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    E. H. (Edward Herbert) Farmer - papers, 1825-1996, including papers of the Farmer and Thistlethwaite families, together with letters of John Le Gay Brereton, 1901-1933

    Call numbers

    MLMSS 7703

    Record identifier

    n5lVgKx9

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n5lVgKx9

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    E. H. (Edward Herbert) Farmer - papers, 1825-1996, including papers of the Farmer and Thistlethwaite families, together with letters of John Le Gay Brereton, 1901-1933

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    E. H. (Edward Herbert) Farmer - papers, 1825-1996, including papers of the Farmer and Thistlethwaite families, together with letters of John Le Gay Brereton, 1901-1933

    Full title

    E. H. (Edward Herbert) Farmer - papers, 1825-1996, including papers of the Farmer and Thistlethwaite families, together with letters of John Le Gay Brereton, 1901-1933

    Author / Creator

    Farmer, E. H. (Edward Herbert), 1909-2001

    Date

    1825 - 1996

    Call Numbers

    MLMSS 7703

    Record Identifier

    n5lVgKx9

    Formats

    Manuscripts, Pictures, Photographs, Architectural & Technical drawings, Clipping in Archival collections and Ephemera

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    31 boxes - 4.26 Meters Textual Records Textual Records - (photocopy) Textual Records - (typescript) Textual Records - (typescript, photocopy) Textual Records - (typescript, carbon) Textual Records - (typescript, processed) Textual Records - (computer printouts) Clippings Textual Records - (printed)...
    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Fonds

    Arrangement

    The bulk of this collection was originally in 36 expanding files and this order has been maintained in Boxes 1-28.

    Access and use

    Physical Access Conditions

    This material is held offsite and is usually available after 4pm on the next business day. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian

    Access Conditions

    Partly restricted : -

    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Art Gallery of New South Wales The Barn (Moss Vale, N.S.W.) Choragic Monument (Clarens, Potts Point, N.S.W.) Christ Church (Murringo, N.S.W.) Coonamble Court House (N.S.W.) Coonamble Gaol (N.S.W.) Coonamble Telegraph Office (N.S.W.) Garangula (Harden, N.S.W.) Healesville (Vic.) Hyde Park Barracks (Sydney, N.S.W.) Kilcoy Presbyterian Church (Kilcoy, N.S.W.) Lachlan Macquarie Room (Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, N.S.W.) Lupton House (Wagga Wagga, N.S.W.) Macquarie Family Mausoleum (Gruline, Isle of Mull, Scotland) Marsden Retarded Children's Centre (Parramatta, N.S.W.) Mint (Sydney, N.S.W.) Mitchell College of Advanced Education (Bathurst, N.S.W.) Mundiwa Station (Deniliquin, N.S.W.) Old Government House (Parramatta, N.S.W.) Old Supreme Court (corner Elizabeth & King Streets, Sydney, N.S.W.) Orange Court House (Lords Place, Orange, N.S.W.) Roberton Park (Glenquarry, N.S.W.) St. Andrew's Cathedral (Sydney, N.S.W.) St. James' Church (Sydney, N.S.W.) St. John's Church (Boorowa, N.S.W.) St. John's Church (Gundagai, N.S.W.) St. Matthew's Church of England (Windsor, N.S.W.) St. Thomas' Church (Port Macquarie, N.S.W.) State Office Block (Bent Street, Sydney, N.S.W.) Supreme Court (Macquarie Street, Queens Square & Phillip Street, Sydney, N.S.W.) Supreme Court (Macquarie Street, Sydney, N.S.W.) (1959-) Sydney Opera House (N.S.W.) Tallawarra Power Station (N.S.W.) University of New England University of New South Wales. Phillip Goldstein Hall University of Sydney Library (N.S.W.) Westmead Hospital (Hawkesbury Road, Westmead, N.S.W.) interiors architects architectural drawings architectural features buildings, structures & establishments churches civil engineers coats of arms courthouses cricket teams electrical engineers families greetings cards groups (people) historic buildings houses mausoleums official buildings official residences prisons public servants Rugby League players sketches soldiers stained-glass windows troopships university buildings war graves wounded soldiers Architects, Australian--20th century. Architecture, Modern--20th century. Historic buildings--New South Wales--Conservation and restoration. Historic buildings--New South Wales--Maintenance and repairs. Public architecture--New South Wales. Public buildings--New South Wales--Design and construction. Public buildings--New South Wales--Maintenance and repairs. Sydney (N.S.W.)--Buildings, structures, etc. Sydney Opera House--Design and construction. Bridges, Peter Di Stefano, Roberto Farmer, Alice May, 1877-1958 Farmer, Dorothie, 1917- Farmer, E. H. (Edward Herbert), 1909-2001 Hall, Peter, 1931-1995 Irwin, Frank Moorhouse, C. E. (Charles Edmund), 1911-2002 Moorhouse, Catherine Albright, 1914-1989 Parkes, Cobden, 1892-1978 Rembert, Edward Henry, 1902-1966 Thislethwaite, Edith S., d. 1960 Thistlethwaite family Utzon, Jorn, 1918-2008 Weatherburn, C. P. (Charles P.) Webber, G. P. (G. Peter)

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    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    This collection chiefly documents Ted Farmer's professional activities as an architect, together with his personal correspondence with family and friends.

    SERIES 01-02
    Files 1-36, 1825-1993

    SERIES 03
    Diaries 1928-1937

    SERIES 04
    Memoirs, compiled 1973-1996

    Author/Artists:

    Agar, Anne
    Agar, Elizabeth
    ...

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    E. H. (Edward Herbert) Farmer - papers, 1825-1996, including papers of the Farmer and Thistlethwaite families, together with letters of John Le Gay Brereton, 1901-1933

    — AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

    Author / Creator

    Author / Artists

    — NOTES

    General note

    In 2001 a number of public records that had been easily identified as archival estrays among Farmer's papers, and relating to his term as Government Architect, were transferred to State Records New South Wales. At the time the papers had not been fully arranged and described. It was agreed with State Records New South Wales that the Library would r...

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Source

    Presented by Dr E. H. Farmer in 1986, 1994 and 1997

    Administrative / Biographical history

    Edward Herbert (Ted) Farmer (1909-2001), architect, was born in Perth, W.A., the only child of Herbert Farmer, public servant, and Alice May, nee Thistlethwaite. His parents separated before his first birthday, and he and his mother went to live with his maternal grandmother and maiden aunts, Isabella, Ethel and Edith Thistlethwaite, in Melbourne....

    Identifiers

    — PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS

    Call Numbers

    MLMSS 7703

    Record Identifier

    n5lVgKx9

    Permalink

    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n5lVgKx9

    — OTHER IDENTIFIERS

    Reference code

    455888

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