Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne W Newcastle [Polish Australian Historical Society. Newcastle Branch]

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Containers:
Box 20
Component identifier:
File 108-111
Content Summary:

Minutes of meeting, 1985-1998 incl. Constitution. (In Polish)

Correspondence, 1985-1998. In Polish, English.

Record book of activities with photos, newspaper clippings incl. their Bicentennial Exhibition Strzelecki and the first Poles in Newcastle. In Polish with some English.

Visitors book entitled The Bicentennial Exhibition : Strzelecki and the first Poles in Newcastle, Feb. to April 1997. Includes biographies of Tillitzki, Bortkevitch, Okulicz in English with primary documents concerning Strzelecki.

Immediate source of acquisition:
The collection was donated to the Library by the Polish Historical Institute in Australia in a number of instalments between 1997 and 2001. The records were collected as part of the Preserving the Polish Saga in Australia Project in which the Institute contacted various Polish organisations and individuals in Australia asking them to donate records which would fall into the following categories: 1. Administrative records of the creators 2. Records of legal value 3. Records of financial accountability 4. Records of historical interest for public relations and general interest purposes

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3039278).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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