General
Bolton, Geoffrey Spoils and Spoilers: A history of Australians shaping their Environment, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1992
Coltheart, Leonore (ed) Significant Sites: History and Public Works in New South Wales, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1989
Docker, John The Nervous Nineties: Australian Cultural Life in the 1890s, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1991
Gibson, Ross The Diminishing Paradise: Changing literary perceptions of Australia, Sirius Books, Sydney, 1984
Grimshaw, Patricia et al (eds) Creating a Nation, 1788-1990, McPhee Gribble, Ringwood, 1994
Irving, Robert (comp) The history and design of the Australian house, Oxford University Press, 1985
Kelly, Max (ed) Nineteenth-Century Sydney: Essays in urban history, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1978
O'Callaghan The Australian Dream: Design of the Fifties, Powerhouse Publishing, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Haymarket, 1993
Roe, Jill (ed) Twentieth-Century Sydney: Studies in urban and social history, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1980
Samuel, Raphael Theatres of Memory, Vol 1: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture, Verso, London, New York, 1994
Schaffer, Kay 'Landscape Represesentation and Australian National Identity,' Australian Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol 4, No 2, May 1987, pp 47-60
Schaffer, Kay Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1988
White, Richard Inventing Australia, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1981
Aboriginal History
The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia. AIATSIS, 1994
Aboriginal Issues in Western Sydney, WESTIR's Western Sydney Newsletter, Vol 11, No 1, March 1991 p. 2-9 ML Q 361.9944105/1
Aboriginal People of the Adelaide Plains Education Technology Centre Education Department, Adelaide, 1981
Amery, Robert Encoding New Concepts in Old Languages: A case study of the Kaurna... Australian Aboriginal Studies 1993 No 1 p 37-47
Capell, Arthur Aboriginal Languages in the South Central Coast Oceania Vol 41 No 1 1970 p 20-27
Cawthornes, W.A. Sketch of the Aborigines of South Australia 1991
Clarke, Philip A. Adelaide Aboriginal Cosmology Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia Vol 28 No 1-2 1990 p 1-10
Clarke, Philip A Adelaide as an Aboriginal Landscape Aboriginal History Vol 15 Nos 1-2 1991 p 54-72 ML Q572.9901/117
Collins, David An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, with remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, etc of the native inhabitants of that country A.H. & A.W. Reed, Sydney 1975
Ellis, Jane E. A Troublesome Savage: The story of Pemulwy Canberra 1980
Flood, Josephine The Moth Hunters Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1980
Flood, Josephine Recent research on traditional Aboriginal society of the Canberra area Canberra Historical Journal ns No 13 March 1984 p 17-25 ML Q990.206/5
Foster, Robert The Aborigines Location in Adelaide: South Australia's first 'mission' to the Aborigines Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia Vol 28 No 1-2 1990 p 11-37
Gara, Tom A Bibliography of the Kaurna Anthropological Society of South Australia Journal Vol 28 No 2 1990 p 143-164
Gara, Tom The Life of Ivaritji (Princess Amelia) of the Adelaide Tribe Anthropological Society of South Australia Journal Vol 28 No 1 p 64-104
Kaurna People, The Education Department of South Australia, Adelaide, 1989
Gillespie, Lyall Canberra's Original Inhabitants Canberra Historical Journal ns No 22 Sept 1988 p 25-35
Gillespie, Lyall Leslie Aborigines of the Canberra Region Published by author, Canberra 1984
Hunter, John An historical journal of events at Sydney and at sea 1787-1792 Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1968
Hunter, John An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island with the discoveries... Libraries Board of Adelaide, Adelaide 1968 [originally John Stockdale, London, 1793]
O'Brien, Lewis The Cultural Significance of the Onkaparinga River Kaurna Higher Education Journal April 1992 No. 2 p 67-70
Kohens, Jim The Darug Aborigines, Timespan No 50 March 1993 pp 4-7 & No 51 June 1993 pp 62-65 ML Q929.20994/14
Kohen, James, The Darug and their Neighbours Darug Link/Blacktown and District Historical Society, Blacktown 1993
Martin, Michael On Darug Land - A Short History of Western Sydney G.W.E.C. Collective
Martin, Michael On Darug Land - An Aboriginal Perspective G.W.E.C. Collective
Meehan, Betty Living off the Land, Ngunnawal Aboriginal people and food in the Canberra region Symposium of Australian Gastronomy Proceedings No 7 1993 p 36-41
Murray, Robert Dharug and dungaree Hargreen, Melbourne 1988
The Pemulwuy dilemma Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, 1990
Rann, Mike South Australian Aboriginal Languages Kaurna Higher education Journal April 1992 No 2 71-73
Ross, Betty Aboriginal and Historic Places around Metropolitan Adelaide and South Coast, Anthropological Society of South Australia, Adelaide, 1984
Testimony to Gawler in Davis, Jack Paperbark: A collection of Black Australian writings Univeristy of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1990
Sadlier, Richard The Aborigines of Australia Government Press, Sydney 1883
Schwab, Jerry Ambiguity, style and kinship in Adelaide Aboriginal identity In: Being Black 1988 ML 305.89915./31
Sites of Significance in the ACT National Capital Development Commission, Canberra, 1988-1990
Smith, Keith King Bungaree:... Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst, 1992
Stanbury, P. 10, 000 years of Sydney life University of Sydney, Sydney 1979
Tench, Watkin Sydney's first four years:... Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1961
Tindale, Norman The wanderings of Tjirbruki: A tale of the Kaurna people of Adelaide Records of the South Australian Museum Vol 20 1987 p 5-13
Troy, Jakelin The Sydney Language Australian Dictionaries Project, AIATSIS, Canberra, 1994
Troy, Jakelin The Sydney language notebooks and responses to language contact in early colonial NSW Australian Journal of Linguistics Vol 12 No 1 June 1992 p 145-170
Turbet, Peter The Aborigines of the Sydney district before 1788 Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst, 1989
Woodroffe, Ronald Pemulwuy - Leader of the Eora tribe and ... Ngoonjook No 9 Novenber 1993 p 23-31
York, Barry The story of Canberra: official history in the Bicentennial year Canberra Historical Journal ns No 23 March 1989 p 2-7 ML Q990.206/5
Resource Kit: On Darug Land - A Social History of Western Sydney,
Book: An Aboriginal Perspective
Video: On Darug Land
Developed as a resource kit of schools by Greater Western Education Centre,
Sydney, NSW. Cost of kit = $110 from GWEC.
Gardens
Bligh, Beatrice Cherish the earth: The story of gardening in Australia, David Ell Press, Sydney, 1973
Mosser, Monique and Georges Teyssot (eds) The History of Garden Design: The western tradition from the renaissance to the present day, Thames and Hudson, London, 1991
Pugh, Simon Garden -- Nature -- Language, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1988
Schaffer, Kay Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1988
Housing and Urban History
Allport, Carolyn 'Castles of Security: The New South Wales Housing Commission and Home Ownership 1941-61,' in Max Kelly (ed) Sydney City of Suburbs, New South Wales University Press, Kensington, 1987, pp 49-58
Bender, Barbara (ed) Landscapes: Politics and Perspectives, Berg, Oxford, 1993
Bender, Thomas Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 1975
Boyer, M Christine Dreaming the Rational City: The myth of American city planning, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990
Burnley, Ian and James Forrest (eds) Living in Cities, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1985
Carter, Paul The Road to Botany Bay: A spatial history, Faber and Faber, London, 1988
Cosgrove, Denis and Stephen Daniels (eds) The Iconogrpahy of Landscape, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989
Cosgrove, Denis Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape, Croom Helm, London, 1986
Fishman, Robert Bourgeois Utopias: The rise and fall of suburbia, Basic Books, New York, 1987
Fitzgerald, Shirley Rising Damp: Sydney 1870-90, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987
Fitzgerald, Shirley Sydney 1842-1992, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1992
Fraser, Derek and Anthony Sutcliffe (eds) The Pursuit of Urban History, Edward Arnold, London, 1983
Ferber, Sarah, Chris Healy and Chris McAuliffe (eds) Beasts of Suburbia: Reinterpreting Cultures in Australian SUburbs, Melbourne University Press, 1994
Frost, Lionel The New Urban Frontier: Urbanisation and City Building in Australasia and the American West, New South Wales University Press, Kensington, 1991
Gottdiener, M amd Alexandros Ph Lagopoulos (eds) The City and the Sign: An introduction to urban semiotics, Columbia University Press, 1986
Hall, Peter Cities of Tomorrow: An intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1988
Hills, E R 'The Imaginary Life: Landscape and culture in Australia,' Journal of Australian Studies, No 29, June, 1991, pp 12-27
Hoskins, Ian 'Constructing time and space in the garden suburb,' in Sarah Ferber, Chris Healy and Chris McAuliffe (eds) Beasts of Suburbia: Reinterpreting Cultures in Australian Suburbs, Melbourne University Press, 1994
Lees, Andrew Cities Perceived: Urban society in European and American thought, 1820-1940, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1985
Pugh, Simon (ed) Reading Landscape: Country -- City -- Capital, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1990
Pugh, Simon Garden -- Nature -- Language, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1988
Spearitt, Peter Sydney Since the Twenties, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1978
Spearitt, Peter 'Sydney's "Slums": Middle Class Reformers and the Labor Response,' Labour History, 26, 1974, pp 65-81
'Suburbs of Sydney. No 40, General Summary' The Echo, 29 Jan 1891 p 2
Upton, Dell 'The city as material culture,' in Anne Elizabeth Yentsch and Mary C Beaudry (eds) The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1992
Williams, Peter (ed) Social process and the city, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1983
Wilson, ELizabeth The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the control of disorder, and women, University of California Press, Berkely, 1992
Photography References
The first section of this reference list contains items specific to Australia; the next contains general and theoretical works on photography and its history and visual analysis.
Australia
Bate, Weston Private Lives -- Public Heritage: Family snapshots as history, Hutchinson, 1986
Cato, Jack The Story of the Camera in Australia, Georgian House, Melbourne, 1955
Carter, Paul 'Invisible journeys: Exploration and photography in Australia 1839-1989' in Paul Foss (ed) Island in the Stream: Myths of place in Australian culture, Pluto
Davies, Alan Sydney Exposures: Through the eyes of Sam Hood and his studio 1925-1950, State Library of NSW, 1991
Fixed in Time: Photographs from another Australia 1900-1939, The Fairfax Library, 1985
Howe, Grahame (ed) Aspects of Australian Photography, Australian Centre for Photography Ltd, Paddington, 1974
Newton, Gael Silver and Grey: Fifty years of Australian Photogrpahy 1900-1950, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1980
Richardson, John (ed) Photogenic Papers [Continuum, Vol 6, No 2, 1993]
Willis, Ann-Marie Picturing Australia: A history of photography, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1988
Photographic Theory and History
Crary, Jonathon Techniques of the observer: On vision and modernity in the nineteenth century, October, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990
Devereaux, Leslie and Roger Hillman (eds) Fields of vision: Essays in film studies, visual anthropology, and photography, University of California Press, 1995
Finn, David How to look at photographs, Harry N Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1994
Goldberg, Vicki (ed) Photography in print, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1981
Hartley, John The politics of pictures: The creation of the public in the age of popular media, Routledge, London & New York, 1992
Kress, Gunther and van Leeuwen, Theo, Reading Images, Deakin University, 1990
Mitchell, William J The reconfigures eye: Visual truth in the post-photographic era, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MAssachusetts, 1992
Newhall, Beaumont The History of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 5th rev edition, 1993 (1st edn 1937)
Petro, Patrice (ed) Fugitive images: From photography to video, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1995
Rabinowitz, Paula They must be represented: The politics of documentary, Verso, London and New York, 1994
Renov, Michael Theorizing Documentary, Routledge, New York and London, 1993
Richardson, John (ed) Photogenic Papers [Continuum, Vol 6, No 2, 1993]
Seabrook, Jeremy 'My life is in that box: family photographs as history,' Ten 8, 1986
Sekula, Allan 'The body and the archive' in Richard Bolton (ed) The contest of meaning: Critical histories of photography, MIT Press, 1989
Sontag, Susan On Photography, Penguin, 1973, 1974, 1977
Stokes, Phillip 'The family photograph album: So great a cloud of witness' in Graham Clark (ed) The portrait in photography, Reaktion, pp 193-207
Tagg, John The Burden of Representation, MacMillan, 1988
Trachtenberg, Alan Reading American Photographs: Images as history -- Mathew Brady to Walker Evans, Hill and Wang, The Noonday Press, New York, 1989
Westerbeck, Colin and Joel Meyerowitz (eds) Bystander: A history of street photography, Thames and Hudson, London, 1994
Police Records NSW [Archives Office of NSW (AONSW)]
Further historical research for all NSW sites could be undertaken using material from the Police Records series in the AONSW. As detailed below, these holdings provide useful information,
Please find below a general guide to categories of information, as well as a selection of references to specific files (including reference numbers).
Police service records are restricted for 30 years from date of termination. Other records are restricted for 100 years, unless stated.
To request access to restricted material, for genuine research, contact:
Judith Russell
Police Department
Secretariat Police Headquarters
Level 3, 14-24 Hunter Street
Darlinghurst NSW 2000
Ph (02) 339 5440
For information relating to other states, see records of archives office for the relevant state. For information relating to Australia-wide public institutions, see the records of the Australian Archives.
Please find below an indication of categories (selected) which may be useful, according to the AONSW's Concise Guide to Police Records; followed by a selection of files of particular interest; and finally material for police stations covering Australia Street sites.
Categories from Concise Guide to Police Records as follows:
A. Commissioner of Police
a. Correspondence
b. Police service records
c. Publications
d. Other
E. Office of Superintendent of Licenses
G. Police stations
SPECIFIC ITEMS OF INTEREST
Commissioner of Police (Inspector General of Police pre-1926)
Correspondence:
* Special bundles, 1846-1963. Full list in Information Leaflet No 32.
* Correspondence files 1934-62 -- RESTRICTED
Police service records:
For detailed lists see pp 24-30 of AONSW's Information Leaflet No 41. A number of general registrations of police exist, showing details like number, rank, educational background, where stationed, age, etc. Generally covers period 1850s to 1910s. NOT RESTRICTED
Publications:
* Reports of crimes etc for police information -- Jan 1856; Jan 1857; Feb, May, 22 July 1858; 1859-1961 (AONSW -- 1/3356-57; microfilm copy AO Reels 3128-3129) 2 vols. NOT RESTRICTED
NB: this is a forerunner to the Police Gazette. a printed publication issued weekly to all police stations with details of crimes, wanted criminals, descriptions of stolen property and other police notices.
* Police Gazette, NSW -- 1862-99 (AONSW 1/3197-234; microfilm AO reels 3129-3143); 1900-77 (City 1/3144-351, 8/2257-59, 8/2316-18; Kingswood 3/6988-90, 3/7775-76, 3/7928-39, 3/8149-50, 3/14790-93, 11/2198, 19/11458-59) 188 vols.
Gazettes for 1862-99 (1/3197-234) NOT RESTRICTED
OTHERWISE, 70 YEAR RESTRICTION
NB: The Police Gazette circulated weekly to all police stations until 1979, when it was circulated twice a month. It contains information on crimes committed, criminals wanted, crimes apprehended, prisoners discharged, persons on good behaviour bonds, missing persons, and police appointments and promotions. It also includes the following supplements:
* Information about vacancies, appointments, promotions, administrative arrangements and acts which the police administer. Fortnightly from 1932 ff.
* Information about known criminals, including physical descriptions, lists of aliases, sentences, terms of release and detailed modus operandi with photographs of each criminal. Fortnightly from 1930 ff.
* Particulars of pickpockets, cardsharps and confidence tricksters operating throughout Australia. Includes photos. Fortnightly 1935-39.
* Lists of deserters from Royal Australian Navy. Fortnightly 1945-60.
* Police Gazettes of other states, NZ and PNG, 1870-1976. (City 8/1387A-1393B, 8/2249-56; Kingswood 19/7591, 19/11460-62, 11/2181-97, 19/19235-46) 15 boxes, 8 bundles, 22 vols 8/1389B-1391A.1, 8/2249-52 NOT RESTRICTED
NB: Includes various volumes of the following: Qld 1906, 1917, 1956-59, 1962-65; SA 1916; Vic 1870-1937, 1956-59, 1963; NT 1973-74, 1976
* History and consitutions of the Police Force of NSW, nd. (Kingswood 11/2671). 1 vol
* Other records (various, but includes:)
* Register of enquiries made by the detective police, 1859-83 (4/5719; microfilm copy AO Reel 3041). 1 vol. NOT RESTRICTED.
* Register of unclaimed bodies, 1868-84 (City 4/5716). 1 vol. NOT RESTRICTED
* Map of NSW showing Police Administrative Districts, 1933
Shows administrative areas; administrative districts; sub-districts; superintendents' headquarters; sub-district inspectors' stations; police stations and patrol distrcits. (City AO Map No 510). NOT RESTRICTED.
* Police stations
Records exist for all NSW police stations. Records typically include the following:
Charge books
Circulars (from Commissioner etc)
Diary of duty and occurrences (often including details of crimes)
Extraneous duty book (including, for example, licensing -- publicans, tobacco, billiard, theatrical etc)
Register of inspections under the Liquor Act (including details of building, measurements, descriptions etc)
Reports of crimes committed
Summons book
Warrant book
Record of occurrences
Specific holdings for 'Australia Street' related police stations:
Annandale
* Charge books, 14 July 1966- 1 October 1975 (Kingswood 11/1387-1401), 1 October-13 Jan 1981 (Kingswood 10/1106-12). 22 vols. RESTRICTED
NB: entries in volume 11/1387-1389, July 1966-c July 1967, are listed as charges taken at Camperdown Police Station, as apparently Camperdown was closed and records transferred to Annandale.
* Index to charge books, 1969-81 (Kingswood 11/14158). 1 vol. RESTRICTED
* Record of occurrences, 2 Jan 1972-31 December 1976. (Kingswood 12/4266-4276.1), 1977-80 (Kingswood 12/10797). 2 boxes. 4 bundles. RESTRICTED
Camperdown (see also Annandale)
* Charge books, 17 October 1963-17 September 1964 (Kingswood 19/20535). 1 vol. RESTRICTED
Goulburn
* Letterbook, 21 May -6 August 1865 (Kingswood 7/6172). 1 volume. NOT RESTRICTED
* Circulars received and set, 1864-1905 (City 1/2827-28, 1/3180), September 1907-March 1910 (City 1/2829), June 1914-October 1916 (City 1/2830). 5 vols. 1/2827 and 1/3180 NOT RESTRICTED; 1/2828-30 RESTRICTED
* Charge books, 19 January 1977-9 June 1980 (kingswood 39/2235-53). 19 vols. RESTRICTED
Newtown
* Charge books 22 December 1964-10 May 1971 (Kingswood 19/20421-67), 26 July 1971-25 Jan 1977 (Kingswood 19/20468-506). 86 volumes. RESTRICTED
* Indexes to charge books, 1965-71 (Kingswood19/20572-73). 2 vols. RESTRICTED
* Record of occurrences, 20 DEcember 1968-31 December 1977 (Kingswood 12/4272-4275.1). 4 boxes. RESTRICTED
St Marys
* Correspondence registers, 24 July 1953-2 May 1959 (Kingswood 3/16244-45). 2 vols. RESTRICTED
* Charge books, 27 August 1955- 19 July 1975 (Kingswood 3/16201-41), 22 July 1975 - 5 June 1979 (Kingswood 19/18573-85). 54 vols. RESTRICTED
* Record of occurrences, 1970-72 (Kingswood 3/16331-35), 1 Jan 1973- 1 Feb 1975 (Kingswood 12/3936.1-.3). 5 vols, 3 bundles. RESTRICTED
Sydney (NB: this represents only a selection from available material)
* Criminal Investigations Branch (CIB): Weekly duty rosters, 19 June 1958-27 December 1960 (Kingswood 7/6148). 1 vol. RESTRICTED
* No 21 Special Squad (Formed during Police Commissioner McKay's term (1950s?) for troubleshooting in areas throughout NSW. Terminated 17 October 1981. Case book of arrests etc all restricted.
Women and Place
Ardener, Shirley (ed) Women and Space: Ground rules and social maps, Croom Helm, London, 1981
Hosking, Susan '"I 'ave to 'ave me Garden": A perspective on Australian women Gardeners,' Meanjin, Vol 47, No 3, Spring, 1988, pp 439-454
Lake, Marilyn 'The politics of Respectability: Identifying the masculinist context,' Historical Studies, Vol 22, No 86, April 1988, pp 116-131
Magarey, Susan et al (eds) Debutante Nation: Feminism contests the 1890s, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1993
Reiger, Kerren The Disenchantment of the Home: Modernizing the Australian family, 1880-1940, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985
Schaffer, Kay Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1988
Wilson, Elizabeth The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the control of disorder, and women, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992
