Guide to the Papers of Wallace H. Smith
MS 10627
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: June 2022
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Smith, Wallace H. (1873-1962)
- Title
- Papers of Wallace H. Smith
- Date Range
- 1927 - 1978
- Collection Number
- MS 10627
- Extent
- 1.2 metres (2 boxes) + 1 map folio
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Content Description
The collection primarily relates to gold mining operations in Fiji undertaken by Emperor Mines and to Wallace H. Smith, a Director of Emperor Mines. The collection includes Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines; publications relating to Emperor Mines and gold mining in Fiji; and three cross section maps detailing mine workings in Vatukoula, Fiji. The collection also includes photographs of mines, mining operations and mining employees in Fiji, New Guinea and Cracow, Queensland.
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Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Wallace H. Smith, National Library of Australia, MS 10627, [class/series/file/item number(s)]'.
Source of description
This finding aid may comprise or contain descriptive information provided by donors, researchers and/or volunteers.
Item Descriptions
Collection. Papers of Wallace H. Smith
Class 1. Papers received 2022
Consigned from MS Acc22.044
Tavua Goldfields of Fiji, 1936 (File 1) - Box 1 (MS 10627)
Photograph album. Title page inscription: H Wallace Smith Esq, Happy remembrances of a very pleasant trip June-July 1936 best wishes Ellis H. Davies.
Golden Plateau Gold Mine, Cracow, Queensland, 1936 (File 4) - Box 1 (MS 10627)
38 black and white photographs.
Material related to Wallace H. Smith and family (File 5) - Box 1 (MS 10627)
Copies of five photographs of Wallace Smith and family at 'Kilwinning'; copy of a newspaper article published in The Herald 1982 about Wallace H. Smith & Co.
Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines, 1936 - 1939 (File 6) - Box 2 (MS 10627)
No. 1 - No. 4.
Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines, 1940 - 1942 (File 7) - Box 2 (MS 10627)
No. 5 - No. 7.
Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines, 1943 - 1947 (File 8) - Box 2 (MS 10627)
No. 8 - No. 12 ; plus three letters to shareholders.
Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines, 1948 - 1950 (File 9) - Box 2 (MS 10627)
No. 13 - No. 15 ; four letters to shareholders.
Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines, 1951 - 1960 (File 10) - Box 2 (MS 10627)
No. 16 - No. 25.
Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines, 1961 - 1970 (File 11) - Box 2 (MS 10627)
No. 26 - No. 35.
Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines, 1971 - 1978 (File 12) - Box 2 (MS 10627)
No. 36 - No. 43.
Other material relating to Emperor Mines Limited, 1938 - 1969 (File 13) - Box 2 (MS 10627)
Booklet 'Emperor Mine and treatment plant'; Booklet 'High speed development work at Emperor Mine, Vatukoula Fiji : operations of the Emperor Gold Mining Co Ltd at Vatukoula' by O.H. Marshall; Booklet 'Mining for gold in Fiji' by H.H. Dunkin; Black and white photograph from Emperor Mines AGM in 1945.
Gold mining at Vatukoula : Colony of Fiji, 1953 (File 14) - Box 2 (MS 10627)
Book by H.H. Dunkin. Reprinted from a series of articles in Chemical Engineering and Mining Review July 1947-January 1948.
The inside story of some Queensland ventures and some notes on the British and American Oil industry, 1927 (File 15) - Box 2 (MS 10627)
Leather bound booklet with gilt embossed text and decoration. An address to the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (QLD) by the Hon. A.J.Jones, M.L.A. (Minister for Mines, Vice President of the Society).
Mining in Fiji, 1953 (File 16) - Box 2 (MS 10627)
The operations of: Emperor Gold Mining Co. Ltd. Loloma (Fiji). Proceedings No. 168-169.
Associated Mining Companies Vatukoula, Fiji., 1956 (File 17) - Map-Folio 3 (MS 10627)
Cross sections looking northwards showing actual and proposed workings and nature of ore occurences.