Guide to the Papers of Street and Mackay families
MS 10366
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: February 2023
Collection Summary
- Title
- Papers of Street and Mackay families
- Date Range
- c1900-2010
- Collection Number
- MS 10366
- Extent
- 2.22 metres (7 archive boxes + 1 small folio box, 1 large folio box + 2 folders)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Content Description
This collection comprises family photographs and albums; correspondence including letters from Mackay's mother, Jessie Street; account book; and family history research files that include biographical material relating to Jessie Street, newspaper clippings, papers of D. G. F. Mackay, publications and audiovisual material.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn7789418).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Belinda Mackay, National Library of Australia, MS 10366, [class/series/file/item number(s)]'.
Provenance
The papers were acquired from the family of Belinda Mackay.
Related Materials
Held in the Manuscript Collection of the National Library:
Papers of Jessie Street, c.1914-1968 (MS 2683)
Item Descriptions
Class 1. Consignment received August 2017
This consignment comprises family photographs and albums, correspondence including letters from Mackay and her mother Jessie Street, account books, family history research files, Jessie Street biographical material, newspaper clippings, papers of of D G F Mackay, publications and audiovisual material.
Series 1. Photographs, c1900-2000
A large group of miscellaneous family photographs, together with photographs and postcards relating to travel by Jessie Street in the 1950s.
Album of Yulgilbar Castle property (File 1) - Box 1
Includes family members, interiors, farm land, Clarence River, and Aboriginal workers.
Portfolio of views, 1924 (File 2) - Box 1
Liverynga', Onslow Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, including photographs of Belinda and Philip Street in the garden.
Photographs (File 3-4) - Box 1
Yulgilbar', including interiors, farm scenes, hay raking, hay stacks, children with governess; portrait of Alfred Lillingston, Mabel Lillingston, some vintage prints, some later prints taken from digital copies.
Print (File 5) - Box 1
Copy of a Tom Roberts portrait of Edward Ogilvie. Original now held at Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW.
Photographs (File 6) - Box 1
Street family members at Liverynga, Elizabeth Bay, home of Philip Whistler and Belinda Maud Street; including an interior; also Poolman grandparents.
Photographs (File 8-11) - Box 2
Jessie Street and family; including school and childhood photos; with parents Charles and Mabel Lillingston and ayah, in India; wedding photos; interior of flat shared with husband Kenneth at Forbes Street Darlinghurst; Kenneth, Jessie, Belinda, Philippa, Roger and Laurence Street; grandchildren Sylvia, Sandy and Ken; Laurence, Penny and daughter Jessie; Lieutenant Governor Sir Kenneth Street greeting the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh during 1954 Royal tour; Street family at ceremony of Sir Laurence Street becoming Chief Justice of NSW; family get-togethers in the 1990s.
Photographs and postcards (File 12) - Box 2
Postcards, photographs and some business cards from Jessie Street's travels 1930-1967, including to Berlin, GDR, 1967; also Amsterdam, Budapest, London, Moscow, Paris, Stockholm, Zurich and the USA, including from the UN; and airline souvenir postcards
Photographs (File 13) - Box 2
Mackay family photographs, including Belinda Street Mackay; her mother Jessie; children Hamish and Margot; grandson Hamish in Street family christening gown; at 'Nithdale', Ballalaba, NSW and Rosedale, NSW; Margot and Sarah Gatenby overseas travels; Street family day on Sydney harbor; also Philippa and Grey Fingleton's trip to 'Merton,' the original Ogilvie land grant near Denman, NSW.
Copy prints (File 14) - Box 2
Copy prints of Jessie Street and 'Yulgilbar' selected for a publication.
Album (File 15) - Folio-Box 3
'Sunny Memories' album, mostly of Yulgilbar family and gardens; horse riding, boating; farm activities, including timber pulled by a bullock dray; hay stooks; also college sporting teams.
Series 2. Financial records, c1910-1938
Notebook, c1910 (File 17) - Box 4
Undated notebook kept by Jessie Street recording expenditure while a student at Sydney University [references to SUDS – Sydney University Drama Society and Hockey Club expenses]
Series 3. Correspondence, 1917-2010
Correspondence, 1917-1935 (File 20) - Box 4
Letters written by Jessie Street to Ernest W. Street (given to Belinda Mackay by her cousin Mary Prell).
Correspondence, January 1948 - September 1967 (File 21) - Box 4
Letters from Jessie Street to Belinda Mackay.
Correspondence, August 1945 - October 1965 (File 22) - Box 4
Letters, chiefly from Belinda Mackay to her mother.
Correspondence, 1953-1958 (File 23) - Box 4
Letters to Jessie Street from her grandchildren Andrew and Margot Mackay.
Correspondence, 1939-2007 (File 24-26) - Box 4
Letters to Belinda Mackay from family and friends including Don, Hamish, Alistair, William and Sarah Mackay; Kenneth, Tim, Florence, Marguerite and Julian 'Pete' Street Jr; Philippa and Larry Fingleton; Bob Lillingston, Francis Monck-Mason, Susie Rankine, Nancy Fairfax, Bridget Ogilvie; Helen Bagot, Faith Bandler, Rev. A W Bosser, Mary Cuppidge, Chris Herggeler, Joyce Kastner, Trix Lankester, Baillieu Myer, Joyce Nicholson, Audrey Nottman, Peggy Wakehurst, Anne Wood. Also correspondence from school girls Jessie Goldberg and Georgia Toirkens about Jessie Street projects.
Correspondence, 1938 (File 27-31) - Box 5
Condolence letters and telegrams on the death of Sir Philip Street, September 1938. Folder 27 includes the transcript of a broadcast in which the Premier pays tribute to Sir Philip, and folder 31 includes a copy of the Order of Service for the funeral.
Correspondence, 1944 (File 32-33) - Box 6
Letters and telegrams of condolence sent to Kenneth W. Street on the death of his mother, Lady (Belinda) Street.
Correspondence and papers (File 34) - Box 6
Correspondence and papers re Don and Belinda Mackay's 60th wedding anniversary and Don Mackay's 90th birthday, together with the corrected transcript of an oral history interview with Don Mackay.
Correspondence and papers, 1967-1975 (File 35-36) - Box 6
Correspondence and papers re the death of Sir Kenneth Whistler Street, 1972; estate of Jessie Street; and the estates of Edith Poolman and Sir Kenneth Street. Included is the typescript of an address given by the Archbishop of Sydney at the funeral service for Sir Kenneth and photographs taken of the funeral cortege.
Series 4. Family history research files, 1970-2010
Laurence Street, 1972-2008 (File 37) - Box 6
Papers relating to Sir Laurence Street, mostly newspaper clippings
Lillingston/Street families (File 38) - Box 6
Papers relating to the Lillingston/Street family history, mostly copies and newspaper clippings
Jessie Street, 1970-2010 (File 39) - Box 6
Papers relating to Jessie Street, mostly newspaper clippings
Jessie Street, 1977-2007 (File 40) - Box 7
Jessie Street biographical material: Correspondence with Peter Sekuless 1978 for his biography 'Jessie Street a rewarding but unrewarded life' 1980; for Lenore Coltheart's revised edition of Street's autobiography 'Truth or Repose'; also National Archives 'Uncommon Lives' website content on Jessie Street, compiled by Lenore Coltheart; correspondence from Lenore Coltheart researching a biography of Jessie Street; leaflet from Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW with brief bibliography; ACT Public Place Names (Forde) Determination 2007 naming Jessie Street.
Jessie Street (File 41-42) - Box 7
Jessie Street Centenary celebrations April 1989; newsletters, correspondence and ephemera. Conference at Women's College, University of Sydney, 15 April 1989, including copies of papers; official opening Jessie Street Memorial Park, 16 April; luncheon NSW Parliament House, Monday 17 April, including apologies and colour photographs of lunch guests and speakers; copies of Australia Post 39c commemorative prepaid envelope; ABC Radio National programs, Australia USSR Friendship Society event; formation of Jessie Street Trust.
Jessie Street National Women's Library, 1992-2009 (File 43-44) - Box 7
Correspondence, circulars and newsletters April 1992 –July/Aug 2009 – imperfect holdings.
Jessie Street, 1989-1990 (File 45) - Box 7
Jessie Street and the foundation of the United Nationsl 50th anniversary exhibition at the National Library of Australia 1995; also correspondence Carmel Niland, Laurence Street and Belinda Mackay concerning proposed commemorations to focus on Jessie Street to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum; correspondence 2008 re loan of amber necklace for National Museum exhibition; gift of Jessie Street portrait to National Portrait Gallery 2008; catalogue for exhibition 'Private Lives: families of NSW the album' State Library of NSW 2001; A celebration of the life of Jessie Street, May 2004, Old Parliament House Canberra.
Series 5. Miscellaneous material, 1912-2010
Booklets, 1998-2002 (File 47) - Box 8
'A portrait of Jessie Street', 2002; 'The poems of Jessie Street'; 'Douglas Webster, 1920-1986: A memoir', with a preface by Peter Lillingston; Order of Service to celebrate the life of Mrs Everard [Mary] Baillieu, 1998
DVDs, 2005-2010 (File 49) - Box 8
Copies of family history documents sent by cousin Mary Prell; and photographs of Yulgilbar photo album sent by Tim Street. The Ogilvie family property on the Clarence River, near Grafton is now owned by the Baillieu family. While some of these photos are represented as vintage prints and copies in the photographs within Belinda Mackay's papers, some I have not seen before – for example photographs of Aboriginal workers; most are captioned. Bica prolab DVD - copies of three images are held within the photograph series 2005 and 2010
Audio cassettes, c1989-2003 (File 50) - Box 8
Seven audiocassettes: ABC Radio National, Social History Unit 'Jessie Street – the disappearing heroine' produced by Ros Bowden, broadcast April 1989; The Coming Out Show 2 April 1989; two cassettes of 2CN Pru Goward 17 April 1989; 2 cassette interviews recorded by Dr Lenore Coltheart with Belinda Mackay February 2003; Judy Small's ballad 'A heroine of mine' recorded by Macquarie Radio at Yulgilbar Castle for the Rural Bank
The Coming Out Show - Jessie Street Centenary 22/04/1989, 22/04/1989 (Item NLA.MS-SAV017477) - Cassette-Box 820
1 Item, C60, Compact cassette tapeContributions by Juliet Cobb and Marilyn Lake
Interview with Belinda Mackay 18/02/2003 at Braidwood (re Jessie Street's [?]), 18/02/2003 (Item NLA.MS-SAV017478) - Cassette-Box 820
1 Item, Sony 60, Compact cassette tapeTape 1 of 2
Interview with Belinda Mackay 18/02/2003 at Braidwood (re Jessie Street's [?]), 18/02/2003 (Item NLA.MS-SAV017479) - Cassette-Box 820
1 Item, Sony 60, Compact cassette tapeTape 2 of 2
Class 2. Consignment received March 2018
Correspondence and photographs, 1999-2010 (File 51) - Box 8
This consignment comprises photographs of a portrait, owned by Jessie Street's daughter, Philippa Fingleton, arriving at the Jessie Street National Women's Library (JSNWL) in Sydney in 1999. Included is a photograph of Sydney Lord Mayor, Frank Sartor and Street's grandson, Hamish Mackay, carrying the portrait into the Library; Margaret Whitlam with JSNWL board member, Della Elliot; and Hamish Mackay, Lady Penny Street, granddaughter of Jessie Street, and JSNWL board member, Shirley Jones. In 2010, the Street family and the Library gifted this portrait to the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Also one letter and two postcards from Street to her daughter, Belinda Mackay, whilst travelling overseas (1963) and a copy of the booklet 'A portrait of Jessie Street', 2002, compiled and edited by Paris Silvester. Reproduced in the booklet is a speech given by Belinda Mackay at the Jessie Street Conference, held in memory of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jessie Street.
Class 3. Consignment received 2022
Jessie Street; A Rewarding but Unrewarded Life, by Peter Sekuless, and Jessie Street; Documents and Essays, edited by Heather Radi, 1978, 1990 (File 56) - Box (Shared)
From the library of Belinda Mackay.
Books on Jessie Street from the library of Belinda Mackay, and two photographs of the family, c.1943, 1966, 24 August 1982, (File 57) - Box (Shared)
Jessie Street; A Revised Autobiography, edited by Lenore Coltheart. Signed; to Desiree McKay from Lenore Coltheart.
50 years of Feminist Achievement; A History of the United Associations of Women, by Winifred Mitchell. Signed by Belinda Mackay. Includes an envelope inserted in the centre page with a newspaper article on Jessie Street, titled 'Fighter for Rights of women was called a 'traitor', published in the Daily Mirror 24 August 1982.
Truth or Repose by (Lady) Jessie Street. Signed; To Belinda, with love from mother Jessie May Street, Xmas 1966. Includes a card inserted between pages 20-21.
Two photographs of the family. Reverse of Photograph 1 reads; JMG Street, Grandchildren Andrew Mackay + Belinda Fingleton, Circa 1943. Reverse of Photograph 2 reads; K.W. Street + J.M.G Street with grandchildren Belinda Fingleton + Andrew Mackay, Circa 1943.