MS 2864
National Library of Australia
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Collection Summary
- Creator
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Mary Booth
- Title
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Papers of Mary Booth
- Date Range
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c.1918-1979
- Collection Number
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MS 2864
- Extent
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6.75 metres (24 archive boxes + 1 medium folio box + 1 large folio box + 1 roll + 4 map folio)
- Language of Materials
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English
- Repository
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Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The records include minutes of meetings of the Anzac Fellowship of Women, 1925-1928, 1931-1939, 1958-1962, 1965-1967, Secretary's reports 1924, correspondence, diaries, photographs, press clippings, publications and other material relating to the work of the Fellowship. The collection includes material from other associations also founded by Dr Mary Booth such as the Soldiers' Club and the Empire Service Clubs. The records of the Soldiers' Club, ca. 1918-ca. 1923 include day books, diaries, lists of members, report books and a staff time book. The Empire Service Club records include a minute book 1928-1940, register 1928, sketch book, lists of members, index to letters 1930-1936 and a petty cash book 1944.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn771616).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Mary Booth, National Library of Australia, MS 2864, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Item Descriptions
Day books, 1917-1922 (File) - Box 1
Diaries, 1921-1922 (File) - Box 1
Diary with press clippings, 1929 (File) - Box 1
Diary, 1936 (File) - Box 1
Receipt books – Anzac Fellowship of Women, 1955-1961 (File) - Box 2
Debit book – Empire Service Hostel, 1930 (File) - Box 2
Minute book for all Committees (File) - Box 2
Diary – Anzac Fellowship of Women, 1932, 1933, 1934 (File) - Box 2
Petty cash book 1936-1944 – Anzac Fellowship of Women (File) - Box 2
Printers' blocks – Boy Settlers' Magazine (File) - Box 2
Badges – Soldiers Club (File) - Box 2
Greeting cards (File) - Box 2
Correspondence - personal (Dr Booth), 1933 (File) - Box 3
Correspondence - British Government Representative for Migration, 1929, 1930 (File) - Box 3
Correspondence - Bicentenary of the birth of Captain (1928) James Cook (File) - Box 3
Correspondence - Agricultural classes, c.1928-1930 (File) - Box 3
Correspondence - Bureau matters, c.1928-1930 (File) - Box 3
Correspondence - Department of Labour and Industry, c.1928-1930 (File) - Box 3
Correspondence – General, c.1928-1930 (File) - Box 3
Correspondence - Warrior's Friend Campaign (File) - Box 3
Annual report, 1948-1949 (File) - Box 3
Balance sheets, 1923, 1924 (File) - Box 3
Bank statements, 1964, 1965 (File) - Box 3
Receipts for Anzac Fellowship of Women and Empire Service Club (File) - Box 3
Copies of notices sent to members of Anzac Fellowship of Women (File) - Box 3
Flags (File) - Piece 4 a-c, Elephant-Folio 4d
Three flags (Item 4 a-c)
3.0 metres
ANZAC Fellowship of Women banner (Item 4d)
Anzac Festival Committee bank statement, 1938-1939 (File) - Box 5
Petty cash receipts, function receipts, cheque butt (File) - Box 5
Empire Service Club annual reports (File) - Box 5
Programs, publications (File) - Box 5
Statement of receipts and payments, 1964 (File) - Box 5
Correspondence - General (File) - Box 5
Correspondence - Australian League of Honour for Women and Girls (File) - Box 5
Correspondence - Press clippings (File) - Box 5
Correspondence re soldiers' graves. List for same giving name of soldier, where buried (town, suburb etc) grave no. and religious denomination (R.C., C of E etc), c1919, 1920 (File) - Box 6
Photograph of unidentified gravesite of soldiers (File) - Box 6
Correspondence - People's Open Air Spaces Movement, 1922 (File) - Box 6
Correspondence - British Government Representative for Migration, c.1930 (File) - Box 6
Letters from members of the Empire Service Club (File) - Box 6
List of members - Soldiers' Club (File) - Box 7
Report book, 1918 (File) - Box 7
Day books, 1922 (File) - Box 7
Staff book (File) - Box 7
Daily account book (File) - Box 7
Press cutting album, 1918-1922 (File) - Box 7
Day books, 1919-1922 (File) - Box 8
Photograph album comprising photos sent by English migrants known as "Boy Settlers" (File) - Box 9
Miscellaneous photographs (File) - Box 9
Album of views of Great Yermouth (File) - Box 9
Newspapers (File) - Box 9
Correspondence - General, c1921 (File) - Box 10
Correspondence – General, 1928 (File) - Box 11
Correspondence – General, 1921-1940 (File) - Box 12
Correspondence with Sir James Murdoch, c.1928 (File) - Box 12
Boys' Sub Committee reports, 1927 (File) - Box 12
Press cuttings (File) - Box 13
Correspondence - general, 1937-1940 (File) - Box 13
List of schools attended by migrants, name of ship and date of arrival in Australia (File) - Box 13
Photograph of Mary Booth (File) - Box 13
Bank statements, 1949-1950 (File) - Box 13
Correspondence – Anzac Festival Competition, 1937-1938 (File) - Box 13
Press clippings and correspondence re Anzac Day, 1923-1925 (File) - Box 14
Applications from wives of soldiers for assistance etc. and letters of appreciation from same (File) - Box 14
Postcards (File) - Box 14
List of soldiers interred at warriors cemeterys' [sic], 1915-1918 (File) - Box 14
Diaries, 1927, 1931 (File) - Box 15
Day books, 1929 – 1933 (File) - Box 15
Diaries, 1918, 1919, 1920 (File) - Box 16
Minute book – Soldiers' Club, 1915-1922 (File) - Box 16
Accounts book, 1922 (File) - Box 16
Minute book – General and executive – Empire (File) - Box 17
Service Club, 1928-1940 (File) - Box 17
Accounts book – Empire Service Club, 1944 (File) - Box 17
Alphabetical Lodgers' list, 1925-1929 – Empire Service Club (File) - Box 17
Record book (File) - Box 17
Visitors register (File) - Box 17
Book of inward correspondence, 1930-1936 (File) - Box 17
Correspondence - Anzac Day, 1937 (File) - Box 18
Correspondence - Dreadnought fund (File) - Box 18
Correspondence - Anzac Eve Festival Committee (File) - Box 18
Correspondence re Mary Booth Lookout (File) - Box 19
Accounts, 1941-1946 (File) - Box 19
Postcards (File) - Box 19
Visitors' register, 1926, 1927 (File) - Box 20
Accounts book, 1916-1921 (File) - Box 20
Credit Account book, 1919-1922 (File) - Box 20
Book of outward letters, 1930-1935 (File) - Box 20
Function book (File) - Box 20
List of members (File) - Box 20
List of positions available for returned soldiers (File) - Box 20
List of subscribers to Boy Settler magazine (File) - Box 20
Minute books, 1958-1962 and 1964-1965 – Anzac Fellowship of Women (File) - Box 21
Hon. Secretary's monthly reports from April 1924 to Oct. 1924 (File) - Box 21
Annual report 1923-1924 - Anzac Fellowship of Women (File) - Box 21
Minute book – Anzac Festival Committee, 1932-1939 (File) - Box 21
Minute book, 1924-1928 - Anzac Fellowship of Women (File) - Box 21
Cheque butts, hymn book belonging to Ruth Mason (File) - Box 21
Publications (File) - Box 22
Notes on "Boys", 1933 (File) - Box 22
List of donations from centres and schools (File) - Box 22
List of subscribers to Boy Settler magazine, 1930-1937 (File) - Box 22
Address book, 1931 (File) - Box 22
Diary, 1934 (File) - Box 23
Book of inward correspondence, 1940 (File) - Box 23
N.S.W. bank deposit book - Anzac Fellowship of Women (File) - Box 23
Book of expenses, 1927-1929 (File) - Box 23
Press clippings album (File) - Box 23
Register of names and addresses, 1924-1926 (File) - Box 23
Correspondence - general (File) - Box 23
Note book, 1925 (File) - Box 23
Correspondence - general (File) - Box 24
Receipts etc. (File) - Box 24
Anzac Festival Competition (File) - Box 24
Staff time book (File) - Box 25
Book of donations – Babies' Kit Society (File) - Box 25
Work book – Babies' Kit Society (File) - Box 25
Minute book 1939-1941 – Babies' Kit Society (File) - Box 25
Posters (File) - Folio-Box Unnumbered (MS 2864)
Sketch book – Empire Service Club (File) - Folio-Box Unnumbered (MS 2864)
Account book, 1919-1923 (File) - Folio-Box Unnumbered (MS 2864)
Register of names and addresses (File) - Folio-Box Unnumbered (MS 2864)
Photograph album (File) - Folio-Box Unnumbered (MS 2864)
Personal note from Major-General Aylmer Hunter-Weston, C.B., D.S.O. to each man of the 29th Division on the occasion of their first going into action together (File) - Folio-Box Unnumbered (MS 2864)