The Missions to Seamen N.S.W. further records, 1882-1991
The Missions to Seamen N.S.W. further records, 1882-1991
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Date
1882 - 1991
Call Numbers
MLMSS 9082
Record Identifier
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Physical Description
Contents
9.71 metres of textual material (59 boxes)
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Level of description
Fonds
Arrangement
Prior to the collection’s acquisition by the State Library it was arranged by archives students into series according to the material’s provenance, grouping the records by the administrative bodies which created them. This arrangement has been maintained and the box number sequence now reflects this.
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Scope and Contents
Contents
The records relate to the Mission's activities in Sydney, Port Kembla and Newcastle. They include minutes of meetings, correspondence, annual reports, financial records, visitor registers and scrapbooks of photographs and newscuttings.
PROVENANCE: THE MISSIONS TO SEAMEN, SYDNEY
BOX 1
Series MTS001.SYD Annual reports in 4 volumes, 1...
Alternative Titles
Full title
The Missions to Seamen N.S.W. further records, 1882-1991
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
A Guide (108pp.) to this collection prepared by University of NSW Archives students, 1992, is located in Box 1, however the box numbers in the Guide have been superseded.
An earlier accession of the records, 1891-1977, of The Missions to Seamen, is located at MLMSS 3857 (10 boxes + 6 outsize vols). A 3pp. detailed contents list is available in t...
Description source
Information upgraded as part of the Manuscripts Unprocessed eRecords Project 2013-2014
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by The Missions to Seamen in 1993
Administrative / Biographical history
The Sydney Mission to Seamen was formed in 1895 when the Church of England Seaman's Mission of Australia joined the international society of the Missions to Seamen. Its origins in NSW extend back to the Sydney Bethel Union which was established in 1822 to administer to the spiritual and physical welfare of merchant seamen. A Newcastle Mission was...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 9082
Record Identifier
1JkmpVGY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1JkmpVGY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
411604
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