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Early Australian maps

  • AU ANUA 289
  • Series
  • 1848 - 1947

This small collection of folded maps is attributed to Professor Spate who acquired them for the cartographic collection in the Department of Human Geography. Some are annotated with catalogue numbers. There is also a map of France and one of Lahore in India.

Spate, Oskar Hermann Khristian

Legal and related papers

Contents: S. Roads at Warrah 1884 T. 'From the Strong room at the Bank of Australasia': Form of deed of grant conveying land 1848, NSW Certificate of Registration for AA Properties Ltd 1958, Royal Charter (copy), Extract from ledger re sale of Peel Estate 1853 U. UK Stamp Duties Act (1889), Act (1873), Act (1924), Act (1957) V. AA Company Draft Bill 1880 - 1886 W. NSW Railways Act and papers concerning use of the AACo's siding 1886 X. Authority to mine under the Pacific Ocean (Sea Pit) 1886 - 1900 Y. Papers concerning the resumption of Newcastle Wharf c. 1887 Z. Coal Agents - Girvan and Roper 1890 (aa) Hamilton Pit disaster 1890 (ab) NSW Death Duties Act 1899 (ac) Governor's (AP Blake) visit to Australia 1899 (ad) Securities 1900 - 1910 (ae) Land Subsidence at Newcastle 1907.

Mort and Company deposit

  • AU NBAC 13
  • Deposit
  • 1849 - 1896

Records prior to the formation of Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Includes papers relating to early partnership agreements and amalgamation, correspondence, catalogue, financial records, evaluations and memoranda, miscellaneous papers relating to the early history of Mort & Co.

Mort and Company Limited

Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows (MUIOOF) New South Wales records

  • AU NBAC N433
  • Deposit
  • 1849 - 2018

Minute books; attendance books; letter books; membership registers; sickness registers; lodge dispensations; rules, by-laws and guidelines; directories; conference reports; meeting papers; financial papers; health fund membership cards; funeral fund membership cards; night books; photographs; ceremonial sash.

Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows

McKillop and Sons deposit

  • AU NBAC N385
  • Deposit
  • 1849 - 2005

Minutes, memorandum and articles of association, financial records, station diaries, station correspondence and subject files, financial records, wages book, family histories and photographs, weather books, legal and land papers, staff lists, material re McKillop history project and Buddah Station film.

McKillop and Sons Proprietary Limited

Miscellaneous printed material

  • AU NBAC P56
  • Deposit
  • 1850s - 1990s

Publications including pamphlets, serials, books, plans, rule books, posters, invitations and press cuttings donated to the Archives.

Noel Butlin Archives Centre

Operative Stonemasons' Society of Australia Victorian Branch deposit

  • AU NBAC E117
  • Deposit
  • 1850 - 1965

Minutes of general and Committee meetings (1856-1962), correspondence and letterbooks, alphabetical registers of members (1855-1953), financial records, arbitration material, rule books, and records of the following lodges: Batesford, Ballarat, Beechworth, Big Hill, Black Forest, Bolinda Vale, Campaspe, Carlsruhe, Castlemaine, Collingwood, Faraday, Footscray, Geelong, Harcourt, Leithbridge, Maryborough, Middle Stump, Moorabool, Morang, Pentridge, Prahran, Ravenswood, Riddles Creek, Sunbury, Williamstown, Woodend, and Yan Yean. Also includes record of contributions and cash receipts of the Operative Masons' Benefit Society (1850-1851).

Friendly Society of United Operative Stonemasons of Victoria

Geoff McDonald Collection deposit 3

  • AU NBAC P94
  • Deposit
  • 1850 - 1971

The collection includes records of various Australian trade unions and organisations. Minutes, reports, correspondence, financial material, wages and membership records, subject files, arbitration material, printed and roneoed material, typescript material, photographs and illustrations. Also includes records relating to the Australian Nursing Federation Employees' Section, Victorian Branch, 1950; 1958-59;1963-1971.

McDonald, Geoff

Grand United Order of Oddfellows deposit

  • AU NBAC Z728
  • Deposit
  • 1850 - 2001

Minutes, membership records, financial records, rules and laws, correspondence, attendance books, visitors books, circulars, manuals, registration records, merit book, obiturary book, staff records, indexes, publications and memorabilia.

Grand United Order of Oddfellows

Adelaide Chamber of Commerce deposit 1

  • AU NBAC E199
  • Deposit
  • 1850 - 1972

Minute books of meetings including executive committee, sectional committees and council (1865-1971); cash book (1939-1948); annual and other reports, including congress and conference reports (1891-1972).

Adelaide Chamber of Commerce Incorporated

Annual Report, Monthly Report, and Monthly Journal

  • AU NBAC S44
  • Serial
  • 1851 - 1967

Annual reports 1851 - 1857, 1861 - 1866, 1896 - 1897 (box 1), Monthly Report 1851 - 1886, 1890 - 1896 (boxes 1 - 5). From 1897 to 1902 the ASE published the Engineers Journal and Monthly Record of Facts, Figures, and Fancy relating to the Engineering Trade, Unionism and Industrialism generally (boxes 5 - 6), but from c. 1905 the were two publications, the 'Report and Monthly Record' (1905 - 1912, boxes 6 - 7) and the 'Monthly Journal' (1908 - 1912, boxes 7 - 8). Between 1913 and 1921 these two separate publications were renamed the 'Monthly Journal and Report' (boxes 8 - 9), before the name changed to the Monthly Journal in May 1921 (when the ASE joined with other unions to become the Amalgamated Engineering Union), issues held from 1921 - 1964, and 1966 - 1967 (boxes 9 - 17). There is also a set of unbound duplicate Monthly Journals covering the years 1921 - 1933 (boxes 17 - 18), 1948 - 1959 and 1961 (boxes 19 - 20).

Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Machinists, Millwrights, Smiths, and Pattern Makers

N G Butlin deposit 1

  • AU NBAC P9
  • Deposit
  • 1851 - 1961

Pamphlets, notebooks and printed material relating to the printing industry, the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, and the Amalgamated Engineering Union. Includes original records collected and used by Butlin such as loan application cards of the Modern Permanent Building and Investment Society and the County of Bourke Permanent Building and Investment Society.

Butlin, Noel George

CSR Limited deposit 1

  • AU NBAC Z109
  • Deposit
  • 1851 - 1994

The deposit consists of patent files, records and photographs re refineries and mills, reports re Royal Commissions and Inquiries into the Sugar Industry, specifications, sketch books and engineering notes, correspondence, sales and deliveries books for refinery products, Fiji export marketing files c.1941-1977, records re Denning Arbitration hearings 1969, Fiji publications and press releases, deed of settlement, memorandum and articles of association, financial and legal records, annual reports, sugar market reports, press copy letter books, files of Chief Chemist CSR, files associated with the acquisition of Australian Estates Co Ltd, ledgers, engineers data books, Pyrmont Refinery records including employees register c.1854-1936 and property matters, staff books and register, miscellaneous documents papers and historical documents of E W Knox's period as general manager. Also includes publications received from CSR Sydney Head Office library after its closure in May 1987, records of sugar marketing division relating to International Sugar Agreement and Commonwealth Sugar Agreement, Fiji Sugar Inquiry Commission 1961, Royal Commission on Sugar Industry (Qld) reports, overseas reports 1921-1969, awards.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

McEwan's Limited records

  • AU NBAC N218
  • Deposit
  • 1852 - 1986

Minutes of Meetings - James McEwan & Company (1930-1984); McEwan's Ltd (1927-1985); Master Hardware Manufacturers (1933-1983); McEwan House (1951-1983); McEwan's Home Improvements (1962-1983); McEwan's (Canberra) / McEwan's Magnet Stores / Three Eight Seven (1959-1982); McEwan's Victoria (1984); Risbey's / McEwan's (Mildura) (1939-1983); Coles, Dyson & Hodson Retirement Fund (1942-1958); James McEwan & Company Staff Superannuation Scheme (1945-1957); McEwan's Staff Superannuation Fund (1949-1971). Share Registers - James McEwan & Company, McEwan House, Hardware Investments Company; McEwan's Home Improvements; McEwan's (Canberra); McEwan's (Mildura). Correspondence re. McEwan's shares (1965-1978); research papers on McEwan’s, 1852-1982 (includes McEwan’s in Fiji). Financial Records, stocktakes, budgets, profit reports and annual returns, 1940-1986 - McEwan’s Ltd and subsidiaries (Alexander Mair & Company, James McEwan & Company, Master Hardware Manufacturers, McEwan House, McEwan's Home Improvements, McEwan's Magnet Stores, McEwan’s (Mildura, Neton Products, Risbey’s, Brittain’s McEwan’s, Williams-McEwan’s, McEwan's Magnet Stores, Three Eight Seven) – some with Directors’ Reports included. Annual Reports - McEwan’s, 1951-1981, Charles Davis Ltd, 1986-1989, Repco Corporation, 1983 & 1989; Printed and published material, 1946-1986; Price lists and catalogues, 1901-1989. Photographs, audiovisual material, charts and plans.

McEwan's Limited

Amalgamated Society of Engineers minute book

The minute book records the establishment of the ‘No. 1 Australian Branch’ of the British union when a group of twenty-six members held a meeting on board the Frances Walker en route to Sydney on 8 October1852. The second meeting was held at the Castle Tavern in George Street in Sydney on 30 October. The minute book is listed on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register.

Amalgamated Engineering Union, Commonwealth Council microfilm deposit

  • AU NBAC M24
  • Deposit
  • 1852 - 1922

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.

Amalgamated Engineering Union

Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, National Office deposit 1

  • AU NBAC Z102
  • Deposit
  • 1852 - 1999

Minute books, rules, correspondence, proposition books and membership records, subject and office files, files of office holders, legal and historical papers, conference papers, industrial files, district committee minutes, branch minutes, reports, speeches, campaign files, photographs, films, posters and publications. Includes records of the following unions and predecessors Amalgamated Engineering Union, Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union, Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia, Blacksmiths Society of Australia, Federated Iron Moulders Union, Federated Moulders (Metals) Union, Federated Shipwrights and Ship Constructors Association, Federated Society of Boilermakers and Iron Ship Builders, Fox Manufacturing Dispute Committee, Metal Trades Federation, Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement and Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia, Steam Engine Makers Society, Association of Draughting, Supervisory and Technical Employees, Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union, Metals and Engineering Workers Union, Printing and Kindred Industries Union and the NSW Typographical Association.

Amalgamated Engineering Union

Goldsbrough Mort and Company Head Office, correspondence, client and station records

  • AU NBAC 2A
  • Deposit
  • 1852 - 1966

Registers of officers and staff (1852-1944), staff reports (1928-1962) and staff record cards (1962); Chairman's Board agenda papers (1951-1960); financial records including register of mortgages and share registers; clients' documents, Melbourne and Sydney offices (1886-1958); 'historical' material (1864-1977); legal case files; correspondence of G A Manning to Sydney, Perth and Adelaide offices (1939-1967); General Manager's and Secretary's correspondence with branch offices and London Office including presscopy letterbooks (1899-1962); correspondence with stations: Bunna Bunna, Canonbar, Corinda, Dumble, Eremeran, Manfred, Mulgawarrina, Weribone (1944-1955); Wool Department files, Stock Department files and Land Department files. Also includes records of the Melbourne Woolbrokers' Association and the Wool Selling Brokers Officers' Association of Australia (1914-1953) including minutes, financial records, arbitration material and press cuttings.

Goldsbrough Mort and Company

The Leviathan deposit

  • AU NBAC 48
  • Deposit
  • 1853 - 1961

Financial and legal records, Chairman's speeches, copy of memorandum and articles of association, correspondence, leases and agreements re properties in Melbourne, employee records, plans, photograph of Lewis Sanders and newspaper cuttings.

The Leviathan Limited

John McIlwraith and Company deposit

  • AU NBAC 35
  • Deposit
  • 1853 - 1948

Minutes, correspondence, financial and legal records, wages books, records of shipping business McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co Ltd, metal exchange prices, lead pipe book, staff records, blueprints and factory specifications, passport of John McIlwraith (1915), newspaper cuttings, photographs and plans.

John McIlwraith and Company Proprietary Limited

Peel River Land & Mineral Company (Australian Office) deposit 2

  • AU NBAC 121
  • Deposit
  • 1853 - 1951

All types of records relating to the company including memoranda and articles of association, certificates of registration, summaries of capital and stock, annual reports, financial records, despatches and correspondence. Includes station records for Goonoo Goonoo, Eagle Grange, Currawillinghi, Moorlands, Avon Downs, Mount Alfred, and Mount Margaret consisting of financial records, stock returns, shearing and wool records, land sales records, rent books, correspondence, salary and wages records, ledgers and day books, and maps.

Peel River Land and Mineral Company

Returns of the Colony

  • AU NBAC S1151
  • Serial
  • 1853 - 1855, 1857

Photocopy of the originals in the Archives Office of NSW. The Returns of the Colony ('Blue Books'), NRS 1286 consist of sets of statistical returns of the Colony of New South Wales and of areas under its jurisdiction compiled annually from 1822 to 1857 by the Colonial Secretary for transmission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies in London. New South Wales Census - 1851 held with 1853 volume.

Colonial Secretary's Office (New South Wales)

Peel River Land & Mineral Company microfilm deposit 2

  • AU NBAC M58
  • Deposit
  • 1853 - 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.

Peel River Land and Mineral Company

Peel River Land & Mineral Company (Australian Office) deposit 3

  • AU NBAC 128
  • Deposit
  • c. 1853 - 1955

All types of company and station records including capital and stock records, deeds and certificates of incorporation and registration, annual reports, financial records, and correspondence. Station records for Goonoo Goonoo, Eagle Grange, Moorlands, Currawillinghi, Avon Downs, Caldervale, Mount Margaret and Mount Alfred include station reports, financial records, wages book, wool and stock records and general statistical and land information. There are accounting files of Thomas Davis & Co, formerly Thomas Davis, Sheedy & Co re taxation files on Peel River Land & Mineral Company income. The deposit includes maps and records created by G B Gidley King (General Superintendent 1904-1910).

Peel River Land and Mineral Company

Goldsbrough Mort and Company Head Office records

  • AU NBAC N109
  • Deposit
  • 1854 - 1965

Records include ledgers, board records, records of Canonbar, Corinda, Mulgawarrina and Dumble Stations and correspondence.

Goldsbrough Mort and Company

Australian Natives Association records

  • AU NBAC N407
  • Deposit
  • c. 1854-2019

Board of Directors papers; branch membership registers; minute books; correspondence; rules and laws; charters; branch memorabilia; insurance papers; annual reports; financial papers; directories; journals; serials; pamphlets; publications; books; photographs; certificates.
Includes records relating to the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows, Grand United Order of Oddfellows, Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society and Independent Order of Rechabites.

Australian Natives Association

Paterson, Laing and Bruce Limited deposit 1

  • AU NBAC 38
  • Deposit
  • 1854 - 1934

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.

Paterson, Laing and Bruce Limited

Tooth and Company deposit 2

  • AU NBAC N60
  • Deposit
  • 1854 - 1980

Records documenting different parts of Tooth and Company Limited's operations including some large record series.
Items 1 to 117 cover Mittagong Maltings c 1916 to 1980.
Items 820 to 3007 are City Manager's office hotel files.
Items 3033 to 5544 are Country manager's office hotel files.
Items 5545 to 7654 are Property Office city hotel files.
Items 7655 to10051 are Property Office country hotel files.
Items 434 to 819 are Property Office architects files.

Tooth and Company Limited

J H O'Neill Collection

  • AU NBAC P4
  • Deposit
  • 1854 - 1962

Political pamphlets, books and miscellaneous publications, including O’Neill’s History of Tasmanian Unionism, 1962.

O'Neill, John Henry

Peel River Land & Mineral Company (Australian Office) deposit 4

  • AU NBAC 169
  • Deposit
  • 1854 - 1955

The deposit includes nominal lists of employees on the Peel River Land & Mineral Co Estate (Goonoo Goonoo), federal income tax returns, horse and cattle returns, horse stud book, memorandum books, land and road files, Great Northern railway file, photographs and maps.

Peel River Land and Mineral Company

Australian Agricultural Company (London Office) deposit 4

  • AU NBAC N389
  • Deposit
  • 1854 - 1995

Records in this deposit include Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) and Peel River Land & Mineral Company (PRL&MCo) London office files, register of directors and secretaries, share records, financial records, joint AACo and Peel River company pension scheme ledger, annual reports, and newspaper clippings. Also in this deposit are records of subsidiary companies AA & P Joint Holdings Ltd and Union Pastoral Investments Co including memorandum and articles of association, register of directors, members and secretaries, files relating to the formation of the company, seal register, annual reports, balance sheets and financial records.

Australian Agricultural Company

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