The original items N139-1 to 48 have been microfilmed and are available as deposit M88. They include brewing manuals, ledgers, cash books and other financial records. Items N139-49 to 331 include brewery office files, correspondence, plans and drawings re alterations to Waverley Brewery, Kent Brewery and Blue Bow factories, plans relating to hotel and property development, and memorabilia.

Minutes of board meetings and annual general meetings; board memoranda; share registers; correspondence files; staff registers; annual reports; minute book of Elder Smith and Co Limited ladies staff welfare fund; and records of Elder Smith rifle club and rowing club.

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

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).

Outletters from Robert H Adams to J H Vagg, dairy farmer of Cobden, re survey and sale of land blocks owned by Adams, 20 June 1888 - 13 March 1893

Financial records and mill returns

This deposit comprises maps, balance sheets and charts related to the Bodalla Estate as well as a few items from the Bodalla Co-operative Cheese Society Ltd.

Rule books, minutes, correspondence files, financial records, membership records, arbitration material, printed material and photographs. Includes records of predecessors the Stove & Piano Frame Moulders' & Stovemakers Employees' Union; Federated Agricultural Implement & Stovemakers' Porcelain Enamellers' & Ironworkers' Association of Australia; Federated Stovemakers' & Porcelain Enamellers Association of Australia; and the NSW Amalgamated Tinsmith, Sheet Iron Workers and Meter Makers Trade Society.

Records of the Adelaide office including minutes, correspondence and financial records. Also includes records of Bagot, Shakes & Lewis Ltd consisting of minutes, annual reports, ledgers, correspondence and financial records.

Annual reports, share register, printed material 'Rising Sun', employees ledgers, minute books, financial records, wool and produce records and property accounts ledger.

Minutes of the NSW Combined Colliery Proprietors' Association and members, the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association (1916-1964), the Southern Colliery Proprietors' Association (1889-1893, 1906-1909, 1911-1964), the Western Coal Association (1929-1960) and the NSW Coke Proprietors' Association (1910-1949), correspondence, circulars, office files, submissions, reports, and printed material. Minutes and other records of the Australian Coal Industry Research Laboratories Limited and files of the Finance and Economics and Export Committees of the Australian Coal Association (1982-1985).

The deposit consists of branch annual reports; manager's correspondence; financial records; papers relating to pastoral holdings 1889-1912; Sydney Wool and Produce Salesmen's Association and Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association agreements, correspondence and minutes 1889-1900, 1941; miscellaneous records including the Sheepskin Buyers' Association of Sydney regulations; printed material including reports, pamphlets and maps.

Financial records, wages books, newspaper cuttings, photographs, oil painting, staff provident fund records including minutes of trustee meetings, journal, ledgers and cash book.

Minutes of the South Australian State Committee of the Boilermakers' & Blacksmiths' Society of Australia; registration books and proposition and entrance book of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (South Australian Branches).

Microfilm copy of minutes of Executive Committee (1911-1961) and general meetings (1922-1961), committee minutes, financial records, reports, minutes of Combined Unions of Brisbane (1914-1916), papers relating to the 1891 shearers' strike, minutes of the United Operative Stonemasons' Society, Brisbane or Ipswich branch (1866-1870) and Queensland Eight Hours Anniversary Union (1887-1891).

Minute books, constitution and rules, subject and industrial files, correspondence, factories correspondence, membership and financial records, wages books, publications, newspaper cuttings, ephemera and photographs. Includes minutes of NSW Confectioners' Society and NSW Journeymen Confectioners' Union, and records of successor the Confectionery Workers' Union of Australia.

Initially titled 'Amalgamated Society of Engineers Monthly Report' from 1889 to 1921. Following renaming of the Society to the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) in 1922, the title changed to 'Amalgamated Engineering Union Monthly Report'. From 1935 the journal became the 'Monthly Journal and Report' and from 1949 simply 'Monthly Journal'. When the AEU amalgamated with the Boilers' and Blacksmiths' Society and the Sheet Metal Workers' Union in 1973 forming the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union (AMWU) the Journal was renamed 'Amalgamated Metal Unions Monthly Journal', and in 1974 renamed again as 'Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union Monthly Journal'. AMWU amalgamated with the Shipwrights' Union in 1979 at which point the journal became the 'Amalgamated Metal Workers' and Shipwrights' Union Monthly Journal, and from July 1980 the 'AMWSU Quarterly Journal'.

Records from the company's Head Office in Melbourne including correspondence, financial records, stock and price books, and other printed material.

Minutes of Queensland Branch (1912-1956), rules, financial records and correspondence.

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.

Microfilm copy of minutes of the Sydney Wharf Labourers' Society (later the Sydney Branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation) general, special and committee meetings, 1889-1957, NSW State Executive meetings, 1920-1929, Sydney Branch Executive meetings, 1935-1954 and stop work meetings over the whole period.

Minute books of predecessors the Victorian Lithographic Printers Employees' Union (formerly the Victorian Lithographic Printers' Society) and financial ledger.

Correspondence, financial records, business and personal papers of A B Pursell, tourist booklets, material re World War I & II, newspapers and miscellaneous printed material. Includes papers concerning sales of land, insurance, Hordern's fire of 1901, 'The Review' Co, Whitstable Electric Co, Medway Syndicate, YMCA and Mosman Wesleyan Church.

Microfilm copy of station annual reports, shearing and lambing returns, land and stock statements. The material in this deposit was held at the Australian Head Office in Melbourne.

Minutes of the Council, Executive Committee and Annual Conference of the Pastoralists' Union, the Graziers' Association of NSW and the Livestock and Grain Producers' of NSW (1890-1988) and of commodity and other committees of the Graziers' Association and the Livestock and Grain Producers' of NSW; minutes of the Council, Executive Committee, Annual Conference and commodity committees of the United Farmers and Woolgrowers' Association of NSW; minutes of the United Farmers' Co-operative Limited and the NSW Pig Producers' Council; copies of minutes and proceedings of the Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia, Graziers' Federal Council of Australia and Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council Convention (1890-1978); copies of minutes of the Graziers' Federal Council of Australia and Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council Executive Committee, commodity and other committees; copies of minutes of the Cattle Council, the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation, the National Farmers' Union of Australia and the Sheepmeat Council of Australia; classified correspondence files (1980s); records of the NSW Shearing/Wool Producing Industry Training Committee and shearing shed surveys (1981) and minutes of the Sheep Meats Marketing Board for the State of NSW.

Printed prospectuses and some reports of Australian companies including gold and oil mining companies in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. Most of the prospectuses are from the 1930s-1950s.

Unprocessed. Includes photographs, product information and labels, research notes and publications, relating to the history, products, staff, factories and offices of Unilever and predecessor companies.

This deposit contains 2 hand coloured lithographs by Fergusson and Mitchell of R Goldsbrough and Company Limited warehouses in Sydney and Melbourne. There are also 20 watercolours by John C Goodchild of Elders Limited properties in Australia and London. There is also a watercolour by Goodchild of the birthplace of Alexander Lang Elder in Kircaldy, Scotland.

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

Research papers on the merger of Elder Smith and Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Includes subject files, copies of minutes, reports, correspondence, records re staff funds, working papers and drafts Manning's book, printed material, maps, plan and chart.

Political pamphlets, books and serials, including material on banking legislation, the ALP and referenda; papers relating to the Victorian Fabian Society; catalogues and programmes.

Correspondence, research files, printed material and photographs relating to Ian Hudson's research on the history of the timber industry in NSW. The research files hold information on a number of NSW timber companies and industry organisations, such as Allen Taylor & Co, Clyde Sawmilling Co Pty Ltd, Amalgamated Timbers Pty Ltd and the Associated Country Sawmillers of NSW. They also include notes on and/or transcripts of interviews with a number of people involved in the industry, including Tom and Robert Kirk, Stanley W Gentle, C A Lembke, Harry Luke and Leslie Hobbs.

Microfilm copy of Executive Committee minutes (1890-1966) and general meetings (1935-1959) including indexes, reports, rules and other material. Also includes rules of Federated Moulders (Metals) Union of Australasia, NSW District and minutes of meetings of the Eight Hour System and General Short Hour League (1869-1871).

This deposit includes minutes of the South Australian Teachers' Association (1890 - 1903), the Headmasters' Association (1920 - 1927), the South Australian Public Teachers' Union executive and vigilance committee (1925 - 1927) and press cuttings relating to education in South Australia.

Trading records

The deposit from Goondi Mill (Queensland) consists of letter books 1892-1920; engineers reports and notes 1890-1941; union claims and labour matters 1939-40; Royal Commission on Sugar questionnaire 1942.

Member files

Brisbane. Printed and published for the Worker Newspaper Pty for the AWU Queensland Branch. Unbroken run from Vol 1 no 1 March 1890 to Vol 85 no 4119 August 1974 held.

Photographs of Victorian trade union banners housed by Museum Victoria.

Records of the Queensland Branch of the Australian Workers' Union including minutes of Branch Executive (1913-1970), annual delegate meetings (1914-1970) and The Worker Pty Ltd Board of Directors (1914-1970), correspondence, records of Charters Towers branch and Northern, Central, Far Northern, and Southern Districts. Includes by-laws of Queensland Shearers' Union (1890) and material relating to 1891 strike, and minutes of Australian Labor Federation (1896-1913) and Townsville Hotel, Club, Cafe and Laundry Employees' Union (1917-1919).

Minutes, correspondence, financial records, and list of officer bearers. Includes minutes of predecessors and of Chinese societies in Sydney and Melbourne including the New South Wales Chinese Empire Reform Association, the Chinese Debating Society (Sydney), the committee for the collection of donations to help the struggle against Japanese invasion, the Self-Protection Society of Sydney, and the Kong Chew Society. Records are mostly in Chinese.

Volumes of press cuttings relating to general, industrial and financial matters, arbitration proceedings, Country Party, Pastures Protection Board, meat, rabbits, taxation, tariffs, transport and wool.

United Carters' and Drivers' contribution book (1890-1892), Federated Carters' and Drivers' Industrial Union: minutes (1908-1912) and contributions book (1908-1910), Transport Workers' Union minutes (1926-1948), financial records, membership records including Geelong and Western District sub-branch, correspondence, abitration material, printed material and photograph of LC Balton, Geelong and Western District sub-branch.

Microfilm copy of a list of officers of the South Australian Public Teachers' Association, regulations, minute books of the South Australian Teachers' Association 1890 - 1903, and Balaklava Teachers' Association 1907 - 1948.

Minutes of meetings of the Operative Painters and Paperhangers Society of South Australia (1890-1893), the Federated Building Trades Union (1892-1899) and the Operative Painters and Decorators Union (1909-1932) and rule books.

Minutes of Federal Council (1890-1916, 1925-1942, 1953-1979 with some gaps) and Federal Executive (1953-1979), Biennial and Triennial Conference minutes, financial records and membership records (1890-1916, 1927-1941). Financial records include Federal Council salary ledgers (1942-1948, 1951-1962), membership contributions (1890-1903, 1912-1914), and ledgers. Also includes files relating to demarcation with other trades. Also includes some press cuttings (1912-1919).

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

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.

Single issues of the Wool Review are held for the seasons 1891-92, 1909-10, 1910-11, 1913-14 and 1915-16 and bound copies for the seasons 1916-17 through to 1955-56. From the 1956-57 season it was renamed Dalgety's Annual Wool Digest and single issues are held from 1956-57 through to 1980-81, and for 1984-85. Some issues of Dalgety's Review, a separate monthly publication (S55), are also included in the bound volumes: Dec 1914, Oct & Nov 1915 and July & Sep 1916.

Perth. 1 issue only held: Vol 7 no 1766

Minutes, financial and sales records, wages books and sheets, and newspaper cuttings.

Minutes, correspondence, notes, photographs and printed material about Lidcombe Emergency Relief Workers (Sydney), 1933–1934; Amalgamated Engineering Union, Sydney 4th Branch, 1935–1944; and the AEU Retired Members Association, Sydney District, 1965–1974; printed material and press cuttings re Mrs L Cullen (suffragette); structural engineering notebooks and map.

Agreement

Minutes of the Fremantle Lumpers' Union and the Waterside Workers' Federation Fremantle Branch, 1891-1962; minutes of Casual Section of Fremantle Wharf meetings, 1942-1947; financial records, 1898-1959; office files, 1928-1960; Branch Secretary’s letter book, 1919-1921; membership records, 1920-1955; accident and death books, 1903-1955; Discipline Committee decision record book, 1937-1948; Board of Reference decision record book, 1939-1947; Vigilant Officers Committee agenda book, 1944; office diaries, 1954-1957; Stevedoring Industry report, 1945; correspondence/subject files (including strike of 1956 and 1959 election material), 1929-1959; printed material 1912, 1946.

Minutes of meetings of the Executive Council, correspondence files, arbitration and financial records, publications, reports, and records of Richmond Branch (North Queensland). Includes minutes of predecessor the Queensland Locomotive Enginemen, Firemen and Cleaners' Association.

Melbourne. Published by Pastoral Review Australia Pty Ltd. Australia's National Livestock and Farming Journal. Various other titles including The Australasian Pastoralists' Review. Holdings: most issues 1891 - 1977

The collection includes records of the MUA Dispute Archive Project consisting of union records and correspondence; Australian Council of Trade Unions and Victorian Trades Hall Council minutes; Trade Union Training Authority speaker notes and fact sheets; Australian Services Union fliers and administrative documents; Finance Sector Union correspondence and administrative documents; Health and Community Services Union flier and newsletter; Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance flier and minutes; National Tertiary Education Union correspondence and NSW Branch information kit; police association correspondence and newsletter; Transport Workers Union NSW flier and minutes; Victorian Independent Education Union newsletters and fliers; Australian Manufacturing Workers Union leaflet, newsletter and newspapers; Community and Public Sector Union ACT journals and flier; correspondence, leaflets and posters produced by non-union groups; official documents, legal and parliamentary records including speeches, transcripts, minutes; fliers, posters, booklets, electronic communications, film, photographs, artwork, music, poetry and media releases. Files of Lindsay Tanner gathered by the MUA Dispute Archive Project consists of media clippings, transcripts of electronic media interviews, Hansard extracts, notes and correspondence, and documents relating to legislation. The deposit also includes papers of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, the NSW Fire Brigade Employees’ Union, and unionist Carmel Shute, media releases and circulars, printed material, video and audio tapes; research files consisting of legal documents, reports, newsletters and documents relating to the Dubai stevedoring venture, news clippings, and leaflets; Maritime Union of Australia files, speeches and news reports.

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

Minute books, membership records, correspondence, financial records, industrial papers, reports and rule books. Includes Coastal District and Fremantle Branch records of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and its predecessor Amalgamated Society of Engineers; Kalgoorlie Branch records of Western Australian predecessors West Australian Coach, Car and Rolling Stock Builders' Industrial Union of Workers and the WA Vehicle Builders' Union; and rule books of the Western Australian Plumbers and Sheet Metal Workers Industrial Union of Workers.

Includes minutes, Brisbane Stock Exchange Official Lists, quote sheets, circulars, correspondence files circulars and member firm files.

The deposit consists of departmental and annual reports, superintendent's reports, branch reports from Townsville, Rockhampton and Toowomba sub-branches, correspondence files with indexes, letterbooks, minutes, financial records, property and equipment ledger, wool statistics and catalogues, securities documents and records of the Toowoomba Sub-branch and subsidiary company Dalgety's Properties (Qld) Pty Ltd. Also included are the memorandum and articles of association of Queensland Meat Export Company Limited (1915) and Australian Stock Breeders Company Limited (1915).

The deposit contains Peel River Land & Mineral Company Ltd records held at Goonoo Goonoo: correspondence, financial records, ledgers and daybooks, journals, wages records, stores and rations records, sheep and wool records, stock records, general land and fencing records. Also includes records of Avon Downs, Currawillinghi, Eagle Grange, Moorlands, Mount Alfred and Mount Margaret stations: ledgers, correspondence, financial records, general station and household records, wages books and employee's records.

Minutes, incorporation records including memorandum and articles of association, financial records, subject files and correspondence, daily trading registers, press cuttings, photographs and printed material.

Pay and production records, stock book, annual reports and correspondence for Mount Keira Colliery. Records of earnings of miners and daymen, shipping receiving book, stock books, central office time books and pay records for Mount Kembla Colliery.

Minutes of meetings (1946-1965), correspondence and financial records of the Sydney Branch, 1893 black list, Federal Council minutes (1916-1964) and financial statements and reports (1964-1981), and minutes of the Monumental Workers' Union of New South Wales (1913-1914).

Minute books of the following branches: Arncliffe (NSW), Balmain (NSW), Canbbera (ACT), Captain's Flat (NSW), Captain's Flat No.2 (NSW), Central Branch (NSW), Cobar (NSW), Cobar 2nd Branch (NSW), Crows Nest (NSW), Darwin (NT), Dubbo (NSW), Dulwich Hill (NSW), Granville 2nd Branch (NSW), Hume-Mitta, Kiewa (VIC), Lithgow (NSW), Melbourne 11th, Newborough (VIC), North Sydney, Permanent Shift Branch (NSW), Punchbowl (NSW), Refrigeration Branch, Richmond (VIC), Roma (QLD), Rozelle (NSW), Shepparton (VIC), Sydney 11th, Sydney 12th, Sydney 13th, Tamworth (NSW), Werris Creek (NSW), Whyalla (SA) and Yarloop (WA); donation and sick benefit book; and unemployment records of Rozelle Branch members.

Minute books, balance sheets (includes register of members, mortality fee level and registration record), subscription and levy books. Includes records of predecessor the Barrier Typographical Society.

Company registration papers, personal and station correspondence, station returns, registers of quotations and sales, stock records, financial records and related papers.

Research papers, correspondence and drafts of his, A World History of Sheep and Wool, published in 1957. Also includes material on pioneering families in Victoria and the Riverina, periodicals, pamphlets, newspaper cuttings and books.

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

Publications relating to employment by CSR, agriculture and the sugar industry, and Indian residents in Fiji. Includes language publications and historical publications.

Records of the London office including minute books, accounts, balance sheets and letter books.

Minutes, copies of letters sent, financial and arbitration records. Includes records of predecessors Brisbane Shipwrights Provident Union.

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

All types of company records including conference reports, branch and annual reports, memo book, annual accounts of subsidiary companies, manuals, staff war savings certificates official trustee registers (Sydney), correspondence files, budget plans and forecasts, staff directory (1975), catalogue and pamphlets.

Correspondence, photographs, newspaper articles, reports, minutes, speeches, travel documents and papers related to the work and personal lives of Della Elliott and Eliot Valens Elliott, particularly Eliot's work as Federal Secretary of the Seamen's Union of Australia between 1941-1978. Also includes a significant collection of material related to the Seamen's Union of Australia including correspondence, reports, photographs and newspaper articles in addition to material related to the Trade Union Equal Pay Committee, Australian Women's Charter, Federated Clerks' Union of Australia New South Wales Branch, Communist Party of Australia, Socialist Party of Australia and communist and socialist movements in Europe and Asia.

Includes general reports on cane from Australian and Fijian mills, reports on technical fieldwork in Australian mills, David North Plant Research Centre records, weather observations from Macknade and Victoria mills and Technical Field Department steering committee minutes.

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.

The deposit comprises the records of subsidiary companies of The Australian Estates Company Limited including Directors and Shareholders minutes, company registers and annual reports.

Radical pamphlets, books and serials re Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Workers' International Industrial Union (WIIU), Australian Socialist Partu, Socialist Labour Party of Australia etc.

Financial records, Commonwealth Council material re conferences and meetings, membership records, reports, journals and photographs. Includes financial and membership records of Queensland branches: Ipswich Branch, Innisfail Branch, Mt Isa Branch, Woolongabba Branch; New South Wales branches: Ashfield Branch, Bankstown Branch, Belmont Branch, Civic Branch, Hurstville Branch, Mayfield Branch, Newcastle Branch, Portland Branch, Rockdale Branch; Victorian branches: Melbourne No.7 Branch, Preston No.2 Branch, Ringwood Branch, Yarraville Branch; Tasmanian branches: Launceston Branch, Tamar Branch.

Minutes, contributions books, balance sheets, arbitration files consisting of claims, affidavits, exhibits, transcripts and judgements. Includes a report of the Royal Commission on the Mining Industry at Broken Hill 1914 and records of predecessor the Amalgamated Glass Bottle Makers Union.

This is a microfilm copy of selections from Goldsbrough Mort and Company's balance books from 1894 - 1895 and 1912 - 1940.

Financial records and wages books.

Minutes of stockholders' meetings 1895-1921; minutes of meetings of Trustees of the 1st and 2nd mortgage Debenture Stocks; minutes of Board of Directors and annual general meetings of stock holders; including minutes of general, committee and board meetings of Dalgety and New Zealand Loan (London) Ltd; notes on the wool trade; and colored lithograph c. 1890.

The deposit consists of financial papers and reports held at the company's Head Office in London; annual accounts, financial statements and reports from the Australian Head Office (Melbourne) and branch offices, as well as accounts and reports from stations. Additional material relating to subsidiary companies is also included. The station annual reports show the state of station accounts, shearing and lambing returns, land and stock statements, and reports from station managers and inspectors. The deposit also contains Head Office (London) ledgers, cash books and journals, as well as a cash book of the Union Mortgage & Agency Company of Australia Ltd 1900-1908.

Minutes of Directors' meetings, financial records, wage books, register of apprentices, advertising and printed materials, and photographs