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BOX 2
Scrapbook, 383 pp., partially indexed at front of volume. Newscuttings and illustrations from Australian newspapers, 1898-ca.1921, including The Australasian, Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, and The Sun, predominantly 1911-1913; diverse topics including Sydney history, Boer War, Australian politics and defence, news reports from China, Australian Aborigines, Antarctic exploration, aviation; includes Commonwealth Celebrations (1901) and Fleet Week (1908) programmes and souvenirs.
Includes 4 pages of original photoprints (George St, 1898, ships, the crew of SS Star of Australia and 2 photographs of children with animals, one captioned “Brisbane Zoo, 1912”). Final third of album mainly cuttings re Prince of Wales’ visit, 1920.

BOX 3
Folder 1
Scrapbook marked “AJV Life” on pennant-shaped label pasted on back cover. Index on front cover. Newscuttings including Vogan’s writings, manuscript and typescript poetry and quotations, rubbings, sketches, correspondence. Receipt for subscription to Glebe Anti-German League, 1916. Includes memoranda regarding Vogan’s career (p. 98).
Folder 2
 Loose scrapbook, “Explorers Australia”. Loose cuttings inserted in a blank commercial scrapbook. Handwritten label “Explorers Australia” affixed to spine. No cuttings pasted down; scrapbook discarded. Contents include correspondence, sketches and hand-drawn map, drafts and newscuttings, including items by Vogan in the Young Citizen, ca.1924, and in the Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, and unidentified New Zealand newspapers, 1920s; columns (evidently by Vogan) “The Whirl of the World” and “Eve’s Letter” in the Australian Bystander, 1924, and items by G. Pitt Rivers, Ernest Wunderlich, Daisy M. Bates; items about W. A. Tietkens, and theory of Egyptian origin of civilization; typescript carbon copies of drafts of articles “That’s Rummy!”, 29 August 1924, (re words derived from ‘Romany’), with copy of covering letter to editor of Daily Telegraph, and “The Romance of the Yasawas” (undated, incomplete); rough notes on geology and origin of name ‘Narrabeen’ and ‘kookaburra’; hand-drawn map of Goodenough Bay, New Guinea, signed and dated by Vogan 12 July 1931; ink drawings of carvings from Hawaiian Islands.
Correspondents include W. A. Tietkens, S. A. White, David Unaipon (brief note requesting information about Easter Island statues), Stanley Abbott (General Secretary, National Citizens’ Union), Charles Hedley, G. A. Hills (photographer), Ernest Wunderlich (manuscript, 14 December 1937, on Wunderlich Ltd letterhead, attached to presentation copy of printed essay “No. 5 Rambles in Archaeology / by E. W. [Ernest Wunderlich]”, inscribed to Vogan on cover; with attached copy of letter from Vogan to Wunderlich, 20 April 1931 (typescript carbon copy)); Annie Thomas, Suva (re stone statue in her possession, photograph attached). Signed out-letter to the Sculptor’s Society, Sydney, 9 September 1938, re their proposed memorial to Lawrence Hargrave near Stanwell Park.
Folder 3
Scrapbook, 1878-1900, ‘J.V. album’, inscribed on first page “James Vogan, ‘Darwin’, Te Puke, Tauranga. Scraps and useful memoranda”. Cuttings regarding railways, roads, Crown lands, letters to the editor, Charles Darwin, New Guinea exploration.
Folder 4
Scrapbook, “Gleanings”. Indexed in front of volume, articles on Bali, Easter Island, ethnology

BOX 4
Folder 1
Scrapbook “Character in handwriting”, in ‘Perfect’ Scrap Book and Desk File. Indexed in front of volume, with enclosures containing envelopes, letters and examples and analyses of handwriting.
Folder 2
Scrapbook in ‘Perfect’ Scrapbook and Desk File, cuttings and letters loose in volume enclosures mainly regarding World War I and socialism, ca. 1915-1919
Folder 3
Scrapbook “Poetry by A. J. Vogan, indexed in front of volume. Letters, poems, clippings 1915-1946

BOX 5
Folder 1
Boer War scrapbook, 1900-1919 containing loose and fixed cuttings. Includes watercolours and sketches by Vogan, military statements, proclamations, reports and field intelligence, articles including ‘The day’s work as a scout during the late Boer War by Ex Sergeant A. J. Vogan’, the capture of Commandant Scheepers by Vogan and Vogan’s statement of claim regarding capture, accounts of battles and skirmishes with hand drawn maps and diagrams, memo and descriptions, poems, a music sketch and lyrics to marching songs, lists of words and translations to Afrikaans, certificate of discharge, 1901, and photographs including Captain F.B. Hughs, Vogan in uniform and mounted soldiers 
Folder 2
Scrapbook ‘N’: ‘Autographs’. Index at rear of volume. Volume inscribed on first page ‘to be used only for news-cuttings, letters, &c connected with my life history, especially my life-work. A. J. V. Oct. 97’. Includes certificate of election to Royal Geographical Society,  November 1885; studio portrait taken on return from New Guinea expedition; printed cover design by Vogan for The Black Police; letters on personal, literary and mining matters, and relating to treatment of Aborigines, 1894-1925, from Agnes L. Kettlewell,  Maggie Caldwell, J. James (missionary on New Hebrides and ‘authority upon island mythology’), George Waite, Henry Parkes, C. O. L. Perth, J. H. Maiden, Havelock Ellis, John Tebbutt, Nellie Ruthe, James H. Shaw; advertisement for Vogan’s map of Federal Australia; newscuttings and press notices, ca. 1891-1929 including Vogan’s articles on atrocities against Aborigines, with reference to Anderson murders, WA; NSW Railway Lines Dept. authorisation, 1892; Western Australian miner’s right, 1895; apprenticeship indenture to Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames, 1877; letter from J. D. Love[?] about death of Robert Logan Jack, with photograph

BOX 6
Folder 1
Scrapbook, inscribed “Laura Nisbet” in front of volume, comprising a few pages of letter fragments, cuttings and poems, 1887-1889
Folder 2
Scrapbook ‘L’ in Letts’s Australasian diary and almanac for 1886: drafts of poetry and cuttings of published poems (some signed and dated, 1887-1900); notes, newscuttings and references on literature, socialism, mining law, ancestral memory and other topics; letters to Vogan and copies of other letters, ca.1889-1904
Folder 3
Scrapbook ‘O’: ‘Microscopical Objects drawn from life’. Watercolour and ink studies dated 1877-1882
Folder 4
Scrapbook ‘C’: ‘Cuttings’, indexed in front of volume. Newscuttings ca. 1891-1893, chiefly 1891 on railways, trade, Maori in New Zealand, including reviews of ‘The Black Police’
Folder 5
Scrapbook ‘F’: ‘Cuttings’. Index on back cover. Newscuttings of items by Vogan and other authors from New Zealand and Australian newspapers, 1887-1897, 1922
Folder 6
Scrapbook ‘Weather 5/1/46’. Exercise book of weather map clippings Jan.-Dec. 1946

BOX 7
Folder 1
Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, inscribed inside front cover “Mrs Fowler Cranbrook Aug. 1910. Small number of cuttings on Manly 1904-1914 and World War II, 1940
Folder 2
Scrapbook of cuttings in exercise book, mainly on bushrangers and Ben Hall, ca. 1919
Folder 3
The Great War Book 2. Scrapbook, in ‘Perfect’ Scrapbook and Desk File, 1914-1917. Marked “War Horrors 2!” on cover, indexed in front of volume. Mainly loose and fixed newscuttings relating to First World War, with correspondence inserted. Includes: photographic prints of Commonwealth prisoner of war documents of Eugene Gurtner, 1914-1916; patriotic handbills and pamphlets. Correspondence mainly comprises copies of out-letters to Commonwealth Government authorities reporting perceived instances of disloyal communication; and request to obtain a place in the Expeditionary Forces. Includes signed typescript letter from W. M. Hughes, Attorney-General, 14 November 1941, acknowledging letter re censorship
Folder 4
Loose clippings from back of ‘War Horrors’ scrapbook

BOX 8 
Scrapbook ‘D’: ‘Types of men & women’. Inscribed inside front cover A. J. Vogan, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Photographs, printed illustrations and newscuttings, 1880s-1920s. Fragile
1-6. Unidentified portrait photographs of Maori men
7-13. Unidentified portrait photographs of Maori women, 1 loose in envelope
14-15. Queensland aboriginal men
16. Aboriginal children, Central Queensland
17. Native mounted trooper. Caption added later: [John] Bungaree the mounted trooper
18-21. North Queensland girls and women, one covered with paper marked ‘Private. Nude study’
22. Loose photograph of aboriginal man captioned on back “Australia for the Australians”
23. N.S.W. Aboriginal man
24. North Queensland Squatter’s hareem [harem]
25. Group portrait of unidentified Aboriginal children, Matron and Matron’s child at Warengesda Native Mission School N.S.W.
26. North Queensland Aboriginal man
27. Newsclipping ‘In the Northern Territory’ from Daily Telegraph 25 March, 1914
28. Australian aboriginals Bourke N.S.W.
29. Australian aboriginals North Western Queensland
30. Samoan girl 13 years. ‘This negative was sold for £100. The girl 13 years of age & a chief’s daughter died about 1889-90’
31. Fiji woman. Covered with paper marked ‘Private. Nude Study’
32. Fijian man. A sailor
33-34. American Indians (clippings of engravings)
35. Siamese district chief (clipping of engraving)
36. Tongan girl (clipping)
37-46. Colonial types 
47. French model type
48-63. Types of beauty. British actresses
64-65. Types of judge (photograph and cigarette card)
66-89. Criminal types (20 engravings, 1 photograph, 2 clippings)
90. Newsclipping ‘Lonely cottage tragedy’, World news, 8 Jan. 1921
91. Newsclipping ‘The Rainhill and Windsor tragedies’, World news 5 Feb. 1921
92-96. Types of criminals
97-105. United States types
106. French types
107-111. Distinguished men not intellectual
112-113. Brave men. 1 postcard, 1 captioned photograph with clippings from Brisbane courier 21.11.1885
114. New Guinea native. Page from ‘ Trip, travel, exploration and ascent’.
115. New Guinea natives in dance costume
116. New Guinea children after a feed of sago
117. New Guineans at Jubilee River, Gulf of Papua
118. New Guineans at Aird River, Gulf of Papua
119. ‘New Guinean women at Sumaate Fly River dressed in our old clothes, Bonito Expeditions 1885’
120. An engineer of the Pelton Water Wheel Company and his assistants, Malay Peninsular (clipping)
121-128. European actresses
129. Abbas Pasha (clipping)

BOX 9
Folder 1
Scrapbook ca.1915-1917. Newscuttings, by Vogan and others, including report of public meeting attended by Vogan re using Australian Aborigines as scouts. Correspondence on various subjects including archaeology and perceived domestic security risks; Correspondents include J. S. P. Ramsay, Bruce Smith, Leonard Murray (administrator in New Guinea).  Maps, typescript drafts and notes re astronomy, sacerdotal symbolism, origins of Australian Aborigines, rock carvings at Narrabeen. Cover discarded
Folder 2
Scrapbook marked “Life New Zealand New Caledonia 1921-1922. Indexed in front of volume, with letters, map of the ‘Winterless North’, New Zealand, articles on early history of Kaitaia
Folder 3
Scrapbook ‘F’, 1933-1935, chiefly 1933. Letters and cuttings on punitive expeditions against aboriginals, politics and trade

BOX 10
Folder 1
Scrapbook ‘H’, 1935-1937, chiefly 1935 cuttings and letters on archaeology in the Pacific
Folder 2
Scrapbook, marked on cover “Life Bricks 1 A.J.V. 1859. Indexed at front of volume, letters, clippings, photographs, articles with rough autobiographical sketch, 1946-1947
Scrapbook, marked on cover “Life Bricks 2 A.J.V. Indexed at front of volume, letters, clippings, photographs, articles with rough autobiographical sketch, 1946-1947, chiefly 1947
Folder 3
Scrapbook of loose and fixed cuttings, articles and photographs on the Pacific Islands and archaeology, the Malay dictionary, ca. 1933-1945
Folder 4
Scrapbook ‘Literary cuttings’ 1910-1921. Inscribed in front of volume Jas. R. Scott, journalist, Cessnock. Clippings of book reviews, caricatures, letters & draft articles

BOX 11
Folder 1
Scrapbook ‘J’, 1937-1938. Indexed album of correspondence. Marked “J” on cover.  Includes newscuttings related to archaeological discoveries in the Pacific and correspondence; photographs, including of the “Meggy duet” (Myrtle & Ivy) inscribed to “Uncle Vogan”; a Kodak enclosure with photograph and negative of Vogan, a street photograph of Vogan, sketches
Folder 2
“My Book, Sundry cuttings re”, 1924-1938. Loose cuttings, photographs including Kerry & Co. photos of aboriginal ceremonies and Bora rings; pages from the Pacific Islands monthly 1931, 1935; articles including Native African telegraphy, 1924, a paper on tree worship, 1931; 2 issues of Pacific Islands Monthly 1932, 1 issue of Etudes Melanesiennes, 1938, 1 issue of Building journal featuring the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1932 
Folder 3
Cover and fragment of scrapbook: Symbolic Art: Yucatan Asia Japan China India. Begun Jan 1922.

BOX 12
Folder 1
Scrapbook ‘Newspaper cuttings’, ca. 1872-1885. Articles on exploration, Daly River murders in N.T., 1885 and poetry
Folder 2
Scrapbook folder of letters, photographs, draft articles and drawings of aboriginal rock carvings, articles & cuttings mainly on archaeology, Maori & Aboriginal customs, evolution, New Caledonia, India & Egypt including ‘A woman’s travels in unknown Asia by Mary Gaunt, 1914, photograph of cave drawings at Duaringa near Rockhampton, ca. 1914-1925. Folder discarded
Folder 3
Scrapbook ‘Gleanings’, ca. 1922. Exercise book with letters, maps, handwritten articles on New Zealand history, New Caledonia, the languages of China & Polynesia, the Mayas of Yucatan & the Egyptians; drawings of hieroglyphics at Pitcairn Island, Easter Island and New Guinea; photographs of rock carvings in Tahiti and dancing troops in Rarotonga
Folder 4
Scrapbook titled ‘Articles’, 1943. Notes and clippings for articles on religion, languages, ‘The Great Races'

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