THE RECORDS...photograph and postcard albums relating to the Kershaw family in Victoria (c1880-1906) Quantity: 10 metres Access: collection guide (incomplete) CHS 3 Craig, …

Community History Series Records List, April 2008 Page 1 of 35

THE RECORDS Collection No Collection Name CHS 1 Payne, Barbara Date range: 1975-1996 Date received: 1991, 1996 Content: correspondence, minutes of meetings - principally related to various community organisations, speeches Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 2 Kershaw, Ronald Calder Date range: c1880-1994 Date received: 1994,1996,1997 Content: manuscripts, working notes, source material, photographs and slides, financial records, correspondence relating mainly to Kershaw’s natural history interests (especially Molluscs in South-East Australia), but including early photograph and postcard albums relating to the Kershaw family in Victoria (c1880-1906) Quantity: 10 metres Access: collection guide (incomplete) CHS 3 Craig, Clifford Date range: 1823-1986 Date received: 1994 Content: Quantity: 3 metres Access: collection guide CHS 4 Donnelly, Jack Date range: c1887-1995 Date received: 1995,1996 Content: large collection including notebooks, historical manuscript, scrapbooks (mostly oversize), working papers, match programs, annual reports and other printed material, cartoons, photographs, ephemera relating (mainly) to football and (to some


extent) cycling, athletics, wood chopping and other sports in Tasmania (especially the North and North-West) Quantity: 20 metres Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 5 Forward, J S Date range: 1913-20, 1942-47 Date received: c1990, 1994 Content: letterbooks, indexes to customers’ orders and some financial records relating to J S Forward’s ironmongery businesses at Wynyard (1913-1916) and Scottsdale (1916-1920), and to his hospital work and 7LA Christian radio programme (1942-1947) Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 6 Northern Tasmanian Football Association (NTFA) Date range: c1920-1986 Date received: 1995 Content: minute books, correspondence, annual reports, player registration forms and other miscellaneous records, match programs and other printed material, photographs (several framed), ephemera Quantity: 6 metres Access: collection guide CHS 7 Holy Trinity Anglican Church Date range: 1838-1994 Date received: 1996 Content: legal documents, minutes of meetings, correspondence, financial records, registers of baptisms, marriages (including Parish of Newnham 1855-1886) and burials, Sunday School records, visitors’ books, some plans, publications and ephemera Quantity: 5 metres Access: collection guide Note: some restrictions apply


Collection No Collection Name CHS 8 Royal Society of St George (Launceston Branch) Date range: 1900-1995 Date received: 1996 Content: minutes of meetings, annual reports, correspondence, membership forms, ephemera and miscellaneous printed material (mainly 1960-1995), but including a minute book of the Scottsdale Branch (1900-1912) Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 9 Launceston War Memorial Community Centre Association Date range: 1945-1977 Date received: c1990 Content: minutes of meetings, financial records, correspondence, ephemera Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 10 Northern Club Date range: 1894-1996 Date received: 1996 Content: legal documents, minute books, correspondence, accounts registers, membership records, a visitors’ book, publications and ephemera Quantity: 1 metre Access: collection guide CHS 11 Trevallyn Park and Improvement Association Date range: 1915-1993 Date received: 1995 Content: minutes of meetings, annual reports, financial records, correspondence etc Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 12 North Launceston Rotaract Club Date range: 1971-1991 Date received: 1995 Content: minutes of meetings, newsletters, annual reports, financial records, correspondence, photograph albums, ephemera Quantity: 1 metre Access: collection guide CHS 13 Australian Rhododendron Society, Northern Tasmania Branch Date range: 1981-1992 Date received: 1998, 1999 Content: minutes of meetings, correspondence, newsletters and some miscellaneous items relating to the Society’s National Council, Northern, North-West and Southern Tasmania Branches Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 14 Launceston Horticultural Society Inc Date range: 1948-1997 Date received: 1989- ongoing Content: constitution, minutes of meetings, correspondence, annual reports, flower show records, The Launceston Landscape and ephemera Quantity: 1 metre Access: collection guide CHS 15 Launceston Players’ Society Date range: 1929-1994 Date received: 1994- ongoing Content: minutes of meetings, correspondence, newsletters, programs, ephemera Quantity: 2.5 metres Access: collection guide (incomplete)


Collection No Collection Name CHS 16 Launceston United Friendly Societies’ Dispensary Date range: 1879-1997 Date received: 1994, 1995, 1997 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, annual reports, financial, employment and stock records, prescription registers, members’ registers, ephemera Quantity: 6 metres Access: collection guide CHS 17 St John Ambulance, Northern Headquarters Date range: 1958-1996 Date received: 1997 Content: minutes of meetings, correspondence, working papers, plans and ephemera relating to St John Ambulance Association and Brigade, including St John House (York Street, Launceston) Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 18 Tasdance Date range: 1981-1996 Date received: 1995 - ongoing Content: large collection including minutes of Company Board meetings, general correspondence, grant files, school residency files, photographs, videos, soundtracks, posters (including one oversize framed item), programs etc from the Artistic Directorships of J Kinder (1981-1994) and Richard James Allan/Karen Pearlman (1995-1996) Quantity: 34 metres Access: collection guide (incomplete) Note: some restrictions apply


Collection No Collection Name CHS 19 Kelsall and Kemp (Launceston) Date range: 1920-1978 Date received: 1997 Content: minutes of meetings and financial records Quantity: 1 metre Access: collection guide CHS 20 Tasmanian Textile Society Date range: 1968-1985 Date received: 1997 Content: minutes of meetings, correspondence, financial records and ephemera Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 21 Fenton Timber Products Pty Ltd (Launceston) Date range: 1964-c1994 Date received: c1994 Content: miscellaneous papers, ephemera and a photograph (4 items) Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 22 Tiffany (Nu Steel) Furniture Company Date range: 1981-1991 Date received: 1993 Content: scrapbook (mainly newscuttings) and photographs (including 6 oversize framed items) Quantity: 3 metres Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 23 McHugh Brothers Pty Ltd Date range: 1919-1976 Date received: 1984 Content: legal papers, minutes of meetings, shareholders and other financial records, kiln, stock and employees’ wages books Quantity: 1.5 metres Access: collection guide CHS 24 Kauri Timber Company (Stanley) Date range: 1892-1973 Date received: 1993 Content: small collection of residual legal documents, minutes of meetings, production, financial and employment records, correspondence, drawings and ephemera, relating mainly to previous companies Dunkley Bros. (including Zeehan Tramway Coy), E H Fenton, Circular Head Timber and Kiln Seasoning Coy and Circular Head Amalgamated Timber Pty Ltd Quantity: 3.5 metres Access: collection guide CHS 25 St Mary’s Co-operative Dairy Society Ltd Date range: 1948-1969 Date received: 1994, 1996 Content: minute book, annual reports, balance sheets and other financial records, correspondence, milk suppliers’ register, ephemera Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 26 United Milk Tasmania (UMT) Date range: 1885-1994 Date received: 1993, 1994 Content: title and other legal records, minutes of meetings, annual reports, financial records, newspaper scrapbooks, publications and ephemera, relating to the various butter and cheese-making co-operatives (especially Table Cape, Duck River, North-Western and North-Eastern) which finally made up UMT Quantity: 7 metres Access: collection guide CHS 27 Coats Patons (Launceston) Date range: 1922-1997 Date received: 1997 Content: large collection including minutes of meetings, correspondence, asset registers, dyehouse recipe books, shade cards, employees’ cards and other employment records, miscellaneous financial and production records, manuals and technical instructions, reports, pattern books, photographs, publications and ephemera from Coats Patons (formerly Patons and Baldwins)’ Launceston Mill Quantity: 40 metres Access: preliminary box listing Note: some restrictions apply CHS 28 Coats Patons Employees’ Mutual Benefit Society Date range: 1924-1988 Date received: 1997 Content: minutes of meetings, financial records, some correspondence and ephemera from the Society’s activities at Coats Patons (formerly Patons and Baldwins)’ Launceston Mill Quantity: 1.5 metres Access: collection guide Note: some restrictions apply


Collection No Collection Name CHS 29 James Bradley’s Pty Ltd (Furniture Manufacturer) Date range: 1984-1993 Date received: 1993 Content: company and personal correspondence, financial records, drawings, plans, contractual and supply records, photographs, printed material and ephemera Quantity: 2 metres Access: collection guide CHS 30 Launceston Gas Company Date range: 1858-1989 Date received: 1997 Content: legal records, minute books, correspondence, annual reports, engineers’ reports, production records, shareholders and other financial records, complaints books, plans and drawings, photographs, scrapbooks, miscellaneous records and ephemera Quantity: 15 metres Access: collection guide Note: some restrictions apply CHS 31 Australian National Railways (ANR) Date range: - Date received: - Content: - Access: not available


Collection No Collection Name CHS 32 Endurance Tin Mine Company Date range: 1922-1984 Date received: 1992-1993 Content: legal records; minutes of meetings; annual reports; weekly/monthly mine reports; correspondence; financial records; shareholders records; miscellaneous records; maps, plans and drawings Quantity: 3 metres Access: collection guide CHS 33 National Agricultural and Pastoral Society of Tasmania (Launceston Show Society)

Date range: 1899-1973 Date received: ? Content: minutes of meetings, correspondence, financial records, membership registers, annual reports, records of prizes and ephemera Quantity: 7 metres Access: collection guide CHS 34 Campbell’s Pottery Date range: c1905-1968 Date received: 1993 Content: miscellaneous correspondence and financial records, including papers relating to the Australian Clay Products Association Quantity: 2 metres Access: collection guide CHS 35 Salisbury’s Foundry Collection Date range: 1884-1989 Date received: 1993 Content: legal records, letterbooks, correspondence, invoice books, financial records, employees’ notebooks, publications, printed notices, miscellaneous records, ephemera, photographs Quantity: 6 metres


Access: collection guide Collection No Collection Name CHS 36 Aberfoyle Tin NL Date range: 1946-1983 Date received: 1994 Content: correspondence, reports, working papers, plans etc relating to the activities of the Aberfoyle and Storeys Creek Tin Mining Companies (mainly 1960-1982), including papers of H J Stacpoole Quantity: 4 metres Access: collection guide CHS 37 Sims, Peter Date range: - Date received: - Content: diaries, correspondence, working papers, publications, photographs and slides, tracings and ephemera relating to Tasmanian aboriginals, conservation and the environment, and Sims’ family history Quantity: 55 metres Access: guide not currently available Note: some restrictions apply CHS 38 William Holyman and Sons Pty Ltd Date range: 1900-1968 Date received: 1982 Content: financial records (journals, sundry debtors’ books, agency accounts ledgers etc), including some relating to ANA freight matters Quantity: 8 metres Access: preliminary box listing


Collection No Collection Name CHS 39 Gunns Ltd Date range: 1882-1988 Date received: 1998 Content: miscellaneous leases and other agreements, letter books, journals, ledgers, share registers, mortgage records, cash books, a shipping freight book and some other records relating mainly to J & T Gunn Ltd and W & G Genders Ltd Quantity: 7.5 metres Access: collection guide CHS 40 The Examiner (W R Rolph) Date range: 1889-1945 Date received: 1998, 2007 Content: letterbooks, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, theatre/concert programs, company reports, miscellaneous items and ephemera Quantity: 2 metres Access: collection guide CHS 41 Henslowe, Dorothea Date range: 1924-1994 Date received: 1999 Content: diaries, correspondence, financial records, photographs, slides, scrapbooks, printed material and ephemera relating to the Anglican Church, overseas mission work (especially in Papua New Guinea), Battery Point (Hobart) heritage, Tasmanian tourism and personal travel Quantity: 2 metres Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 42 Gibson, Mrs A L H Date range: 1779 -1989 Date received: 1993 Content: two distinct collections – for the Gibson family, and the Turnbull family, both of Campbell Town, diaries, correspondence, financial records, photographs, sheep shearing records, agricultural show programs, horse racing programs and miscellaneous items. Quantity: 5 metres Access: collection guide CHS 43 Northern Tasmanian Railways Institute Collection Date range: 1936 – 1991 Date received:? Content: legal records, minutes, correspondence, financial records, membership records and photographs Quantity: 2.5 metres Access: collection guide CHS 44 Launceston Chamber of Commerce Date range: 1869 – 2001 Date received: 1999, 2002 Content: minutes, correspondence, financial records, membership records and photographs. Quantity: 1 metre Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 45 Mead, Isabella Date range: 1835 - 1900 Date received: 1997 Content: diaries and correspondence of Isabella Mead and June Warrillow-Williams, historical files and reference cards relating to Tasmanian history, photographs, slides, film, postcard albums, posters, Northern Tasmanian Fisheries Association records, ephemera, maps and books Quantity: 7 metres Access: collection guide CHS 46 Archer, Emily (nee McRae) Date range: 1821 – 1923 Date received: 1995 Content: correspondence (mainly dating – 1877), a small number of miscellaneous items and a family tree Quantity: 0.5 metres Access: collection guide CHS 47 Weston Collection Date range: 1822 – 1946 Date received: 1948 Content: correspondence, manuscript drafts of books, scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, accounts, miscellaneous items and ephemera relating to the Weston family, school results broadsheets, contracts to employ German migrant workers Quantity: 1 metre Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 48 Sutton Collection Date range: 1837 – 1980 Date received: 1989 Content: family papers, two scrapbooks, two diaries, correspondence and other items belonging to members of the Sutton and Mattingley families, photographs, including a number of ‘Fairlawn’ c1989 and ephemera Quantity: 1 metre Access: collection guide CHS 49 Launceston District Nursing Association Date range: 1893 – 1968 Date received: 1973 Content: minutes of meetings, annual reports, correspondence, financial records and miscellaneous records Quantity: . 2 metres Access: collection guide CHS 50 Launceston Art Co-operative Date range: 1992 – 1998 Date received: 1998 Content: minutes of meetings, user’s agreements, correspondence, financial records, membership records, material to exhibitions including calendars, catalogues, invitations, posters and newspaper cuttings, miscellaneous records and ephemera Quality: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 51 Circular Head Arts Festival Date range: 1976 – 1996 Date received: 1997 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, correspondence, financial records, programmes, scrapbooks, photographs and photograph albums, video, posters, miscellaneous records Quantity: 1 metre Access: collection guide CHS 52 Jazz Tas Date range: c1930-2001 Date received: 1999- ongoing Content: sound recordings, club newsletters, ephemera, books, magazines, photographs, historical objects including clothing and musical instruments, and other items relating to jazz music and the influences felt in Tasmania Quantity: 5 metres Access: collection guide CHS 53 Plomley Collection Date range: 1937 – 1994 Date received: 1984 Content: NBJ Plomley’s publications (some with drafts etc), other publications, journal articles, photocopies of articles and other material, notebooks, handwritten notes, typescripts, correspondence, photographs, maps, microfilms, tapes. Most of the material relates to the Tasmanian Aborigines Quantity: 21 metres Access: collection guide Note: some restrictions apply


Collection No Collection Name CHS 54 Drysdale Collection Date range: chiefly 1970s, 1980s Date received: 1993 Content: a collection of notes, correspondence etc. relating to Tasmanian Aborigines assembled by BC Mollison, publications on Tasmanian Aboriginal genealogies etc. by BC Mollison and Coral Everitt, general publications relating to Tasmanian Aborigines, files on Tasmanian Aboriginal families, RJ Drysdale files and correspondence relating to Tasmanian Aborigines and Tasmanian Aboriginal families, photographs of Tasmanian Aborigines and their descendants Quantity: 4 metres Access: collection guide CHS 55 Peters Foods Pty Ltd Date range: 1955 – 1993 Date received: 1993 Content: some record books, minutes, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, sample books, product wrappers and miscellaneous records. Most of the material dates from 1955 – 1968; the samples of product wrappers etc date from 1980 – 1988. The records are far from complete Quantity: 1 metre Access: collection guide CHS 56 Commercial Travellers’ Association of Tasmania Date range: 1900 – 1980 Date received: 2000 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, financial records, membership records, photographs, Australasian Traveller 1921-24, Australian Traveller1925-73 and Australia Today 1922-55 Quantity: 3.5 metres Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 57 Good Neighbour Council of Tasmania Date range: 1951-1998/99 Date received: 2000 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, correspondence, annual reports, financial records, publications, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous records Quantity: 2 metres Access: collection guide CHS 58 Launceston Canary, Budgerigar & Caged Bird Society Date range: 1930 – 1973 Date received: 2002 Content: constitution and rules, minutes of meetings Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 59 Hart, Oscar Ralph Date range: 1878 - 1977 Date received: 2001 Content: contract notes, tenancy agreements, property valuations, financial records, correspondence, postcard album c1906, UFS dispensary prescription book, material relating to Lands Sale Control and Landlord and Tenant Act, Heather Hall Co., MUIOOF Cornwall Lodge, Commonwealth Institute of Valuers, Real Estate Institute, Old Grammarians Lodge, Hart family papers, VAD minutes, Australian Comforts Fund, Launceston Legacy Women’s Auxiliary, Public Hospital Auxiliaries, South Esk Rabbit Trustees, Tasmanian Liberal League. Most of the items date from 1912 Quantity: 3 metres Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 60 Skemp, John Rowland Date range: 1874 – 1974 Date received: c1980 Content: correspondence, radio broadcast scripts, Skemp family records, photographs, miscellaneous items Quantity: 0.5 metre Access; collection guide CHS 61 Burns, Thomas Edgar Date range: 1886 – 1891, Date received: c1980 1942 – 1979 Content: correspondence, miscellaneous papers, photographs, watercolours Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 62 J Boag & Son Records Date range: 1883-1995 Date received: 2002 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, annual reports, financial records, ledgers and miscellaneous items. Most of the material relates to Cascade Brewery Co. Ltd, which acquired Boag’s manufacturing interests in 1922 Quantity: approx. 1.5 metres Access: CHS collection guide CHS 63 The Caring Families Association Inc. Date range: 1979 – 2001 Date received: 2001 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, annual reports, financial records, miscellaneous records Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 64 Bender & Co. Pty Ltd Date range: 1906 – 1985 Date received: 2001 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, financial records, business records mainly relating to apply industry, property records, three photographs Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 65 Jack Kinnane Date range: - Date received: - Content: - Access: collection guide CHS 66 Tasmanian Amusements Pty Ltd Date range: 1932-1968 Date received: 2002 Content: minutes of meetings and share certificates Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 67 Independent Order of Rechabites Tasmania District no. 79 Date range: 1888-1977 Date received: 2003 Content: legal records, financial records, death certificates, miscellaneous records, publications Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 68 Tasmanian Flour Mills Pty Ltd Date range: 1848 - 2001 Date received: 2002 Content: records of various companies associated with HMA Ltd, including legal records, minutes, financial records, annual reports, blueprints, photographs, publications etc Quantity: 8 metres Access: collection guide CHS 69 Launceston Tatlers Date range: 1962 - 2003 Date received: 2003 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, correspondence, manuscript, publications, photographs, miscellaneous items Quantity: 1 metre Access: collection guide CHS 70 Corrick Family Records Date range: c1890 - 2000 Date received: 2000 Content: programs advertising material, photographs, postcards, posters, scrapbooks, music, memoirs, miscellaneous items, ephemera Quantity: 8.5 metres Access: collection guide CHS 71 Waverley Woollen Mills Date range: 1862 - 1996 Date received: 1997 Content: legal records, correspondence records, financial records, machinery records, production records, woollen samples, staff records, photographs, newspaper cuttings, Hogarth family records, miscellaneous records, ephemera Quantity: 4 metres Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 72 Von Stieglitz Collection Date range: 1831 - 1967 Date received: 2003 Content: Von Stieglitz family papers, correspondence, typescripts, newspaper cuttings, historical documents, miscellaneous records and items, photographs and ephemera Quantity: 1.5 metres Access: collection guide CHS 73 Launceston Jaycees Date range: 1954 – 1997 Date received: 2002 Content: minutes, correspondence, annual reports, newsletters, records of projects, registers of members, photographs, films and miscellaneous records. Also includes some records of Appledore, Bass, Burnie, Esk, Franklin Village, George Town, Longford and Riverside Jaycees and Northern region Tasmanian Jaycees Quantity: 4 metres Access: collection guide CHS 74 Gilbert McKinlay Collection Date range: 1886-2002 Date received: 1984-2004 Content: McKinlays Pty Ltd legal records, scrapbooks, miscellaneous records and items; Gilbert McKinlay’s awards, miscellaneous records and photographs, Mrs Anne McKinlay’s YCWA records, Red Cross records and photographs; McKinlay family miscellaneous items and photographs. Quantity: 3 metres Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 75 Tas Radio (Radio 7EX) Date range: - Date received: - Content: - Access: not available CHS 76 Nell Frankcombe Date range: 1933 – 2001 Date received: 2001 Content: correspondence, diaries, exhibition catalogues, artwork, photographs and miscellaneous records. Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 77 Institution of Engineers, Australia Northern Tasmania Group, Engineering Heritage Subcommittee Date range: 1982 – 1995 Date received: 2004 Content: information on historic engineering sites in northern Tasmania, including photographs taken by Subcommittee. Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 78 Launceston Benevolent Society Date range: 1894 – 1991 Date received: 2003 Content: minutes of meetings, annual reports, financial records, correspondence, miscellaneous records, Launceston Alms Houses trust records. Quantity: 0.6 metre Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 79 Glenara Northern Tasmanian Homes for Boys Date range: 1920 – 1998 Date received: 2002 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, correspondence, superintendent’s reports and diaries, annual reports, miscellaneous records and reports, plans photographs and Glenera records Quantity: 2.5 metres Access: collection guide Note: some restrictions apply CHS 80 Minol (Promicolour Studio) Date range: - Date received: - Content: - Access: not available CHS 81 Northern Tasmanian Women’s Bowling Association Past Presidents Association Date range: Date received: 2003 Content: minutes of meetings, financial records, miscellaneous records Quantity: 0.5 metres Access: collection guide CHS 82 Uniting Church Records Date range: - Date received: - Content: - Access: not available


Collection No Collection Name CHS 83 Mowbray War Services Fund Date range: 1939 – 1946 Date received: 1987 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, correspondence, miscellaneous records Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 84 Rats of Tobruk Association Northern Sub-branch Date range: 1964 – 2004 Date received: 2004 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, correspondence, annual reports, financial records, miscellaneous records Quantity: .5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 85 Tasmanian Musical Festival Society Date range: 1903 - 2003 Date received: 2005 Content: scrapbook, music programs, photographs, and some items relating to the Launceston Competitions Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 86 Launceston Greyhound Racing Club Date range: 1921-2000 Date received: 2005 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, correspondence, financial records, programs, form guides, dog description cards, dog performance cards, miscellaneous records and photographs. Quantity: 8 metres Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 87 Edith Ransom Records Date range: 1902-1998 Date received: - Content: Edith Ransom’s correspondence, scrapbooks, records relating to the Country Women’s Association in Tasmania, the Armed Services Nurses’ Association and the Anglican Church, miscellaneous records, ephemera, photographs; correspondence from Mary Ransom whilst serving at various Australian Army hospitals during the Second World War and with the British Occupational Force in Japan, records relating to Mary and Leonie Ransom Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 88 WH MacFarlane Date range: 1910-1963 Date received: 1963 Content: correspondence, published material, typescripts, Torres Strait records (including some nineteenth century printed items), miscellaneous records and items. A number of the records relate to North East Tasmania. Quantity: 1.5 metres Access: collection guide CHS 89 Launceston Contemporary Art Organisations Date range: 1982-1994 Date received: 1998 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, reports, correspondence, newsletters, applications for grants, exhibition catalogues, miscellaneous records, posters, photographs etc for Cockatoo Gallery, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania at Arthouse and a small number of records relating to Gambit Theatre Company. Quantity: 1 metre Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 90 Ritchies Mill Arts Centre Ltd Date range: 1974-1998 Date received: 2000 Content: legal records, minutes of board meetings, correspondence, financial records, newsletters, miscellaneous records, photographs, ephemera and a small number of Gallery Two items. Quantity: 1 metre Access: collection guide CHS 91 Ron Roach Records Date range: 1931 – 1998 Date received: 2005 Content: two large scrapbooks, books, miscellaneous items and photographs relating to aviation, with some scrapbook items relating to Tasmanian tourism. Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 92 Bridport Music Society Date range: 1972-1997 Date received: 2005 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, correspondence, programmes, miscellaneous records Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 93 Rotary Club of Launceston Date range: 1924-2004 Date received: 2005 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, correspondence, annual reports, club membership records, weekly bulletins, projects, miscellaneous records, photographs, ephemera, books and banners. Quantity: 2.5 metres Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 94 Tioxide Australia Pty Ltd Date range: 1937-2003 Date received: 2005 Content: minutes of meetings, miscellaneous records, photograph albums, photographs and slides, videos and films and newspaper cuttings. Quantity: 2.5 metres Access: collection guide CHS 95 Arts Council of Australia, Tasmanian Division, Launceston Branch Date range: 1975-1994 Date received: 2003 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, correspondence, annual reports, newsletters, photographs, cassette, ephemera. Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 96 Launceston Chamber Music Society Date range: - Date received: - Content: - Access: collection guide CHS 97 Northern Tasmania Pacing Clubs Date range: 1943-2004 Date received: 2005 Content: Northern Tasmania pacing club programs, miscellaneous northern Tasmania pacing club records, T O Storay personal items, northern Tasmania racing club programs (several dating back to the early twentieth century) and Tasmanian horse sale catalogues. Quantity: 2 metres Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 98 George William Burrows Date range: 1890-1983 Date received: 1994, 2002, 2006 Content: legal records, diaries, ledgers, miscellaneous records, some Mrs Amelia Burrows, Mrs Millicent Ranson and Athol Ranson records, Scottsdale ephemera and photographs. Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 99 Thomas Gunn Sporting Records Date range: 1932-2000 Date received: 2005, 2007 Content: Northern Tasmanian Football League programs; Tasmanian Amateur Football League Northern Division, North Western Football Association and North West Umpires Association records; Tasmanian Amateur Football League minutes; Australian Amateur Football Carnival programs, a small number of items relating to cricket, netball, softball and vigoro; also a history of the Old Launcestonians Football Club, 1959. Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 100 Inner Wheel Club of North Launceston Date range: 1963-2002 Date received: 2002 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, annual reports, correspondence, membership records, miscellaneous records, scrapbook, photograph albums. Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 101 Sullivan/Shearn Date range: 1882-1978 Date received: 1957 Content: Carrilla Daniel Sullivan papers, including mining records; Henrietta Louisa Sullivan correspondence; Sullivan family items, including Henry C Sullivan’s notes on early C20 Launceston engineers; Charles Henry Francis Shearn items, including mining records; Mary Ann Shearn correspondence; Percy Charles Shearn records; photographs relating to Sullivan and Shearn families. Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 102 Tassell Ephemera Date range: 1950-2006 Date received: various dates Content: a wide coverage of subjects particularly for the Launceston area, with strong post 1990 holdings for community life, the food industry including vineyards, government electoral material, tourism, tourist accommodation, dance, music and theatre. The collection is sorted by subject headings, with a small group sorted by format. Quantity: 5 metres Access: collection guide CHS 103 R S Sanderson Date range: 1826-1932 Date received: 1949 Content: R S Sanderson’s diaries 1881-1932, written whilst he lived in Burnie; correspondence chiefly about Henry Hellyer’s explorations; manuscript notes relating to Van Diemen’s Land Company exploration; miscellaneous records concerning the Burnie/Circular Head area and photographs chiefly of Burnie. Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 104 Ministering Children’s League of Tasmania Date Range: 1907-2006 Date received: 2006 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings and annual reports 1934-2005, financial statements, correspondence 1946-2006, newspaper cuttings, miscellaneous records and recent photographs of members. Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 105 George Richardson Records Date Range: 1958-2004 Date received: 2006 Content: correspondence, art catalogues, invitations, newsletters, miscellaneous records, newspaper cuttings, plaster cast of animal footprint. Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 106 Launceston Art Society Date range: 1892-1994 Date received: 1980, 1983, 1993 Content: legal records, minutes of meetings, 1898-1901, 1905-18, 1956-62, 1969-92; some financial records; some prize lists; exhibition catalogues, 1912-1994, an incomplete set; miscellaneous records Quantity: 0.5 metre Access: collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 107 Les H Hill Date range: 1920 – 1995 Date received: 2003, 2005 Content: film, photographs, audio tapes, correspondence, exhibition catalogues, and miscellaneous records, relating to natural history (especially birds), sport, Tasmanian scenery (particularly North West), family and home life. Quantity: 8 metres Access: collection guide CHS 108 ABC Bowls Club Date range: - Date received: - Content: - Access: collection guide CHS 109 Lady Ramsay Collection Date range: 1879 – 1981 Date received: 2004 Content: correspondence, awards, newspaper cuttings, miscellaneous items, photographs and ephemera Quantity: 2 metres Access: collection guide CHS 110 Beth Roberts Collection Date range: 1936-2001 Date received: 2002 Content: correspondence; published books and unpublished works; scrap books; newspaper cuttings; miscellaneous records; photographs; videos and tapes Quantity: 2 metres Access: CHS collection guide


Collection No Collection Name CHS 111 Northern Florence Nightingale Eventide Home Society Date range: 1957 – 2007 Date received: 2007 Content: legal records; minutes of meetings; historical records book Quantity: .5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 112 Action Committee Against M.P.s Super Rip-Off Date range: 1984 – 1994 Date received: 2007 Content: Action Committee’s submission to the government inquiry on the Tasmanian Parliamentary Superannuation Scheme; correspondence; press releases; newspaper cuttings; miscellaneous items; ephemera Quantity: .5 metre Access: collection guide CHS 113 Douglas Papers Date range: 1803 – 1975 Date received: 1975 Content: Letters, manuscripts, other ephemera, books & journals. Collection relates to Ronald Campbell Gunn, his grandson Ronald Campbell Gunn Douglas (1870-1921), Mrs Jean Douglas (wife of R C G Douglas), and their son Ronald Irvine Douglas (1899-1973). Journalists, Bank Managers Quantity: metre Access: collection guide CHS 114 Miscellaneous Mining Records Date range: 1888-1984 Date received: 1992-1993 Content: fragmentary collection mostly relating to tin mining in north-esatern Tasmania, with a small number of items relating to gold mines


Quantity: 2 metres Access: CHS collection guide CHS 116 Truchanas Family Collection Date range: 1835-2008 Date received: 2008 Content: collection mostly relating to conservation of environment and photography Quantity: - metres Access: CHS collection guide

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THE RECORDS...photograph and postcard albums relating to the Kershaw family in Victoria (c1880-1906) Quantity: 10 metres Access: collection guide (incomplete) CHS 3 Craig, …