Methodist Church of Australasia. Dept. of Overseas Missions records, 1855-1953
Methodist Church of Australasia. Dept. of Overseas Missions records, 1855-1953
About this item
Full title
Date
1855-1953
Call Numbers
MOM 1-311
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Manuscripts, Pictures, Photographs and Video
Physical Description
Contents
19.03 metres of textual material (311 boxes) - typescript, manuscript, and printed
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Sub-fonds
Publication information
Publisher's series notes
Some photographs at Mitchell Library call nos. MOM 239-MOM 249 and MOM 252-MOM 255 published in the journal The Missionary review / Methodist Church of Australasia.
Some photographs reprinted in the The Missionary review are credited to Rev. J. W. Burton or the Editor (Burton edited The Missionary review from 1921-1945).
Access and use
Access Conditions
Restricted : Written approval should be sought from Archivist, Uniting Church in Australia Assembly, 16 Masons Drive, North Parramatta, NSW 2151. Tel: 02 8838 8982
Copying Conditions
Restricted : No reproduction for research or study purposes or publication of material without approval from the Uniting Church in Australia Assembly.
Please acknowledge : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Uniting Church in Australia Assembly
Issue Copy
Partially Microfilmed : For microfilm reel numbers refer to Methodist Church of Australasia List of Records: Overseas Missions guide available in Special Collections area, Mitchell Library.
Finding aids
Methodist Church of Australasia List of Records: Overseas Missions guide in Special Collections area, Mitchell Library.
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
These records include minutes, letterbooks, letters received, accounts, various registers, diaries and other personal papers of missionaries, reports and other writings (many in the form of duplicated typescripts), works in or on language (many in the form of duplicated typescripts), maps, newscuttings, photographs, slides and negatives and relics<...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Methodist Church of Australasia. Dept. of Overseas Missions records, 1855-1953
Notes
General note
Slides, negatives, and box located at Mitchell Library call nos. MOM 125, and MOM 172-MOM 173 ; and 16 folders of negatives located at Mitchell Library call no. MOM 263 presumably of photographs in albums at MOM 239-MOM 262 transferred to Pic.Acc.7061, March 1991.
Attributions / Conjectures
Photograph albums at Mitchell Library call nos. MOM 239-MOM 249 and MOM 252-MOM 255 attributed to Rev. John Wear Burton by Dr. Christine Weir, Honorary Lecturer, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University, September 2018. Attribution based on dates and places tallying with Burton's trips in the Pacific and comparison of handwrit...
Contextual Information
Source
Deposited by the Methodist Church of Australia, 1953-1955, and subsequently presented to the Library by the Uniting Church in Australia Assembly, August 2018.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MOM 1-311
Record Identifier
9O4ow63n
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9O4ow63n
Other Identifiers
Reference code
826066
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