Includes information about Edward Waters and his estate, examples of client paperwork, and information about the development of intellectual property law in Victoria.
Watermark8 drawings of buildings in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney.
Coxsedge, Joan MarjorieNot yet processed
Trades and Labour Council of the Australian Capital TerritoryRecords of the Spanish Relief Committee, including minutes, correspondence, circulars, extracts from the diary of Una Wilson, a volunteer nurse sent to Spain by the SRC, photographs and printed material; case files of the legal firm Christian Jollie Smith & Co relating to the Rothbury Miners’ Riot Case, 1930, and the Newtown and Glebe Eviction Riot Case, 1931. Jollie Smith, a founding member of the Communist Party of Australia, was acting for the International Class War Prisoners Aid in these cases.
Thorne, Phillip TRecords of Unilever (Australia) Pty Ltd, Lever Brothers Pty Ltd, Burford & Sons Ltd, J Kitchen & Sons Ltd and Lever & Kitchen Pty Ltd and some of their associated/ subsidiary companies - Commonwealth Copra Company, Eugene (Australia), Eugene (New Zealand), Hillcastle (New Zealand), J & E Atkinson, Lever Associated Enterprises, Neptune Oil Company, Rexona Pty Ltd, Soap Distributors Ltd and Sydney Soap and Candle Company. Includes various minute books, correspondence files, company journals, reports, formulae books, photographs and factory plans. The History of J Kitchen & Sons Pty Ltd, a manuscript compiled by Arnold Riches, The Story of Rexona Pty Ltd by Ken Washington and Rosella: celebrating 100 years of care, a Rosella Public Relations/Promotional Program publication, are useful sources of historical information that complement the business records of these companies. Photographs in the collection depict the many facets of Lever Brothers Pty Ltd/Lever & Kitchen Pty Ltd operations at Balmain - the factory buildings, machinery, manufacturing processes, products, staff and employees as well as J Kitchen & Sons Ltd factories at Port Melbourne and Alexandria, Rexona Pty Ltd product launches and promotions, and ‘Good Rexona Town’ signs that appeared throughout NSW and Victoria in the 1930s and 1940s.
Unilever (Australia) Pty LtdLondon. Issued by the Directors of the AACo. Includes copy of publication: Emigration to Australia (1849)
Australian Agricultural CompanyRecords relating to the Balmain Ironworkers’ Dispute, including minutes of the rebel Balmain branch of the Federated Ironworkers Association, correspondence, financial records, newspaper clippings and printed material.
Origlass, NicholasPapers relating to the Women’s Electoral Lobby campaign on enterprise bargaining; miscellaneous personal papers. Includes files, press clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, leaflets, serials and arbitration case files.
Ryan, Edna MinnaMinute books, office files, correspondence re records of and about the Association, and journals of the Australian Economic Association, The Australian Economist (1888-1898).
Australian Economic AssociationThis collection contains Norm Docker’s private notes and publications collected by him as a Communist Party member and activist. It does not contain records about his activities as the Waterside Workers’ Federation official.
Docker, NormNot yet processed.
McDonald, GeoffThis deposit has not yet been processed.
McDonald, GeoffThis deposit has not yet been processed.
Manchester Unity Independent Order of OddfellowsAll types of company records from the many divisions of the organisation which include administration, corporate affairs, finance, legal, marketing, personnel, technical, export and planning. Includes records of subsidiaries, advertising material, wine labels, photographs, label specification books, staff records, awards, slides, audiotapes and videos.
Lindeman (Holdings) LimitedIncludes station store ledgers, monthly returns, station returns, weekly reports, cash books, rough diaries, some staff records, shearing records, correspondence including letterbooks, rainfall records, and a small number of building plans.
Manfred Pastoral HoldingMember registers for courts across Victoria; meeting minutes, agendas and business papers; reports; rules; laws; ritual books;
papers relating to annual and official dinners; conference papers; social committee papers; fund management forms; financial papers; sick registers; investment registers; cash books; contribution books; registration books; trustees' ledgers; correspondence; circulars; memoranda; ceremonial ribbons and sashes; badges; assorted ceremonial items (horns, protractors, gavels, blocks, table cloths); metal and wooden storage boxes; certificates; photographs.
This deposit has not yet been processed.
McDonald, AudreyThis deposit has not yet been processed.
Flight Attendants' Association of AustraliaAAESDA ACT branch minutes 1945-1975, AAESDA Handbook 1959, AAESDA/ADSTE Annual General Meetings and reports 1972 - 1991, PIEUA and PKIU board of management and executive meetings 1961- 1988, PIEUA and PKIU minutes of ordinary meetings 1964-1979, AMWU attendance book 1995-2005, PIEUA and PKIU register of apprentices (1963-1980) and ACT membership book alphabetical with surnames (nd).
Australian Manufacturing Workers' UnionIncludes minutes, correspondence and office files, financial records, records of the company fleet, personnel records and photographs.
Adelaide Steamship CompanyFilm reels (4), video reels (10), sound tape reels (3) received or produced by the Waterside Workers’ Federation and the MV Kanimbla Social Club
Waterside Workers’ Federation of AustraliaPapers from David Buchanan's work on legal issues around HIV and AIDS including discrimination, health, and human rights.
Buchanan, DavidA large collection of political pamphlets, serials and leaflets, together with papers relating to Langer’s own political activities, the anti-Vietnam War movement and organisations involved in radical politics, such as Students In Dissent, the Bakery, Monash University Labor Club, Worker Student Alliance, Eureka Youth League, People for Nuclear Disarmament, Jews Against Zionism, Software Liberation Campaign.
Langer, AlbertFiles on the affairs of the NSW Branch of the Builders' Labourers' Federation, notably green bans and Federal intervention; records of the Builders' Labourers for Democratic Control; personal correspondence, notes and diaries, drafts of an unfinished history of the Branch; papers relating to the Darling Harbour Construction Project; papers collected by Abe David; photographs, pamphlets, leaflets, posters and serials.
Owens, JosephSection A Reels 1-18 consist of microfilm copies of CSR Sydney Library Archive Section files (originals in NBAC N305) containing correspondence, memoranda, extracts of minutes, legal documents, newspaper cuttings, reports, histories, publications, photographs, illustrations, and miscellaneous documents relating to CSR Limited, its officers, the Australian and international sugar industry, immigration and labour.
Section B Reels 1-2 are closed.
Section C Reels 1-19 are microfilm copies of Raw Sugar Marketing Division documents relating to the International Sugar Council, international sugar matters and charter parties.
Section D Reel 1 consists of microfilm copies of Drug Master File 1324 containing information lodged with the Food and Drug Administration by CSR plus a microfilm reader index.
Section E Reels 1-737 consist of microfilm copies of Head Office correspondence exchanged between branches, mills and officers. These reels continue the various Head Office correspondence series found within deposit 142 and on occasion into the early 1970s some correspondence begin with the microfilm series.
Colonial Sugar Refining Company LimitedThis deposit consists of photographic proofs arranged in 75 albums illustrating all types of company activities, personnel, social and sporting events, refineries and factories, Mount Newman opening, bulk sugar terminals, aerial views of mills and refineries, demolition of buildings; artwork used in publications and advertisements; mining operations and collieries; Fiji 1968-69; rail transport; research laboratories; Australian Estates; and copies of historical photos.
Colonial Sugar Refining Company LimitedThe deposit consists of CSR Sydney Archives Section files containing correspondence, memoranda, extracts of minutes, legal documents, newspaper cuttings, reports, histories of the sugar industry, immigration and labour, bibliographies and papers re Knox family, publications, photographs, illustrations, and miscellaneous documents relating to CSR Limited, its officers, the Australian and international sugar industry. Also includes records relating to the Fiji sugar industry, pineapple activities in Fiji and Fiji tramways.
Colonial Sugar Refining Company LimitedStation records including correspondence re station management, letter books, diaries, financial records, wages books (including shearers), stud books, wool books, ration books, pastoral awards and printed materials, maps and plan
Foxlow StationMinute 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' UnionSydney. Issued by the Graziers' Association of New South Wales and the Pastoralists' Association of West Darling
Graziers' Association of New South WalesGuest registers and signatures of visitors to the Stock Exchange of Melbourne, including Prime Ministers Earle Page and JB Chifley.
Stock Exchange of MelbourneFour volumes of applications and correspondence relating to requests from companies to be listed on the official lists of the Stock Exchange of Melbourne.
Stock Exchange of MelbourneMeeting minutes and agenda from various committees including: Melbourne Stock Exchange Committee; Joint Committee; Board of Directors and other smaller committees.
Stock Exchange of MelbourneThis deposit has not yet been processed.
Lindeman (Holdings) LimitedAssociated Chamber of Manufactures minutes of annual meetings (1904-1978), annual conference (1906-1913), Executive Meetings (1917-1972), Federal Council (1972-1977) and committees, annual reports, subject files, the Canberra Letter (1939-1954) and printed material. Confederation of Australian Industry subject files including minutes and correspondence, annual reports, film (Indonesian President Suharto in Australia, 1972) and printed material. Records of the Australia-Japan Business Co-operation Committee (1963-1988), the Australia-China Business Co-operation Committee (1973-1987) and others including Indonesia and The Philippines. Also includes minutes of the Australian Council of Exporters, the Australian Plastic Sanitaryware Manufacturers Association, the Canvas Goods Association, the Dairy Equipment Manufacturers Association, the Food Equipment Manufacturers Association, the Drop Forging Association and the National Council of Environment Quality.
Associated Chambers of Manufactures of AustraliaAll types of company records including minutes, correspondence, reports, legal and financial records, staff records, investment registers, branch returns, subject files, strategic plans, photographs, plans, videotapes and audiotapes of interviews with company executives. Includes records of head office, branches and subsidiaries and associated companies such as Mauri Brothers and Thomson. This deposit includes many cartons which are not yet processed and listed.
Burns Philp and Company LimitedMelbourne. Issued by the Federal Council of Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association of Australasia. July 1914-February 1919; June 1947- December 1952; March 1959- December 1964. Gaps.
Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association of AustralasiaSydney. Official organ of the Merchant Service Guild of Australasia. 1955-1964 (gaps).
Merchant Service Guild of AustraliaMelbourne. The journal of the Australian National Line
Australian National LineGeneva. Published by the International Labour Office of the ILO
International Labour OfficeSydney. Monthly news bulletin of the Merchant Service Guild of Australia
Merchant Service Guild of AustraliaIncludes photographs of staff who served in World War 1 and World War 2. Many photographs are unidentified.
Elder Smith and CompanyOne undated, unnumbered issue and one copy of Paradise Faces (1989). Contains issues 1 (July 1976), 7, 9-10, 13-17, 19-65, 67-96, 99-103, 105-111, 113-124, 127, 129, 132, 136-138, 142-144, 146-151, 153-156 (Mar/Apr 2003). Numbering system then changes, and continues with 2003 (vol 1 only); 2004 (vol 4-6); 2005 (vol 1-5); 2006 (vol 1-6); 2007 (1-2, 5-6); 2008 (1-3); 2009 (1-6); 2010 (vol 2-6); 2011 (vol 1-6); 2012 (vol 1-6); 2013 (vol 1-6); 2014 (vol 1-4); 2015 (vol 3-6); 2016 (vol 1-6); 2017 (vol 1-4, 6); 2018 (vol 2-6); 2019 (vol 1, 4-5)
*Issue 13 is missing the covers.
Material relating to Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) produced by the Commonwealth Department of Community Services and Health (and successors), its policy advisory bodies (AIDS Task Force, National Advisory Committee on AIDS, Australian National Council on AIDS, Intergovernmental Committee on AIDS) and some other Commonwealth departments, including Ministerial statements, reports, booklets, bulletins, leaflets, advertisements, posters, discussion papers, conference proceedings, press clippings, media kits, audio and video cassettes, and marketing material (t-shirts, caps, stickers, postcards, balloons, condoms, frig magnets, badges, key-rings, coasters and frisbees).
Noel Butlin Archives CentreFiles relating to Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) issues covering Bowtell's work with the National Advisory Committee on AIDS and the Australian National Council on AIDS, the National Campaign Against Drug Use, the AIDS Trust of Australia, the Working Party on the Implementation of the Recommendations of the Intergovernmental Committee on AIDS, and as president of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations, including correspondence, reports, minutes and agenda for meetings, local and international conference papers, speeches, press cuttings, videotape of 1993 interviews with Bowtell, Ita Buttrose and Senator Richardson and printed material.
Bowtell, WilliamExecutive Committee correspondence, subject files and papers relating to the first four International Conferences on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific.
AIDS Society of Asia and the PacificRecords relating to establishment, meetings, workshops and conferences, correspondence, reports, funding submissions, material from State sex worker organisations and overseas reports, copies of articles and conference papers, newspaper clippings, and printed material.
Scarlet AllianceRecords relating to annual meetings, workshops and conferences, reports, funding submissions. Includes advocacy and lobbying material, such as submissions to proposed legislation and letter-writing campaigns. Also includes reports, copies of articles and conference papers, newspaper clippings, and printed material.
Extensive collection of serials, including from State and Territory and overseas sex worker organisations.
Scarlet AllianceMinutes of Federal Council (1972-1987) and sub-committees, annual reports, financial records, files of Executive Director Wendy McCarthy, office and research files, posters, educational videos and printed material. Includes material relating to Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) education programs, videotapes on family planning and sexually-transmitted diseases targeted at Pacific Island cultures, and video recordings of Pacific women.
Family Planning Federation of AustraliaFederal Council records including industrial files, legal files, subject and correspondence files, financial records and printed material.
Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association of AustralasiaMinute books and an audit report for Amalgamated Textiles Australia Ltd., Macquarie Worsteds Limited, and Ascot Investments Pty. Ltd. Copies of a wire bound brochure with wool and textile samples, and newspaper clippings for Macquarie Textiles and Macquarie Worsteds. Onkaparinga items include advertising photos, transparencies, illustrations and sketches, slides, film and film negatives, draft papers, and a fabric specification handbook. Some slides and illustrations are for Laconia blankets. Other items include Downs, Coulter & Co. financial records, a John Vicars & Co Limited centenary book, and a speech on the textile industry written by an unknown author for a Sir Robert Webster lecture.
Macquarie TextilesAdditional boxes received since 2024 awaiting processing.
Maritime Industry Australia LimitedThis deposit has not been processed. It is an accession from the ASX that will gradually be converted into deposits. It contains publications, minutes, reports, financial records, member files and correspondence. Includes material from the Sydney Stock Exchange, Stock Exchange of Melbourne, Stock Exchange of Perth, Brisbane Stock Exchange, Stock Exchange of Adelaide, and the Australian Associated Stock Exchanges. Most records for Stock Exchanges other than Sydney have been moved to separate deposits.
Australian Securities ExchangeThis deposit includes ledgers, journals, share registers and financial accounts for the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australia, and its predecessors Barnet Glass Rubber Company Limited and Olympic Tyre and Rubber Company.
Dunlop Australia LimitedCovering years 1910 - 1917.
Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service AssociationThis deposit contains speeches, addresses and records of public commentay. It also contains decisions of Justice PR Munro as a single member, decisions of Full Benches of which Justice Paul Munro was a member. Documents relate to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, Australian Industrial Relations Commission, Industrial Relations Society, Australian Institute of Employment Rights and the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia. Other documents are personal. Justice Munro included in his donation information about the papers of Francis Norman Wellford (Norm) Ross that were donated to the Fryer Library at the University of Queensland.
Munro, Paul RobertMelbourne. Socialist Party of Victoria. An exponent of International Socialism. Holding page 5-6 of 15 Jun 1907, 19 March 1909, and partial holdings from 26 Aug 1910 to 29 Sep 1911, and 16 Jan 1914 to 21 Nov 1919, with significant gaps..
Sydney. Official journal of the Trade Union Information and Research Centre
Minutes and agenda for Council and executive meetings; correspondence files; central filing system including general and industrial files re amalgamation, apprenticeship, awards and agreements, national wage case 1968-1978; reports, financial and membership records, rules, photographs, pamphlets published by the PKIU and predecessors, and publications. Includes records of state branches and predecessors the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia, Federated Photo Engravers, the Amalgamated Printing Trades Employees Union of Australia, and the Photo Lithographers and Photogravure Employees Association of Australia.
Printing and Kindred Industries UnionThe interviews were conducted by Humphrey McQueen as part of a University of Sydney oral history project for the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training, while he was researching and writing his publications 'Framework of Flesh: Builders' Labourers Battle for Health and Safety' (2009) and 'We Built this Country: Builders' Labourers and their Unions, 1787 to the Future' (2011). The participants were union officials in the Builders' Labourers' Federation (BLF), the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and in one case, the Royal Australian Nursing Federation. Most were recorded on Sony minidisc. There is also a recording on DVD of a talk given by McQueen to a seminar in November 2005.
McQueen, Humphrey DennisActs of incorporation, by-laws and regulations; tables of rates; prospectuses; agents' handbooks; reports; annual reports; financial records; brochures; pamphlets; advertisements; staff manuals; correspondence; circulars; staff guides; death registers; subject files; newspaper clippings; minute books; letter books; serials; publications; branch and office papers; scrapbooks; insurance policy certificates; Sydney 2000 Olympic Games memorabilia; AMP Land Development Scheme papers and photographs; National Mutual Life Association of Australasia papers; staff salary registers; staff record cards; badges and pins; promotional material; posters; certificates; calendars; photographs; buildings plans and drawings; audio-visual material.
Australian Mutual Provident SocietyMinute book of Harden and Johnston Limited, automobile and truck sales company based in Sydney. Meetings recorded date from establishment 29 May 1928 to 5 December 1948. The minutes detail establishment, share transactions, leases on premises, financial situation, and agreements with Dodge Brothers and Chrysler Corporation in the United States of America, and with Buckle Motors.
Harden and Johnston LimitedClients' documents, and a copy of of the firm's history (2000).
Clarke and Barwood LawyersPhotographic and audio visual materials from the Maritime Union of Australia in a variety of media forms.
Maritime Union of Australia