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Colour slides of various Riverina historical buildings taken by Mr D. Woolcott.
National Trust of Australia (NSW)
Photographs of Riverina buildings and landmarks (1931-1950), including Wagga Wagga (mostly floods), Burrumbuttock, Finley, Leeton, Adelong Creek, Jerilderie, Hay, Deniliquin, irrigation areas, Tocumwal, Gundagai, Moira, Ivanhoe, Mossgiel, Pooncarie, Dareton, Mannus, Kyeamba, Humula, Wolseley Park, and Rosewood.
Research files from work on the history of the Chinese in the Riverina ("Tracking the Dragon").
Dr Barry McGowan, historian
Annual returns, card index to Fixation of Board officers, correspondence, minutes, registered subject files, unregistered subject files, results of analysis files and survey of forensic pathology facilities in NSW.
NSW Ministry of Health (2011-
Parish records from Balranald, Barellan-Weethalle, Barham, Berrigan, Broken Hill, Corowa, Deniliquin, Hay, Hillston, Ivanhoe, Mossgiel, Lake Cargelligo, Leeton, Lockhart, Menindee, Moulamein, Narrandera, Tocumwal-Finley, Tullibigeal, Urana, and Wilcannia.
Anglican Diocese of RiverinaIncludes "Historic Hay Hertage Walk" unknown author.
Hay Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper cuttings, subject files, student assignments, publications, course submissions, and audio tapes.
Dr Keith SwanLetters from internees to Ruth Swan. Report on Internment Camp (1940) by Dr Sydney Morris of the Society of Friends, Sydney.
Ruth Hannah SwannMemories of Cobb and Co; Robert Givson and the Birth of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area; "Where the Porcupine Crossed the River" (Illiliwa); River Shipping on the Murrumbidgee; The Riverine Grazier, Hay's Newspaper; Hay Gun Club; Waradgery Shire, 1906-1960; Federal Parliamentary Representation of Hay and District; Early Days of Permewan Wright Ltd.; Booligal Post Office.
Hay Historical Society Inc.Hay Bridge Opening 1874; Hay Public School; Early Days of the Hay Post Office; Memories of the Big Dust Blow of 1900; The Lamorna "Kid Cart" was the first school bus; Shearing in the Good Old Days; Water for the Murrumbidgee - the role of the Water Users Association; Bank of New South Wales Centenary; HB Maclure and The Ringer Store; The Mossgiel Skull.
Hay Historical Society Inc.A History of Irrigation and the Snowy Mountains; The Mossgiel Man; The Discovery and Exploration of the Lachlan River; Opening of Oxley Memorial at Booligal; New Home for Old Business (Dancey and Donohoe Pty Ltd); Mungadal Stud; Uardry Centenary.
Hay Historical Society Inc.Riverina Studies - retrospect and prospect; A Nineteenth Century Independent Politician, Robert Bliss Wilkinson, MLA for Balranald; 'Riverina Roused' - Representative Support for the Riverina New State Movements of the 1920s and 1930s); Regional Water Wars: River Leagues and the Origins of the Snowy Scheme; The Border Mail - presses, growth and proprietorship; F.A. Tompson - the father of Wagga Wagga; Building Hay: the Witcombe influence; Becoming a City in the Country: postwar Albury.
Don Boadle, historian and academicSunshine and Shadow: sketches of a western parish (1918) [illustrations by AH Moginie]; Out West for Thirty Years: notes of a ministry in the real Australia (1920) [illustrations by AH Moginie]; Tracks Through the Bush: essays and sketches (1923); The Love That Never Faileth (1933); The Far Horizon and Beyond (1937).
Reverend William Robertson
Correspondence, 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 writer
Maps and plans (includes Soldier Settlement Estates).
NSW Crown Lands, Wagga Wagga Office
Administrative files relating to individual Crown Land portions (cartons 316-325).
Hay Land Office
Baptism register, Marriage register, Service registers, and other records from the parishes of Deniliquin, Morundah, and Narrandera. Also, newsletters from various parishes in the Diocese of the Riverina, and a Bible belonging to William and Esther Taylor (1840).
Anglican Diocese of Riverina
Baptism registers, Marriage registers, Burial registers, Service registers, Minute books, and other parish records for the Parishes of Ariah Park, Ardlethan and Barellan, Deniliquin, Finley and Tocumwal, Galore, Hay, Hillston, Leeton, and Narrandera. Also, a minute book of the Riverina Liturgical Committee.
Anglican Diocese of Riverina
Confirmation lists for parishes in the Anglican Diocese of Riverina.
Anglican Diocese of RiverinaBound volumes of the "The Riverine Grazier" newspaper (1873-1940).
The Riverine Grazier, HayBound volumes of the "The Riverine Grazier" newspaper (1941-1957).
The Riverine Grazier, Hay
District 970 Committee minutes, accounts, charter histories for Zones 1-3 and 5, correspondence, audit reports, District Board meeting minutes, membership file, proposals and address book, district directories, slides, photographs and ephemera.
Rotaract Club of Wagga Wagga
Subject and correspondence files.
Jim Small, politician
Administrative files relating to individual Crown Land portions (cartons 1-120), parish maps, town maps and other survey plans.
Hay Land Office
Subject and correspondence files.
Jim Small, politician
Correspondence; plans and specifications for ambulance station.
Ambulance Service of NSW
Administrative files relating to individual Crown Land portions (Cartons 296-316).
Hay Land Office
Ledgers, cash books, journals, pay slip books, permits, diaries, invoices book, produce registers, tally books, wool books, correspondence and maps.
Gundaline Pastoral Company (Cooinbil) Pty Ltd
Subject and correspondence files.
Jim Small, politician
Administrative files relating to individual Crown Land portions (Cartons 280-295).
Hay Land Office
Field books.
NSW Valuer General's Office (1999-2000)Administrative files relating to individual Crown Land portions (Cartons 219-223).
Hay Land Office
Administrative files relating to individual Crown Land portions (Cartons 261-279).
Hay Land Office
Administrative files relating to individual Crown Land portions (Cartons 244-260).
Hay Land OfficeAdministrative files relating to individual Crown Land portions (Cartons 204-218).
Hay Land OfficeAdministrative files relating to individual Crown Land portions (Cartons 185-203).
Hay Land Office