Dr Alan Carroll papers, 1837-ca. 1904

MLMSS 144

fonds

1837-ca. 1904

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs

887626

0.26 metres of textual material (2 boxes)

MLMSS 144/BOX 1

Papers regarding various organisations with which Carroll was associated:
Commercial Pastoral and Agricultural Association of New South Wales: Annual reports 1888-1889
National or Union-Democratic League: notes and leaflet listing objectives, with rough copies of letters sent 1891 and rough minutes 1891-1893
Australian Land-Users' Union League: notes regarding objectives of the League, and rough copies of letters, 1899.
Royal Anthropological Society: letters and notes 1899-1900
Child Study Association of Australia: letters, notes and prospectus 1902-1904.
Universal Agency Company: notes, with notes on a newspaper to be called 'Australian'.

Notes by Carroll including 'A non-political Agriculture Department,' and a proposal for Land-Users' League.

MSS Collected by Carroll including: 'Information obtained from Shoalhaen Aboriginals', author and date unknown; incomplete MS by Rev. L.E.

Threlkeld of St. Matthew's gospel in the Awabakal language 1837; incomplete grammar by Threlkeld (?) of an aboriginal language.
Notes made by Carroll from anthropological/ethnological sources

MLMSS 144/BOX 2
Notes made by Carroll from anthropological/ethnological sources, No date
Includes 5 albumen photographs: 2 photographs of carved trees, one captioned on verso “Carved tree at Wellington NSW”; three full length studio portraits of an unidentified Aboriginal man, one captioned on verso “N.S. Wales – probably Illawarra district”

English, Australian languages

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 2 as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project – Pictorial material transferred from Pic.Acc.6224 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-2013