Guide to the Papers of Jessie Street
MS 10365
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Street, Jessie
- Title
- Papers of Jessie Street
- Date Range
- 1888 - 1958
- Collection Number
- MS 10365
- Extent
- 0.78 metres (2 ms boxes + 1 large grey music box)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Content Description
This collection comprises jewellery worn by Jessie Street, including a cameo brooch and a set of amber beads, together with items acquired during her travels overseas.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn7578918).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Jessie Street, National Library of Australia, MS 10365, [items number(s)]
Related Materials
Papers of Jessie Street at MS 2683 (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1507836).
Biographical Note
Feminist and social activist. Jessie Mary Grey Street (née Lillingston) was born in India in 1889. In 1915 Street founded the New South Wales Social Hygiene Association, concerned with informing women about birth control and sex education. In 1929 she was elected first president of the United Associations of Women which lobbied governments on equal pay and other women's issues. She accompanied H.V. Evatt to the United Nations founding conference held in 1945 in San Franscisco where she successfully lobbied for a charter of women's rights. She was the unsuccessful candidate for the House of Representatives seat of Wentworth, 1943 and 1949. Jessie Street's autobiography, Truth or repose, was published in 1966. Street died in Sydney in 1970.
Item Descriptions
Embroidered skullcap, 1958 (Item 2) - Box 1
From Tashkent, a souvenir given to Jessie Street on one of her trips to the USSR in the 1950s, accompanied by her handwritten note explaining its provenance.
Blue-and-white patterned plate, 1950 (Item 3) - Box 1
Given to Jessie Street in Moscow after the Warsaw Peace Conference.