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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.
Selected 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.
Business papers including accounts, correspondence, note books, wool tally books, diary, scrap book, negatives, cash book, insurance papers, unmounted and mounted photographs and photograph album.
Photographs and negatives taken by Tom Lennon during his employment at The Daily Advertiser. Also a small amount of other photographs, negatives, films, audio tapes, work books and ephemera belonging to Tom Lennon.
Ariah Park branch minute book (contains constitution and rules, 1938); Lockhart branch minute book; Holbrook branch minute book; West Wyalong branch scrapbook (inc. small amount relating other areas and Cobby article); "2WG - 50 Years of Radio 1932-1982" commemorative booklet.