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The Collection of Keith Travers Borrow (1917-2005) on the early history of European settlement in South Australia.
The collection contains more than 2000 books and serials, and approximately 65 metres of archival material, paintings, prints, maps, manuscripts, photographs, audiotapes, and card indexes, held in the Flinders University Library's Special Collections.
Selected transcripts of documents and tape recordings from the collection are available from this page.
Recent Submissions
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Some early recollections
(2011-06-24)Boyle Travers Finniss was Assistant Surveyor to Colonel William Light when the colony of South Australia was set up in 1836. He describes early encounters with the Aborigines, early settler life, the political and social ... -
Interview with Mrs MP Mitchell as to Andre, Attwood, Bell, Wakefield etc. families
(2011-05-30)Transcription of interview conducted on 11 October 1986. -
Interview with Miss B. Jones, Toorak Gardens, on German Colonists in South Australia in 1848
(2011-05-30)Transcription of interview with Miss B. Jones regarding German Colonists in South Australia in 1848, October 1996. -
Interview with Mrs Priscilla Mitchell as to Edward Gibbon Wakefield
(2011-05-30)Transcription of interview conducted on 10 October 1986. -
Interview with Miss Lorna Ellershaw as to W. Light
(2011-05-30)Interview with Lorna Ellershaw and others regarding William Light and other early figures of South Australian colonial history. -
Interview with Mrs O.A. Hardy as to C.P. Mountford
(2011-05-30)Interview with Olga Hardy regarding her association as an artist with C.P. Mountford's books on aboriginal culture. -
William Baxter, Botanist, with particular reference to Kangaroo Island in the 1820s
(2011-05-30)Transcript of an address by Ralph Grandison to the Pioneers' Association of South Australia on 24 August 1989.