Marie Armstrong further papers, 1900-2003

MLMSS 9125

fonds

1900-2003

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Clippings

441845

1.2 metres of textual records & graphic material (9 boxes)

Marie Olive Armstrong (nee Stonehouse) was born in Sydney in 1928. At the age of 19 she joined the New Theatre in Newtown. For over 60 years she worked there as an actor, director, stage manager, choreographer and drama and dance tutor. She married actor John Victor Armstrong in 1951. For many years she was a member of the Communist party until her resignation in 1985. She was awarded the Queens Jubilee Medal and Order of Australia for her voluntary work at the New Theatre.

I. Diaries
BOX 1
Diaries. 1979 (Drama Study Tour to USA, UK & USSR), 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001.

II. General Correspondence
BOXES 2, 3 & 4
Correspondence, 1943-2003. Mainly letters and cards received from, among others, Margaret Barr, Charmian Clift, John Dengate, Barry Dickens, Shirley Fitzgerald, Joan Littlewood, Roger Milliss, Oriel Gray, Alan Seymour and Les Tanner. Arranged alphabetically with a detailed list in Box 2.

III. Family Correspondence
BOX 5 (part)
Letters & cards to and from the Nicholls family, 1944, 1977-2002.
Letters to and from Beatrice (Babs) Nicholls/Tancred/Stonehouse (her mother) & other family members, 1947-2002.,
Cards & Eulogy for Fred Tancred (Beatrice’s first born), died 19/8/2001.

IV.
Personal Documents
BOX 5 (part)
Miscellaneous political documents including correspondence, Communist Party membership cards and letter of resignation, 1966-97.
Papers concerning ANTaR (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation) and National Sorry Day, 1998.
Miscellaneous papers, 1928-1985 including birth certificate, passports, 1979, 1984; wedding invitation, 1951.
1979 Drama Study Tour of the USA, UK and USSR & Tax Appeal, 1979-84.
1979 Drama Study Tour Correspondence, 1979-80. Correspondents include John Armstrong, Barbara Finch, Miriam Hampson, Vicki Jones-Evans, Melissa Mitchell & Joyce Palmer.

BOX 6
1982 Tutoring Drama University of New England.
Profession – Acting – Miscellaneous, 1973-93.
Evatt Foundation Employment, 1995-98.
1999 Overseas Travel documents, UK, Ireland, Hungary, Austria, France, USA.
Personal File for New Theatre Fundraising, 2001.
New Theatre City Tatts Functions, 1993-99 & Alan Docker wake.
1975 National Film Theatre employment.
New Theatre - correspondence, constitution, management report 1971, newscuttings, programs, copies of ‘Spotlight, 1964-2000.
Papers of John Armstrong including German & Maths school exercise books (Canterbury Boys High School), 1937; letters, newscuttings and programs, 1960s; diary, 1974; Death Certificate, 1984.
Various papers including ration card, newscuttings, 1940s and Richard Stonehouse’s Certificate of Discharge from the the Light Horse, AIF, 1919.

BOX 7 RESTRICTED
Papers re purchase of unit at Summer Hill, and Defence Service Loan documents, 1987-89.
Medical records, 1984-2002.
Legal papers including wills, 1979-84.

V. Sheet Music
BOX 8
Sheet music spanning period 1900 to post World War II. Includes songs published in USA, UK and Australia.

VI. Photograph Negatives.
BOX 9
Include trips overseas and within Australia, 1990s, undated.

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