- AU NBAC P8
- Deposit
- 1890 - 1946
Correspondence, manuscripts, card index, reports, printed material and photographs documenting Australian left wing political and industrial activities.
Barnes, Les
Correspondence, manuscripts, card index, reports, printed material and photographs documenting Australian left wing political and industrial activities.
Barnes, Les
National Union of Railwaymen of Australia, Head Office deposit 1
Rules, minutes, arbitration and financial records, correspondence, benefit fund records, registration and amalgamation material, membership records, reports, parliamentary papers, press cuttings, printed material and photographs. Includes records of predecessors the NSW Railway Permanent Way Association, NSW Mechanical Branch Association, Department of Main Roads Employees' Union, Government Tramways Electrical Branch Workers' Association.
National Union of Rail Workers of Australia
Elder Smith and Company Head Office deposit 1
Minute books; correspondence regarding home and overseas trade; books of accounts; records of land sales; mortgages, taxes and assessments; correspondence and returns regarding wool business, staff and insurance; miscellaneous papers and some personal papers. Also includes records of Price Maurice & Co and Price Maurice Estates consisting of ledgers 1862-1897; wages book 1880-1895; manager's correspondence; and financial records of Mount Eba, Warrow and Pekina Stations.
Elder Smith and Company
Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen, Federal Office deposit
Minutes, reports, correspondence, financial and arbitration records, photographs and publications. Records re the State Instrumentality Unions Committee and the War Railways Committee, papers of State Divisions and of the Victorian Railways Classification Board. Includes records of predecessor the Federated Railway Locomotive Enginemen's Association.
Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen
Goldsbrough Mort and Company Head Office and station records
This deposit contains records of head office and of various station properties connected with the company. Records from head office include board minutes, correspondence, acount books, papers relating to shares, legal papers and press cuttings. Records from stations include correspondence, returns, reports of stations, acount books, papers relating to land matters and maps. A small sub-group consists of papers relating to property owned by the company in the Northern Territory from which a live cattle business was carried on between Darwin, Batavia and Singapore in the 1880s and 1890s.
Goldsbrough Mort and Company
Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union deposit 1
Minutes of the Australian Letter Carriers' Association Executive Council (1923-1924) and conferences (1915-1924), minutes of the Postal Sorters' Union of Australia Federal Executive (1924-1925), correspondence of the Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union with branches, Public Service Board, Postmaster-General's Department, Superannuation Board, members of parliament and other unions, and information files including reports, press cuttings and printed material.
Australian Letter Carriers' Association
Australian Workers' Union Longreach and Charleville deposit 2
Minute books, letterbooks and some financial records of the Queensland Shearers' Union, Blackhall, the Queensland Labourers' Union, Barcaldine and Springsure, and the Amalgamated Workers' Union and Australian Workers' Union, Hughenden, Longreach and Charleville, including some records of the Australian Labor Federation, Barcaldine and the Workers' Political Organisation, Charleville and Warrego. AWU records of the 1956 shearers strike were microfilmed and then returned.
Queensland Shearers' Union
Australian Workers' Union Longreach and Charleville deposit 1
Queensland Shearers' Union: financial and membership records for Blackall, Hughenden and Longreach Branches; Queensland Labourers' Union: financial and membership records for Barcaldine, Hughenden, Longreach and Comet Branch, Springsure; Amalgamated Workers' Union/Australian Workers Union: financial and membership records for Hughenden, Longreach and Charleville; AWU Longreach correspondence and photographs; records of the Australian Labor Federation (Barcaldine), Amalgamated Workers' Association of Queensland (Longreach), the Australian Carriers' Union and the Australian Labour Party (Longreach 1922-1926), and records of the 1956 shearers' strike.
Queensland Shearers' Union
Transport Workers' Union New South Wales Branch deposit 1
Correspondence, records of the Passenger section, arbitration material, membership records, records of the Sydney and Newcastle sub-branches, and printed material. Includes some records of the Trolley, Draymen and Motor Drivers' Union of New South Wales.
Transport Workers' Union of Australia
Health Inspectors' Association of Australia, Federal Office deposit
Rules, minute books, agenda and meeting papers (federal conference), correspondence, financial and membership records, arbitration material, reports, annual reports of Federal executive and branches, printed and roneoed material and photographs.
Health Inspectors' Association of Australia
Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia, Federal Office and Branches deposit 1
Tailors' Trade Protection Society registers, 1870-1899; minutes (with the Tailoresses' from 1905), 1903-1907; Tailoresses' strike book 1883, registers 1888-1893; Pressers' Union minutes 1888-1902; Victorian Clothing Operatives' Union records 1902-1907; Victorian Branch minutes 1908-1909; Tasmanian Branch balance sheets 1918-1938; Federal Council minutes 1907-1949; copies of branch minutes 1923-1949; Federal correspondence 1913-1956; arbitration material 1907-1959; financial papers 1921-1949.
Tailors' Trade Protection Society
Woolclassers' Association deposit 1
Rules, minutes of NSW Branch (1914-1938), Federal Council (1934-1949) and conferences, correspondence, arbitration material, membership records (1916-1960), financial records, shed returns, printed material and photographs.
Woolclassers' Association of New South Wales
Bank Officials' Association Federal Office and Victorian Branch deposit
This deposit contains records of the Federal Office and the Victorian Branch of the Bank Officials' Association including minutes of meetings, correspondence, papers relating to conferences, and rules.
Bank Officials' Association
Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch deposit
Minute books, mortuary benefit claims, financial records, rule books, membership records, wages and time books, unemployment relief book (1889-1894) and benefits register (1929-1930), correspondence, industrial papers, reports, letter books, newspaper cuttings book, photographs and publications. Includes records of predecessors the Australasian Typographical Union, the NSW Typographical Association and the Herald Office Chapel (1848-1866).
New South Wales Typographical Association
Merchant Service Guild of Australia, Federal Office deposit 1
Minutes and meeting papers, constitution and rules, registration papers, correspondence, reports, membership and financial records, ship files, arbitration and industrial files, diary, photographs, press cuttings, and printed material.
Merchant Service Guild of Australia
Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Federal Office deposit 2
Branch correspondence, 1940-1949; correspondence with individuals, organisations, unions, shipping companies, Stevedoring Industry Commission, Arbitration Court and members of the Government, 1933-1949; Waterside Employments Committees correspondence and minutes, 1942-1947; Board of Reference minutes, 1944-1947; circulars, 1938-1949; arbitration papers, 1936-1950; conference minutes and reports, 1912-1946; Jim Healy’s personal files, 1941-1947; files relating to general union concerns, 1942-1959; correspondence and working papers relating to several ports, 1906-1948; New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union papers, 1922-1947; overseas waterfront papers, 1920-1947; Trade Union Congress papers, 1921, 1947; miscellaneous printed material, 1923-1944; Federal Office financial records, 1926-1960; Branch financial records, 1901-1950.
Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia
William Cooper and Nephews (Australia) deposit 1
Copies of minutes, annual reports, financial records, correspondence, printed materials and photographs, maps and plan, station records. Includes records of constituent Australasian Sheep Dip Company some records of the Ottery Mine (near Tenterfield, NSW) and Quambone and Mungrabambone Stations (Central Division, NSW).
William Cooper and Nephews (Australia) Proprietary Limited
Australian Insurance Staffs' Federation Federal Office deposit 1
This deposit includes minutes of meetings, correspondence and transcripts. There are also some minutes and correspondence from the Insurance Officials' Association from 1920 - 1921.
Australian Insurance Staffs' Federation
Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Australian Office deposit 3
The material in this deposit is divided into three sections:
Records created at Head Office: correspondence with branch offices, 1937-50; balance papers for Australia, 1941-60; balance sheets for stations, 1905-57; records of clients' accounts, 1925-40; income tax returns, 1915-50; provident and pension fund records, 1899-1958; applications & correspondence with Lands Dept, c. 1897-1943; wool clip statistics, 1890-1928.
Records created at stations: records for Charlton Station (including correspondence, 1902-41; financial records, 1881-1938; sheep and shearing records, 1891-1941); Dunumbral Station (merino stud book, 1905-1913); Milroy Station (ledgers, 1943-1954); Mogila Station (financial records, 1933-44); Mossgiel Station (financial books, 1891-2, 1906-35; stock books, 1886-9, 1931-48; and Summervale Station (ledgers, 1942-61).
Records relating to subsidiary companies absorbed by AML&F Co Ltd and to clients: Paroo Pastoral Co; Australian Sheep Farms Ltd; Frank Watson & Co Pty Ltd; McPhie & Co Pty Ltd; Yeates Bros Pty Ltd; H P Veness & Co Pty Ltd; A McLean & Co Pty Ltd; E W Sparke Pty Ltd; Bovril Australian Estates Ltd & allied companies; G M Richmond (Mogila); G M Richmond & Son (Mogila);Includes some minutes, financial records, articles of association, share records and reports.
Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company Limited
Laycock, Son and Company deposit
Correspondence, order book, financial records, stock book and files, production returns and work sheets, factory building plans, machinery and equipment plans, photographs, presentation cup and stand, records of family members and early history of the firm, printed material including advertisements.
Laycock, Son and Company Proprietary Limited
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Geelong Branch deposit
The deposit consists of branch subject files 1954-1962; wool records 1956-1961; financial records including ledgers, cash, budget and wages books, leases and agreements.
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Brisbane Branch deposit
Correspondence with Australian Inspection Department (Melbourne); branches and clients; financial records; stock transaction records 1949-1959; registers of stock buyers and vendors in Brisbane district 1952-1959; saleyard registers 1952-1959; registers of stock sales 1950-1959; plans 1925; and bank records 1956-1960.
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited
Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Federal Office deposit 1
Material relating to registration and rules of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, 1907-1940; Triennial Conference Minutes, 1937; Committee of Management Minutes, 1902-1935, 1938-1939; Minutes of various Conferences, 1928-1940; General Secretary’s correspondence, 1911-1943; financial and membership records, 1902-1948; documents concerning arbitration and industrial matters, 1900-1954; sound recording, 1954; photographs and pictures, 1912-1950; printed material, 1920-1962.
Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia
Political pamphlets, books and miscellaneous publications, including O’Neill’s History of Tasmanian Unionism, 1962.
O'Neill, John Henry
Lincoln Mills (Australia) Limited deposit 1
Minutes (1922 - 1960), records of subsidiary companies Lincoln Knitting Mills Pty Ltd (1920-1940) and Lincoln Spinning Mills Pty Ltd (1920 - 1940), memorandum and articles of associations, financial records, share material, correspondence, secretary's files, general office files, sales records, ledgers and journals, material re Provident Fund and staff superannuation scheme, staff record cards, plans and specifications, books and photograph.
Lincoln Mills (Australia) Limited
Lincoln Mills (Australia) Limited deposit 2
Minutes (1949 - 1960), share material, weekly pay records of Victorian branches, financial records, wages sheets and staff record cards, correspondence, records of subsidiary company Atyl Pty Ltd, material re Provident Fund investments, plans, plant inventory, and photographs.
Lincoln Mills (Australia) Limited
Robert Reid and Company Limited deposit 1
Records of the Melbourne and Sydney offices of Robert Reid and Company Limited: minutes, financial records, share registers, correspondence, stock and sale records, staff records, and records of subsidiaries Hustlers Pty Ltd and T Pickles and Son Ltd. Share records of Reid Murray Holdings Limited.
Robert Reid and Company Limited
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Rockhampton Branch deposit
The deposit consists of manger's correspondence with other branches 1906-1963; correspondence files and papers concerning clients; copies of wages and payroll tax returns 1947-51; company leases 1887-1946; financial and insurance records; clients' documents 1891-1942; salaries book and sheets 1915-57; security registers 1895-1960; shipping information 1895-1903; Melbourne Branch conference minutes 1946; staff reports 1890-1927; printed material including annual reports 1882-1960; pamphlets 1882-1953; serials 1888-1954; plan, map 1912, and photographs c. 1924-1958.
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited
Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Australian Office deposit 1
Ledgers; journals; cash books; station financial records and monthly returns (showing information re persons employed, stock, rainfall); reappraisement of rentals of some of the company's stations in the western division of New South Wales between 1890 and 1904; information re. income and working expenses of the company's stations between 1893 and 1943; contracts of sale, miscellaneous papers and maps relating to the company's stations.
Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company Limited
Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Federal Office deposit 4
Office files, 1947-1961; ‘A’ files (matters involving arbitration or some form of legal industrial action), 1935-1963; ACTU files, 1954-1964; circulars to Branches and Councillors, 1950-1953
Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia
New South Wales Combined Colliery Proprietors' Association deposit 1
Records of the NSW Combined Colliery Proprietors' Association including the records of its members: the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association and its predecessors, the Newcastle Coal Owners Mutual Protective Association (1885), the Newcastle Collieries Unanimity Guarantee Association (1887), the Associated Northern Collieries (1891), the Hunter River District Colliery Proprietors' Defence Association (1906) and the Northern Collieries Association (1916) including minutes, agreements, Vend case transcript, correspondence, arbitration material, financial records and files of the Sydney and Newcastle offices; the Southern Colliery Proprietors' Association including W A Firth's letterbook (1896-1898), correspondence, arbitration material and financial records; and the Western Coal Association including correspondence and arbitration material. Also includes circulars, rules, transcripts, reports, two photographs, printed material and records of the New South Wales Coke Proprietors' Association.
New South Wales Combined Colliery Proprietors' Association
Woolclassers' Association deposit 2
Minutes of Federal Council and Conferences (1949-1959) and New South Wales Branch (1938-1958), correspondence, arbitration material, membership records, financial records, shed returns, printed material and photographs.
Woolclassers' Association of New South Wales
Federated Ironworkers' Association deposit 2
Minutes of the National Council and annual conferences, correspondence, financial records, arbitration material and photographs. Records of New South Wales State Council and branches, South Australian State Council and branches, Tasmanian branches including some membership records and Western Australian Branch. Also includes records of the Arms, Explosives and Munition Workers' Federation of Australia.
Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia
New South Wales Teachers Federation deposit 1
This deposit contains minutes of the Administration Committee (1945 - 1952), press cutting books (1939 - 1965), circulars (1953 - 1965), correspondence and printed copies of the constitution and rules.
New South Wales Teachers' Federation
Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, Edgar Ross collection
The records in this deposit were gathered by Edgar Ross, editor of the Federation's Common Cause, and used by him in the writing of his history of the Miners' Federation. Central Council: minutes of meetings (1917-1929), rules, reports of miners' conventions (1913-1965), material relating to 1949 Coal Strike, printed material, photographs and sketches. Southern District, Illawarra: minutes of Mount Pleasant (1902-1923) and Coledale (1922-1927) lodges, correspondence, arbitration material, membership lists (1916-1932) and financial records. Northern Branch, Newcastle: minutes of the Coal Miners' Mutual Protective Association of the Hunter River District (1874-1880), press cuttings (1893-1955) and 1938 Cessnock Strike material. Western District, Lithgow: minutes of Vale of Clwydd (1878-1881), Lithgow (1886-1899), Zig Zag, Hartley Vale, Mount Victoria, Oakey Park and State Mine lodges. Queensland District, Bundamba: minutes of the West Moreton Coal Miners' Union and Queensland Colliery Employees' Union meetings (1902-1940) and Mafeking Branch (1907-1910), membership register (1906-1910). Tasmanian Division: minutes of the Tasmanian Coal Miners' Association (1913-1926).
Amalgamated Miners' Association of Australasia
Dalgety and Company Limited Sydney Branch deposit
All types of company records including deeds and papers re securities, stock and property sales, agreements, pastoral leases; correspondence; wool catalogues; calculating tables of wool yields, limits and prices; publications and charts.
Dalgety and Company Limited
Dalgety and Company Limited Adelaide Branch deposit
This deposit consists of records of E W van Senden prior to and during his appointment as manager of Dalgety and Co Limited: Personal letters from his fiancee, banks, clients, the Hon George Riddoch, relatives etc; business letters, negotiations and documents re the transfer of his business concerns to Dalgetys, share certificates, company prospectus, diaries, receipts, cash books, legders and plans (1887-1917). Papers in French relating to his office as Consular Agent for France in Adelaide: correspondence with thte French Consul General in Sydney, letters and documents received re: shipping, passenger lists of French ships "Australien", "Ville de la Ciotat", and "Caledonieu" (1907-1908), trade, requests for information, letters from James Page former Consular Agent, and information on accounts (1907-08). Branch records: Minutes of Local Board of Advice (1906-17), letters recieved till 1912 and later correspondence of Adelaide managers (1897-1966), superintendent's monthly returns (1919-29), working papers for returns (1948-49), managers' reports to Head Office (1907-60), Stock Department reports (1931-41), financial documents (1897-1960), taxation returns records (1913-61), registers of properties, profits & loss, salaries, deeds, securities and signatures (1900-54), managers' diaries (1901-04), press cuttings (1928-33), annual reports of Dalgety and Co Ltd (1897, 1899, 1902-13), annual reports of other companies, and a small number of prints, photographs and plans.
Dalgety and Company Limited
Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers, Federal Council deposit 2
Minutes and agenda, copies of reports and standing orders, correspondence, financial records, wages books, arbitration material including transcripts, publications, maps and plans. Includes transaction records of the Institute of Marine Engineers (UK), and minutes of the Maritime Transport Council 1935-1950 and the Maritime Industry Commission 1942-1949.
Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers
Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union Victorian Branch deposit
Minutes of meetings (1941-1960), annual reports, correspondence, and financial records. Some records of sub-branches: Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong and of the Federal Council including minutes (1949-1958).
Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union of Australia
Goldsbrough Mort and Company Head Office, correspondence, client and station records
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
Dalgety and Company Limited Geelong Branch deposit
Correspondence, branch and managers' reports, financial records, salaries and wages records, conference reports and publications. Also includes records of Ballarat and Western District sub-branches (Camperdown, Colac, Terang) and records of Geelong Wool Brokers' Association.
Dalgety and Company Limited
Musicians' Union of Australia, Federal Office deposit 1
Rule books 1919-1953, general correspondence 1922-1967, financial papers 1911-1963, Federal Conference minutes 1914-1964, membership rolls, arbitration material 1919-1951, journal 1928-1929 and 1960-1962.
Musicians' Union of Australia
Geoff McDonald Collection deposit 2
The collection includes records of various Australian trade unions and organisations. Minutes, reports, correspondence, financial material, subject files, arbitration material, printed and roneoed material, typescript and unpublished manuscript material.
McDonald, Geoff
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Melbourne Branch deposit
This deposit contains some Head Office material including correspondence 1947-60; taxation papers 1910-1961; memorandum and articles of association 1894-1937; material relating to shares 1914-1961 and stock ledgers 1913-1944; annual reports 1895-1961. Melbourne branch material includes correspondence with Victorian branches 1934-1961; annual accounts and balance returns 1954-1961; merger files showing assets as at 1961; salary sheets 1941-1961; cash receipt books and cheque registers 1958-1962. Departmental materials includes Wool Department client records 1894-1962; wool delivery figures 1940-1962; wool store wages sheets 1920-1961; Stock Department correspondence 1958-1961; Croyden market records 1958-60; Stud Stock Department correspondence and sales material 1957-60; Tobacco Department client files 1960-61 and returns, charges and catalogues of leaf. Also contains material 1922-1961 relating to subsidiary Gollin & Co Pty Ltd and Gollin Holdings Ltd: correspondence, minutes, balance sheets and annual reports.
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited
Dalgety and Company Limited Melbourne Branch deposit 1
All types of company records including memorandum and articles of association, financial records, correspondence, branch and conference reports, legal documents, staff records, annual wool reviews, clients' private account books, ledgers and journals, newspaper cuttings, registers and share materials.
Dalgety and Company Limited
Raymond O'Dea Collection deposit 1
Records of the Metropolitan Daily Newspapers Award case, 1966. Includes correspondence, questionnaires, personal notebooks of R O'Dea concerning the case, Australian Journalists' Association material, newspaper cuttings, transcripts of the case, tapes, printed and roneoed material.
O'Dea, Raymond John
Dalgety and Company Limited Perth Branch deposit
All types of company records including minutes, staff and agents' conferences records, correspondence, financial records, ledgers and journals, Shipping Department accounts and records, manager's reports, merchandise stock lists, salaries and wages records, payroll records, staff pension fund returns, Accountant's and Administration department records, stations valuations, insurance papers, Auditor's reports, Stock department and Wool department records, instructional books and training notes, publications, pamphlets and posters, building plans, photographs and newspaper cuttings.
Dalgety and Company Limited
Specht pre-doctoral research and related materials
Items related to pre-doctoral research undertaken by Jim Specht at ANU, including correspondence, materials relating to the Department of Prehistory, materials relating to fieldwork including diaries, reports, data sheets, photographs, negatives, and slides.
Specht, James Richard
Administrative and Clerical Officers Association, Federal Executive deposit 2
The deposit consists of arbitration transcripts, judgements, exhibits and files.
Administrative and Clerical Officers' Association, Commonwealth Public Service
Dalgety and Company Limited Rockhampton Branch deposit
All types of company records including branch manager's reports, annual reports, correspondence, financial records, deeds and documents, salaries and wages books, stations valuations, Insurance department records, Shipping department records, registers, papers re Woolbrokers Staff Association, publications, pamphlets and photographs. Also includes records of subsidiary companies: Williams' Pty Ltd, Rockhampton (acquired in July 1943); Friends (Pty) Ltd, Gladstone (acquired February 1949); McKimmons (Pty) Ltd, Townsville; Dalgety Trading Company Pty Ltd.
Dalgety and Company Limited
Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia, Federal Office deposit 3
Correspondence, memoranda and working papers, files relating arbitrations, appeal cases and associated legal transactions; documents relating to the Committee of Inquiry appointed under the Stevedoring Industry Act of 1954 to inquiry into matters relative to the stevedoring industry.
Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia
Geoff McDonald Collection deposit 3
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
Australasian Steamship Owner's Federation and Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association deposit
The deposit consists of Australasian Steamship Owners' Federation minutes 1901-1959; Branch minutes 1939-1959; Industrial Sub-Committee minutes 1927-1966; Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association minutes 1920-1958; Association of Employers of Waterside Labour minutes 1944-1958; New South Wales Interstate Steamship Owners' Association minutes1939-1950; Maritime Industry Commission minutes 1944-1958; Stevedoring Industry Commission minutes 1946-1948; CSOA members registers 1905-1930; ASOF annual reports 1904-1906; 1922-1940; ASOF circulars 1938-1959; CSOA circulars 1938-1960; Victorian Steamship Owners' Association minutes 1893-1899; correspondence; Central Committee subject files; Central Committee arbitration files and transcripts 1934-1965; newscuttings 1923-1954; papers and transcripts of inquiries 1929-1969; financial records 1904-1962.
Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association
Parbury Henty and Company deposit
Correspondence, financial and insurance records, certificates and agreements, legal documents, share material and booklet 'Parbury Henty, Pioneers of Australia Established 1833'. Includes material relating to other companies including Derwent and Tamar Assurance Company, London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company Limited, and James Miller and Company Proprietary Limited.
Parbury Henty and Company Proprietary Limited
Seamen’s Union of Australia, Federal Office and Sydney Branch deposit
Minutes of Committee of Management and Federal Executive meetings, 1944-1951 and Stopwork meetings, 1917-1960; Federal Office correspondence, 1932-1966; Sydney Branch correspondence 1935-1960; other Branch correspondence, 1930-1955; membership records, 1876-1945; financial papers, 1923-1970; arbitration material, 1921-1967; press cuttings, 1919-1956; photographs; correspondence, 1897-1907 and material relating to the early years of the union; printed material, 1899-1972.
Seamen’s Union of Australia
Federated Gas Employees' Industrial Union New South Wales Branch deposit
Minutes (1888-1972), files, financial and membership records, arbitration material and printed material. This deposit has not been processed.
Federated Gas Employees' Industrial Union
Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, Tasmanian Branch deposit
Records of Tasmanian branches of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers' and Blacksmiths' Society of Australia, and the Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia including minute books, registration books and membership records, financial records and correspondence. Includes records of the Norfolk, Rosebery, Queenstown, Mersey, Launceston, Tamar, Hobart, and Burnie branches of the Amalgamated Engineering Union; Hobart No.1 Zone, Launceston No.1 Zone and Tasmanian branches of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union; Tasmanian Branch, Burnie , Queenstown, Devonport and Hobart Sub Branches of the Boilermakers' and Blacksmiths' Society.
Amalgamated Engineering Union
Tom and Mary Wright collection deposit 1
Union files of the Sheet Metal Workers Union including arbitration material, correspondence; wage campaign materials, reports and Vietnam war documents. Tom Wright’s personal papers and notes, including some correspondence; his large collection of political pamphlets, leaflets, serials, press cuttings, cartoons and photographs, books, notably material on Aboriginal and women’s rights. Mary Wrights' pamphlets and memorabilia relating to the Union of Australian Women, photographs and a poster.
Wright, Mary
Federated Ironworkers' Association Victorian Branch deposit
Correspondence and subject files from the Victorian office mainly alphabetical by name of employing company or organisation, also copies of minutes of Metal Trades Employers' Federation (1958-1965) and national conference papers (1964-1967).
Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia
Bank Officials' Association Federal Office deposit
This deposit contains constitutions, rules, minutes of meetings, General Secretary's correspondence, conference materials and records from the Victorian, Tasmanian, South Australian and New South Wales Divisions.
Bank Officials' Association
Federated Ironworkers' Association deposit 6
Minutes of National Council (1943-1952, 1970-1972), Federal Conferences (1944-1952, 1968-1973), NSW State Council, and branches: Sydney, Newcastle, Port Kembla, Western Districts, Victoria, Queensland, Adelaide, Pirie-Whyalla, Port Augusta, Tasmania (mainly 1940s-1960s), some membership records, correspondence, arbitration material, financial records, printed material, photographs and film 'Golden Triangle', United Steelworkers of America (1962-1980). Minutes of the Arms, Explosives and Munition Workers' Federation Federal Council (1917-1928, 1941-1944), NSW branches and Queensland Branch, correspondence files, arbitration material, membership records Victoria (1915-1921) and Lithgow (1921-1944), and financial records. Minutes and membership records of the Federated Artificial Fertilizer and Chemical Workers' Union (1940s).
Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia
Geoff McDonald Collection deposit 4
Press cuttings and printed material relating to the nursing profession and the International Council of Nurses; conciliation and arbitration material of the Victorian Mothercraft Nurses' Association, the Australian Association of Social Workers, and the Slaters, Tilers and Roofing Industry Union of Victoria; circulars from various trade unions and the Australian Labor Party; articles by Geoff McDonald, pamphlets, periodicals and leaflets collected by him.
McDonald, Geoff
Actors and Announcers' Equity Association of Australia
Subject files (389 files, including Actors Awards, correspondence with Australian Broadcasting Commission, theatres and film production companies), Correspondence Files (31 files), printed material (31 items), photographs (2).
Actors' Equity of Australia
Administrative and Clerical Officers Association, Federal Executive deposit 3
Subject files consisting of branch council minutes, reports, financial records, arbitration and industrial material, correspondence, conferences, membership records, circulars, publications, rule books and amendments. Includes records relating to the Commonwealth Railways and High Council of Public Service Organisations.
Administrative and Clerical Officers' Association, Commonwealth Public Service
Graziers' Association of New South Wales deposit 1
Minutes of the Executive Committee, District Councils (Canonbar, Central Tablelands, Dubbo, Hunter, Lachlan, Mudgee, Monaro, Narrandera, New England, North Coast, North West, Southern Tablelands, South West and Tamworth), branches (Angeldool - Young) and committees, correspondence with indexes, subject files, circulars, financial records and printed material including 1890s publications of the Pastoralists' Union of NSW, other State pastoralists' organisations, the Machine Shearers' and Shed Employees' Union and other unions.
Pastoralists' Union of New South Wales
Christensen ethnographic films of Papua New Guinea
These films were recorded by Christensen in the area of the Waghi Valley of Papua New Guinea, near the Department of PreHistory's excavations at Kuk, led by Dr Jack Golson. These films depict traditional methods of tool making, cooking, farming, and hunting, as well as funerary rites and other rituals.
Christensen, Ole A.
Dalgety and Company Limited Narrandera and Leeton Branches deposit
The deposit consists of office files concerning the branches as stock and station agents, merchandise retailers, auctioneers and valuers, financiers etc. Also includes records of clients' and trade debtors' accounts, correspondence, financial and legal records.
Dalgety Australia Limited
Federation of Automotive Products Manufacturers deposit 2
Office files re equipment and machinery, correspondence, industry papers, press cuttings and publications.
Automotive Products Manufacturers Association of Australia
Melbourne. A news review and information service for all members and affiliates of the Association of Professional Engineers, Australia
Association of Professional Engineers, Australia
Administrative and Clerical Officers Association, Industrial Office deposit 1
Numbered and unnumbered arbitration files including transcripts of hearings before Public Service Arbitrator or Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, judgements, exhibits and case files.
Administrative and Clerical Officers' Association, Commonwealth Public Service
Geoff McDonald Collection deposit 6
Office files containing minutes, constitutions, agendas, correspondence, reports, press releases, articles, notes, diaries, financial records, conciliation and arbitration material, printed and roneoed material, map, illustrations and photographs. The bulk of the material relates to the Royal Australian Nursing Federation (RANF), Australian Council of Salaried & Professional Associations (ACSPA), Mannequins & Models Guild of Australia, Victorian Operative Bricklayers' Society, Slaters, Tilers and Roofing Industry Union of Australia, Federated Fodder & Fuel Trades Industrial Union, Trades Hall Council (Melbourne), Victorian Employers' Federation, and the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
McDonald, Geoff
Humes Limited and combined companies’ records – office files, 1920-72, reports, 1942-70, financial records, 1956-68, photographs, 1922-63, printed material, 1925, 1946, 1967-9
Hume Pipe Company (Australia) Limited –correspondence re. establishment of Hume Industries (NZ) Limited, 1949, photographs, 1920s, newspaper cuttings, 1925
Hume Steel Limited - office files,1923-49, report on proposed operations on the Far East, 1928, photographs, 1930s
Hume Industries (Far East) Limited - office files, 1928-74, report on evaluation of Steel Division for sale, 1971, photographs, 1950s-60s
Wunderlich Humes Asbestos Pipes Proprietary Limited - office files, 1957-65, photographs, not dated
Humes Limited
Geoff McDonald Collection deposit 5
This collection includes records of various Australian trade unions and organisations. Correspondence, subject files, diaries, financial records, arbitration material, membership records, miscellaneous and typescript articles, printed and roneoed material, photographs, maps, chart and illustrations.
McDonald, Geoff
Australian Railways Union, National Office deposit 1
Minutes and reports, correspondence, circulars, national convention files, election files, national rule files, branch rules, arbitration material, subject files, press cuttings and publications. Includes Victorian Railways Classification Board minutes.
Australian Railways Union
Manchester Unity, Ballarat District deposit
The deposit consists of minutes, reports, letter books, ledgers, cash books, degrees books, correspondence, night books, contribution books, chemist and doctors list, declaration of marriage records, sickness records, sick and funeral fund books, registration books, trustee records, rules and ritual books, printed material, photographs and certificates. Includes records from Ballarat District; Albert Lodge; Alfred Lodge; Ballarat Lodge; Birthday Lodge; Blackwood Lodge; Buninyong Lodge; Beaufort Lodge; Cosmopolitan Lodge; Durham Lodge; Good Samaritan Lodge; Gordon Lodge; Gorong Lodge; Hand of Friendship Lodge; Hope of Ballarat Lodge; Juvenile Lodge; Kerrit Bareet Lodge; Learmouth Lodge; Linton Lodge; North Star Lodge; Past Grands Lodge; Peace & Plenty Lodge; Prince Alfred Lodge; Pyrenees Lodge; Rose of Allendale Lodge; Sebastapol Lodge; Sir Charles Darling Lodge; Smythesdale Lodge; Victoria Lodge.
Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows
The Australian Estates Company London Office deposit 2
The deposit consists of records of The Union Mortgage and Agency Company of Australia Limited (both the old Melbourne company and the new London company), The Australian Estates Company and its subsidiaries. The material in this deposit was held at the London Head Office and includes Memoranda and articles of association; certificates of registration; trust deeds, amalgamation papers 1899-1902; legal documents and papers; minutes 1886-1970 (note that some minute books are locked); register of mortgages and seals; correspondence and letter books; pension and provident fund files; financial records; papers re Lowson 1972 share sale investigations 1973-1974; station and wool records; papers re Mount Morris station; Custom House Clearances book of Young, Ehler & Co (UM&A Co's London agents); newspaper cuttings; staff journals 1928-37 and 1950-1967; collection of maps; photograph albums containing photographs of various stations c. 1903-c. 1945; company seal and keys.
The Australian Estates Company Limited
Building Workers' Industrial Union New South Wales Branch deposit 2
United Operative Bricklayers' Trade Society minutes (1874-1937), membership lists (1920s-1942), financial records including contribution books (1870-1929) and Newtown Branch minutes (1884-1891); Australian Society of Progressive Carpenters and Joiners minutes (1911-1920); Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners minutes Federal Council (1925-1930), NSW Management Committee (1920-1942), Victorian Management Committee (1913-1933), Queensland Management Committee (1917-1920) and records of branches: Auburn, Bankstown, Brunswick, Burwood, Campsie, Darwin, Fairfield, Hurstville, Lakemba, Manly, Melbourne City, Newtown, Ryde, St George, South Coast, Sydney City, Wollongong; Slater, Tilers, Shinglers and Roof Fixers Union NSW Management Committee minutes (1963-1968), membership lists (1959-1962) and other records; Bridge, Wharf and Engineering Construction Carpenters Union Management Committee minutes (1944-1963) and membership records (1911-1967); BWIU Waterfront District records (1965-1973); BWIU Federal Executive minutes (1948-1951), correspondence, subject files and financial records; BWIU NSW Branch State Executive minutes (1943-1960), district minutes of Sydney, South Coast, Ryde/Hornsby, St George, Bridge and Wharf, North Sydney and Newcastle, correspondence files, compensation files and printed material.
United Operative Bricklayers' Trade Society of New South Wales
Merchant Service Guild of Australia, Federal Office deposit 2
Minutes, correspondence, membership records, subject files, arbitration and industrial records, papers relating to pilot duties, vessel log book for “St Giles” and printed material.
Merchant Service Guild of Australia
Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association Coast District Branch deposit
Minutes (1915-1927, 1938-1976), correspondence and subject files, financial records, some records of the Sydney, Canberra and Power sub-branches, photographs and printed material. Of significance is N81/39, an address by Bob Hawke to the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemans Association of Australia (NSW), State Council Meeting, 25 - 27 June 1969. Recorded in the minutes is the decision to support Hawke in the ballot for President of the ACTU.
Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association of Australasia
Association of Employers of Waterside Labour, South Australia Branch deposit
Bound volumes of minutes of the association, various committees, and related body, the Australasian Steamship Owners Federation.
Association of Employers of Waterside Labour
Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations deposit 4
Minutes and agenda of Federal Executive meetings (1971, 1975-1979), subject files and register, financial records, office files, Committee on Women's Affairs files (1975-1979), papers and photographs of conferences including Australian Insurance Employees' Union 1977, badges ('White Collar Workers for Whitlam the Elected PM'), audio recordings produced by Armidale and New England Trades and Labor Council, and printed material.
Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations
Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation deposit 2
Minutes of Central Council meetings (1929-1972), office files of General President and Secretary including records of the Cokeworkers' Association of NSW (1903-1977), financial records, minutes of Seymour Miners' Lodge, Tasmania (1931), Balmain Miners' Lodge records (1924-1936), Retired Mineworkers' Association records (1956-1968), Combined Mining Unions records (1946-1971), papers of Henry Mather, arbitration material, newspaper cuttings, photographs, drawings and printed material.
Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation
Australian Dental Association deposit
The deposit consists of office files (subject), financial statements and publications. Office files include reports, minutes, correspondence, circulars, branch records, membership lists, registers and directories, congress files, financial records, records re government departments and other associations, photographs and printed material.
Australian Dental Association Incorporated
Federated Ironworkers' Association deposit 9
Correspondence and subject files (1918-1979), arbitration files, rule books, copies of minutes of Metal Trades Federation (1944-1971), membership records for NSW Branch (1940), financial records, photographs (1959-1975), plans and printed material.
Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia
Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council deposit 2
Minutes of the Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia, Graziers' Federal Council and Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council including annual convention and Executive Committee (1891-1976), minutes of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council (1956-1960) and annual meetings (1945-1960), papers of the Australian Wool Industry Conference (1962-1976), office files, and printed material.
Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia
Mauri Brothers and Thomson deposit
Minutes, articles of association, certificates of incorporation, correspondence and financial records for the parent companies, subsidiaries and related companies; shareholder records, directors' lists, agreements, registers, wages records, legal records, plans, conference records, company catalogues, recipes, printing blocks and photographs.
Mauri Brothers and Thomson Limited
Hume Pipe Company (Australia) Limited – minutes of meetings, 1920-7; Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1920; prospectus, 1920; correspondence, 1917-49; papers relating to shareholders, 1920-32; financial records, including annual reports and balance sheets, 1925-49; legal agreements, 1916-47; staff provident and investment funds papers, 1930-41; superannuation fund record book, 1947-9; papers re. development of concrete pipes, 1920-40; technical reports, 1940s; insurance policies, 1947-9; printed material and newspaper cuttings, 1920s-40s
Hume Steel Limited – Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1923; correspondence, 1942-52; subject files, 1929-51; superannuation fund record book, 1947-9; financial records, including annual reports and balance sheets, 1935-47; insurance policies, 1947-9; legal agreements, 1924-35; patents, 1924-35
Humes Limited (Head Office) – agendas of Directors’ meetings, 1953-6; correspondence, 1950-8; subject files, 1944-76; financial records, including some annual reports and balance sheets, 1950-72; Memorandum and Articles of Association of subsidiary and associate companies, 1919, 1930, 1937; prospectus, 1951-68; papers relating to shareholders, 1956-79; organisational charts and reports, 1950s-70s; subject files, 1935-78; photographs, 1918-68; printed material 1927-74; Concrete Division - correspondence, 1950-61 and office files, 1954-9; Concrete Products Division – correspondence, 1968-71; Steel Division – correspondence, 1952-61; Sales, 1960-1; Share Office, 1968-71
Humes Limited (Victoria Branch) – subject files 1950-1; correspondence, 1952-8; financial records, 1952-66; wages book for Tumut works, 1957-61
Hume Pipe (Far East) Limited (Head Office, Melbourne) – Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1922, 1938; correspondence, 1937-47; legal agreements, 1922-46
Hume Industries (Far East) Limited (Melbourne Secretary) – Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1948; correspondence, 1950-8; financial records, including some annual reports and balance sheets, 1950-6; prospectus, 1948; printed material, nd
Rheem-Hume (Far East) Limited (Melbourne Office) – Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1946; correspondence,1946-50; financial records, including annual balance sheets, 1947-58
Concrete Constructions - financial records, including annual reports and balance sheets, 1920-9, 1952-5; insurance policies, 1947-9
Martin Stoneware Pipes Proprietary Limited - minutes of Directors’ meetings, 1926-60; financial records, including annual reports and balance sheets, 1953-8; share register, 1926-63; printed material, 1963
GD Guthrie & Company Proprietary Limited (later Bendigo Pottery Proprietary Limited) - minutes of Directors’ meetings, 1940-62
Humes Limited
Australian Farmers' Federation deposit 1
Records of predecessors to the National Farmers' Federation: minutes of the Primary Producers' Council of Australia (1943-1949), the National Farmers' Union of Australia (1949-1969), Executive Meetings of the Australian Farmers' Federation (1969-1972), the Australian Vegetable Growers' Federation (1945-1965), the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation (1969-1979) and the Australian Seed Producers' Federation (1974-1976), conference papers, correspondence and subject files, administrative files and printed material. Includes files of Alex Norquay as Secretary of various vegetable growers' organisations.
Australian Farmers' Federation
Australian Council of Trade Unions Myers Enquiry deposit
Papers of Research Officer Sandra Prerost employed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations to prepare submissions to the Committee of Enquiry into Technological Change in Australia (the Myers Enquiry), and of William Mansfield, Federal Secretary of the Australian Telecom Employees' Association and the ACTU representative on the committee. Includes publications collected by Chris Fisher including submissions to the Enquiry.
Australian Council of Trade Unions
Administrative and Clerical Officers Association, Federal Executive deposit 4
Federal Executive, Sydney Office subject files (a continuation of deposits A12/2/ 1-283B and E228/ 1-425), copies of outletters and circulars, transcripts of court proceedings. Incudes subject files of Federal Executive Industrial Officer, Melbourne (a continuation of deposit E229/ 1-37).
Administrative and Clerical Officers' Association, Commonwealth Public Service
Federated Miscellaneous Workers’ Union NSW Assistant Secretary's records: minutes of Federal Council (1958-1974), NSW Branch (1950-1974), Building Industry Congress of NSW (1940-1955), Builders’ Exchange of NSW Ltd (1964-1965), Watchmen’s Employment Committee (1949-1973), subject and correspondence files, financial records, arbitration material, photographs, newspaper cuttings, printed material, also Australian Labor Party material, Returned Services League records, personal diaries and correspondence, and financial records of the Federated Tanners and Leather Dressers Employees' Union of Australia NSW Branch (1921-1943).
Dwyer, John James
Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers, Federal Council deposit 4
Controlled and uncontrolled office files including minutes, reports, arbitration material and transcripts, correspondence, files on ships and ships' plans, and rules.
Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers
Musicians' Union of Australia, Federal Office deposit 2
This deposit consists of the records of the Federal Office of the Musicians' Union of Australia. The bulk of the records cover the 1950s to 1980s. Minutes of the Annual Conference can be found in this collection covering the years 1955 to 1977, as well as an extensive set of subject files documenting the Unions' activities from the 1960s. Further material includes import files detailing visits of overseas artists; arbitration transcripts, a transcript of an Inquiry into the Copyright Act 1982, rules of the Federal Office and MUA Branches, rules of other unions and of the Musicians' Club of Victoria, printed membership lists (1965-1981), miscellaneous printed material, stickers mainly produced as part of the Keep Music Alive campaign and badges.
Musicians' Union of Australia
R J Pearson Collection deposit 2
The collection consists of records of Metal Manufactures Limited's Port Kembla Works and its subsidiary companies. Includes memorandum and articles of association, agreements, reports, correspondence, staff records and organisation charts, financial records, and a plan of Port Kembla Works (1973).
Pearson, Robert John Butler
Confederation of Australian Industry deposit 1
Subject files of the Associated Chambers of Manufactures and the Confederation of Australian Industry (1949-1981) including minutes, rules, correspondence with government and other organisations, photographs and printed material, tariff files, press releases and cuttings. Records of the Chamber of Manufactures of New South Wales (1916-1977) relating to their membership of the Associated Chambers of Manufactures including correspondence, papers of Executive meetings and conferences and correspondence relating to the Canberra Letter. Also includes records of the Pre-Cast Concrete Manufacturers Association, the Australia/Malaysia-Singapore Business Co-operation Committee, the Australian Textile, Apparel and Related Industries Conference, the Housing Industry Association and the Venetian Blind Manufacturers Association of Australia.
Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia
Syd Butlin research papers deposit 2
This material derives mainly from S J Butlin's term as a Professor in the Economic History Department at ANU and is concerned with his work on Australian monetary and banking history and the history of the Reserve Bank of Australia. It includes research notes from letter books, correspondence and other material of the Bank of Australasia (1835-1951), the Bank of South Australia (1837-1892) and the Union Bank of Australia (1840-1951) and other banks, copies of documents from parliamentary papers and other sources in envelopes, card indexes, microfilms of original material and printed material including annual reports of banks, pamphlets and books. Also includes files relating to the formation and operations of the Economics Society of Australia (1928-1955).
Butlin, Sydney James Christopher Lyon
Federated Ironworkers' Association deposit 10
Arbitration files, press cuttings, photographs of Gove project (1971), sound recordings of radio programs (1979-1982) and printed material.
Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia
Collection of Australian university student newspapers and handbooks.
Hahn, Adrian
Professional Radio and Electronics Institute of Australasia deposit 2
This deposit contains correspondence files, circulars, arbitration material and some membership and financial records. It includes both Head Office and New South Wales Division records.
Professional Radio and Electronics Institute of Australasia
Australian Journalists' Association, New South Wales Branch deposit 1
The deposit consists of minutes of the NSW Institute of Journalists, AJA NSW Branch committee and sub-committees, Federal Executive and Branches (duplicates only), correspondence, arbitration case files, transcripts and research material, financial material, membership records, photographs, serials and printed material.
Australian Journalists' Association