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Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle
 
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Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7233(vii)
Date Range:1827
Description:

Diary and letters of Lieutenant William Coke (xerox copies)


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A5582(ix)
Date Range:1980 -
Description:

The Breelong Blacks - A Critical Analysis. A xerox copy of history essay. Analysis of poem about the Governor outlaws by Arthur Noonan. see also: A5422(i) (a) The Breelong Blacks by Arthur Noonan.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(ix)
Date Range:c. 1900 - c. 1980
Description:

Typed and handwritten notes, clippings and xerox copies relating to Aboriginal place names, Tasmanian Aborigines, Aboriginal history, Newcastle Aborigines, Awabakal tribe's myths, language and legends, Wannarua and Ngamba tribe.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(iv)
Date Range:1987
Description:

Copy of: Man In Australia poster The Sunday Telegraph and Australian Geographic.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(iii)
Date Range:1974
Description:

Artefact: Aboriginal Art of Australia tablecloth calendar.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(ii)
Date Range:1982
Description:

Copy of magazine article: Discovering Australia's Amazing Secret Valley by Ken Brass from The Australian Women's Weekly.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(i)
Date Range:1993
Description:

Folder containing three copies of: The Aboriginal Hunter Supplement to The Newcastle Herald.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7755(vi)
Date Range:1990
Description:

Sketchbook containing mounted photocopies and original pencil drawings relating to Aboriginal rock art, implements, weapons, bark paintings, ritual artefacts, shields, ceremonial tablets, Karinog ritual and Groote Island.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7755(v)
Date Range:1981 - 1987
Description:

Folder containing correspondence, newsclippings, original colour drawings, typed notes and photocopies relating to Hunter Region Aboriginal culture, shields, tribal names and areas, trees and woods used by the Aboriginal people, Awabakal myths and legends.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7755(iv)
Date Range:c. 1980
Description:

Historical album containing photographs, type written notes and xerox copies entitled Early Rathmines, the A.A. Company and other places.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7755(iii)
Date Range:c. 1970 - 1983
Description:

Folder containing correspondence, photocopies, original colour drawing, handwritten and typed notes relating to native arms and weapons, myths and legends, plant cures, Strehlow, Percy Haslam and Aboriginal art in the Watagan Mountains and photographic collections.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7755(ii)
Date Range:1982 - 1988
Description:

Folder containing newsclippings, photocopies and typed notes relating to a variety of topics including Aboriginal rock carvings, cave paintings, Aboriginal culture of the Hunter Region, place names, shields, Tasmanian Aborigines, Awabakal language, vocabulary, Pulbah Island and Australian Bicentennial Stamp issue: The First Australians: Rck paintings.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7755(i)
Date Range:c. 1975
Description:

Photo album of Aboriginal sacred sites and location of the Darkinoong Tribe and Awabakal Clan.

Formats:Photographs

Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(vi)
Date Range:c. 1980 - c. 1989
Description:

Typed and handwritten notes, photocopies and photographs relating to Tahlee House, A.A. Company, Sir Edward Parry, Edward Moriarty, Tanilba House and Stroud.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7233(viii)
Date Range:1827
Description:

Introduction and transcript of the Diary of Lieutenant William Coke by Percy Haslam.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(vii)
Date Range:1964 - 1981
Description:

Typewritten material and newsclippings relating to Awabakal Aboriginal myths and legends, language, culture compiled by Percy Haslam.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7075
Date Range:1972
Description:

Racism Symposium papers.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7046
Date Range:1971 - 1972
Description:

Aboriginal files:A7046(i) file; A7046(ii) Newcastle Trades Hall Council Aboriginal Advancement Committee, Constitution and Policy Statement A7046(iii) Seminar for Aboriginal Rights. Minutes and Resolutions; A7046(iv) Correspondence


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A6967(v)
Description:

Living conditions of Worimi Aborigines of Port Stephens before and after the appearance of Europeans. [Essay by John McLachlan].


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A6967(i)(a)
Description:

Life of Mrs Annie Whilmena Kelly who is of Aboriginal descent - Annie Whilamena Kelly. Researcher: Shay Kelly [Duplicates at A6969(i)(b)].

Access:Restricted

Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A6965(iv)
Description:

Aborigines in Singleton - Mrs Cathryn Foggo. Researcher: Shelly Fisher.

Formats:Audio Tape and Documents
Access:Restricted

Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A6516
Date Range:1969 - 1971
Description:

Papers on pre-school centres for Aboriginal and Polynesian children, with reference to the Van Leer Centre near Taree.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A6360(xii)
Description:

Xerox copies of description and locations of Aboriginal cavepaintings, sites and drawings in the Hunter Valley.

Access:Restricted Access

Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A6082(x)
Description:

Xerox copies of maps of Laguna and surrounding areas showing names of residents and locations of Aboriginal markings.

Access:Restricted

Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A5932(xxi)
Date Range:1953 - 1968
Description:

Australian Aboriginal Culture and Exhibition arranged by the Australian National Committee for UNESCO.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A5932(xiii)
Description:

The Port Stephens Blacks - recollections of William Scott, prepared by Gordon Bennet.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A5931(ii)
Date Range:1975 - 1977
Description:

Press clippings on the Awabakals.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A5929(viii)
Date Range:1896 -
Description:

The Mika and Kulpi of the Australian Aboriginals by T.P.Anderson Stuart M.D. Professor of Physiology in the University of Sydney.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A5609(xi)-(xii)
Date Range:1974 - 1975
Description:

First Quarterly report and Second report. [A Project to assist the Aborigines at the Purfleet settlement near Taree, New South Wales]


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7466b(xv)
Description:

How effectively did Aboriginal people resist the European invasion of their country? by David Latimore.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7757(ix)
Date Range:1983
Description:

Copy of: Mutooroo: Plant Use By Australia Aboriginal People. Compiled by Glenn Leiper. Illustrated by Janet Hauser.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:M1441
Date Range:1980
Description:

Poster of Cave Paintings. Aboriginal Cave Paintings, Cobar NSW. Published by National Parks and Wildlife Service.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:M1438 - M1440
Date Range:1980
Description:

Drawings by Aboriginal children. These exhibits were supplied by the Newcastle Awabakal Culture Class conducted by The Aboriginal Co-Operative Society. These children attend weekly classes to learn the Awabakal mother tongue. Elders and initiated persons.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:B9841 - B9842
Date Range:1836
Description:

Aborigines; replies to a circular letter addressed to the clergy of all denominations.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7772
Date Range:1941 - 1945
Description:

E.A. Watson Collection of New Guinea and North Australian Artefacts. Please note: This collection is currently incomplete, the whereabouts of most of the artifacts is a mystery. They were formerly held in custody Mr Percy Haslam. Since his death the bulk of the items in the collection disappeared. What remained has resided, since that time with Mr Haslam's daughter, Mrs Janice Pearson.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7757(xv)
Date Range:1976
Description:

Copy of: A Place Called Tahlee: A Short Historical Narrative Covering 150 years of the Fascinating History of Tahlee, Port Stephens.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7757(xiv)
Date Range:1943
Description:

Copy of: New South Wales Aboriginal Places and Euphonious Words, with their Meanings Compiled by Frederick D. McCarthy. Sydney.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7757(xiii)
Date Range:1980
Description:

Copy of: Aboriginal Stories of Australia by A.W. Reed. Frenchs Forest.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7757(xii)
Date Range:1969 -
Description:

Copy of: Aboriginal Words of Australia. Sydney.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7757(xi)
Date Range:1981
Description:

Copy of: Aborigines - Towards Dignity and Identity by Keith Cole. 2nd ed. Bendigo.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7757(x)
Date Range:1982
Description:

Copy of: The Port Stephen's Blacks - Recollections of William Scott. Dungog.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7757(viii)
Date Range:1970
Description:

Copy of: Stroud and the A.A. Co. Sesqui Centenary Issue. Stroud.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7757(vii)
Date Range:1974
Description:

Copy of: Australian Aboriginal Culture. Australian National Commission for UNESCO. 2nd ed. Canberra.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(v)
Date Range:1990
Description:

Copy of: Australian Bird Migration poster. The Sunday Telegraph and Australian Geographic..


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7757(v)
Date Range:1940
Description:

Copy of: The Passing of the Aborigines: A Lifetime Spent Among the Natives of Australia by Daisy Bates. London.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7757(iv)
Date Range:1982
Description:

Copy of: Aboriginal Lore of the Western Plains by B. Mullins, T. Cook and J. Gerritsen. Balmain East.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7757(iii)
Date Range:1974
Description:

Copy of: Australian Aboriginal Decorative Art by Frederick D. McCarthy. 8th ed Sydney.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7757(ii)
Date Range:1976
Description:

Copy of: Australian Aboriginal Stone Implements: Including Bone, Shell and Tooth Implements by Frederick D. McCarthy. 2nd ed rev. Sydney.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7757(i)
Date Range:1979
Description:

Copy of: The Aborigines by R.M. Gibbs Melbourne.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(xvii)
Date Range:1824 - 1974
Description:

Copy of: Australian Reminiscences and Papers of L.E. Threlkeld Missionary to the Aborigines. 2 vols. Edited by Niel Gunson. Canberra.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(xvi)
Date Range:1986 -
Description:

Copy of: Aboriginal Australia edited by Nancy Sibtain Sydney. Together with newsclipping Was Adam an Aussie by David Leser, Weekend Australian.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(xv)
Date Range:1987
Description:

Copy of: Kakadu: Our Land, Our Heritage by Lyn Allen and Chris Harris. McMahons Point.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(xiv)
Date Range:1981
Description:

Copy of: Aborigines in Australia Today. Canberra.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(xiii)
Date Range:1978 - 1980?
Description:

Copy of: The Aborigines of New South Wales Edited by C. Haigh and W. Goldstein. Reprint from Parks & Wildlife Vol.2 No.5. Sydney.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(xii)
Date Range:1981
Description:

Copy of: From Earlier Fleets 2 : Hemisphere - An Aboriginal Anthology. Woden.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(xi)
Date Range:1978
Description:

Copy of: From Earlier Fleets: Hemisphere - An Aboriginal Anthology.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(x)
Date Range:1974
Description:

Copy of: Before the White Man: Aboriginal Life in Prehistoric Australia by P.J. White. [Sydney]


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7756(viii)
Date Range:c. 1980 - c. 1989
Description:

Typed notes, newsclippings and xerox copies relating to Aboriginal artifacts in the Percy Haslam Collection, Awabakal tribe, language, songs, sayings and original inhabitants.


Title:Aboriginal Research Collection
Reference:A7757(vi)
Date Range:1981 - 1982
Description:

Copy of: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies: List of Publications.


Title:Anglican Diocese of Newcastle- Canon Carlos Stretch
Reference:A7725 (i)
Date Range:1949
Description:

Bundle of newspaper cuttings relating to the Maitland flood.

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