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Class note books from the Wagga Experiment Farm.
A.A. McGee, Wagga Experiment Farm student
Photographs and negatives taken around Tumut and Kosciusko National Park, notebook and newspaper clippings.
Albert Green, labourer and photographer
Subject files created during Harold Fife's time as Alderman on the Wagga Wagga City Council.
Harold Fife
Maps, plans and correspondence.
Alistair WilkinsonSupreme 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
16mm movie films showing the Wagga Experiment Farm, the opening ceremony of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and a scout jamboree.
Mrs Elizabeth Edith "Betty" IvesThree 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 WaggaPhotographs of farming on "Walteela" taken by Bill Carnie while working there with the Romney Marsh stud.
William Carnie
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.
Railway ticket no. 264 'Harefield to Junee Junction', xerox photograph of Commissioners and Branch Heads conference at Clifton Heads, and colour photograph of "Riverina Express" at Albury Railway Station.
15 photographic slides showing the Bullenbong Creek area in flood.
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.
Family papers created and maintained by Walter and Muriel Campbell of "The Glen", Brungle. Contains diaries, correspondence, photographs, business papers, and ephemera.
Also contains records created by Walter's brother, Charles Bruce Campbell, his mother, Christina Campbell, and his father, Frederick Campbell, pastoralist of 'Yarralumla', Queanbeyan, 'Red Hill', Tumut, and 'Cooinbil', Carrathool, and other properties.
Copies of photographs of Wagga Wagga and district.
Cath Barnes
Prints of photographs and negatives taken (most likely) by Mr Chauncy of Mangain prior to 1915.
Chauncy family of MangainPostcard 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).
Family papers, note books, and copies of papers about the Cox family.
Cox family of Livingstone Gully, Wagga WaggaThe personal records of Don Brech, relating to: 1) Education, 2) Marriage and divorce, 3) Emigration, 4) Financial and legal, 5) Houses, 6) Diaries, 7) Personal and family correspondence, etc., 8) General correspondence, 9) Subject files, 10) Employment, 11) Health, 12) Family history, 13) Consultancy services, 14) Associations, societies and professional bodies, 15) Conference and seminar papers and proceedings, 16) Research projects, 17) Campaign for Archives Legislation in Hong Kong, 18) Press Cuttings, 19) Collected publications and documents, 20) Photographic, film and video records, 21) Greeting cards, 22) Invitations, 23) Artefacts.
Don Brech, archivistUnidentified photographic postcard showing posed group of men in front of ivy-covered building. Inscribed on reverse side, "This is the only photo I could find. My brother is seated extreme right front row."
Drummond Family of Lockhart
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
Correspondence, wills, certificates (copies), business papers, newspaper clippings, plan of John Hatton's land, photographs and cheque books.
Dunn Family of Oura
Small bag from Lodge Harmony No. 22 Wagga Wagga, newspaper clippings, invitations, postcards and photographs belonging to June Dunn of Uranquinty.
Dunn Family of UranquintyMemorabilia relating to Wagga Wagga collected by Betty Rocks including postcards, photographs, sheet music and newspaper clippings.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Rocks
Scrapbook, travel journal and diaries.
Ernest Lapthorne, journalist and authorMicrofilmed copies of family papers, letters, playscripts, newspaper cuttings, books, diaries and thesis "Study of Community in Australia."
Evadne Jean Fenn Lusher
Diaries, cash books, bound volumes of lecture notes, account books and note books, photographs, miscellaneous family papers, including correspondence.
Florance Family of Cootamundra
Photographs of the Wagga Experiment Farm (c.1908) and letters to and from Mother.
Florance Family of CootamundraDiaries (1935-1993); cash book (1958-1965).
Florence Carr of Hillston, grazier
Papers and photograph.
George Fairfax of Wagga Wagga
Manuscript "Excursion into Russia", clippings, correspondence & photos.
Gregory Welch
Scrap book compiled by Mary Hancock, diary, notebook with copies of letters to Charles from his parents, letters to mother, and gold-lettered copy of 'The Sun' newspaper, 28 June 1838.
Hancock Family
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 JuneeThree aerial photographs of the Wagga Agricultural College taken by Harold Carey.
Harold Alfred George Carey of Wagga Wagga
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 MilneLetters from internees to Ruth Swan. Report on Internment Camp (1940) by Dr Sydney Morris of the Society of Friends, Sydney.
Ruth Hannah Swann
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 WaggaPapers, 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
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
War service land settlement map for Coppabella.
Mangelsdorf FamilyPhotographs 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 Walla
Xerox copy of farming diaries.
McGeoch Family
Xerox copies of family photographs.
McLaurin Family of Holbrook
Copies of family photographs.
McLaurin Family of Holbrook
Memoirs.
Florence Carr of Hillston, grazier
Photographs of Junee Public School girls dressed as fairies, a dust-storm at Junee and of the Methodist Church at Junee.
Morris Family of Junee
Teacher practice material and subject notes.
Nita June Smith King, Bathurst Teachers' College student
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
Papers and scrapbook.
Wagga Wagga Eisteddfod SocietyPhotographs of a funeral held at St Michael's Cathedral, Wagga Wagga, and an unidentified photograph of a woman (possibly Italian).
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.
