Historical Source Material on Nineteenth Century Australia
- Containers:
- Box 2
- Component identifier:
- File 19_20
- Content Summary:
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Two folders contain a variety of material, principally in the form of correspondence, relating to social, economic and geographic conditions in New South Wales and Queensland in the later part of the 19th century.
Human and Sheep Populations - Wool: Sheep and human population distribution in the 1880s and wool prices of the same period; also copy of 1939 Queensland Report of the Wool Advisory Commission.
Rainfall, Weather - Rabbits - Postal and Railways - Bank Crash, 1893 - Taxation - Fly Wire - Pleura-Pneumonia. Rainfall tabulations and summaries, notably at Blackall, Cleremont, Wokabity, Terrick, Kilcummin. Background information on: Rabbit plague in N.S.W. and Qld. in the 1870's-80s; Introduction of fly wire screening to Australia; Pleura-pneumonia, a cattle disease, and other subjects as given in heading.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The Casey Papers were obtained over a number of years following the death of Lord Casey in 1976. They were received initially from Lady Casey and subsequently from her daughter Mrs Jane MacGowan, as well as from Dr W.J. Hudson.
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Please refer to the collection's catalogue record (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2896954) for the access conditions.
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
- Contact: