Frederick Hancock papers and pictorial material, 1899-1962

MLMSS 772

Collection

1899-1962

422160

Microfilm : CPA Conference minutes, 1920-1928, & correspondence, 1916-1922, 1931); CY 203, frames 217-314 (MLMSS 772/8: CPA Minute Book, 1920-1921); CY 2201, frames 1-397 (MLMSS 772/11-12: Workers' International Industrial Union - Correspondence 1894, 1907-1922 & membership applications, 1916-1919).
Partly Digitised : SPG / 75 ; P1 / 605

16 volumes, 10 boxes and 3 folders of textual material

Frederick Hancock was associated with a number of trade unions and labour organizations in N.S.W. He held official positions in, inter alia, the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia, the Tom Batho Memorial Fund and the Bertha MacNamara Memorial Fund

PAPERS
Series 01: Personal papers - letters received by Hancock and others, 1913-1962. Include letters from E. McDonnell, Ted Turner and one from Dame Mary Gilmore to Rod. Quinn; diary, 1937, and notebooks; union tickets; receipts; photographs; miscellaneous.

Series 02: Papers collected by Hancock. Political material - Communist Party of Australia, 1916-1931; Workers' International Industrial Union, 1907-1922; Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia, 1918-1942; I.W.W., 1908-1920; miscellaneous unions; printed material, cuttings, shop steward's cash book, Mort's Dock, 1899-?, W. Underwood. Bertha McNamara Memorial Fund, 1931-1932. Henry Lawson Literary Society, 1928-1960. Tom Batho Memorial Fund, 1919.

Series 03: Miscellaneous. Includes diaries, 1933-1935 (not Hancock's writing); autograph book of Evelyn Sherman (Mrs. Hancock?); income tax instalment stamp books; union cards etc. of various people

PICTORIAL MATERIAL
Series 04
Item 01: Strikers, Broken Hill, 1909 / photographer unknown
Call Number: SPF / 3455

Item 02: Meeting of strikers at Scunthorpe, April 18th 1909 / photographer unknown
Call Number: SPF / 3454

Item 03: During lockout, at Broken Hill, 1909 / photographer unknown
Call Number: SPF / 3459

Item 04: "1909, In memory of Peter Tillbrook, Scab" [grave] / photographer unknown
Call Number: SPF / 3458

Item 05: "Cursed to the memory of J. Hodge, 1909 scab" [grave] / photographer unknown
Call Number: SPF / 3457

Item 06: Lock out, Broken Hill, 1909 / photographer unknown
Call Number: SPF / 3456

Item 07: Souvenir of Shakespearean Season : Allan Wilkie and Miss Hunter-Watts, ca. 1930
Call Number: MPG / 95

Item 08: Ironworkers involved in construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, ca. 1932 / photographer unknown
Call Number: SPG / 75

Item 09: First fleet in Sydney Harbour, 1938 / John Allcot
Call Number: SV* / Ship / 1st Fl / 1

Item 10: Bobby Fuller, boxer - portrait, between 1939-1946 / photo by Phil Ward, 296 Pitt St, Sydney
Call Number: P1 / 605

Item 11: Portrait of Henry Lawson / Lionel Lindsay
Call Number: P2 / 149

NOTE:
Some images from this collection are now held in the collection:
Criddle family papers and pictorial material, ca. 1870-1927
Box 2
38-41. The Hawkesbury River, Railway Bridge, N.S.W. (4 postcards – also includes Pic.Acc.15, Pic.Acc.219, and Pic.Acc.539)
(Hawkesbury Bridge)

Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (8-243B) as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012

Available for reference
Guide prepared in Mitchell Library (7ff)