Guide to the Collections held by the Strathclyde Archive Department (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2775 - M2779
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Archives Department Strathclyde University
- Title
- Collections held by the Strathclyde University Archive Department (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1856 - 1987
- Collection Number
- M2775 - M2779
- Extent
- 83 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Records 1971-80 of the '96 Group relating to the painter John A. Gillfillan (1793-1864) who settled in New Zealand and Australia. Correspondents include Flora Spurdle, W.R. Long, Douglas Pike and N.B. Nairn.
Papers 1972-78 of Louis McGougan including reports on higher education in Indonesia.
Papers 1892-1932 of Sir Patrick Geddes referring to agriculture in Australia, the depression in New Zealand, Scottish migrants in New Zealand, teachers' training in New South Wales, and A.C. Haddon's plans for field work in Torres Strait and New Guinea.
Diary 1856 kept at Ballarat gold diggings and on voyage back to England on the James Baines, together with correspondence and notes 1971-75.
Papers 1948-59 of town planner Sir George Pepler. Subjects include: Australian Planning Institute; Town Planning Institute in New Zealand; amalgamation of planning institutions in Australia; visit of James Fraser to Australia; and rebuilding of villages in North Borneo.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at Strathclyde University Archives Department, Glasgow, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1992 (AJCP Reels: M2775-M2779). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Archive Department, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland. For more information Strathclyde University Archives (https://www.strath.ac.uk/archives/).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1616278] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2018. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Pieces that were not filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project have not been included in this Finding Aid.
Subjects
Artists; Australia; Australia: visits to; Australian Planning Institute; Ballarat, Victoria; Education; Farms and farming: Australia; Fraser, James; Geddes, Sir Patrick; Gillfillan, John A.; Golds and goldfields: Victoria; Haddon, A.C.; Indonesia; James Baines (ship); Long, W.R.; McGougan, Louis; Nairn, N. Bede; New Zealand; New Zealand: economic conditions; New Zealand: immigration to; North Borneo; Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea: life and customs; Pepler, Sir George; Pike, Douglas, Prof.; Scots in New Zealand; Spurdle, Flora; Torres Strait Islanders; Town planners; Town Planning Institute of New Zealand
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 442, p173.
Item Descriptions
Fonds OK 10. Associations and Clubs: The '96 Group, 14 September 1971 - 1980
13 itemsBiographical / Historical
Founded in 1954 to ensure the presentation of historical items connected with the Technical College and its forebears.
Series 4. Unbound Proceedings, 1980
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
John Alexander Gilfillan (1793-1864) by Charles G. Wood (53p., typescript), 1980 (File 5)
Biography of J.A. Gilfillan, formerly Professor of Drawing and Painting at Anderson's University, Glasgow who migrated to New Zealand in 1841.
Biographical / Historical
After loosing many of his family in a Maori attack on his homestead in Matarawa Valley in April 1847, he went to Australia, settling in Melbourne.
Series 6. Programmes, June 1980
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Series 8. Correspondence, 19 November 1971 - 26 April 1979
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Correspondence with Ms A.M. Atkins (Hamilton) and J.E. Traue (Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington) re paintings of J.A. Gilfillan and diary of John Gordon Gilfillan in her possession. (10p.), 16 September 1972 - 1 August 1973 (File 6)
Correspondence with Miss J. Dyce (Mitchell Library, Sydney) re paintings by Gilfillan in the Mitchell Library. (7p.), 30 July 1973 - 19 November 1973 (File 7)
Correspondence with Flora Spurdle (Wanganui) re Gilfillan painting of Mr and Mrs Davis. (8p.), 12 July 1972 - 25 November 1972 (File 8)
Series 10. Ephemera Collected by the '96 Group, 14 September 1971 - 13 August 1975
6 itemsComprises: Mainly xeroxes of biographical information on graduates and other people connected with Strathclyde University. Many such people went to Australia and there are files comprising xeroxes from the Australian Dictionary of Biography etc. on them. Noted here only are files of original correspondence.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Correspondence with Dr W. R. Lang (Geelong), 31 May 1974 - 30 August 1974 (File 623)
Dr W.R. Lang (Geelong) seeking information on James Harrison, who attended Anderson's University and who founded the Geelong Advertiser in 1840. (11p.)
Correspondence with F.A. Sharr (Library Board of Western Australia); Christine Kelly (Royal Geographical Society, London); T.A. Kealy (State Library of Victoria), 16 June 1972 - 25 March 1974 (File 738)
Re Ralph Waldo Emerson Maclvor, agricultural chemist. (12p.) Includes: Royal Geographical Society Certificate for Election for R.W.E. Maclvor 22 Dec. 1886, signed by Ferd. von Mueller. (Xerox)
Correspondence with Douglas Pike (Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra) and others re Andrew Murray (16p.), 14 September 1971 - 10 January 1972 (File 832)
Reasons Gilfillan was not included in Australian Dictionary of Biography - 'we have included more artists than the allotted percentage warranted'.
Biographical / Historical
Andrew Murray (1813-1880), cousin of J.A. Gilfillan;
Correspondence with N.B. Nairn (Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra) re William Thomson, medical graduate of Anderson's University. (6p.), 22 July 1975 - 13 August 1975 (File 1571)
Fonds OM. Papers of Staff and Students, 1852 - 22 February 1984
12 itemsSeries 53. David Ellis, 1874 - 1937
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Biographical / Historical
Lecturer in Botany, Professor of Bacteriology (1924-1937)
Subseries 2. Correspondence, 28 May 1914 - 27 June 1914
1 itemBenjamin Moore (Liverpool) to Ellis re arrangements for journey to Australia to attend B.A.A.S. Meeting. (4p.), 28 May 1914 - 27 June 1914 (File 1-2)
Includes a copy of Moore's article 'The Presence of Inorganic Iron Compounds in the Chloroplasts of the Green Cells of Plants, considered in Relationship to Natural Photo-synthesis and the Origin of Life' from the Proceedings of the Royal Society B Vol. 87, 1914.
Series 210. Patrick Dunbar Ritchie, 1907 - 1981
5 itemsYoung Professor of Technical Chemistry at Royal Technical College, R.C.S.T. and Strathclyde University, 1950-1972; Professor of Applied Chemistry and Dean of School of Applied Science, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 1972-1977.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Subseries 4. Miscellaneous, 26 September 1973 - 14 July 1978
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
'Pandangan Pengembara: the Traveller's Eye'. Catalogue to exhibition of paintings by Pat Ritchie, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 26 September 1973 - 10 October 1973 (File 6)
Annotated with details of sales. (4p.).
Series 219. Louis McGougan, 1972
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Biographical / Historical
Louis McGouan (1922-), Senior Administrative Assistant, 1958-1961; Building Officer, 1961-1966; Bursar, 1966-1984.
Report on Specialist Tour to Indonesia by Sir Samuel Curran and L. McGougan, University of Strathclyde (12p., Duplicated typescript), 1972 (File 2)
Series 225. C. Frank Sheard, 7 November 1982 - 27 February 1983
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Biographical / Historical
Student at Royal Technical College (1923-1937)
Series 275. Thomas Ulrich Walton, 1852 - 1917
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Biographical / Historical
Student of Chemistry at Anderson's University, later Chemist to Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Sydney.
Fonds OP. Photographs and Illustrations
1 itemFonds OS. University of Strathclyde, 26 May 1983 - 10 October 1987
6 itemsSeries 91. Academic Interchange, 26 May 1983 - 10 October 1987
6 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Subseries 4. Malaysia, 13 February 1985 - 10 October 1987
3 itemsFonds T-GED. Deposited Collections: Sir Patrick Geddes Collection, 25 December 1887 - 6 March 1932
17 itemsBiographical / Historical
Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932), town planner, biologist, sociologist, educationalist, poet and art critic. Author of Cities in Evolution (1915) and Life-outlines of General Biology with Professor Thomson (1931).
Series 1. Town Planning, 14 October 1908
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Series 9. General Correspondence, 24 February 1892 - 6 March 1932
12 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
? (Dunedin) to Geddes re work in his garden which is much admired. (4p., incomplete), 24 February 1892 (File 59)
A. Mackay (Dundee) to Geddes re cultivation of Ramie, suited to Straits Settlements. (2 p.), 2 January 1896 (File 157)
George Henderson (London) to Geddes re agriculture in the Empire, including Canada and Australia. (6 p.), 11 August 1903 (File 495)
Harold Large (Napier) to Geddes re his philosophy; his admiration for Geddes. (8 p.), 3 July 1907 (File 792)
James Macgeorge (London) to Geddes, intends to send him a map of Adelaide. (3 p.), 7 November 1908 (File 859)
Victor Ryan (Adelaide) to Geddes forwarding photographs and plans of Adelaide [wanting]. (1 p.), 6 January 1915 (File 1279)
Mary Geddes (Auckland) to Geddes re Depression in New Zealand; keeping angora and chinchilla rabbits as a sideline. (4 p.), 2 November 1930 (File 1767)
Mary Geddes (Auckland) to Robert Cameron (Wairarapa Caledonian Society) sending printed letter re memorials to Margaret Kennedy Fraser organised by Patrick Geddes. (3 p.), 8 September 1931 (File 1834)
Mary Geddes (Auckland) to Geddes re support for Margaret Kennedy Fraser Memorial in New Zealand; types of Scottish migrants in New Zealand; economic difficulties. (7p.), 13 October 1931 (File 1838)
Jessica Geddes (Isle of Wight) to Geddes that has not heard from relatives in New Zealand. (2p.), 3 January 1932 (File 1876)
Series 12. Education, December 1896
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Series 18. Botany - Biology, 25 December 1887
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Fonds T-GTS. Deposited Collections: Records of Glasgow Typographical Society, 1921 - 1950
3 itemsSeries 3. Records of Other Typographical Associations, Publishers, 1921 - 1950
3 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Subseries 2. Outside British Isles, 1921 - 1950
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia. Rules of Victorian Branch (38p., printed), 1921 (File 1)
Fonds T-MIN. Deposited Collections: Minor Collections, 7 May 1856 - 1975
2 itemsSeries T-MIN/1. Diary from Gold Fields of Victoria, 7 May 1856 - 1975
2 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Diary of diggings at Ballarat by unknown writer, and his brother, John and voyage home on James Baines. (31p.), 7 May 1856 - 17 November 1856 (File 1)
Details of: Diggings; decision to return home; journey to Melbourne; voyage home - other passengers, weather, meeting with American ship, drunken passenger put in irons, ceremonies of crossing the line, death and burial of Mr Neame.
Fonds T-PEP. Deposited Collections: Sir George Pepler Papers, 8 August 1856 - 1959
79 itemsRelated Materials
See also: Alfred R. Potter, 'Sir George Pepler: an appreciation', Journal of the Town Planning Institute, vol. XLV, 1958-1959, p. 155.
Biographical / Historical
Sir George Pepler (1882-1959), town planner; 1919-1941 Chief Town Planning Inspector to Ministry of Health, 1943-1946 Chief Technical Advisor to Ministry of Town and Country Planning; founder (in 1913), Honorary Secretary, Treasurer and President (in 1919-1920) of the Town Planning Institute; instrumental in establishment of Australian Planning Institute on federal basis in 1951 and in its affiliation to the Town Planning Institute in 1955.
Series Drawer 1. Town Planning Institute, November 1957
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Subseries. Town Planning Institute Council and Committees, November 1957
1 itemEducation Committee, November 1957 (File Folder 4)
Dr F.W. Ledgar (University of Melbourne) to Alfred R. Potter (Town Planning Institute, London) enclosing application for recognition of courses [of Department of Town and Regional Planning, Melbourne University] by Town Planning Institute, London. (22p., cyclostyled)
Subseries Box 4. Town Planning Institute Committees, Branch Constitutions, Affiliations, 1953 - 1959
2 itemsTown Planning Institute Town and Country Planning in the Commonwealth Countries, 1958 - 1959 (File Folder 13)
Draft and final versions of Town Planning Institute Council memorandum 'Town and Country Planning in the Commonwealth and Colonies' (reference to Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia); rough notes and related correspondence from Alfred R. Potter (Town Planning Institute), G. Pepler, B.J. Collins (Middlesex Planning Department). (52p.)
Series Drawer 1. Town Planning Institute, 8 August 1856 - 1959
6 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2775.
Subseries Box 5. Town Planning Institute General Correspondence, 1948 - 1952
8 itemsGeneral Correspondence, 1948 - 1950 (File Folder 18)
2 itemsGeneral Correspondence, 1950 - 1952 (File Folder 19)
6 itemsA.H. Killick (R.I.C.S., London) to Pepler re affiliation of Town Planning Institute in New Zealand, encloses copy of letter of 11 Nov. 1924 re affiliation of South African Institute. (3p.), 10 April 1951 (Item)
Subseries Box 6. Town Planning Institute General Correspondence, 8 August 1856 - 1958
15 itemsGeneral Correspondence, 1954 - 1956 (File Folder 20)
14 itemsFraser (Sydney) to Pepler re attendance at Conference of Australian Planning Institute in Perth, and visits to Sydney and Melbourne. (6p.), 8 September 1956 (Item)
Denis Winston (Perth) to Pepler thanking him for his support over affiliation, successful conference, the Stephenson Plan for Perth, 8 September 1956 (Item)
Pepler to Desmond Heap (London) the Australian Planning Institute and the visit by James Fraser. (3p.), 8 August 1856 (Item)
Series Drawer 9. Singapore, 1936 - 1958
15 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reels M2776-M2778.
Subseries Box 1. Singapore Improvement Trust: Administration, 1949 - 1954
2 itemsSubseries Box 2. Singapore Improvement Trust: Administration, 1951 - 1955
3 itemsSubseries Box 3. Singapore Improvement Trust: Legislation, 1936 - 1954
2 itemsMiscellaneous, 1936 - 1953 (File Folder 6)
8 itemsSir George L. Pepler. Essential planning powers. Memorandum to W.L. Blythe, Colonial Secretary. With 2 addenda, December 1950 - January 1951 (Item)
Subseries Box 4. Singapore Improvement Trust. Legislation, 1951 - 1958
3 itemsSubseries Box 5. Singapore Improvement Trust. Other Activities, 1951 - 1957
5 itemsSeries Drawer 10. Commonwealth Work, 1950 - 1955
2 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2778.
Subseries Box 1. Australia and Malaya, 1950 - 1955
2 itemsGeneral
Copy Complete.
Australia, 1950 - 1955 (File Folder 1)
9 itemsCorrespondence, notes and reports regarding Town and County Planning.
Individuals/correspondents include: Sir George L. Pepler, William G. Holford, Colin Clark, Denis Winston (Prof), Town and Planning Institute, Cumberland City Council
Subjects include: Town Planning, Town Planning Traning, Planning Policy, Federal Congress on Regional and Town Planning
University of Malaya, 1951 - 1954 (File Folder 2)
Correspondence, reports, notes, maps, re a site for the university. Most documents relate to the informal conference held in 1952 at Johore, Bahru, Malaya, under the chairmanship of Mentri Besar. Particpants at the conference were: Pepler, Sir George Allen, and C.N. Parkinson. (200p.)
Series Drawer 20. Single Topics, 1948 - 1958
2 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2779.
British Council, 1948 (File Folder 3)
1 itemMemoranda and correspondence, minutes of meetings re 'Town and Country Planning in Great Britain' exhibit assembled by the British Council for display in Germany and Australia. (52p.), 1948 (Item)
Correspondents include: Rachel Morrison (Town Planning Institute); Dorothy Goslett (London); M. McLeod (British Council); Sir Patrick Abercrombie (London).
Includes: Exhibition booklet produced for Australia. (29p.)
Migration Council and Commonwealth Migration Council, 1950 - 1958 (File Folder 13)
1 itemMinutes of meetings, correspondence, memoranda, publications (c. 800p.), 1950 - 1958 (Item)
Subjects include: Emigration to the Dominions; Fitzroy River Basin, Queensland as a site for planned migration; the Constitution of the Migration Council.
Correspondents include: Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith (London); L. Farrer Brown (Nuffield Foundation); J.E. Stevens (Minister of National Development, Canberra); Patrick Gordon Walker (Commonwealth Relations Office).
Memorandum and Articles of Association of Migration Council Ltd, 1954
Commonwealth Migration Council Newsletter, no. 1-6, 1957-1958
Migration Council, Operation British Commonwealth, 1951
Commonwealth Migration Council, How important is the Commonwealth?, 1957
Series Drawer 21. Personal Correspondence, 14 November 1947 - 13 January 1959
5 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2779.