Collection 3: Ernest Lloyd Sommerlad further papers and records of the Country Press Association

MLMSS 11201

sub-fonds

1890-2004

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs

954637

0.38 metres of textual material (2 boxes) includes photographs

Box 1
File 1 - Reports of Country Press Association Conferences 1998-2004 (including Centenary Conference held November 2000)
File 2 - Members' Bulletins 2000-2004 together with member notices and industry information
File 3 - Newspaper Awards 2000-2004
File 4 - Country Press Association Centenary Nov 16-18 2000. Programme, Speeches, Articles
File 5 - Consultant's Report on future of the Association Dec 2002.
File 6 - Documents from the founding of the CPA and photocopies of clippings from the history of the Country Press Association 1890-1933
File 7 - Bulletins to members 1941-1945 (No 55-92 and circulars) covering issues facing the industry during the War.
File 8 - Minutes of Executive Committee meetings 1941-1945
File 9 - Submissions concerning the handling and placement of Commonwealth Government Advertising in country newspapers during the war 1942
File 10 - Country Press Advertising Clearing House, proposal and establishment 1957-1991
File 11 - Country Press Association publications and speeches, by Sommerlad, A Shakespeare, and John Kelly 1960-1993

Box 2
File 12 - History and Rules of the Australian Provincial Press Association (the federal body of which NSW was a constituent member. Later superseded by Country Press Australia in 1956). Brief History of Regional Dailies of Australia 1980
File 13 - New South Wales Country Press Co-operative (later Country Press Limited Company) including share certificates 1905. 1904-1991
File 14A - Country Press Ltd Articles of Association (1935, 1936) and Country Press-Utting’s News Service Limited Articles of Association (1936)
File 14B - Annual Reports Country Press Ltd 1944-1946, 1948, 1951-1957, 1959-1961, 1965, 1978-1979 and Accounts 1947, 1954
File 15 - Addresses of the Chairman to Annual Meetings of Country Press Ltd 1952-65
File 16 - Country Press Limited correspondence between the General Manager and the Chairman 1953-1961
File 17 - History of the Country Press Clipping Service by Lloyd Sommerlad (book published under that name in 2005). Report on visit to Press Cutting Agencies in Europe and US and their mode of operation, 1959 (photocopy)
File 18 – Sample of correspondence from Gotham Australasia Pty Ltd, a subsidiary company of Country Press Ltd, together with a summary of the administrative history (1958-1965, 2004?)
File 19 - Newspaper House 42-44 Pitt St, Sydney. Purchase (1955), renovation and occupation. Memorandum and Articles of Association. Promoted, part owned and occupied by Country Press Ltd 1955-1979
File 20 - Photographs, including: portraits of some leading country newspaper personalities; group photos of Award presentations. Many figures are identified on the reverse. Mounted photo of Conference c.1904.
File 21 - Biographical material concerning: E.C Sommerlad, the Marsteller family (Sommerlad ancestors). Family Tree Sommerlad 1568-1970. Lloyd Sommerlad's recollections of the National Trust; and the Sydney University student newspaper Honi Soit in 1939.

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