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Postcard from William Scott Rayment.
Postcard from William Scott Rayment.
Postcard from William Scott Rayment.
Postcard from William Scott Rayment
Photographs and negatives depicting buildings and places in and around Wagga Wagga in about 1951.
John ShawWagga Wagga Mayor's Patriotic and War Fund Enlistment Index Cards.
Please note, cards L-R are not in this collection.
Enrolment and student records, administration and subject files, staff and personnel records, accounts, publications, photographs and memorabilia.
Tatton Public SchoolTranscribed interviews [x2 copies] and CD recordings [x20 discs]. Four additional transcribed interviews added in 2012.
Interviewees included in the project in 2010 were: Dr Richard Lewis, Associate Professor Peter Macneil, Dr Ken Osmond, Dr Keith Sharrock, Dr Margaret Sheldon, Dr Bill Thompson, and Dr Alan Woods.
Interviewees included in the project in 2011 were: Dr Bimal Aichroy, Dr Judy Begent, Dr Alan Cotterill, Dr Richard Crago, Mr Peter Dewey, Dr John Jones, Dr Bal Kristan, Mr Adrian Lowe, Mr Alan Nicholls, Mr Peter Skinner, Dr Ian Smee, and Dr Ian Stewart.
Interviewees included in the project in 2012 were: Dr Geraldine Duncan, Dr Peter Knight, Dr Joe Moloney, and Dr Pat Renshaw.
Associate Professor Susan McAlpinFramed photographs of police and PCYC sporting teams. T-shirt imprinted with "Time 4 Kids: I Did The Time To Stop Youth Crime".
Police Citizens Youth Club, Wagga Wagga (PCYC)Framed photographs, trophies, photographs and badges.
South Wagga Ladies Bowling ClubNewsletters, financial records, attendance books, photograph albums, loose photographs, CD-ROMs.
Harley Owners Group, Wagga Wagga Chapter
Bound volumes of "The Riverina Leader" newspaper (2003) and bound volumes of "The Southern Cross" newspaper (2016-2014).
Photographs on CD-ROM for newspapers of The Riverina Group (including The Daily Advertiser, The Southern Cross, The Area News, The Irrigator, The Rural News, and The Leader).
Misc. pages on CD-ROM from The Daily Advertiser.
Glass Lantern Slides used by Hawkesbury Agricultural College and other educational institutions to demonstrate agricultural practices, including cropping, orcharding, and animal husbandry. Some images depict identified Experiment Farms and Agricultural Colleges.
NSW Department of AgricultureMeeting minutes, match reports, news clippings, and photographs.
Wagga Wagga Volleyball Association Inc.Photographs of Rivcoll Union social and sporting activities.
Rivcoll Student Representative CouncilPublications, book reports, and academic papers by Maxine Rochester during her tenure at Charles Sturt University School of Information Studies (1990-1996).
Maxine Rochester, academicTheatre posters, programmes, flyers, etc. collected by Kevin Poynter. Includes The Brewers' Troupe, Gearstick Theatre Productions, Rivcol Drama, University Theatre Ensemble, Riverina Theatre Company, Wagga Wagga School of Arts, Charles Sturt University Television Production Graduates, local schools, and miscellaneous local productions.
Kevin PoynterPapers, 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
Bound volumes of "The Riverina Leader" newspaper (2014-2015) and "The Southern Cross" newspaper (2014-2015).
Australian Community MediaPublicity books, files, recipe calendar, folder of minutes and correspondence of the 90th conference committee, "Country Women - Hold the Key", and "The Silver Years.
Country Women's Association of NSW
Minutes, correspondence, and publications.
Institute of Riverina StudiesOn Foxborough Hill: Calvary Hospital Wagga Wagga, by Sylvia Walsh; Life of a Pioneer - Henry Angel (1790-1881), by Ronald S. Angel; Winning of Gold at Adelong, by A.H. Miller; Reminiscences of W.P. Bluett, by W.P. Bluett (with notes by Keith Swan).
Blacksmiths; Coachbuilders; Saddlers; Flour Mills; Breweries; Wineries; Sugar; Soap and Tallow Manufacture; Wool Scouring; The Riverina Woollen Manufacturing Company; Ice Manufacturing; Butter Manufacture; Builders; Brickworks (by Jack Ellis).
F.A. Tompson: The Father of Wagga Wagga, by Sherry Morris; The History of South Wagga Public School, by Ruth Lewis; My Experiences as a Rat of Tobruk, by Norm Hopwood.
The Recollections of a Bushy, by Richard Cox; Law on the Frontier: the first ten years of the Wagga Wagga Bench, 1847-1957, by K.J. Swan; The Maher and Lloyd Families, by M. Sylvia Walsh.
A Record of Olden Days, by Thomas Wilkinson; A Brief History of Yallowin, Tumut River; Bishop Francis Augustin Henschke (1892-1968), by Bishop F.P. Carroll; The Inside Sailors, by H.V. Evans.
The Way an Eagle Flew, by Archdeacon K.A. Osborne; The Burning Bush, by Keith Swan; In a Bend of the Murrumbidgee, by Sylvia Walsh; A Brief History of Wagga Wagga Methodist Circuit, by R.E. Wade.
Richard Sutton Heydon (1837-1915: sketched against background, by P.R. Heydon; Reminiscences of the Pioneer Days New South Wales, by John Hurst; Alexander Davidson of Bullenbong (1818-1892) - Pioneer Squatter, by K.J. Swan.
A Quarter-Century of Local History, by Keith Swan; Patrick Moran and Family, by Sylvia Walsh; A Half-Century of Medical Practice in Wagga Wagga, by Dr R.A. Lewis; Yabtree 1829-1972, by Wallace Horsley.
The Anglican Diocese of Riverina, by Dr Laurel Clyde; History of the Wagga Wagga Agricultural Research Institute, by Dr Albert T. Pugsley; The Great Southern Road: from Tumblong to Lower Tarcutta, by Ross Petty and Dr David Denholm; The Coming of the Tumbarumba Railway, by Michael Lynch.
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 academic