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Name/TitleMiscellaneous papers: 1889-1943

About this objectAs well as personal papers, items concern Australiana, history of man, settlement in the Port Phillip District and include:,a detailed account of Kenyon's tour of Central Australia 1933-34 and log of a journey to S.A., Queensland and N.S.W., 1929, rough index of Australian localities, their origins and geographical features,correspondence and research notes on "The pastoral pioneers of Port Phillip" and the "Clyde Company papers" signed by Phillip Brown and Janet Biddlecombe with references to George Russell, John Gardiner, Golf Hill, Terinallum run, early maps and major families,a paper "The overlanders"; and,a substantial collection of newspaper articles bound and entitled "The Victorian Mallee".

Research on Port Phillip settlement includes a list of settlers, towns, early post offices, police, etc., research papers on anthropological and historical subjects, principal correspondents include C. C. Towle, D. Raymond, James Slater, Frederick Danvers Power, Lindsay Black, Maurice F. Leask, family memoranda by William Glen Walker and papers re Thomas Walker estate,bibliographical list of articles and pamphlets by A. S. Kenyon.

Personal papers include biographical sketch, documents and notes on his career with references to Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and Institution of Engineers.

Overall interesting research material on Victoria's pastoral industry, Aboriginal Australians, explorations, geology, anthropology, numismatics, shipping and navigation.

Historical lectures written from 1940-1942 and antiquities lectures written from 1939-1942 included are: "Portland", "Ballarat and gold", "Wangaratta", "The Murray River and Echuca", "Port Phillip District and Charles Joseph La Trobe", "Immigration - John Dunmore Lang", "The Aboriginal Protectorate", "Exploration and the explorers", "The Wimmera and the Mallee", "The family and the household", "Food", "Dark Ages", "Renaissance", "Culture origins", "Tribal development", "Family organisation", "The halcyon days of Greece", "Egypt and the Egyptians", "The Roman deluge", "The influences of the Orient", "Man's beginnings", "Ancient China", "India and the Indus", "Mesopotamia", "Greece", "Rome the destroyer", "The age of the darkness"," Yesterday", "In the beginning", "The middle Stone Ages", "The later Stone Age", "The Bronze Age", "The age of iron", "The age of alloys", "The Polynesians", "The Red Indian", "The Civilisation of the Mayans".
NOTE: A. S. Kenyon was active in many areas of public life; he was Commissioner of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Keeper of Antiquities and Numismatist to the Public Library. His interests were varied and his publications were numerous. See V.H.M. Vol. XVIII and XX.

Keywords: Aboriginal Australians, Anthropology, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Central Australia, Echuca, Explorers and exploration, Gardiner, John, Geology and geologists, Golf Hill, Immigration and immigrants, Institute of Engineers, Kilmore, La Trobe, Charles Joseph, Lang John Dunmore, Leask, Maurice F., Mallee, Murray River, Navigation, New South Wales, Numismatics, Overlanders, Pastoral industry, Police, Port Phillip District, Port Phillip District, settlement,Portland,Power, Frederick Danvers, Queensland postal services,Raymond, D., Russell, George, Ships and shipping, Slater, James, South Australia, Squatters and squatting, Terinallum Run, Towle, C.C.,Walker, Thomas, Walker, William Glen, Wangaratta, Wimmera

MakerKenyon, Alfred Stephen, 1867-1943

Maker RoleCompiler

Measurementsseveral volumes, original ms., ms. copy, typescript, printed and photographs.

Named CollectionManuscripts Collection

Object TypeDocument

Object numberMS 000615 (Box 107 [1-2], Box 108 [1-5], Box 109 [1-5])

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