Alan Carroll further papers, 1855-1911, together with further records of the Child Study and Adult Health Association of Australia, 1897-1927

fonds

1855 - 1927

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs, Prints, Drawings, Architectural and Technical Drawings

457981

0.75 metres of textual and photographic material (5 boxes)

Alan Carroll was born in London ca. 1823. He became a physician, anthropologist and philanthropist. He studied in London, Paris and Berlin. Carroll immigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1885. He founded the Anthropological Society of Australasia in 1895 and in addition to managing the society he edited publications The Australian Anthropological Journal continued by The Science of Man: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society of Australia. The Society requested members collect and provide information relating to Aboriginal place names, words and meanings between the years 1896 and 1899 subsequently published collated information in the Journal until 1913. Carroll also founded the Kindergarten Union and the Child Study Association of Australasia in Sydney (later the Child Study and Adult Health Association of Australia). Carroll died in Sydney 17 April 1911 and is buried in the Waverly Cemetery, Sydney.

Series 01
Papers relating to the Child Study Association of Australasia, later known as the Child Study and Adult Health Association of Australia and the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales

Series 02
Papers relating to Anthropology

Series 03
Other papers relating to Federation, political reform, Theosophical Society, Australian Home Reading Union, Horticulture, The Pastoralists of Australia, Northern Australian Settlement Company Ltd., an essay on Dramatic Art and a short story entitled ‘Morning in the Asylum’

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