), Resch's Waverley Brewery and Resch's Ltd.

Microfilm copy of Resch's Ltd minutes of board meetings, cellar list books, brewing books, property (hotels) register and financial records of Wilcannia Lion Brewery.

Financial records, registers of mortgages, registers of members, and share registers.

The journal dates from 2 June 1924 when the property of Gunnible was acquired by RA Staughton from Thomas and Percival Willsallen and ends on 30 June 1930.

Photographs of the Tooth and Company brass band which operated from 1927 to 1932 at the Kent Brewery in Sydney.

Minute books of the branch meetings, committees and conferences. Includes records of predecessors the Victorian Grocers Employees' Association and the United Grocers, Tea and Dairy Produce Employees' Union of Victoria.

A small collection of papers relating to Paul and Gray Limited (1902-1930), Tooth and Company prospectus (1888) and Orient-Royal Mail Line timetable and map (1907-1908).

Minutes of Oakey Sub-Branch (1 item).

Copies of photographs of Directors and Federal Council members originally held by the Victorian branch of the Union.

Minutes of general, special and committee meetings, members contribution books and financial records. Also includes members contribution to the Corporation Employees' Association and Benefit Society (1913-1919).

All types of company records including despatches, correspondence, indexes; New South Wales ledgers of the Australian Agricultural Company; ledgers of the Peel River Land & Mineral Company for Moorlands, Avon Downs, Mount Alfred and Mount Margaret properties.

Minute book containing minutes of meetings re. formation of the Esperance Branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia, 1924, 1926 and minutes of Branch Committee, Special and General meetings, 1926-1929 (including ); Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia membership register (?members resident in Esperance), 1907-1909; Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia cash book (?members resident in Esperance), 1909-1910. The Esperance Branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia was formed on 3 March 1926.

The Labor Council of New South Wales set up the Labor Information and Research Bureau in 1921 to provide data on working conditions and employers. The Labor Information and Research Bureau published 'The Labor Monthly' from 1926 to 1929, at which point it became the Pan-Pacific Worker. Issues held; Vol. 1 nos. 1-18 (1926-1927), vol. 2 nos. 1-12 (1928), vol. 3 no. 1 (January 1929).

Minutes, staff records, business notes and instruction book, wages book, register of members and directors, register of mortgages and financial records, newspapers containing advertisements

Minutes of meetings and contribution ledger

Covering years Jul 1921 (vol. 1 no. 1) to Dec 1926. Renamed 'The Railroad' in January 1927, issues held from Jan 1927 to Jun 1927.

The flag has a white or bone background, green border, emblematic tree, and motto: mihi cura futuri, and the fabric shows signs of wear and tear. The flag was designed and made by Ruth Lane Poole.

These are microfilm copies of general ledgers, 'B' ledgers and ledgers of 'Companies Own Properties' from Goldsbrough Mort and Company's Melbourne office.

Minutes of general meetings of the United Operative Plumbers' and Gasfitters' Society of Victoria and minutes of general meetings and the Management Committee of the Victorian Branch of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees' Union of Australia.

Daily newspapers, occasional bulletins, and broadsheets published in London during the General Strike in Great Britain. Includes minute records and catalogue card.

Memorandum and article of association, minute book, share register, financial records, agreement and orders issued by the Commonwealth of Australia.

Melbourne, Sydney. Official organ of the Federated Seamen's Union of Australasia. Some gaps in holdings. Jun 1913 issue is a photocopy

Microfilm copy of 'Report of the Federal Australian Labor Party Committee of Inquiry into the Alleged Faked Ballot Boxes'.

Index cards containing information about loan applications. Applications from 1877 to 1896 are unnumbered and applications 1451 - 1600 from 1909-1910 are not included.

1 album of 40 black and white photographs taken by a miner associated with the Astrolable mineral field and the Laloki and Dubuna Mines near Port Moresby. The photographs were taken between 1918 and 1924 and include images of mining operations, storage facilities and a tramway, staff housing for the New Guinea Copper Mine, as well as the general images of the landscape and everyday events, including Rouna Falls, Bootless Bay, farming, harvesting and ploughing, a coconut plantation at Bautama (Bootless Inlet) and a funeral procession.

Research material for Ivan Southall’s novel, The Weaver from Meltham.

Correspondence and financial records

This collection consists of a bound volume of papers and glass lantern slides and negatives. The volume includes instructions to competitors in the 1911 Federal Capital Design Competition, the report of the Federal Capital Designs Board and other parliamentary papers relating to Walter Burley Griffin’s winning design, including correspondence relating to AJ Macdonald’s temporary transfer ‘to assist Mr Griffin’, and reports of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works on ‘Dams for Ornamental Waters – Canberra’ and the erection of the Provisional Parliament House, Canberra. The lantern slides are of AJ Macdonald’s entry (no. 9) in the Federal Capital Design Competition which was one of the 46 short-listed designs (see www.idealcity.org.au/competition-3-shortlist-46.html). The lantern slides (8 x 8 cm) are:
•Drawing 1, Map of Contour Survey of the Site
•Drawing 2, Perspective view overlooking the Administrative Centre
Two additional lantern slides labelled A and B relate to another project for a site south of the Flinders Street station in Melbourne. There are also two glass plate negatives (22 x 17 cm) of Drawings 1 and 2 with a label ‘AJ Macdonald’s design for Federal Capital, DW Crawford’s perspective view thereof’.

Microfilm copy of:

1. Memorandum and articles of association 1911
2. Certificate of incorporation of a company 1912
3. List of shareholders 1912 - 1913
4. Shareholders’ resolutions 1914
5. Additional articles of association 1914
6. List of shareholders 1914 - 1915
7. Shareholders’ resolutions 1915
8. List of shareholders 1916 - 1919
9. Agreement for sale and purchase of Hume Brothers Engineering works 1920
10. Shareholders’ resolutions 1920
11. Hume Company Limited list of shareholders 1920
12. Hume Brothers Cement Iron Company Limited – notice to wind up voluntarily 1921
13. Final meeting of shareholders and company liquidation 1923

This deposit was transferred to the custody of the Ballarat Trades and Labour Council in 2016.

Copies of a draft scheme of Federation by the Australasian Federation of Labour, submitted by the seventh Intercolonial Trades and Labour Congress to the Labor Councils and Labour Unions of Australasia 1891 and posters relating to Eight-Hour Day celebrations. Other records of the Ballarat Trades and Labour Council including minutes, correspondence and records of Ballarat branches of trade unions now held by the Ballarat Trades and Labour Council.

Melbourne. Let the people know the truth; For thinkers and the unafraid. Vol 1 No 2 - Vol 7 No 82 held, with gaps

Printed material re trade union, socialist and peace movements, including a copy of the epitaph of J P Quaine.

Annual reports, proceedings of ordinary general meetings, correspondence and financial records.

Microfilm copy of minutes of the Sydney Branch 1852 - 1859, Melbourne Branch 1859 - 1872, Australasian and Commonwealth Councils of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, later known as the Amalgamated Engineering Union.

Melbourne. Editor G. Baracchi. Vol 1 No 1 - No 22 held, with gaps

Rule books, conference report and photographs, including Federated Saw Mill, Timber Yard and General Woodworkers' Employees Association material.

Microfilm copy of minutes of Committee of Management meetings, 7 Feb 1902 - 27 Oct 1921.

Copies of records relevant to the 1907 Harvester Judgement case heard in the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration before Justice Higgins.

Annual reports (1903-1913) and other printed material.

Microfilm copy of photographs of Western Australian Labor leaders (trade unionists).

Adelaide and Melbourne. Published by the International Industrial Workers. A newspaper of the revolutionary labor movement. Issues held: no. 7 (Melbourne, 7 Feb 1920), no. 3 (Adelaide, May 1920), no. 4 (Adelaide, Jul 1920)

Microfilm copy of Coghlan's letterbooks (1906–1915) and press cuttings about his activities.

Sydney. Official organ of the Australasian Socialist Party

Melbourne. Socialist Party of Victoria. An exponent of International Socialism

Journal of the Australian Natives Association

The collection was compiled by Charles Morris Woodford, naturalist and First Resident Commissioner of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1896 - 1915. The collection includes diaries, photographs, correspondence, sketches and research notes related to the natural history, geography and ethnography of the Solomon Islands and other Pacific Islands from 1884 - 1915, as well as family papers and documents related to the administration of Solomon Islands Protectorate. There are documents about relations between the missionaries and the traders, matters associated with labour and the alienation of land, economic activity and tourism. The collection includes Woodford's 'Journal of a voyage from Suva Fiji to the Gilbert Group' from 4 March 1884 - 22 June 1884 ; Woodford's diaries from 1886 - 1889 ; 140 photographs taken on the voyage to and residence in the Solomon Islands in 1886 ; photographs of Rennell Island and inhabitants signed by Northcote Deck c1909. Of significance are ten large photographs of various scenes of the Solomon Islands, c1901, some published in The discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendana in 1568, by Lord Amherst of Hackney and Basil Thomson (1901).

ANUA 481 is a consolidated collection of all four parts of the Woodford donation:
ANUA 481/1 is a photograph album containing 140 photographs taken in from April - October 1886 ;
ANUA 481/1 - 282 are items from 'bundles 1 - 30' ;
ANUA 481/ 283 - 317 relate to the second donation (ie PMB 1381) ;
ANUA 481/318 - 322 and 324 - 327 are eight large format photographs c1884 ;
ANUA 481/323 is a presentation plaque given to Woodford in 1905 ;
ANUA 481/329 is a collection of 126 photographs [ie PMB Photo 58]

Issues from Jul 1917 to Dec 1917.

Monthly town hotel ledgers [items 1-119], monthly country hotel ledgers [items 120-134] and monthly cordial ledgers [items 135-140]. Hotels are alphabetised by the last name of the owner/licensee. Contains only name of hotel, name of owner/licensee, location of hotel, and amounts of product ordered.

Photocopies of annual reports (except 1913), conference reports and minutes.

Covering years 1910 - 1917.

Microfilm copy of 'Sidelights on Two Referendums, 1916-1917' which comprises extracts from Henry Boote's letters to his brother, Will, mainly during the referendum years, 1916-1917, but dating from 1911 when Boote became leader and feature writer of the Australian Worker. Included, also, is an historical record of Mr Boote, pp. 88-94.

Collection of Queensland Survey Office maps showing the environs of Mackay, Clermont, Hughenden, Leichhardt District; and parts of Gregory, Burke and Mitchell Districts, County of Deas Thompson, County of Carlisle, County of Rawbelle and County of Murchison.

Despatches from London (1856-1916) and copies of despatches to London (1860-1916) with index (1978-1916); private letters from London (1910-1914); letterbook of confidential despatches (1876-1899); general letterbooks (1836-1838, 1850-1852); index prepared for Parry to correspondence concerning establishment and administration of Company before his arrival (1824-1829).

Melbourne. Circulated in the printing and allied trades in Australia and New Zealand. Now Printing Trades Journal S354. Holdings: 1882 - 1916 (incomplete)

Issues for Dec 1914, Oct & Nov 1915 and Jul & Sep 1916 are held in S56 (Dalgety's Wool Review), being bound into the volume for 1915-1922 of that publication. Issues for the period Jan to Sep 1916 are also held in one bound volume.

Photographs of Victorian trade union banners housed by Museum Victoria.

Copies of 'The Westralian Worker' (1 May 1914 - 29 Dec 1916).

Microfilm copies of despatches and letters between the General Superintendent of the Company (and other persons in New South Wales) and the Directors of the Peel River Land & Mineral Company in London, including indexes to the despatches and letters.

Chicago. A monthly journal of international socialist thought. May 1905 absorbed Comrade. Five issues held: Nov 1905, Dec 1905, Nov 1909, Oct 1910, Feb 1915

Register of friendly societies and chronological register of documents lodged by the societies (microform).

Microfilm of minutes of annual general meetings and board minutes.

Minute book, correspondence, agreements and financial records

Copies of nine photographs of the Geelong Eight Hours Anniversary Committee (and associated activities) and Trades Hall Council delegates.

Letterbook including copies of letters sent by RR Mackellar, Manager of Clifton Estate on general and station business.

Journals, ledgers, diaries, shearing returns, stores and day books, station owner and manager's correspondence, and financial records.

Glasgow. Vol 50 no 645 - Vol 69 no 895 held

Microfilm copy of register of mortgages realised with separate index, 1862 - 1912

Microfilm copy of records held by the company in Melbourne:

1. Reports and accounts 1895: comparative results of sugar estates operations, 1894 - 1895
2. Valuation of freehold and leasehold properties 1909: class V sugar estates, pp. 55-61
3. Mackay Estates annual reports 1901 - 1912
4. Kalamia Estate annual reports 1903 - 1912

Microfilm copy of the Melbourne Branch manager's reports on branch operations: May 1889 report to Manager, London; 1890-1902 reports to General Manager for Australia, Melbourne; 1903- July 1912 reports to Chief Inspector, Melbourne.

Ledgers, journals, wool press books, stock records, store and ration accounts, letter books and correspondence. Also includes letter books and financial records of Gnalta Station and some material for Packsaddle Station.

Microfilm copy of annual reports and balance sheets of the Peel River Land & Mineral Company, 1854 - 1911.

Sydney. Complete set of publications designed to present Labor case in election campaign, Sep 1910 to Oct 1910. Forerunner of union-owned Labor Daily

Photographs of Fiji from an employee of the Colonial Sugar Refinery at Labasa, Fiji, originally in two albums. Removed from the original albums for conservation purposes. Items 1-65 are photographs from a 'Postcard album' and most are printed to be postcards. Items 66-89 were in a separate photograph album.

Issues covering the years 1888 (vol. 1 no. 1 Apr 1888) to 1892 and 1907 to 1910.

Microfilm copy of the minutes of evidence and proceedings of New South Wales Royal Commission on Earth Subsidences at Newcastle, 6-20 February 1908.

Sydney. An organ devoted to the interests of the Railway and Tramway Services. Conducted by the Railway Institute Council. Vol 6 No 70 - Vol 16 No 189 held, with gaps

Letterbooks including copies of letters sent by John Maroney on station and personal matters.

Microfilm copy of the transcript of proceedings in the application of HV McKay for an order under the Excise and Tariff Act (Harvester Case) to the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration.

Microfilm copy of Tocsin and Labor Call published in Melbourne.

Black and white photographs of New Guineans, plantation workers, missionaries and buildings in Daru, Port Moresby, and Goaribari Island in Papua New Guinea

Microfilm copy of editions from 7 August 1904 to 4 September 1904.

Microfilm of company registrations in New South Wales.