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Deputation to Mayor from Australian Historical Society, Cemetery and old buildings, 1901

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Unique IDA-00157588SeriesTown Clerk's Correspondence Folders, 1899-1913DateBetween 29th January 1901 and 11th February 1901Date qualifierexactFormatRegistered File - PhysicalDescriptionOn Friday 1 February 1901, a deputation from the newly-formed Australian Historical Society lobbied the mayor, Sir James Graham, on various issues, asking for plans to be ‘kept showing the development of the city at decade intervals’, as well as a space within the town hall where the society could hold its meetings and store its records. The society also requested for the council to take photographs of the tombstones at the soon to be demolished Devonshire Street cemetery, and photographs ‘of all condemned buildings, or old land marks (sic) about to be removed’. On the last point, the council advised that ‘photographs are now kept, dating back nine months, of all buildings condemned, or others, about to be removed, of historical interest’. This is regarded as the earliest surviving correspondence of the Australian Historical Society, and suggests that the council had been commissioning professional photographs of condemned buildings from June 1900. LanguageEnglish (eng)Digitised recordYesBorn digital itemNo

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CollectionCemeteries and funeralsDevonshire Street CemeteryHistory of records and the City Archives

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