Creative Leisure Movement (Sydney, N.S.W.) collection
Creative Leisure Movement (Sydney, N.S.W.) collection
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1920 - 1994
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Manuscripts and Pictures
Physical Description
Contents
16 boxes and 9 outsize boxes - 6.65 Meters
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Collection
Arrangement
This collection comprises two manuscript and pictorial record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record.
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Further records, 1920-1994
Photographs, 1924-1993
Alternative Titles
Full title
Creative Leisure Movement (Sydney, N.S.W.) collection
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
An earlier accession of 1 box of Creative Leisure Movement records, 1960-1977, is located at MLMSS 3346. Annual reports and financial statements are held at ML Q027.66/1.
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Becky Lieber, Secretary, in 1997
Administrative / Biographical history
The Children's Library and Crafts Movement, founded in 1924 by two sisters, Elsie Rivett (1887-1964) and Mary Rivett, later Mary Matheson (1896-1969), and constituted under a Deed of Trust in 1934, became the Creative Leisure Movement in 1969. The Movement pioneered free libraries and after-school activities for children in order to foster their cr...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Record Identifier
npAdVWb1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/npAdVWb1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
446655
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