Veta Wareham papers, ca. 1880 - ca. 1992

MLMSS 8675/Boxes 1-2
MLMSS 8675/Box 3X

fonds

ca. 1880 - ca. 1992

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Drawings, Paintings, Photographs

421723

0.86 metres of textual material (2 boxes, 1 outsize box)

Veta Wareham was a violinist with Sydney Symphony Orchestra ca. 1924 - ca. 1954.

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Includes Veta Wareham's diaries from the 1950s to the 1990s which provide a detailed record of her daily life. Also included are a 19th century family photograph album, an illustrated autograph book which contains a watercolour of Cape Byron in 1912, newscuttings concerning Sir Eugene Goossens, concert programs and 'A voyage homeward from Australia' being an account of the voyage of RMS Australia from Sydney to London in 1893 profusely illustrated with photo-mechanically reproduced pencil drawings.

BOX 1
Leather bound photograph album containing family portraits, ca. 1880 – ca. 1900, Album signed ‘Clarice Wareham, Byron Bay’, ca. 1909, containing poems and sketches, ‘Goosens file’, ca. 1950, containing newspaper cuttings, three black and white portrait photographs of Veta Wareham, ca. 1919 – ca. 1954, various printed performance programs, newspaper cuttings, and magazines, related to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, ca. 1919 – ca. 1954

BOX 2
30 pocket sized personal diaries of Veta Wareham, dated between 1958 and 1992.

BOX 3X
‎A print copy of ’‬A voyage homeward from Australia, ‬"A souvenir of the maiden homeward voyage of the R.M.S. Australia. Captain I. Reeves" published London, J. A. Cundall, ca. 1893

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

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