Arts and cultural organisations

Archive Collections / Robert Edwards / Arts and cultural organisations
Collection: Robert Edwards
Quantity:    87  
Series Identifier: AA 83/11

This series contains the following sub-series:

  1. Report of the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery, 1938-1940

  2. Historical Society of SA

  3. National Trust, including Millicent Museum and Charles Sturt Memorial Museum

  4. Yuendumu Museum Society

  5. Oenpelli Cultural Centre

  6. National Gallery of Australia

  7. National Air and Space Museum

  8. Black Arts Festival in Nigeria

  9. Chinese photographic exhibition at the Museum of Victoria

  10. Aboriginal Arts Board

  11. New Zealand Arts

  12. Newspaper clippings relating to other museums

  13. Australian Museum article

  14. The Pioneers Association of South Australia

  15. Western Australian Museum

  16. Albert Barunga

  17. Perth Cultural Centre

  18. Gallery of South Australia

  19. National Museum of Australia

  20. Art Gallery of New South Wales

  21. National Gallery of Victoria

  22. Stockman’s Hall of Fame

  23. Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies (AIAS / AIATSIS)

  24. Strehlow Research Foundation

  25. Museum of Victoria administration documents

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Included Items
AA83/11/1/1 - Report of the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery, 1938-1940
AA83/11/2/1 - Historical Society of South Australia - Newsletters of the Historical Society of South Australia, 1986 and 2010-2012
AA83/11/3/1 - National Trust - 5 negative envelopes entitled ‘Burra’
AA83/11/3/2 - National Trust - 1 envelope of negatives entitled ‘Burra Mines’, 1971
AA83/11/3/3 - National Trust - 1 envelope of negatives entitled ‘Overland Corner; Burra Mines’, 1971
AA83/11/3/4 - National Trust - 1 envelope of negatives entitled ‘Dingley Dell S.E.’
AA83/11/3/5 - National Trust - 34 slides ‘National Trust excursion to Overland Corner and beyond’
AA83/11/3/6 - National Trust - 20 slides of ‘Flinders and Light monument’
AA83/11/3/7 - National Trust - 27 slides of ‘Ballarat Historical Park, restoration of Robe Customs house; Mt Gambier 1971’
AA83/11/3/8 - National Trust - 12 slides of ‘Easter Well, Burra, Nov 1968’
AA83/11/3/9 - National Trust - 17 slides of ‘Point McLeay, centenary of church’
AA83/11/3/10 - National Trust - 31 slides of ‘Collecting the rocks for the monument’, July 1972’
AA83/11/3/11 - National Trust photographs - 44 small black and white photographs of Burra and copper mines.
AA83/11/3/12 - National Trust photographs - 64 large black and white photographs of Burra and copper mines, including some historical photographs of the operation of Burra mines
AA83/11/3/13 - National Trust photographs - 9 small black and white photographs of machinery
AA83/11/3/14 - National Trust photographs - 1 small black and white photograph of an unidentified building
AA83/11/3/15 - National Trust photographs - 1 large black and white photograph, ‘The dugouts in the banks of Burra Creek housed 2,600 people during the height of Burra’s copper bonanza. The National Trust has restored two surviving examples’
AA83/11/3/16 - National Trust photographs - 6 large black and white photographs, ‘Bulldozers threaten the 1855 Waterhouse shaft buildings’
AA83/11/3/17 - National Trust photographs - 5 large black and white photographs, ‘SAMIN an offspring of the giant Poseidon has built a modern works to treat millions of tons of oxidised copper material’
AA83/11/3/18 - National Trust photographs - 1 large and 1 small black and white photograph, ‘Burra nestles between rounded hills stripped of timber to feed hungry smelter furnaces’
AA83/11/3/19 - National Trust photographs - 2 large black and white photographs, ‘The old open cut mine is being re-worked to extract bulk quantities of low grade copper ore for treatment at the nearby works’.
AA83/11/3/20 - National Trust documents - Correspondence relating to the National Trust.
AA83/11/3/21 - National Trust documents - Minutes of National Trust meetings (1971-1972)
AA83/11/3/22 - National Trust documents - National Trust of South Australia newsletters (1972-1980)
AA83/11/3/23 - National Trust documents - Notes
AA83/11/3/24 - National Trust Millicent and Archie McArthur - Photocopy of a newspaper article from The Sunday Mail entitled ‘Aboriginal queen to be honoured’ [Queen Ethel of Kingston], 6 November 1971
AA83/11/3/25 - National Trust Millicent and Archie McArthur - Photocopies of newspaper articles relating to Millicent
AA83/11/3/26 - National Trust Millicent and Archie McArthur - Correspondence with and ephemera relating to Archie McArthur, entomologist.
AA83/11/3/27 - National Trust Millicent and Archie McArthur - Correspondence to and from Edwards relating to the Millicent Branch of the National Trust and the setting up of a local museum
AA83/11/3/28 - National Trust Millicent and Archie McArthur - 6 colour photographs of the Millicent museum
AA83/11/3/29 - National Trust Millicent and Archie McArthur - A letter to Mr K W Halliday from Edwards relating to ‘Canis familiaris’, 15 February 1968
AA83/11/3/30 - National Trust Millicent and Archie McArthur - A letter of introduction for Mr Tom McCourt to Major R B Copley from Edwards, 13 April 1969
AA83/11/3/31 - National Trust Millicent and Archie McArthur - A letter to the Editor of 'The Border Watch' from Edwards relating to Aboriginal camp-sites, 4 February 1970
AA83/11/3/32 - National Trust Charles Sturt Memorial Museum - Newsletters, correspondence, AGM minutes and educational booklets associated with the Charles Sturt Museum, 1966-2012.
AA83/11/3/33 - National Trust - Selection of newspaper cuttings relating to the National Trust, 1971
AA83/11/4/1 - Yuendumu Museum Society - 1 black and white photograph ‘Yuendumu Museum Society, Darby Jambidjinba Ross, Curator, carving a coolamon
AA83/11/5/1 - Oenpelli cultural centre - Correspondence between Edwards and Peter Carroll relating to the Oenpelli cultural centre
AA83/11/6/1 - National Gallery of Australia - Articles relating to the appointment of Dr Brian Kennedy as the Director of the National Gallery of Australia, 1997
AA83/11/6/2 - An article about Betty Churcher, a former Director of the National Gallery of Australia
AA83/11/7/1 - A letter to Minister Barry Cohen from Race Matthews relating to the National Air and Space Museum, 2 July 1986
AA83/11/7/2 - A proposal to establish a National Air and Space Museum
AA83/11/8/1 - Articles on Aborigines attending the Black Arts festival in Nigeria
AA83/11/8/2 - 1 black and white photograph of participants in the Black Arts festival in Nigeria
AA83/11/9/1 - Chinese photographic exhibition (Sino Studios International) - Correspondence between Edwards and Patrick Lui relating to the display of Chinese photography at the Museum of Victoria, 1986
AA83/11/9/2 - Chinese photographic exhibition (Sino Studios International) - A photograph of Edwards and company
AA83/11/10/1 - Museum of Victoria administration documents
AA83/11/10/2 - Aboriginal Arts Board - Article relating to Dr Herbert Coombs
AA83/11/10/3 - Correspondence to Coombs from Edwards relating to the Aboriginal Arts Board, 7 June 1974
AA83/11/10/4 - Article about the Aboriginal Arts Board
AA83/11/10/5 - Extract from minutes of Aboriginal Arts Board, 26 May 1973
AA83/11/11/1 - An article relating to the South Pacific Festival of Arts held in New Zealand in 1976
AA83/11/11/2 - New Zealand Arts - An article relating to Keskidee, a black cultural centre from the UK touring to New Zealand in 1978
AA83/11/12/1 - Newspaper clippings relating to news of various other museums and galleries, 2011-2014
AA83/11/13/1 - An article relating to an exhibition of Central Australian art at the Australian Museum, 31 October 1981
AA83/11/14/1 - Newsletters, correspondence and minutes of the Pioneers Association of South Australia, 1979-1998
AA83/11/15/1 - Photographs, pamphlets, newspaper cuttings and correspondence relating to the Western Australian museum, 1969-1973 People mentioned: Warwick Dix, Sara Meagher, David Ride
AA83/11/15/2 - Report to the Western Australian Museum on options for the development of the Western Australian Maritime Museum at Fremantle
AA83/11/15/3 - Western Australian Museum - Report on the proposed biosphere reserve, Prince Regent River nature reserve
AA83/11/15/4 - Western Australian Museum - Program for the national seminar on the conservation of cultural material, Perth 6-10 August 1973
AA83/11/15/5 - Western Australian Museum - ‘Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies national site recording program, instructions for the preparation on a site report’
AA83/11/16/1 - A black and white photograph of Albert Barunga
AA83/11/16/2 - Newspaper clippings relating to Albert Barunga
AA83/11/16/3 - Albert Barunga - A copy of a foreword by Edwards relating to Aboriginal culture
AA83/11/17/1 - Correspondence relating to the Western Australian Museum and the Perth Cultural Centre, 2010
AA83/11/17/2 - ‘Western Australian Museum interim redevelopment strategy, Perth cultural centre’ by Robert Edwards, March 1994
AA83/11/17/3 - ‘Western Australian Museum, a new museum at the Perth cultural centre, our place, our stories, our future - Business case reference group briefing material’, 2010
AA83/11/17/4 - Perth Cultural Centre - Correspondence relating to the ‘45th ANZAAS congress, Perth 1973’
AA83/11/17/5 - Perth Cultural Centre - ‘University News’ (Western Australia), 1977
AA83/11/17/6 - Perth Cultural Centre - ‘University of Western Australia: The anthropology museum’ information pamphlet
AA83/11/18/1 - Newspaper cuttings and correspondence relating to the Art Gallery of South Australia
AA83/11/19/1 - National Museum of Australia - ‘A Museum for the new millennium’
AA83/11/19/2 - National Museum of Australia - The plan for the development of the Museum of Australia - ‘Report of the interim council’.
AA83/11/19/3 - Correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the National Museum of Australia
AA83/11/19/4 - Transcript of a speech given at the Great Conversation Dinner at Manning Clark House ‘The National Museum of Australia - Have we got what we deserve?’, 2008
AA83/11/19/5 - National Museum of Australia - A ‘Report by interim council on the philosophy of a national collection and the development of the National Museum’
AA83/11/19/6 - National Museum of Australia - ‘Report of the committee of inquiry on museums and national collections including the report of the planning committee on the gallery of Aboriginal Australia’
AA83/11/20/1 - Newspaper clippings relating to the theft of a painting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007
AA83/11/21/1 - Correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the National Gallery of Victoria, 1995-1998
AA83/11/21/2 - Policy documents from the National Gallery of Victoria
AA83/11/22/1 - Newspaper clippings relating to Edwards’ involvement in Stockman’s Hall of Fame, 2006
AA83/11/23/1 - Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) - Correspondence with J L Cavanaugh relating to Edwards’ resignation, 1975
AA83/11/23/2 - A form for the Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies ‘deposit of material’
AA83/11/23/3 - Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) - Newspaper clippings relating to arts funding, 1976
AA83/11/23/4 - Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) - Correspondence with Jack Golson relating to a seminar on ‘Aboriginal antiquities in Australia’, 1971
AA83/11/23/5 - A paper given by Edwards for the Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies
AA83/11/24/1 - Papers relating to the Strehlow Research Foundation