Series 1: Ian Heads research and personal papers

MLMSS 12014/Boxes 1-22
MLMSS 12014/Boxes 23X-24X

series

1918-2021

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Posters, Ephemera, Clippings

9676059

4.36 metres of textual materials (22 boxes and 2 outsize boxes), includes photographs and posters

This series comprises papers, original documents, handwritten and typed notes, correspondence, scrapbooks, articles, clippings, photographs, and ephemera relating to Ian Heads' research and publications on rugby league, sports, and sportspeople.

A selection of other writers’ papers, which were passed on to Ian Heads, is included in the collection. These include a scrapbook of journalist Phil Tressider's articles accumulated by his mother post World War 2, and material created and collected by journalist Tom Goodman.

The collection includes materials such as agreements between rugby league players and clubs relating to where and who could play and under what conditions; the accounting balance sheets of the first Kangaroos tour to the UK in 1908-1909; and journalist Tom Goodman's first-hand recollections of Bradman's last innings at The Oval, London in 1948.

BOXES 1-6
100 Years of RL 1908-2006
Research materials for A Centenary of Rugby League 1908 – 2008 (2008) arranged by year, includes typed notes, clippings, correspondence, and ephemera. Also includes typed notes correspondence with David Middleton (mentored by Ian Heads at Rugby League Week) and published copies of 'Centenary of Rugby League 1908-2008' and ‘A year to remember’ images and reflections from Rugby League’s centenary season’.

BOX 7
History of Easts 1939-1973
Research materials for True Blue: The Story of the NSW Rugby League (1992), arranged by year. Includes typed notes and clippings.

BOXES 8-10
Subject files for 200 Years of Australian Sport (1988) and And The Crowd Went Wild : Sporting Days that That Thrilled a Nation (2010), arranged by year. Includes manuscripts, typed notes, clippings and correspondence.

BOX 11
Subject files –clubs – arranged by subject and clubs
Typed notes, clippings, photographs and ephemera of New South Wales Rugby League Clubs and South Sydney players including Wally O’Connell, Sandy and Joe Pearce, and George Treweeke.

BOX 12
Subject files – players
Handwritten and typed notes, articles, correspondence, and clippings on Rugby League players arranged alphabetical by surname. Includes player agreements between Wally O’Connell, Fonda Metassa and Bernie Purcell and their respective clubs.

BOXES 13-16
Subject files – general
Research materials on Rugby League, includes original and photocopied documents, handwritten and typed notes, correspondence, clippings, photographs and ephemera on the history of NSW Rugby League, the Kangaroos including the accounting balance sheet for the 1908-9 tour of Great Britain, and Rugby League in general.

BOXES 16-18
Souths book project
Research materials for Never Say Die : The Fight to Save The Rabbitohs : George Piggins as told to Ian Heads. (2002), includes correspondence, original documents, handwritten and typed notes, articles, photographs and material accumulated by former Souths players.

BOX 19
Research materials for Backpage: Australian Greatest Sporting Moments (1989), including handwritten and typed notes, clippings, articles and photographs.

BOX 20
Indexed articles and press clippings on Aussie Rules Players, Boxing and Horse racing and general notes on Olympics, including facsimile of Melbourne Olympic Games programme, and other sports such as cricket.

BOX 21
Scrapbook of Rugby League World Cup 1950-1958 (chiefly press clippings), Photographs of sports commentators, Ian Heads’ professional correspondence, personal photographs, speeches, interview notes and transcripts of interviews (includes transcripts for Wally Lewis interview, and notes for Jack Gibson interview and Steve Waugh Test Match Reminiscences 2004).

BOX 22
Tom Goodman 'Archives' 1940s
Manuscripts with corrections, telegrams, press clippings, correspondence, and rugby tour ephemera accumulated/created by journalist Tom Goodman.
Almanacs on tennis, boxing, and rugby inherited from Tom Goodman.

BOX 23X
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings 1941-1949 possibly previously belonging to Tom Goodman

BOX 24X
Phil Tressider scrapbook
Press clippings by Phil Tressider compiled by his mother and acquired by Ian Heads.

POSTERS
NRL 2008 Harvey Norman Heritage Round posters from this collection have been catalogued separately at POSTERS/2023/....

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