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Family papers, note books, and copies of papers about the Cox family.
Cox family of Livingstone Gully, Wagga Wagga"Dazed But Not So Confused - one student's view of life at Riverina College in the 70s" - a memoir by Robin Julian.
Robin Julian
Subject files created during Harold Fife's time as Alderman on the Wagga Wagga City Council.
Harold Fife
Teacher practice material and subject notes.
Nita June Smith King, Bathurst Teachers' College student15 photographic slides showing the Bullenbong Creek area in flood.
Theatre and dancing memorabilia, correspondence and scripts.
Shephard Family of Wagga Wagga
16mm film of the Queen's visit to Wagga Wagga in 1954.
Rava Family of Wagga Wagga
War service land settlement map for Coppabella.
Mangelsdorf Family
Two 16mm films:
1) a race day at the Murrumbidgee Turf Club (c.1958);
2) Lawn Bowls (mostly RSL Club (inc opening of bowling green)), Girls Hockey at Wagga Teachers' College, an unknown woman receiving award (incl. Kapooka, RAAF, and Wagga Mayor), Anzac Day in Baylis Street (incl. marches and two-up at Advance Australia Hotel), and horse racing at Murrumbidgee Turf Club.
Three aerial photographs of the Wagga Agricultural College taken by Harold Carey.
Harold Alfred George Carey of Wagga Wagga
Photographs, ephemera and letters.
Shephard Family of Wagga WaggaPhotographs of a funeral held at St Michael's Cathedral, Wagga Wagga, and an unidentified photograph of a woman (possibly Italian).
Theatre and dancing memorabilia, correspondence, plans and photographs.
Shephard Family of Wagga WaggaLetters from internees to Ruth Swan. Report on Internment Camp (1940) by Dr Sydney Morris of the Society of Friends, Sydney.
Ruth Hannah SwannPhotographs (copies, not originals) on CD-ROM, includes scenes around Wagga in 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Don Kendell, and World War 2 soldiers.
Trevor O'Hehir of Wagga Wagga
Papers and photograph.
George Fairfax of Wagga WaggaDiaries (1935-1993); cash book (1958-1965).
Florence Carr of Hillston, grazier
Papers relating to the Riverina Community Library Service Committee; Wagga Wagga City Library; the Management Review Committee; library surveys; library staff; Friends of the Library; Consumer Information for Disabled / Information on Disability - Equipment, Access, Services (I.D.E.A.S.); publications on libraries; Wagga Neighbourhood Centre; International Year of Peace Committee; Riverina Community for Nuclear Disarmament; Wagga Homebirth Support Group; Riverina Juvenile Justice Centre; Rawlings Park. (Photos of Duncan Marshall, aerial photos, Lake Albert Common and Rawlings Park Reserve).
Duncan Marshall, librarian
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.
Memorabilia relating to Wagga Wagga collected by Betty Rocks including postcards, photographs, sheet music and newspaper clippings.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Rocks
Family films. Topics include: "Yamma" Station, near Morundah, "Tooma", Leeton, Cootamundra, Coleambally, St Kilda Beach, horses, polo, racing, shooting, children's parties, swimming and other family activities.
O'Keefe Family of "Yamma", Morundah
Class note books from the Wagga Experiment Farm.
A.A. McGee, Wagga Experiment Farm student
Papers and scrapbook.
Wagga Wagga Eisteddfod Society
Photographs and negatives taken around Tumut and Kosciusko National Park, notebook and newspaper clippings.
Albert Green, labourer and photographer
Diaries, correspondence, photographs, cards, newspaper cuttings, publications, memorabilia, manuscripts, photograph albums, slides and negatives.
Reginald W. SharplessPhotographs of farming on "Walteela" taken by Bill Carnie while working there with the Romney Marsh stud.
William Carnie
16mm movie films showing the Wagga Experiment Farm, the opening ceremony of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and a scout jamboree.
Mrs Elizabeth Edith "Betty" IvesPhotographs of Walla Walla during a flood, Hume Weir under construction, people swimming in the Murray River at Howlong, Bethungra Bridge, Wagga Wagga City Council Chambers, the Hydro Hotel at Leeton (all circa 1920s-1930s)
McCrum Family of Walla WallaSupreme Court of NSW, Case No. 1290 of 1945 Appeal Book - between the Commonwealth of Australia and Oliver Septimus Baker, 1947; Copy of deposition by Baker re. land (n.d.); Certificate of Qualification to Apply for Land (O.S. Baker), 1918; Plan showing Transmission Line overt Portion 25, Parish of Gumly Gumly; List of floods at Wagga Wagga.
Baker Family of Gumly Gumly
Framed Solider's Memorial presented to Mr and Mrs GH Harbrow in memory of Private Alexander Harbrow AIF by the Old Junee Soldiers' Reception Committee. [Alex Harbrow (SERN 1921A) died of wounds on 27 September 1917 in Belgium.]
Harbrow Family of Old Junee
Photograph albums of Brunskill family properties "Allonby," "Old Borambola," "Pinnacle," North Berembed" and "Monavale"; also includes Kendall Family (The Rock), Milne Family, Lyons Family, Bennett Family, McIntosh Family, Strong Family and Beddome Family, and includes trips to Leeton, Tasmania, Kosciusko, Yarrangobilly, Bega, Mt Buffalo, Singapore, England, Wagga Wagga and World War One. Other properties included: "Sackville," Edenville," Braehour," Deletroy," and "Dunlop."
Harriett Milne
Photographs of Junee Public School girls dressed as fairies, a dust-storm at Junee and of the Methodist Church at Junee.
Morris Family of JuneePapers, photographs, negatives and slides relating to Ken Kenneally and the Kenneally family of Wagga; also, papers relating to Ken Kenneally's war service and accounting career, the Wagga Beach Lifesaving Club, the Wagga Cricket Association, and the Apex Club.
Kenneth Kenneally
Manuscript "Excursion into Russia", clippings, correspondence & photos.
Gregory Welch
Copies of railway photographs, photocopy of page of notes entitled "The Rock to Westby Railway" and an audio tape of F. Blackwell in the cab of a steam locomotive.
Copies of photographs of Wagga Wagga and district.
Cath BarnesTwo exercise books containing newspaper clippings with agricultural subjects, created during and after Rayment was a student at Wagga Experiment College (dates range from 1911-15 and 1915-1918).
Photograph album of postcards and photographs of the Wagga Experiment Farm taken around 1911 and images showing the construction of Burrinjuck Dam in 1919 [13 images].
Diaries and photograph.
Roy G. Williams, farmer, YoungPostcard album belonging to Alma Eulenstein of "Back Creek", Henty; includes postcards from family, friends, and William Frederick Hughes, depicting images of Henty, Culcairn, Albury, Wodonga, Tumut, Temora, and other commercial postcards.
Four large framed photographs: 1. William Frederick Hughes (1883-1973) taken for his 90th Birthday [frame removed]; 2. An unknown man in a silver frame; 3. An unknown couple in wedding clothes; 4. A male child, about 1 year of age (in matching frame to wedding couple).
Records relating to the Gumly Gumly Public School, the Gumly Gumly Hall, the Gumly Gumly Sunday School, Kendall Airlines, and the general Gumly Gumly community, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, programmes, maps, publications, and photographs.
The Argus-Lamprey Family of Gumly Gumly
Photographs of the Wagga Experiment Farm (c.1908) and letters to and from Mother.
Florance Family of CootamundraMicrofilmed copies of family papers, letters, playscripts, newspaper cuttings, books, diaries and thesis "Study of Community in Australia."
Evadne Jean Fenn Lusher
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.
Ross Family of Holbrook
Memoirs.
Florence Carr of Hillston, grazier
Copies of family photographs.
McLaurin Family of Holbrook
Photographs 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 Family
Xerox copy of farming diaries.
McGeoch Family
Subject files, RSL property files and constitutions, photographs, newspaper clippings, research papers for RSL books, and ephemera.
William Harold Fife
Scrapbook, travel journal and diaries.
Ernest Lapthorne, journalist and authorThree photographs of: 1) troops leaving for Boer War, 2) Lake Albert Farmers Tug of War team, 3) and a group of men at the Wagga Wagga racecourse.
Bill Bullivant of Wagga Wagga