Aboriginal Domestic Workers, 1924-1973

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Component identifier:
Series 7
Content Summary:
In the 1920s and 1930s Kingsley-Strack made use of the 'apprenticeship scheme' of the New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board by employing young Aboriginal women as servants. She took a strong interest in their welfare, while they were living with her and in later years, in two cases maintaining a correspondence for many years. Access to this correspondence is restricted.
Immediate source of acquisition:
The collection was purchased by the Library from Mrs Jan Haskins, the daughter of Joan Kingsley-Strack, in 2001.

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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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