Series 2: Business and personal papers Ure Smith Pty Limited

MLMSS 11971/Boxes 1-3

series

1901-1995

9675755

0.36 metres of textual material (2 boxes, 1 folder)

Box 1

Ure Smith Pty Limited business papers including Art in Australia Articles of Association, notification of company registration, notices of meetings, minutes, edited eulogy of Sydney Ure Smith by Charles Lloyd Jones, November 1949, correspondence and reports, 1920, 1939-1951

Sam Ure Smith speeches, notes, articles regarding his father and Ure Smith Pty Ltd; working papers relating to overseas business trips, newspaper articles, Order of Service for the funeral of Heather Ure Smith, 1964-2010

Ewan House, Knox Grammar school certificates for Sam (Sydney) Ure Smith 1931-1939

Family marriage and death certificates, valuation of Sydney Ure Smith Estate, 1949, letter to Sam Ure Smith from 'Dad' regarding Sam rejoining 'the firm' 1945 (on Society of Artists letterhead); Invitations, postcard and ephemera including Menu, 1944 signed by artists including William Dobell, Sydney Long, E G Waterhouse, Lionel Lindsey; Thank You card from Lloyd Rees family to Sam Ure Smith 1989; Art Society 1940 exhibition catalogue (with handwritten annotations), 1923-1995

Box 2

Printed edition ‘The Artists' Ball, 1923’ published by Society of Artists. Printed on handpress by Percy G. Green
Printed edition ‘City of the West’ 1911 by Jessie M. King, First Edition, Published by T. N. Foulis Edinburgh and London, 1911. Features 25 tipped-in plates numbered I-XXV, plus tipped-in 'Contents' plate, with short commentaries
'To Brian' [i.e., Brian Penton] handwritten book by Sydney Ure Smith, 1947. Attached photocopy of Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for Brian Penton
Leather bound notebook ‘Sydney Ure Smith: A record of his works’ inscribed on flyleaf “To Dad, Wishing you a merry Xmas and prosperous and healthy New Year. With love from Sam. Xmas 1947”
Bound notebook listing colour plates in Art in Australia, Series 1-3
‘Art in Australia’ Series 1, Issue Number 1, Sydney, N.S.W. : S.U. Smith, B. Stevens and C.L. Jones, 1916
‘Art in Australia’ Series 1, Issue Number 1, dummy book by Sydney Ure Smith, 1916
‘Art in Australia’ ‘Margaret Preston Number, Series 3, Issue Number 22, Sydney, N.S.W. : S.U. Smith, B. Stevens and C.L. Jones, 1927
‘Art in Australia’ ‘Margaret Preston Number, Series 3, Issue Number 22, dummy book by Sydney Ure Smith, 1927
‘Trade & Industry in Australia’ unnumbered, possibly never published, dummy book by Sydney Ure Smith, 1918
Two exercise books containing records of printing blocks, 1960s

Box 3

Handmade publications by young Sydney Ure Smith
‘The Kat’ Volume 2, No. 1, November 1901
‘The Australia Kat’ Volume 1, Nos. 3-5, 1 January – 15 January 1903

‘The Gum Nut’ Volume 11, No. 5, July; Volume 11, No. 7 September – October 1937
‘The Sydney-Sider’ Volume 1, No. 2, August 1938

Contemporary Art Society Exhibition Catalogue, 24 September 1940, with critical annotations by Sydney Ure Smith

Australian Limited Editions Society papers including lists of subscribers, booklets, original artwork for stationery, correspondence; Samples for the sixth series of publications with a prefatory essay by Hervey Allen, 1934; Samples for the seventh series of publications with a note on book collecting by Sinclair Lewis, 1935

Outline of plan to restore and preserve Australia’s early homes and buildings, J. Walter Thompson, 1930s

Original copy of Darlinghurst Nights words by Kenneth Slessor, artwork by Virgil Reilly, 1933
National Trust, Mervyn Horton, Murray Childs, Janet Gough, Paul Jones, Hal Missingham Books.
‘An Autobituary’ by Robert Henderson Croll, 1946; ‘An Address presented to Percy Neville Ure on his seventieth birthday with a bibliography of his writings’, 1949; Printers progress proofs for Art in Australia from Harland & Hyde Sydney, 1930s; Loose-leaf Alphabetical listing of plates for Art in Australia, 1916-1942; Two Artists’ drawing blocks

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