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 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 SocietyDiaries, cash books, bound volumes of lecture notes, account books and note books, photographs, miscellaneous family papers, including correspondence.
Florance Family of CootamundraLegal documents and other papers re. Boyton estate, Cox estate (Eunonyhareenyha, Yalgogin Run, North Kolkibertoo Run, Marrar Run, Urana), Dunn estate (Kurrajong), Heffernan (Clear Hills, Millbank), Orr estate (Westhoe), W.H. Kendall estate.
Mortimer, Hendriks, Griffin and ErrattBound volume of "The Wagga Wagga Express" newspaper (1858-1859).
The Wagga Wagga ExpressResearch files from work on the history of the Chinese in the Riverina ("Tracking the Dragon").
Dr Barry McGowan, historianLedgers, financial records, and correspondence relating to Murraguldrie, Toonga and other Parramore properties; Cattle judging records; Caulfield Grammer Sport Programme; a stock notebook of W. T. Parramore (at Throwley Hall stock sale, England, 1877).
Parramore Family of Murraguldrie and Toonga StationsThis 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 SocietyTitles, deeds, estates and other papers.
Mortimer, Hendriks, Griffin and ErrattPhotographic negatives taken for "The Daily Advertiser" newspaper (1964-2001);
Bound volumes of "The Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter" newspaper (Oct 1868 - Mar 1875);
Bound volumes of "The Wagga Wagga Advertiser" newspaper (Mar 1875 - Jan 1911);
Bound volumes of "The Daily Advertiser" newspaper (Jan 1911 - Dec 2015);
Bound volumes of "The Riverina Rural Weekly" newspaper (1976 - 1979); and
Bound volumes of "The Southern Rural" newspaper (1980 - 1987).
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 SocietyCopy of a photograph of the free punt in Wagga Wagga.
Certificates, minute books and papers, journal and papers, recipe books, Memorandum of Association, balance sheet and accounts, notes on proposed purchase of Crystal Cordial Company, sample bottle labels and photographs.
Sheekey's (Wagga Wagga) Pty. Ltd.Correspondence, wills, certificates (copies), business papers, newspaper clippings, plan of John Hatton's land, photographs and cheque books.
Dunn Family of OuraCommittee minutes, financial records, Members' Registers, Suggestion book, Building Plans, and Annual Reports.
The Riverine ClubSub-division maps and plans of Wagga Wagga and parish maps.
Mortimer, Hendriks, Griffin and ErrattLedgers, photograph album, share certificate issue register, photographs, stock inventory.
Charles Hardy and CompanyFamily papers, including subject files, scrap books, photographs and glass plate negatives.
Gormly Family of Wagga WaggaAccounts and receipts, letters to and from Head Office (Sydney), budgets, correspondence, financial records, memorandums, agreements, rainfall charts, tracings of parish maps for County Bourke, employee's statement book, notebooks, ledgers, etc. Records relate to Bull's Run Station, Ganmain Station, Deepwater Station and Murrulebale Station, Ganmain, Old Junee and Wagga Wagga.
Scottish Australian Investment Company Ltd.Concert programmes, scrapbook, invitations to James Gormly relating to the opening of the Centennial International Exhibition at Melbourne (1888) and the State Banquet Federation Celebration (1901).
Gormly Family of Wagga WaggaMinutes, reports, correspondence, financial records; shareholder and employee; Flour Miller's Council, legal documents, articles of association, plans, valuations, inventories, stock and delivery records, news clippings and photographs.
Murrumbidgee Milling Company Pty. Ltd.Newspaper cuttings books, minute books, cash payments and receipts book, members index and annual fees book and miscellaneous papers.
Wagga Wagga Tennis AssociationPhotographs of early Wagga Wagga
Research notes and photographs re Wagga Experiment Farm and Wagga Agricultural College book "From Farmboys to PhDs".
June Sutherland of Wagga WaggaQuestionnaires, correspondence, publications, oral history tapes, computer discs, negatives, ephemera, photographs, newspaper cuttings and memorabilia.
South Wagga Public SchoolLedgers, minute book, record of brewing materials book, agreements, Articles of Association and cash book.
Hogan & Mahon Pty. Ltd.Subject files, RSL property files and constitutions, photographs, newspaper clippings, research papers for RSL books, and ephemera.
William Harold FifePhotographs of Yanco Agricultural College, Commercial Hotel and Union Club Hotel, Wagga Wagga, Harry Davies (blacksmith, Lockhart) in Masonic Lodge regalia and print of Van Dyk's drawing of King Edward VIII.
Lewis FamilyOriginals and copies of photographs of Wagga Wagga and region which were reproduced in newspaper "Rural News". Includes street scenes, harvest, cattle, sheep, cattle selling complex, shows, field days, etc.
The Daily AdvertiserSelected prints from glass plate negatives created by the Government Printing Office, Sydney. Images include Walla Walla Station, Goombargoona Station, Round Hill Station, Kinross Station, Walbundry Station, Wagga Experiment Farm, Wagga Show, and "Allonby" at Forest Hill.
Government Printing OfficeArchitectural drawings, plans and specifications for shops, residences and businesses in Wagga Wagga.
Hardy’s Ltd. (1924 - c.1992)Parish records from Culcairn-Henty, Darlington Point, Walla Walla, Whitton and Griffith.
Anglican Diocese of RiverinaSubject and correspondence files, cash books, purchase journals, ledgers, wage books and plans.
Hunter Bros. NewsagencyAccounts and receipts, notebooks, wages book, rainfall charts, correspondence, parish maps, plans and diagrams.
Leitch Family, Bulgary Pastoral CompanyPhotographs of the Wagga Experiment Farm (c.1908) and letters to and from Mother.
Florance Family of CootamundraDiaries, bank statements and balances, classing and mating reports, correspondence, subject files, photographs, publications, parish maps, plans, sheep sale posters and topographical map.
Clarence James DaleyMiscellaneous committee minutes, financial papers, records relating to the establishment of a Ladies Annex, various building plans and specifications, Articles of Association (1961), photographs, ephemera.
The Riverine ClubCopies of photographs of building, staff and coaches.
John Gelme Ltd.Copies of photographs of Wagga Wagga and district.
Cath BarnesXerox copies of photographs of Wagga Wagga Experiment Farm.
Ron BellPhotocopies of notes belonging to W. H. Ellis, coachbuilder.
John Gelme Ltd.Two photographs of Hogan & Mahon's Federal Brewery and of Sheekey's (Wagga Wagga) Pty. Ltd.
Sheekey's (Wagga Wagga) Pty. Ltd.Private journal, ledgers, wages book, sales account ledgers and cash books.
WG Huthwaite & Co. Pty. Ltd., department store in Wagga WaggaPhotograph of Wagga Wagga Railway staff in 1913.
Wagga Wagga Railway StationMiscellaneous parish photographs, including photographs of the foundation stone ceremony for St John's War Memorial Parish Hall, renovations and restoration of St John's Church and dedication ceremony, newspaper clippings, map and renovation plan.
Anglican Parish of Wagga WaggaPersonal papers.
Herbert John McPherson, politicianCorrespondence, reports, research papers, source files, subject files, draft manuscripts and notes, manuscripts, and published works ("Murrumbidgee Memories and Riverina Reminiscences" published 1985 and "An Australian Girl in Germany" re-published 1987).
Hilda Mary Hodge Freeman, researcher and writerPresident and secretary's reports, correspondence, annual reports, receipts, publications, minutes of meetings, membership books, photographs, newspaper cuttings, balance sheets, minute books, treasurer's analysis book and journal.
Australian Red Cross SocietyVAD Unit papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, record books, annual reports, minutes (incomplete), correspondence, examination papers and results, membership lists and ephemera.
Australian Red Cross 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 SocietyRegisters of patients (1929-1942); midwifery certificate of Nurse Mabel Dickens (1916).
Rossmoyne Private Hospital, Wagga Wagga