Stuart Braga papers, 1870-1981

MLMSS 8632/Boxes 1-9
MLMSS 8632/Box 10X
VT 2531-VT 2541

fonds

1870-1981

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Cartographic Materials, Moving Images, Objects, Clippings, Ephemera, Photographs, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Drawings

140589

2.29 metres of textual material (9 boxes and 1 outsize box)
11 film reels - 16 mm

Stuart Braga is a teacher, writer, and historian. His publications include ANZAC doctor: the life of Sir Neville Howse, Australia's first VC (2000), A century preaching Christ: Katoomba Christian Convention, 1903-2003 (2003), Kokoda commander: a life of Major-General "Tubby" Allen (2004), and John Paton, VC: hero of Lucknow (2007).

He has also written a history of St. James' Turramurra (1975), and of St. Thomas' Church (1997).

Reference:
Compiled from the collection
Papers of Stuart Braga, 1998-2004 in the National Library of Australia http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35783058?versionId=45116252 (accessed 3 August 2012)

BOX 1
Southern Cross: the Magazine of the Diocese of Sydney: Volume 1, Number 1, June 1961-Volume 8, Number 12, December 1968

BOX 2
Southern Cross: the Magazine of the Diocese of Sydney: Volume 9, Number 1, 1969-January 1978 (incomplete)

BOX 3
Southern Cross: the Magazine of the Diocese of Sydney: April 1978-November 1982 (incomplete); loose editions from other years

History: the Journal of the Historical Association [London]: Volume 55, Number 183, February 1970-Volume 58, Number 194, October 1973 (incomplete)

Brochures of historical societies and associations; handbooks and orientation guides from the University of Sydney; 'Hermes' Sydney University magazine; 'Arna' magazine, 1958-1972

BOX 4
Folder 1-2
Papers, correspondence, clippings, maps, photograph, etc. relating to parish history, genealogy and churches in Wilberforce and Pitt Town, ca. 1897-1960

Folder 3
Papers, correspondence, clippings, newsletters, marketing material, etc. relating to churches and parishes in the Southern Highlands including Bowral, Moss Vale, Kangaroo Valley, Berrima, Mittagong, etc., ca. 1923-1968

Folder 4-5
Papers, correspondence, clippings, newsletters, marketing material, annual reports, etc. relating to churches and parishes in Australia and overseas, 1914-1966

BOX 5
Black and white photographs of churches and the Reverend Stanley Howard at Bowral, ca. 1870

Minute book: Bowral branch British Foreign Bible Society, 1881-1893

Marriage register - Church of England, Kangaroo Valley, 1919-1937

The Parish of Pitt Town with Wilberforce and Sackville Reach, Register of Service, 1913-1933

Folder 1
Black and white photographs of churches and the Reverend Stanley Howard at Bowral, and sermons preached by Rev. Howard, 1870-1879

Folder 2
Exercise book; Exercise book - St. Jude's Day School, Scripture Class; letter to Reverend G. Howard; Class register - St. Alban's Lindfield Sunday School; carbon letter books; 1901-1940

Folder 3
Roll book of the Church of England Sunday School at Pitt Town, 1882-1886; and black and white photograph of Mrs Augusta Hughes and her mission near Pitt Town, 1940

BOX 6
History, published for the Historical Association [London], 1962-1969; and other historical bulletins and annual reports, 1960-1972

BOX 7
Folder 1
Scrapbook mainly containing loose newspaper clippings concerning religious and political matters, and points of interest, ca. 1922-1930

Folder 2
Papers including invitations, mainly programs for special religious services, 1924-1958

Folder 3-4
Papers, being mainly church publications including newsletters, newspapers, programs, 1915-1981

Folder 5-6
Papers and and press clippings concerning churches, religion, and religious associations, 1924-1958

BOX 8
History: Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 66 Number 218, October 1981

Folder 1-2
Correspondence, maps, and papers mainly concerning the land and death of Caroline Phillips (d. 1929), 1886-1937

Folder 3
Papers, correspondence, and photographs, including draft copies of 'Lamps down the ages', newsletters of the Sudan Interior Mission, and church local histories, 1894-1972

Folder 4
Papers and correspondence including Sunday School attendance, religious and church publications, and parish histories, 1906-1973

BOX 9
Book of Common Prayer with annotations, added pages, etc. lately belonging to the Reverend S. Howard, 1914-1962

Diocese of Sydney year book, 1953

2 small red, bound books of Common Prayer, one inscribed 1922

5 rolls of religious filmstrips

Blue and cream ribbons in envelope addressed to Rev. Stanley Howard, Church House, London S.W.1

Folder 1
Leaflets for religious filmstrips

BOX 10X
Large exercise book: New Hebrides Teachers, Opa, 1904-1909
Lists names of teachers, their attendance, deaths, and pay details; also includes food and supply allowances, school requisites; entries from 1907-1909 by Stanley Howard (Priest-in-Charge)

Watercolour painting of a church on a hill; 'Sackville' in pencil on verso

'Plan of memorial church for Cattai to be dedicated to St Luke. Plans paid for by Miss Phillips':
Sketch - Anglican Church, Cattai / Burcham Clamp and Mackellar, Architects 122 Pitt St Sydney, June 1921; Sketch plan [showing sections and elevations] of Anglican Church, Cattai / Burcham Clamp and Mackellar, Architects 122 Pitt St Sydney, June 1921

Sketch plan of 'The Church of the Bow in the Cloud', flood refuge reserve, Rainbow Hill, N.S.W., 2 September 1925

Illuminated appeal to the Lord Archbishop of Sydney seeking approval for 'either of two alternative sites' for the erection of a church at Rainbow Hill, Freeman's Reach; signed by Stanley Howard (Rector) and other church representatives; includes painting of church and rainbow, signed E. M. Rutter, 2 September 1925

MOTION PICTURES
Building additions, Canterbury Chapel, St James Church, Turramurra, 1963 (VT 2538)
Building additions, Canterbury Chapel, St James Church, Turramurra, before September 1962 (VT 2537)
Christening, Ray Moroney, Graham Hulme-Moir (VT 2531)
Good Friday and other processions (VT 2539)
Mr Cameron's last service at St James church, Turramurra (VT 2536)
Procession (VT 2540)
St James church, Turramurra, consecration (VT 2535)
St James church, Turramurra, diamond jubilee (VT 2534)
St John's, Gordon, St Swithun's, Pymble (VT 2541)
Sunday school picnics, St James Sunday School (VT 2532)
Turramurra (VT 2533)

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