Series 1: Joan Beck further papers, with Beck and Young family papers, ca. 1853-2014

MLMSS 10144/Boxes 1X-4X
MLMSS 10144/Boxes 5-7
XV/199
XV/210
VT 3588

series

ca. 1853-2014

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Moving Images

9618572

1.12 metres of textual material (3 boxes, 4 outsize boxes), some files contain photographs and ephemera items
1 certificate (1 folder) - 36.5 x 49 cm - printed, manuscript
1 drawing (1 folder) - 12.5 x 88 cm - manuscript annotations

BOX 1X
Spiral bound scrapbook album, ca. 1917-ca. 2007, including early Beck family photographs, and a typescript autobiography by Joan Beck including extensive travel notes, postcards and ephemera, and information about Beck's fencing career. ca. 2007.
Spiral bound scrapbook album, ca. 1853-2009, entitled 'My Mother's Story, Dora Marjorie Beck nee Young, February 1894-May 1984, by Joan Margret Beck. Includes early Young and Beck family photographs, typescript biographies of family members, a genealogical chart, and later autobiographical typescript and photographs of Joan Beck.

BOX 2X
Spiral bound scrapbook album, ca. 1923-ca. 2009, entitled 'Mostly of Marjorie, Some of Joan', including photographs of Marjorie Reedie Beck and Joan Beck, typescript captions and biography, postcards and travel ephemera.
Spiral bound scrapbook album, ca. 1919-ca. 2008, entitled 'Joan and Marjorie', including photographs of Marjorie Reedie Beck and Joan Beck, Birth Certificate and Memorial of Baptism of Joan Beck, 1919, Beck family photographs, manuscript and typescript captions, postcards and travel photographs and ephemera. Includes photoprint of Leon Bertrand, 1952, signed 'To my very esteemed colleague Joan Beck with all good wishes, Leon Bertrand, July 10th, 1952.
Spiral bound photographic album, ca. 1950-1975, containing black and white photoprints of a childrens panotmine 'Peter Pan and Wendy' and childrens party. Photographs of P.T. Class at Thornleigh Presbyterian church 1947, Five Dock class, 1952, and family photographs, 1975.

BOX 3X
Scrapbook, ca. 1986-ca. 1992, compiled within a photographic album. Contains greeting cards received by Joan Beck, loose correspondence, papers and photographs related to Joan Beck's time at Macquarie University as Bachelor of Arts student and Honorary Fellow, photographic prints, and ephemera.
Macquarie University Citation for the Award of Honorary Fellow in folder, 1992.
Ring bound folder containing Record of Guests who attended the Special Dinner held in honour of Miss Joan Beck B.E.M., B.A. in celebration of her 80th Birthday and Retirement, September 11, 1998. Includes photographs and ephemera from the event.

BOX 4X
Folder of typescript notes and cuttings related to the history of the Swords Club and Joan Beck.
Order of Service, condolence cards and notes related to the memorial service for Joan Margret Beck, 20 January 2014, Macquarie Park Crematorium. Condolence book with autographs of attendees. Typescript eulogies.

BOX 5
Scrapbook, ca. 1986- ca. 1992, compiled within a spiral bound photographic album. Contains greeting cards received by Joan Beck, loose correspondence, papers and photographs related to Joan Beck's time at Macquarie University as Bachelor of Arts student and Honorary Fellow, photographic prints, and ephemera.
Photographic album containing travel postcards from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Paris, Ostia, Israel, India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand and Malaysia, ca. 1965-ca. 1985.
Small scrapbook in red ring binder related to Greece and Turkey, including typescript notes and cuttings, ca. 1970s.

BOX 6
Photographic album containing postcards and typescript captions from tour of Turkey in 1992.
Photographic album containing postcards and typescript captions from tours of Greece, Rhodes, Myconos, Delos, Santorini and Crete, ca. 1988.

BOX 7
Autograph note book, signed M. Beck 5C1, ca. 1930-ca. 1940. Includes hand drawn illustrations and autographs.
Autograph book (album), signed Joan Beck, 1933-1936. Includes autographs and cuttings.
Cameos from Kingsley (minature book), London, Collins, ca. 1915.
The Song of Hiawatha by Henry W. Longfellow (minature book), London, Leopold B. Hill, ca. 1915.
Autograph book, signed Majorie Beck, 1933.

XV/199
The British Academy of Fencing Diploma, Awarded to Joan Beck, February 9th, 1952. [Certificate printed on card]

XV/210
2 Hopner Aust. [Fencing Competitors hand drawn name card for Janet Hopner representing Australia in the Perth Commonwealth Games, 1962. Annotated with autographs of fellow competitors.]

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
Research & study copies allowed: Applies only to material in which the author has been deceased for more than 50 years
Out of copyright: Applies to photographs created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales