Accumulation of items donated by various families, businesses, community groups and individuals. It includes photographs, news clippings, correspondence, maps, photocopies of publications and archives, and ephemera.
Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society- Richard Sutton Heydon (1837-1915): sketched against background, by P.R. Heydon.
- Reminiscences of the Pioneer Days in New South Wales, by John Hurst.
- Alexander Davidson of Bullenbong (1818-1892): pioneer squatter, by Keith Swan.
- The Recollections of a Bushy, by Richard Cox.
- Law on the Frontier: The first ten years of the Wagga Wagga Bench (1847-1857), by Keith Swan.
- The Maher and Lloyd Families, by M. Sylvia Walsh.
- A Record of Olden Days, by Thomas Wilkinson (1824-1904).
- A Brief History of Yallowin, Tumut River, by Keith Swan, Sylvia Walsh, and R.L. Palmer.
- Bishop Francis Augustin Henschke (1892-1968), by Bishop F.P. Carroll.
- The Inside Sailors [paddlesteamers], by H.V. Evans.
Papers relating to the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society including minutes, correspondence and newsletters from 1985-2021.
[Box 1: Files, 1985-1987, RW1666/76/1-16]
[Box 2: Board of Directors minutes and correspondence, 1985-1998, RW1666/96/1-9]
[Box 3: Newsletters, 1986-2021]
Letter from the Historical Society to the Riverina Archives explaining that the Rats of Tobruk Association has placed information in a time capsule to be opened in 2088 (The location of the capsule is unknown).
Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society- The Way an Eagle Flew: the Anglican Church in Wagga Wagga, by Archdeacon K.A. Osborne.
- The Burning Bush: the beginnings of Presbyterianism in the Eastern Riverina, by Keith Swan.
- In a Bend of the Murrumbidgee: the foundation of the Catholic Church in Wagga Wagga, by Sylvia Walsh.
- A Brief History of Wagga Wagga Methodist Circuit, by R.E. Wade.
This collection is an accumulation of items donated to the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society by various families, businesses, community groups and individuals. It includes personal letters, family photographs, rainfall records, postcards, diaries, farm records, business ledgers, scrapbooks, cards, certificates, and other ephemera.
Wagga Wagga and District Historical SocietyPrescription books from an unknown Wagga Wagga pharmacy.
[Archivist's Note: These books may have belonged to Glazier's Pharmacy. Richard Lewis Glazier purchased FM Wood's Pharmacy in May 1916. He sold to his brother, Elwyn EL Glazier, 1936; Jim Glazier, son of Elwyn took over at a later date. The pharmacy was sold to, and amalgamated with Gissing's Pharmacy in the mid-1970s. Information from Peter Gissing, 2023.]
Wagga Wagga and District Historical SocietyThis collection is an accumulation of items donated to the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society by various families, businesses, community groups and individuals. It includes War Service and Closer Settlement Maps, Randolph Caldecott Chromolithograph of 4 Watercolour Sketches, the Grand National Cricket Match 14-16th Jan 1857, and a Sketch on the Improvement of Sydney Cove 28 Dec 1832.
Wagga Wagga and District Historical SocietyThis collection is an accumulation of items donated to the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society by various families, businesses, community groups and individuals. It includes the Wagga Wagga Public School, Wagga Wagga High School, Wagga Businesses, NSW Railways, NSW Police Department (Wagga Wagga Division and Narrandera and Griffith Division), David Copland and Co., CSU Regional Archives, Wagga Wagga Botanic Gardens, Lake Albert Common Trustees, Harding Family Collection, Janet V Buckeridge Collection, Telecommunications, Wagga Wagga Grammer School, Wagga Wagga School of Arts, Brendan and Iris Leahy Collection, Wagga Wagga City Council, Vincent Family, John Paynter, and miscellaneous photographs.
Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society