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File 10: Photographs, clippings and ephemera, chiefly relating to the activities of the Junior Red Cross, and Red Cross community programmes and disaster relief, 1914-2007.

1a. Forster Branch. Anzac Day 1988. Noreen & Joyce, 25 April 1988
1b. Forster Branch. Senior Citizens’ Week 1988. E Moore, H Beard, P Belton, 1988
2a. Forster Branch. Walk Over The Bridge. World Famine Day, 1980s
2b. Forster Branch. Children in old Red Cross outfits at Red Cross Sunday 1984, 1984
3a. Forster Branch. Steve Toth carrying box , 'White Elephant', ca. 1985
3b. Forster Branch. Members at Group Meeting, 198-.
4a. Forster Branch. Jack Bradd, SES, 198-?
4b. Forster Branch. Volunteers at Red Cross Sunday 1986, 1986
5a. Forster Branch. A.B.C. Pre-Xmas luncheon, Noella’s, 4 Underwood Road, Forster, 1985
5b. Forster Branch. A.B.C. Pre-Xmas luncheon, Noella’s, 4 Underwood Road, Forster, 1985
5c. Forster Branch. A.B.C. Pre-Xmas luncheon, Noella’s, 4 Underwood Road, Forster, 1985
6a. Forster Branch. Noelle White visiting a Thailand Red Cross action station, 1985
7-8 [Item not located, 24/04/2017]
9a. Forster Branch. Award presentation. Dorothy Jones, Secretary, 1985
9b. Forster Branch. Award presentation. Dorothy Jones, Secretary, 1985
9c. Forster Branch. Award presentation. Dorothy Jones, Secretary, 1985
10a. Forster Branch. Awards Night Ceremony, 1985
10b. Forster Branch. Awards Night Ceremony, 1985
10c. Forster Branch. Awards Night Ceremony, 1985
11a. Forster Branch. Awards Night Ceremony, 1985
11b. Forster Branch. Awards Night Ceremony, 1985
11c. Forster Branch. Awards Night Ceremony, 1985
12a. Forster Branch. Awards Night Ceremony, 1985
12b. Forster Branch. Awards Night Ceremony, 1985
12c. Forster Branch. Awards Night Ceremony, 1985
13a. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, 1985
13b. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, 1985
13c. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, 1985
14a. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, 1985
14b. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, 1985
14c. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, 1985
15a. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, 1985
15b. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, 1985
15c. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, 1985
16a. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, Crochet display, 1985
16b. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, display of historical photographs and records, 1985
16c. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, display, 1985
17a. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, 1985
17b. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, 1985
17c. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, 1985
18a. Forster Branch 50th Anniversary Luncheon, 1985
19a. Campbelltown Lend Lease community Red Cross bus, 198-.
19b. Senior Citizens Award 1988. 2nd from left : Dorothy Jones, patron Foster Red Cross; 3rd from left : Isabel Perkins, winner, 1988
21a. Rug making at Campbelltown Community Living Disabled Day Centre at Campbelltown, 197-?
21b. Adults with intellectual disabilities regularly attend the Community Living Sessions at the Campbelltown Centre, 197-?
22a. Campbelltown Handcraft Service : wall display, 198-?
22b. Handcraft Services. Campbelltown Centre. Setting up a hand loom, 199-.
22c. Campbelltown Handcraft Service. Weaving on looms. Conducted every Tuesday at the centre, 1990s
23a. Red Cross/Lend Lease Centre. Campbelltown, 1989
24a. Campbelltown Centre activities, sewing, 1989
24b. Campbelltown Centre, Musical therapy, 1989
25. Illawarra Red Cross Regional Centre, 1994
27c. Illawarra Red Cross opening, 1987
27d. Illawarra Red Cross opening, 1987
28a. Illawarra Red Cross opening, 1987 [Item not located, 24/04/2017]
28b. Illawarra Red Cross opening, 1987
28c. Illawarra Red Cross opening, 1987
29a. Sheila Shaw, Coordinator Illawarra with Debbie Whitfield, field officer, 1986
29b. Illawarra Red Cross building, 1986
29c. Illawarra Red Cross building, 1986
29d. Illawarra ?, ca.1986
30a. Illawarra Red Cross centre, 1986-1987 [Item not located, 24/04/2017]
30b. Illawarra Red Cross centre, 1986-1987 [Item not located, 24/04/2017]
30c. Illawarra Red Cross centre, 1986-1987 [Item not located, 24/04/2017]
30d. Sheila Shaw, Illawarra Regional manager. 2 proofs, 1987 [Item not located, 24/04/2017]
31. Penrith Red Cross Opening. Lyn McEvoy (Left), director Branches, 1993
33. Proof sheets: Glen Mervyn, opening of restored swimming pool by Rotary
34. Proof sheets: Princess Alexandra meets Junior Red Cross Circles : 12 proofs, 1959
35a. Penrith VAD Centre, 1993
35b. Penrith VAD Centre, 1993
36a. Penrith Red Cross, 1993
36b. Penrith Red Cross, 1993
36c. Penrith Red Cross, 1993
36d. Opening of Penrith Red Cross. Lyn McEvoy, Director of Branches; John Smith, Executive Director; Dr Storey, Chairman, 14 September 1993
37a. Valley View Junior Red Cross Group. Aged Care Senior Citizens Week. Gosford, 1997
37b. Valley View Junior Red Cross Group. Aged Care Senior Citizens Week. Gosford, 1997
37c. Valley View Junior Red Cross Group. Aged Care Senior Citizens Week. Gosford, 1997
37d. Valley View Junior Red Cross Group. Aged Care Senior Citizens Week. Gosford, 1997
38. Gosford Aged Care. Senior Citizens Week, 1997
39a. Mrs Sheriffe, Murray-Riverina Secretary, 10 October 1983
39b. Albury Branch receiving Chairman Shield, Most Money RCC, Country Branch, 198-?
39c. Proof sheets: Upper Murray Regional Centre Albury, 5 proofs, 198-? 
40a. Upper Murray Regional Centre Albury?, 199-? [Item not located, 24/04/2017]
40a. Print out: Upper Murray Regional Centre Albury?, 199-?
41a. Annual Branches Conference. Dr Storey presents Peace Award to Chris Murray, 1985
41b. Ruby Storey award. Boggabri Annual Branches conference, 1985
41c. Annual Branches Conference. . Dr Storey presents Peace Award to Melinda Edwards, 1985
43a. 3 girls in Glen Mervyn Children’s Home,, 1970s ?
43b. Red Cross stand at Easter Show : "Red Cross, our life support system", 1983
44. Participants of the Community Living Disabled Day Centre at Campbelltown and a volunteer helper, Mrs Betty Lee, enjoying a Christmas party held at the centre, 198-.

File 20: Photographs, chiefly relating to the activities of the Forster Red Cross Branch, the Illawarra and Penrith Branches, and community services at Campbelltown, 1959-1997. 


An album, measuring 51.5 x 41.5 x 5.5 cm. (Library binding), containing 35 watercolours and 1 pencil drawing.

1. Dasyurus Viverrinus [Eastern Quolls. Titled from catalogue, "Pair of native cats"] 
2. [Pair of Native Cats of different colours]. Inscription on reverse of mount, "pouched animals or marsupial .... 5th tribe the Dasyures or native cats, the flesh eaters among the .... animals. Example the common Dasyures found in Eastern Australia and Tasmania"" 
3a. Wombat from the Zoological Gardens Adelaide
3b. [Head of a wombat]
4. [Wombat]
5. Hapalotis Arboricola (Macleay) [Type of hopping mouse or rabbit-rat. Arbricola = plant] / G. Krefft, 1861
6. Hydromys lutrilla (Macleay) [ie. water rat] found swimming and diving among the rocks at Elizabeth Bay in Sydney / G. Krefft, 1861
7. [Native rat, possibly brush-tailed rabbit-rat] / G. Krefft, 1858
8. ... Hapalotis apicalis. White tipd. Hapalotis [lesser stick-nest rat]. Tillikin N.N. from Mundellemin Lower Murray / G. Krefft
9. [Native tree rats]
10. Phascogale penicillata [Brush-tailed marsupial mouse] / G. Krefft
11. [Pair of Kangaroos]
12. B. "Jimmy Bigfoot" Australian Native carrying a Kangaroo to his camp
13. Sergeant Gunbower Creek [Head of an Aboriginal] / G. Krefft, 1857
14. [Head of an Aboriginal. Front seated profile]
15. [Female Aboriginal cleaning fish] / G. Krefft
16. [Three Aboriginal Girls]
17. [Aboriginal man making a weapon]
18. [Aboriginal chasing kangaroo. Hunting scene involving Aboriginal man, 3 native dogs, and rock wallaby] / G. Krefft, 1857  
19. Natives ... [crossing the Murray in a bark canoe]
20. [Corroboree]
21. [Hunting scene]
22. Native graves. Hamilton.. Station Murrumbidgee / G. Krefft, 1857
23. [Native grave or dwelling]
24. [Bush scene]
25. [Station on the Murray]
26. [Aboriginal grave]
27. Sandstone cliffs on the Murray ... ar Mondellemin / G. Krefft, 1857
28. [Homestead with 2 men on horses and cliffs in the background]
29. Gall Gall Station the property of Mess. J.H. Williams Lower Murray / G. Krefft, 1857
30. Bend of the Murray River
31. [Scene on the Murray. Men hunting kangaroos with guns] / G. Krefft, 1857
32. [Bush scene on the Murray] / G.K., 1866
33. [Study of 8 beetles]
34. [Study of 6 insects]
35. [Kangaroo in profile] / G. Krefft

1. Dasyurus Viverrinus [Eastern Quolls. Titled from catalogue, "Pair of native cats"]

2. [Pair of Native Cats of different colours].

2a. Inscription on reverse of mount, "pouched animals or marsupial .... 5th tribe the Dasyures or native cats, the flesh eaters among the .... animals. Example the common Dasyures found in Eastern Australia and Tasmania""

Series 02: Gerard Krefft album of watercolour drawings, ca. 1857-1858, 1861, 1866

PXA 1085
NORMAN MARTIN PHOTOGRAPHS
1-2. Norman Martin on church excursion, Horseshoe Bay, Magnetic Island, 1948
3-4. Norman Martin in Fiji
5. Methodist Central Hall, built 1905, Leichhardt
6-8. Opening of Epworth House, 4 May 1957
9. Leichhardt-Annandale 1st Grade Metropolitan Soccer Team, undefeated 1949 Premiers: manager, Norman Martin;  captain, G.Gardiner;  minister, Albert Skinner
10. Leichhardt-Annandale Metropolitan Soccer Team, [in uniform ca. 1950]
11a-b. [Foucart Street broom factory picnic, Ferryland, Hunters Hill, 1924 (colour photocopy key to the photograph marked with members of the Ferrier and Grubmeier families, also Richard Ledbetter, Mrs Ernie Wilson and Mrs Baker)]
12. Balmain Fernleigh Football Club, 1922 / Sidney Riley Studios
L to r, back row: H.Sullivan, C.Russell (vice-president); 2nd back row: G.Wilson (v.p.), S.Storey, A.Law, G.Cartwright, J.Adams, F.Hancock, M.Roach; 2nd front row: R.Baker, F.Yabsley, E.Ferrier (captain), J.Smith (president), H.Battin (vice-captain), R.Leadbetter, E.Wilson (v.p.); front row: G.Turner, J.Fisher, A.Phillips; insets: Dr H.K.Porter, F.Baxter, J.Ferrier, W.Clarke

EXTERNAL VIEWS OF THE COTTAGE AND FACTORY, 84 FOUCART STREET
1A. Looking up Foucart Street towards Darling Street. The cream coloured cottage is 84 Foucart Street. Across the road is the old carrier's depot which was occasionally used by the broom factories to transport brooms to Darling Harbour. The horses were stabled elsewhere but this is where the business was run. This building was still in good repair in Oct 1998, current use unknown.
2A. Looking down Foucart Street towards cottage at 84 Foucart Street
3A. Looking down Foucart Lane towards the broom factory. The millet store, now  used as a shed, is across the road from the car.
4A. External of window to small office in broom factory
5A. Corrugated iron millet store, Foucart Lane, used by both the Federal and Commonwealth Broom Factories. Both factories shared the cost of the initial cleaning of the millet, done in the lane.
6A. Detail of factory office door with delivery gate
7A. Detail of corrugated hood used to protect steam engine from weather, located rear of factory in the cottage garden
[8A.] Broom factory from Foucart Lane

INTERNAL VIEWS
1B. Detail of office door. The office was located to the left. To the right was louvred glass which looked onto the factory floor. At the end of the small passage one could turn left and go up narrow stairs to the mezzanine, or right  onto the factory floor. Originally behind the stud wall of the second photograph was an outside courtyard. As this building was once a foundry, the water tanks were kept there. Broom makers used the area to sort and smoke the millet. in the 1950's the back wall was built and a perspex roof put over the area.
2B. Sandstone boundary wall, the left hand wall of the factory and exterior buildings. Viewer has their back to the factory floor. The windows are part of the office and left are the stairs to the mezzanine
3B. Wooden stairs with corrugated iron back and leading to the mezzanine
4B. View from factory floor to the remains of the mezzanine, office underneath
5B. Detail of one remaining hand hewn beam found on factory floor
6B. On the right hand wall of the factory, the remains of the belt and pulleys used to power broom-making stations. Steam was the first power source, then diesel and kerosene, then finally electricity
7B. Internal view from the factory floor area to smoking-sorting room. The dipping tank can just be seen, next to a brick closet where the millet was "smoked clean"
8B1. Office on the other side of makeshift corrugated iron wall. This wash area adjacent to sandstone dipping tank and the brick smoke closet were in the open until 1950
8B. Door connecting cottage with factory. The Brick wall is part of the smoking closet. The buildings in the courtyard are the toilet and bathhouses of the cottage. This area was closed-in and made part of the factory in the 1950's.

BROOM MACHINES
When Norman Martin bought the Commonwealth Broom Factory, he made it a wholesaler. Hired as a young boy to be a runner, Martin never completed his training and remained a "sewer". The Federal Broom Factory, Fred Street, bought much of the equipment. It was some of this equipment which was later used by the Aboriginal community in north-western NSW to begin a broom co-operative, but most remained at Fred Street. In the 1980's, After the French family sold the Federal, it was stripped of Sabco by the American owners and declared bankrupt. One of the company's creditors was Phil O'Halloran of Tumut, whose family were millet growers who had sold millet to the Federal and the Commonwealth. O'Halloran took the Federal and Commonwealth equipment and the name "Queen Brooms" and set up the Queen Broom Company in Tumut. The C series of photographs were taken in his Tumut factory where he is currently setting up a museum to display the machinery.
1C. A hackler: powered by electricity, hacklers are kept outside to protect against millet dust and debris. It was a noisy, dangerous job, the first to be learnt by runners in their training to be broom makers
2C. Detail of a hackler: 6"-8" teeth on a steel drum scrape the millet before it is sorted into lengths. The hammer, pick and knife are used to finish the task
3C. Broom maker's station
4C. Broom maker's station: now powered by electricity, the spindle is used to join the millet to the handle. The lock is hammered over the top and the broom is ready to be stitched
5C. Broom maker at work. The yellow on the handle is the lock. String loosely binds the millet before stitching
6C. When the stitching machines became semi-automatic, it was possible for women to work as more than just sorters. Previously great physical strength was needed as the quality of the broom was judged on the ties
7C. The millet is guillotined
8C. Modern stitching machine from the Commonwealth Factory when Martin bought it, keeping it after selling all the other equipment to prove he was a broom maker. When he retired Martin sold it to Spiro of P.F. Bradley & Co., Sydney
BROOMS & BRUSHES
1D. Before the modern millet or straw broom, the most common broom was a besom. These besom brooms (handles hickory and twigs native broom) were made by Howard Archford of Barrington Tops
2D. Unstitched millet brooms, Queen Broom Factory, Tumut
3D. Queen, woolshed and kitchen brooms, unstitched, Tumut
4D. Handmade and stitched millet broom from Hungary. Phil O'Halloran bought this broom in a Melbourne clearance shop
5D. Handmade brushes made by the Commonwealth and Federal factories. They are owned by Suzie Cheel who lives across the road from the Commonwealth factory. The corrugated iron is part of the factory

FACTORY, INTERNAL & EXTERNAL
1E-3E. External detail of factory facing Foucart Lane, incl. Albert "Splinter" Giles
4E. Looking into office from factory floor
5E. Corrugated iron wall with timber louvre window looking towards factory floor from the wash & sorting area
6E. View from wash-smoke area to factory floor, the doors and walls originally  the exterior walls until the 1950's when enclosed.
7E. Door of smoking closet
8E. Inspector's map of Foucart Street area, 1870's. The broom factory is the last building in the lower right hand corner, last row, the lane being the boundary between Balmain and Leichhardt. The cottage was built later than the factory. Source: water Board Archives, Black Wattle Bay Maps
9E. Tracer's copy of Inspector's map, early 1880's, with cottage shown
10E. Amended copy map showing factory and cottage, 1885
11E. Martin Hall, Wetherill Street, built with funds donated by Norman Martin and still run by the Methodist Church
12E. Martin Hall, opening plaque, 2 Sept 1959
13E. Machine valve on timber truss
14E. Main factory floor

R 970
MEDALS & BADGE
British Empire Medal and Service Medal of the Order of St. John (1975), awarded to Norman Martin, suspended from a single bar
Canterbury Junior Soccer Club, Club Champions & 50 Years affiliation badge, 1972


ON 287
NEGATIVES
16 colour negatives and 15 colour transparencies

Series 02: Norman Martin - photographs, 1922-1998 and realia, ca. 1971 / collected by Jeanne Gehue

This collection of the later life and career of Colleen Shirley Smith, better known as “MumShirl" [Mum Shirl]. MumShirl was an important figure in Sydney’s Aboriginal community. The images show MumShirl’s family and personal life as well as the variety of social causes, people and organisations MumShirl was associated with in Sydney during the 1980s up to her death in 1998.

As well as official and public events the collection also includes family portraits, and photographs that show the daily domestic reality of MumShirl’s role as a foster mother – whether doing laundry or arranging kid’s birthday parties or caring for grandchildren.

SUB-SERIES 1
Photographs of MumShirl [Mum Shirl], 1979-2000 / photographs by Elaine Pelot Syron

SUB-SERIES 2A
Negatives of MumShirl [Mum Shirl], probably 1980s / photographs by Elaine Pelot Syron

SUB-SERIES 2B
Photographs of MumShirl [Mum Shirl], ca 1981-ca 1989 / photographs by Elaine Pelot Syron

SUB-SERIES 3A
Negatives of MumShirl [Mum Shirl], 1979-approximately 1990 / photographs by Elaine Pelot Syron

SUB-SERIES 3B
Photographs of MumShirl [Mum Shirl], ca 1980-ca 1990 / photographs by Elaine Pelot Syron

SUB-SERIES 4A
Negatives of MumShirl [Mum Shirl], 1981-probably 1990s / photographs by Elaine Pelot Syron

SUB-SERIES 4B
Photographs MumShirl [Mum Shirl], ca 1980-ca 1999 / photographs by Elaine Pelot Syron

SUB-SERIES 5
Slides of MumShirl [Mum Shirl], ca 1980-ca 1999 / photographs by Elaine Pelot Syron

Series  01: Photographs, negatives and slides of MumShirl [Mum Shirl], approximately 1979-2000 / photographs by Elaine Pelot Syron

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File 10: Photographs, clippings and ephemera, chiefly relating to the activities of the Junior Red Cross, and Red Cross community programmes and disaster relief, 1914-2007.

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File 20: Photographs, chiefly relating to the activities of the Forster Red Cross Branch, the Illawarra and Penrith Branches, and community services at Campbelltown, 1959-1997.

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Series 02: Gerard Krefft album of watercolour drawings, ca. 1857-1858, 1861, 1866

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Series 02: Gerard Krefft album of watercolour drawings, ca. 1857-1858, 1861, 1866

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Series 01: Photographs, negatives and slides of MumShirl [Mum Shirl], approximately 1979-2000 / photographs by Elaine Pelot Syron

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