E. H. (Edward Herbert) Farmer - papers, 1825-1996, including papers of the Farmer and Thistlethwaite...
E. H. (Edward Herbert) Farmer - papers, 1825-1996, including papers of the Farmer and Thistlethwaite families, together with letters of John Le Gay Brereton, 1901-1933
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1825 - 1996
Call Numbers
MLMSS 7703
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
31 boxes - 4.26 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (photocopy)
Textual Records - (typescript)
Textual Records - (typescript, photocopy)
Textual Records - (typescript, carbon)
Textual Records - (typescript, processed)
Textual Records - (computer printouts)
Clippings
Textual Records - (printed)
Ephemera
Photographs
Architectural and Technical Drawings
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Arrangement
The bulk of this collection was originally in 36 expanding files and this order has been maintained in Boxes 1-28.
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Physical Access Conditions
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Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
This collection chiefly documents Ted Farmer's professional activities as an architect, together with his personal correspondence with family and friends.
SERIES 01-02
Files 1-36, 1825-1993
SERIES 03
Diaries 1928-1937
SERIES 04
Memoirs, compiled 1973-1996
Author/Artists:
Agar, Anne
Agar, Elizabeth
...
Alternative Titles
Full title
E. H. (Edward Herbert) Farmer - papers, 1825-1996, including papers of the Farmer and Thistlethwaite families, together with letters of John Le Gay Brereton, 1901-1933
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Agar, Elizabeth
Agar, Janet Eade
Agar, John MacDonald
Agar, Mollie
Agar, W. E. (Wilfred Eade), 1882-1951
Agar, Wilfred Talbot, 1910-2000
Allan, Norman Thomas William, 1909-1977
Anderson, Douglas Joseph, 1907-1970
Australian National Advisory Committee for Unesco
Babbage, Stuart Barton
Bach, Hans, 1911-
Bailey, Harry Richard, 1922-1985
Barry, J. M.
Bass, Tom, 1916-2010
Bland, F. A. (Francis Armand), 1882-1967
Blore, Edward, 1787-1879
Brammall, T. S.
Brereton, John Le Gay, 1827-1886
Browne, John H. L. Browne, d. 1980
Buckland, Les
Cambitoglou, Alexander
Cilento, Raphael, Sir, 1893-1985
Clayton, Jack
Colbourn, John, 1912-1945
Colbourn, Kathleen Elizabeth
Copp, Charles H.
Courtney, Brian
Notes
General note
In 2001 a number of public records that had been easily identified as archival estrays among Farmer's papers, and relating to his term as Government Architect, were transferred to State Records New South Wales. At the time the papers had not been fully arranged and described. It was agreed with State Records New South Wales that the Library would r...
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Dr E. H. Farmer in 1986, 1994 and 1997
Administrative / Biographical history
Edward Herbert (Ted) Farmer (1909-2001), architect, was born in Perth, W.A., the only child of Herbert Farmer, public servant, and Alice May, nee Thistlethwaite. His parents separated before his first birthday, and he and his mother went to live with his maternal grandmother and maiden aunts, Isabella, Ethel and Edith Thistlethwaite, in Melbourne....
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 7703
Record Identifier
n5lVgKx9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n5lVgKx9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
455888
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