Guide to the Collections held by the Library of Birmingham (as filmed by AJCP), 1801-1930

Summary

Collection number:

M825-M827, M2118

Creator:

Birmingham Central Library

Extent:

57 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Availability:

Available

Background

Content Summary:

M825-M827:

Alston collection: correspondence and documents 1780-1851 concerning a disputed title to property of the Egginton Family, including letters from Walter Egginton, transported to New South Wales.

Lee collection: 18 agreements 1881-1891 for the sale of patents for improving cable tramways; two plans 1842-1843 of Nelson, New Zealand, showing settlement blocks.

Papers of Sir Charles Adderley, 1st Baron Norton: minutes 1850-1851 of the Council of the Society for the Reform of Colonial Governments; receipts for New Zealand stock c.1892-1908 from banks and institutions.

Travel diaries 1893-1914 of Helen Caddick, containing descriptions of India, Australasia, Pacific Islands and China.

Printed material: Colonization Circular, Part VI, New South Wales (1880), Information for Emigrants and Others (1881), Mount Victoria Goldfield: Report (1903) and Railway Guide of New South Wales (1881).

Photographs 1893-1914 from Helen Caddick's diaries of Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand; photographs 1870-1901 taken by Sir Benjamin Stone, including inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth in Sydney 1901, scenes in New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa and an album 1873 on Eastern Asia containing photographs of Borneo, Java, Singapore, Sumatra and Batavia.

M2118:

Papers 1888-1937 of Sir Richard Threlfall, including letters, photographs and papers written while Professor of Physics at Sydney University.

Records 1922-1930 of John Holt concerning organs supplied to churches in New Zealand.

Cadbury Collection, including photographs of cocoa estates in Samoa, letters of George Cadbury to Thomas Cooper, the representative of Cadbury Brothers in Australia (1888-1922), and letters written by Barrow Cadbury on a visit to Australia in 1930.

4. Drawings of railway locomotives and other rolling stock supplied by Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Railway Co. to railways in Australia and New Zealand.

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn7887480] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Birmingham Central Library, Birmingham, England.

For further information, see Library of Birmingham (http://calmview.birmingham.gov.uk/CalmView/).

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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