Betty Maloney papers, ca. 1946-2001, with additional letters concerning her death, 2001

MLMSS 8287

fonds

ca. 1946-2001

Textual Records, Posters, Photographs, Drawings

957935

1.53 metres of textual material (8 boxes)

An illustrator of many books on Australian plants, Betty Maloney studied art at Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT).
After teaching art at the National Fitness Council, Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and St Catherine's School in Melbourne, she travelled to Europe.
With her sister she wrote Designing Australian Bush Gardens and Australian Bush Gardens in 1966 and 1967.
The 86 watercolour illustrations used for the publication Proteaceae of the Sydney Region with Alec Blombery are in the Archives of the New South Wales State Library.
Also she illustrated books on mah-jong and thimbles - she maintained a collection of Victorian thimbles, was a co-founder, with her husband, of the Sydney Wagner Society and was involved with volunteer conservation groups, including the Society for Growing Australian Plants.
In the early 1990s her own garden at French's Forest, was approved by the National Trust as a Trust garden and she was presented with a terracotta plaque.

Reference:
http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0318b.htm
accessed 22/02/2012

Box 1
School exercise books, family documents and business cards

Box 2
Scrap album of overseas trip (ca. 1950's), Scrap album (1981-1992), passports Reg and Betty Maloney

Box 3
Report on heritage significance of Betty Maloney's garden and property correspondence (2002), Open Garden scheme, Book review files, Letters files (1968-1998), Talks and interview, the Proteaceae of the Sydney region, Publishing agreements

Box 4
Press cuttings regarding Jean Walker and Betty Maloney
Betty Maloney press cuttings, 1946-1978
Visitors book, 1966-1989, 1989-2001
Personal photographs of Betty Maloney

Box 5
Letters, prostcards, greeting cards, and letters of sympathy regarding Betty Maloney's death, writings for Burkes Backyard magazine

Box 6
Photo albums (3), rolls of film (5), photos, slides (4 boxes) and transparencies (folder)

Box 7
Books, videos of Betty and Reg's Garden, ABC Gardening in Australia, Banksias, and Chanel 9 Burkes Backyard Kaleidoscope-Proteaceae, cassettes of interviews of Open Garden, Radio National Bush Garden, Brins memorial and CDROM of Radio National Bush Garden

Box 8
Original drawings, exhibition posters, botanical illustrations

Partly restricted: - - Sound recordings not to be issued.

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