A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Aboriginal People

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Where to look at the records
• How to gain access to Aborigines Welfare Board, Aboriginal Lands Trust and Department of Community Services, Aboriginal Services Branch records

• Part 1: Archives of the Aborigines Welfare Board 1883-1969
• Minute books, 1890-1901, 1905-06, 1911-69
• Indexes to Minute books, 1946-69
• Local Committee, New Angledool. Minutes of meetings, 1911-18
• Correspondence files, 1949-69
• Card index to Aborigines Welfare Board correspondence, 1950-69
• Circular book, 1952-56, 1957
• Applications for certificates of exemption, circa1948-59
• Certificates of exemption, 1949-54
• Certificate of exemption, no date
• Record cards of Aboriginal children, 1953-66
• Ward registers, 1916-28
• Indexes to Ward registers, 1916-circa 1938
• Histories of girls and boys unattached and for whom forms have not been prepared, circa 1930-38
• Aboriginal Boys' Training Home, Kinchela. Case papers, 1944-67
• Returns of Aboriginal people, 1886-87
• Station reports and returns, 1942-48
• Special bundles, 1920-57
• Copies of letters sent, 1914-27
• Registers of letters received, 1910-13
• File movement registers, 1948, 1953-58, 1968
• Printed copies of Acts and Regulations relating to the protection of Aborigines, 1915-18
• Common Seal of the Aborigines Welfare Board, no date
• Tabulated expenditure at Aboriginal stations, 1887-90
• Ledger, 1891-97
• Ledgers (Trust Account), circa 1897-1922
• Registers of expenditure of the Board, 1898-1905, 1922-24
• Cash books, 1911-14, 1920-23, 1925-34
• Records of expenditure, 1912-22
• Salary register, 1917-23
• Salary registers (Trust Accounts), 1922-34
• Appropriation ledger, 1929-33
• Receipt books (Walgett), 1967-69
• Receipts, circa 1967
• Register of Aboriginal reserves, 1875-1904
• Particulars of Aboriginal stations and reserves, 1962-63
• Tenancy agreements, 1953-67
• Photographs, circa 1924-61
• Part 2: State Archives from other Government Agencies relating to Aboriginal People
• Introduction
• ABORIGINAL LANDS TRUST
• ABORIGINES PROTECTORATE, PORT PHILLIP
• AUDITOR GENERAL
• CHIEF SECRETARY See COLONIAL SECRETARY
• CLERGY AND SCHOOL LANDS CORPORATION
• CLERK OF THE PEACE
• COLONIAL SECRETARY
• COLONIAL SECRETARY (cont.)
• COMMISSIONERS OF CROWN LANDS
• COMMUNITY SERVICES
• CORRECTIVE SERVICES
• COURTS OF PETTY SESSIONS
• CROWN SOLICITOR'S OFFICE
• DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS See CLERK OF THE PEACE
• EDUCATION formerly PUBLIC INSTRUCTION See SCHOOL EDUCATION
• EDUCATION AND TRAINING See SCHOOL EDUCATION
• FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES formerly YOUTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES See COMMUNITY SERVICES
• GOVERNOR
• HEALTH
• HOUSING
• LANDS
• LOCAL COURTS See COURTS OF PETTY SESSIONS
• MINERAL RESOURCES
• POLICE
• PREMIER'S DEPARTMENT
• PRISONS See CORRECTIVE SERVICES
• PUBLIC INSTRUCTION See SCHOOL EDUCATION
• PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD
• SCHOOL EDUCATION
• SERVICES See COLONIAL SECRETARY
• SOLICITOR FOR PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS See CLERK OF THE PEACE
• SUPREME COURT
• SURVEYOR GENERAL
• YOUTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES See COMMUNITY SERVICES
• Appendices
• Appendix 1 - An Administrative History of Contact between the Government of New South Wales and Aboriginal people
• Appendix 2 - Chronology of Significant Events
• Appendix 3 - Bibliography
• Appendix 4 - Some useful addresses