Miriam Naughton papers and Naughton family photographs

MLMSS 8723/Boxes 1-3
MLMSS 8723/Box 4X
MLOH 697
VT 2583

fonds

approximately 1880-approximately 1980

Textual Records, Oral Histories, Graphic Materials, Moving Images, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Clippings, Ephemera, Objects, Paintings, Photographs

106973

1.6 metres of textual material (3 boxes)
7 audiocassettes (3 hr., 32 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape
1 videorecording

Miriam Joyce Naughton, artist and alderman, was born in 1925 and grew up Sydney in during the depression. In 1942 she joined the army as a signals operator stationed in North Queensland. At the end of the war she became assistant to the superintendent of Yarraba Mission near Cairns. It was there she was introduced to painting through the work of an old Aboriginal man named Joe. Joe would sit on the beach and do traditional paintings in the sand. He taught her aboriginal designs and inspired her to do her first painting “Visit to Yarraba by the New Bishop” in 1947 and subsequently has had paintings accepted for the Blake, Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. In 1950 she moved to western NSW where she met and married her husband and their first child was born in 1952. Over the next 12 years she had 6 more children and lived between Sydney and New Guinea. Miriam was a Councillor on the Goulburn Council for 13 years, as well as being recommended by Premier Nevil Wran to Governor Sir Roden Culter for appointment to the “Local Government Appeals Tribunal” (now known as the “Land and Environment Court”). Miriam was the first women to be appointed Chairman to a council abattoir and to a council saleyard where she worked to improve the welfare and handling of animals.

Reference:
http://www.myspace.com/miriamnaughton (accessed 17/09/2012)

Miriam Naughton papers and historical Naughton family photographs, ca. 1880-1980. Collection includes photographs, artworks, newscuttings, correspondence, printed items and material relating to local government.

BOX 1
Large folder of newsclippings, printed material including John Naughton Trust accounts, 1972-1980, various issues of magazines and journals, personal papers including letters, cards, photographs of artworks and ephemera.

BOX 2
Personal papers including letters, business papers, greeting cards, photographs of family and artworks and ephemera.

BOX 3
Printed material, personal papers including letters, cards, photographic negatives and prints of family and artworks and ephemera. Historical Naughton family photographs, ca. 1880-1920.

BOX 4X
Original colored portrait of Gerard Hunter Naughton, 1956, large format Naughton family portraits, ca. 1880 - ca.1920, Goulburn City Council certificate of appreciation, 1987

VT 2583
File 1: Mr Naughton 1953 South Hill Goulburn New south Wales

MLOH 697
File 2: Miriam Naughton oral history interviews
Item 1: Miriam Naughton radio interview
Item 2: Miriam Naughton radio 2GN interview 1983
Item 3: Miriam Naughton radio 2GB interview with John Tingle
Item 4: Miriam Naughton single
Item 5: Aldermans talkback radio 2GN
Item 6: Miriam Naughton radio 2BL interview 1987
Item 7: Miriam Naughton artist

Master only. For access to this oral history collection please submit your request through Ask a Librarian - Applies to sound cassettes MLOH 697/1-7

Copyright status:: In copyright
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