Consignment received 2022, 1960s-2013 (bulk 1960s-1974)

Component identifier:: Class MS Acc22.170
Content Summary:: This consignment comprises various archived and miscellaneous material from the Wild Colonial Days Society (WCDS). There are issues of some WCDS N.S.W. branch journals (August 1967 - August 1968) and the 'Fossiker' March - August 1968). Papers include correspondence (bound), an address book, questionnaire and membership forms, the society's revised constitution, a members re-enactment report and note books with the handwritten meeting minutes. Newspaper clippings (some photocopied), photographs and ephemera highlight the society's activities, centenary events and historical re-enactments of The Capture of the Clarke Brothers, the Ben Hall gang and the shooting of Constable Neslon, The Cobb and Co. run, The Shooting of Johnny Gilbert, The Bargo Bush murder. The are numerous tickets and programmes to balls, dances and concerts with flyers, a felt banner and a typed film scripts with one titled 'HMS The Branch of justice'.

Subjects:: Society and culture
Active citizenship and representative democracy
History
Performing arts
Stories of rural and regional communities
Names:: Mr Chris Woodland

Access and use

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Location of this collection:: National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia