Newsclippings Books, 1923-1965

Description

Unique IDAS-0759DateBetween 1st January 1923 and 1st January 1965Date qualifiercircaFormatNewscuttingDescriptionThis series contains newsclippings dealing with every facet of the Council, including the elected aldermen and the Council administration. Most of the cuttings have been grouped by newspaper and pasted into scrapbooks. Some of the books have been indexed (Item 1 is fully indexed, item 2 has been partially indexed).

Newspapers clipped include: SMH, Sun, Guardian, Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph, Truth, Australian, and (for the books maintained for Jensen) some trades union journals.

Later cuttings books (see boxes 7-19) seem to have been maintained as a special service for Lord Mayor Harry Jensen and are titled 'Lord Mayor's Press Cutting Books' on the spines. These books are no longer maintained to keep cuttings from different newspapers separate, but place all cuttings in one chronological sequence. These books cover events outside the Council's field of interest, such as Labor party issues and events (mainly at NSW level) and events and issues current in Sydney generally in which Jensen had an interest.

Book 41-49 were donated to the Archives by descendants of former Lord Mayor Stanley Crick. Book 41, in particlular, documents Stanley Crick's career before and after his election to Lord Mayor.

The cuttings are glued or sellotaped into place, into guardbooks of approx quarto page size, quarter-bound in green cloth leather. Many are folded. The poor quality of the materials (cuttings, use of sellotape, paper used for the volume pages) means the books are generally in fair to poor condition.
Relationship summaryCREATED BY: Libraries Department AG-0082 (01/01/1960 to 01/01/1963)
CREATED BY: Town Clerks Department AG-0040 (01/01/1929 to 01/01/1965)
CREATED BY: Sydney Municipal Library AG-0081 (23/8/1923 to 01/01/1929)
RELATED TO: Town Clerks News Clippings Books AS-1083 (c. 01/01/1923 to 29/12/1925)
RELATED TO: Records of Henry Frederick (Harry) Jensen AS-0952 (01/01/1956 to 01/01/1962) - Boxes 7-19 donated by Jensens daughter
RELATED TO: Publicity and public relations AY-24 (01/01/1923 to 01/01/1965)
RELATED TO: Support services to the Mayor/Lord Mayor AY-27 (01/01/1956 to 01/01/1965)
RELATED TO: Party or factional political interests AY-78 (01/01/1957 to 01/01/1965)
RELATED TO: Libraries management AY-36 (01/01/1923 to 01/01/1963) LanguageEnglish (eng)

Item

Hampton Court proposal. Doomed to failure. A ridiculous petition. Mistimed "SUN" advertisement. Sir

Bayswater Road. Minute by the Lord Mayor. Inadequate as the Bayswater Road widening may be to cope

Disqualified Ald Shannon. The Easter ALP Conference decided that Labor MsLA should not in future be

Strong attack on buildings by McKell. A social tragedy, he tells Parlt. Building of flats has been

Schools help War Fund. Cash and comforts contributed. The president of the Lord Mayor's Patriotic

Letter. King's Cross. (Sun)

Letter. Lord Mayor's Fund. (Sydney Morning Herald)

Apple and pear pool. New South Wales' attitude. At a meeting of the board of the Fruitgrowers'

Questions on nurses' home cost. Rumors that the Government planned to borrow £500,000 from private

Spuds would lose glamor under neon. Would the reflection from colored neon lighting have a

Stale chops in restaurant. City Council inspectors found stale chops and a sausage

Labor split in City Council. Committee candidates. Two Labour candidates were nominated for

Archibald Fountain no waste of water. The public harbors a mistaken impression that huge volumes of

Aldermen talk of tunnel. "Eddie the mole" is taunt. A clash between Ald Marks and Ald Sir Norman

Appreciations of War Fund. Rear-Admiral and Brigadier write. Appreciation of the action of the Lord

Uniformed men see display. Crowds which saw the photographic exhibition of "Britain's Fighting

Lord Mayor's Fund £81,210. Donations to the Lord Mayor's Patriotic and War fund of New South Wales

Fund meeting may be lively. Lively proceedings are expected at a special executive meeting of the

Important arrival in Sydney last week was the Aotearoa, which lit on Rose Bay nine hours after it

Comforts for soldiers. Central control urged. "The Commonwealth Government, the six State

Help for fund. To raise funds to cover expenses of the Antal Dorati Orchestral Concert, on May 30,

Photo. Commodore G C Muirhead-Gould, Commodore Superintendent of Sydney Naval Establishment,

Commodore opens exhibition. The pictorial exhibition of Britain's fighting services was officially

Series

Information files, 1810 - ongoing

Records of Henry Frederick (Harry) Jensen, 1956-1963

Newsclippings Service, 1992-2002

Access

Public access statusOpen to public accessPublic access noteAccess Notes:
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Identification and Arrangement

Source system ID759System of arrangementChronological by dates of news cuttings

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Newsclippings Books, 1923-1965