Condolence letters, cards and telegrams sent to Sydney and Elizabeth Butler on the occasion of the d...
Condolence letters, cards and telegrams sent to Sydney and Elizabeth Butler on the occasion of the d...
Condolence letters, cards and telegrams sent to Sydney and Elizabeth Butler on the occasion of the death of their teenaged son, Keith, from Spanish influenza, 1919
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Date
1919
Call Numbers
MLMSS 10131
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0.21 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript
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Contents
56 manuscript and printed items, including condolence letters, cards, telegrams and related items sent to Sydney and Elizabeth Butler from relatives, friends and work colleagues, on the occasion of the death of their teenaged son, Keith, from Spanish Influenza, 1919.
1. Packet of 16 letters in small envelopes
2. Packet with 1 letter in large...
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Full title
Condolence letters, cards and telegrams sent to Sydney and Elizabeth Butler on the occasion of the death of their teenaged son, Keith, from Spanish influenza, 1919
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Object History
Ms Clare Stretton as received from her father, Mr James Walker, a relative of the Butler family.
Contextual Information
Source
Donated by Ms Clare Stretton in 2017
Administrative / Biographical history
Keith Sydney Butler was a 14-year-old boy of Balmain, Sydney, who died of Spanish Influenza in 1919. He was interred in the North Sydney Congregational Cemetery, Gore Hill.
The Spanish Flu pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920) was unusually deadly. It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic...
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Call Numbers
MLMSS 10131
Record Identifier
nQReLKV1
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nQReLKV1
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Reference code
1009439
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