Australian National University Archives

1900-1999

Description

The ANU Archives holds the Noel Butlin Archives of Business and Labour, which has collected the records of the Australian Confederation of Operating Room Nurses Limited, the Australian Nursing Federation, New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association, and Royal Victorian College of Nursing (Infant Welfare Section newsletter only)

Brislington Medical and Nursing Museum

1850-1999

Description

Conservation of items related to medical care in parramatta from colonial days to 1980

CALHN Health Museum (CALHN – Central Adelaide Local Health Network)

1850-2000>

Description

The CALHN Health Museum has a large and extensive heritage collection of artefacts (equipment, photographs, instruments, recorded histories, doctors papers, books and documents) that reflect the history and development of health care in South Australia, (particularly those institutions within CALHN), from its colonial beginnings until the present time. CALHN organisations looked after within collection: Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre, SA Pathology and SA Dental. The Heritage Office has also taken on responsibility for the broader community in preserving donated items, artefacts and documents from private institutions such as Hutt St and Calvary private hospitals and Nancarrow Collection, when no other home could be found for these significant collections.

Charles Darwin University [CDU] Nursing Museum

Description

collections of archives [newsprint, other printed matter including individual archives], objects [badges, photographs, some instruments, books, other memorabilia – related to the history of nurses and nursing practice in northern and central Australia

Lucy Osborne-Nightingale Museum, Sydney Hospital

1850-2000>

Description

Teaching Australian, U.S.A and near East graduate and student nurses on the history of medical and nursing history and colonial history from 1788-1986 at the first hospital in Australia. In the future ‘The Nightingale Wing’ of Sydney Hospital and the archives contained within to be transferred to the site Governor’s Walk proposed by Historic Houses Trust on this entire hospital site.

Mater Archives and Heritage Centre

1900-2000>

Description

Collect items relating to the history of Mater Hospitals in Qld

New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association

1900-2000>

Description

Contents include all kinds of records relating to BAU activities, campaigns, media and comms, historical records relating to the formation and merging of different trade unions and associations. There’s a lot of different things across a lot of different functions.

Prince Henry Hospital Trained Nurses Association Inc.

1850-2000>

Description

To operate, manage and administer the Prince Henry Hospital Nursing and Medical Museum (the Museum) located in Flowers Ward 1 and the Pathology Building (also known as Henry’s Trading Post) at “Prince Henry at Little Bay”. The Museum was established by the Association in 1991 to promote the growth of and foster community interest in the Museum, the history it portrays and the Museum collection.

Royal Perth Hospital Museum

1950-1999

Description

The RPH Museum identifies, preserves and administers records of long-term and permanent value that are not in current use. Their value may be research, legal, administrative or financial. The records are mainly paper records of an organisational nature. They include hospital records, correspondence, financial records, reports, memorandums and minutes. The Nursing related archives include: Ward Reports 1937 – 1953 Board of Management Minutes 1905 – 1989 Finance Registers 1966 – 1977 School of Government Nursing Records 1955 – 1974 RPH Nursing Records c1896 – 1976 Nursing Aide Records 1953 – 2003 PMH Nursing Records 1938 – 1978 Boxed archives including documents relating to administration and management of the hospital, buildings, departments and services, medical, human resources and individuals.

St Vincent’s Health Australia – Sydney

1850-2000>

Description

Nursing registers, nursing personnel cards, nursing education curriculum and photographs

The Royal Melbourne Hospital

1850-2000>

Description

The RMH is a public hospital. The Archives collects records (both corporate and donated by alumni) relating to the RMH (Melbourne Hospital prior to 1935, now RMH-City Campus), Melbourne Health, NorthWestern Mental Health, and the RMH-Royal Park Campus (the former Mount Royal Hospital). Some records of the now defunct Essendon and District Memorial Hospital, and the Melbourne School of Nursing are also in the collection. We collect material about all aspects of the hospital and not just nursing.

University of Melbourne Archives

1900-2000>

Description

Records deposited by Royal Vic College of Nursing, Royal Aust Nursing Federation, ANF and so on.