Please contact the AskUs service at the State Library of South Australia:
Postal Address: GPO Box 419, Adelaide SA 5001
Phone: (08) 7424 6300 or SA country callers 1800 182 013
Website: https://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/ask-us
Quote this number to access your records: State Library of South Australia reference number: PRG 1838
These records are held by State Library of South Australia.
Records of United Aborigines Mission (UAM) – copies of records from the UAM Archive made by Alison Longworth is an archival collection at the State Library of South Australia.
The records comprise copies made by Alison Longworth when she visited the UAM Archive in Doncaster, Victoria, in the early 2000s while undertaking research for her PhD thesis “Was it worthwhile?: An historical analysis of five women missionaries and their encounters with the Nyungar people of south-west” (2005).
The records copied by Longworth from UAM Archives include correspondence, memoranda and circulars, indexes, lists, limited print publications, and other administrative records relating to activities of federal- and state-based UAM organisations, particularly in Western Australia. They cover a date range of 1924 to 1997.
The copies reveal information about the scope of UAM’s archival holdings and the systems they used to manage them. The UAM stated that its archives were destroyed following flooding in 2020.
There is a finding aid to this collection in the SLSA catalogue.
Access Conditions
All material in this collection is on open access with the exception of culturally sensitive material in PRG 1838/2/4/2 which is restricted.