Swan Hill Pioneer Village, 1961-78
- Component identifier:
- Series 6
- Content Summary:
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Ingpen was the Pioneer Settlement's consultant advisor. The files on the operation of the Swan Hill Pioneer Village document in detail the establishment and operation of the first of a number of open-air museums.
The series includes five boxes of chronological folders (1961-78) with transcriptions of newspaper reports, publicity photographs, minutes and reports of meetings and cuttings. The documentation was copied from the minutes of the organising committee and from reports in local and state newspapers.
Also in the series are photographs of the village, constitutions in the 1960s, an agreement with Rigby, 1972, giving the publishing company sole right to print and publish books under the imprint 'Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement', papers of the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement Authority, and the research material of Merrill Taylor who was writing a history of the Pioneer Settlement.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The papers were donated to the Library under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts scheme.
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Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1501947).
- 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- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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
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