Business Archives Council of Australia, Victorian Branch

Component identifier:

Series 71

Content Summary:

The Business Archives Council of Australia was formed in Sydney late in 1954 to promote the study of business history and foster the preservation of business records. There were only two branches, Victoria and New South Wales. Copland was first President of the Victorian Branch and remained a member of the Council until his resignation in 1967.

Although consisting of only a few folders, Series 71 provides a reasonable indication of the activities of the Council's Victorian Branch and Copland's part in them. The series has papers on the Conference on Australian business history (Melbourne, October 1958) and a Survey of business records in Victoria (conducted by the Commonwealth National Library for the Victorian Branch). There are also copies of State branch constitutions, Victorian Branch annual reports (1958, 1959), copies of the Bulletin of the Business Archives Council of Australia and its successor Business Archives and History. Apart from a copy of a letter to D.H. Merry in 1967, the small amount of correspondence in the series covers 1957-1959. The main correspondents are W.A. Sinclair, Professor W. Woodruff, H.L. White, and Dr Alan Birch.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Lady Copland presented the personal papers of Sir Douglas Copland to the National Library in September 1973. Additions to the collection were received from the Copland Family between 1977 and 1981.

Names:

Copland, D.B. (Douglas Berry), 1894-1971

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