Collection 1: Sydney and Joan Baggs papers and architectural plans

MLMSS 10856
R 2391
ARCH 22

sub-fonds

1891-2009

Textual Records, Photographs, Graphic Materials, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Objects

880881

0.8 metres of textual material (5 boxes)
23 architectural plans (2 folders)
7 objects (2 boxes)

MLMSS 10856
This collection comprises items of Joan Baggs including:
Personal scrapbook compiled ca. 1939-1946
Recipe book
"Minnie Ayres, my grandmother" unpublished Chapter 2
"Sydney Baggs : craftsman extraordinaire - unpublished paper
Clippings on David Baggs, architect
Autograph book
Photographs
1939 spelling book

Also items of Sydney Allison Baggs including:
Certificates - births, deaths and marriages of Baggs family
Some of the published works of Sydney Baggs


ARCH 22/1
Architectural plans including:
Featherwood Way, Castle Hill
The Manor (address unknown)
Sydney University Union (SUU)
New HMT Project, Quay Street
[Fire Training College]

ARCH 22/2
Plans for new theatre on Quay Street (legacy plans likely used as reference by Baggs)


OBJECTS:
R 2391/1
Certificate Royal Society of Arts. Sydney A. Baggs, Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, 6 March 1995 (removed from frame).

National Energy Management Award 1986. ‘Certificate of Merit presented to ECA Space Design Pty Ltd as a Finalist in the 1986 National Energy Management Awards for Significant Achievement in the Efficient Management of Energy’ (plaque).

Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine. Dr. Sydney Baggs Associate Member, 23 May 1994 (plaque).

Housing Industry Association. ‘Top Homes Awards 1991/92. Innovative Design – over $200,000. Winner ECA Space Design’ (plaque).

Housing Industry Association. Top Homes Awards 1992/93. Innovative Design over $200,000. Winner: Sun-Earth Homes’ (plaque).

R 2391/2
American Biographical Institute Research Association. ‘Degree of Declaration Board of Governors. Lifetime Deputy Governor Dr. Sydney A. Baggs. Inauguration 1993’ (plaque).

International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England. Dr. Sydney Baggs, International Scientist of the Year 2001 for ‘an outstanding contribution to Environmental Science’. 5 March 2002 (plaque)

International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England. Dr. Sydney Allison Baggs inclusion ‘in the Dedications Section of The International Order of Merit Official Register’ for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Alternative Architectural Design and Control of Effects of Human Health Impacts from Environmental Pollution’, 9 September 2002 (plaque).

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