Thomas A. Herbert diaries, photographs, newscuttings, transcript and photocopies, 1919-1988

MLMSS 5648

fonds

1919-1988

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs

890317

0.52 metres of textual material (3 boxes)

Thomas A. Herbert was born 4 September 1903 and lived in Paddington. He attended Marist Brothers High School in Darlinghurst, was active in the Old Boys Union for the school, was a member of the Bondi Surf Beach Life Savers Club, was a keen bushwalker and a member of the Sydney Bushwalkers and was the Foundation President of the River Canoe Club of New South Wales in 1935.

BOX 1:
Personal diaries, including subjects on the Pneumonic Influenza epidemic, Bondi Surf Beach Life Savers Club, rowing, Sydney University, canoeing and bushwalking, 1919, 1921-1932, 1940

Diaries of camping and canoeing holidays on the Shoalhaven and Warragamba Rivers, 1928, 1932, 1935

Transcript of interview with Thomas Herbert by National Parks and Wildlife Service, 1988

History of Bushwalking in New South Wales, article by Warwick Blayden, 1982

Four letters to Thomas Herbert relating to his engagement to Josephine Bell and bushwalking, 1938, 1982 and 1985

Splashes of the River Canoe Club of New South Wales, 1935-1936, 1938-1939

The River Canoe Club of New South Wales Splashes Golden Anniversary year, 1935-1985

BOX 2:
Photographs and negatives. Subjects include Wilderness New South Wales, Shoalhaven, Nepean and Kowmung Rivers, camping and bushwalking, no date

BOX 3:
Newscuttings. Subjects include canoeing down rivers in New South Wales and bushwalking journeys, 1925-1937

Photocopies - notes on Polin family and newspaper article on Bell family, no date

A Hundred Years of Brigidine Sisters in Coonamble, 1883-1993, 1993

Back to Coonamble Week: Official Souvenir, 1925, photocopy

Copies of birth certificates and notes on the Polin family, no date

Photographs of the Polin family, in an album, no date



This collection includes sound recordings at MLOH 155/1

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 2 as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010