1009439
- TitleCondolence letters, cards and telegrams sent to Sydney and Elizabeth Butler on the occasion of the death of their teenaged son, Keith, from Spanish influenza, 1919
- Creator
- Call numberMLMSS 10131/Box 1X
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1919 - Type of material
- Reference code1009439
- Physical Description0.21 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) - manuscript
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Keith Sydney Butler was a 14-year-old boy of Balmain, Sydney, who died of Spanish Influenza in 1919. He was interred in the North Sydney Congregational Cemetery, Gore Hill.
The Spanish Flu pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920) was unusually deadly. It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million, approximately three to five percent of the world’s population. In Australia, nearly 12,000 people perished during the pandemic.
Reference: Library correspondence file - Collection historyMs Clare Stretton as received from her father, Mr James Walker, a relative of the Butler family.
- Scope and Content56 manuscript and printed items, including condolence letters, cards, telegrams and related items sent to Sydney and Elizabeth Butler from relatives, friends and work colleagues, on the occasion of the death of their teenaged son, Keith, from Spanish Influenza, 1919.
1. Packet of 16 letters in small envelopes
2. Packet with 1 letter in large envelope
3. Packet of 13 letters without envelopes
4. Packet of invoices, including North Sydney Congregational Cemetery, Wood Coffill and Company Funeral Directors, F. Arnold Monumental Sculptor, printed envelope for W. Johnson Monumental Mason Gore Hill, and business card for J. Mathews 'Clarinetist'
5. Packet of 10 condolence cards
6. Packet of 15 florist cards
7. Packet of 5 telegrams - Copying ConditionsCopyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
Research & study copies allowed: Applies only to material in which the author has been deceased for more than 50 years
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