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Creator: Victorian Trades Hall Council [ - ]
1978.0082 Consolidated Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council, 1903-1939 Access: Open
This reference number is used to control six transfers of records which have been listed together in the finding aid attached. Please note that VTHC minutes have been digitised and are available here: https://archives.unimelb.edu.au. Please search for 1978.0082.00002 and so on in the digitised items search box The material in transfer known as 1978.0082 included one mounted collection of unio Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE A selection of VTHC minutes has been digitised and is available here: https://archives.unimelb.edu.au. Please search for 1978.0082.00002 and so on in the digitised items search box
1990.0067 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council, first accession 1867-1977 Access: Open
Disputes Committee 1965-1977, financial records including strike funds and appeals, 1956, 1906-1914. Trades Hall Council committees including Labour Day Committee 1950s, KC Stone files, subject files, minutes from Australian Council of Trade Unions. 3 mounted photographs: Trades Hall, 1929 (27x36cm.) Delegates in front of Trades Hall, between1912-1924 (25x30cm) 36 workmen at Trades Hall (annotat Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
1991.0013 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council 1867-1977 Access: open
Council Minutes, 1883-1893; Disputes Committee, 1965-1975; ACTU Circulars, 1957-1960; Trades Hall Girls' Club receipts, 1960-1961. Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE: see consolidated list at 1990.0067
1991.0028 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council, second accession 1867-1914 Access: Restricted
VTHC Attendance book 1887-1893. VTHC Account Book: contains records of the Permanent Hall Building Fund, 17 May 1867-1877; later used to record accounts of funds raised by appeal for strikes, c 1906-1914. Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE: see consolidated list at 1990.0067
1991.0030 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council, second accession 1950-1975 Access: Restricted
Rough minute books of the THC; texts of addresses by THC members, c. 1950s. Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE: see consolidated list at 1990.0067
1993.0134 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council Arts Office 1975-1978 Access: Open
Files created by George Seelaf during his period as first Arts Officer at the Trades Hall. Minutes, correspondence, reports, newspaper accounts of or pertaining to arts bodies and unions which Seelaf belonged to or liaised with as Arts Officer. Also includes photocopies of three obituaries, and the AFI program note for a 1985 documentary about Seelaf. Finding Aids: No Finding Aid. Request all boxes
1994.0055 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council 1920-1980 Access: Open
This series consists of pamphlets, union journals and broadsheets from the Library of the VTHC. Some are publications by the VTHC and some were collected by it and filed in subject boxes for the use of Trades Hall members for research and education. Finding Aids: Yes box level list ONLINE
1998.0025 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council 1891-1891 Access: Open
Photocopy of 'The Great Maritime Strike of 1890', pamphlet issued by the Melbourne Trades Hall Council Committee of Finance and Control, 1891. The original from which this is copied was presented by John Hancock, Chairman of the Committee and W. Murphy, Secretary, to Sir Brian O'Laghlan Bart. M.P. on 13 February 1891 in thanks for his support. Finding Aids: No Finding Aid. Request all boxes
1999.0066 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council 1910-1932 Access: Open
Committee Membership Book, containing names, addresses, offices held, terms of appointment, dates of election or appointment, dates and causes of termination, for Executive Committee, Building Committee, Organising Committee, Parliamentary Committee, Library Committee, Industrial Disputes Committee, Finance Committee, and (later) Bureau Committee, Press Committee, Eight Hours Committee, ACTU Repr Finding Aids: No Finding Aid. Request all
2001.0020 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council 1932-2005 Access: Open
VTHC Central files "pre-1967" to 1984. Include Executive business sheets and minutes; union correspondence; subject files. Comprehensive records of VTHC activities and concerns. As in previous THC accessions, the records also provide a starting point to researching Victorian unions affiliated with the THC. Non Central Filing System files, 1932; 1961 - 1999 [mainly to 1984] VTHC Directories, 1986/ Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
2005.0033 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council 1974-1985 Access: Open
Council Minutes. unit 1, Council Minutes, 31 October 1974 - 6 May 1976; unit 2, Council Minutes, 13 May 1976 - 21 July 1977; unit 3, Council Minutes, 28 July 1977 - 26 October 1978; unit 4, Council Minutes, 2 November 1978 - 14 February 1980; unit 5, Council Minutes, 21 February 1980 - 2 July 1981; unit 6, Council Minutes, 9 July 1981 - 30 January 1982; unit 7, Council Minutes, 7 October 1982 - 1 Finding Aids: No Finding Aid.
2006.0006 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council 1963-1998 Access: Open
Approximately 60 trade union journal titles, published by unions whose archive collections are held by the University of Melbourne Archives. The journals were collected as part of the working Victorian Trades Hall Library. Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
2006.0038 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council Arts Office 1975-2004 Access: Open
This collection of posters was begun by George Seelaf, first Arts Officer of the Trades Hall, in the 1970s and continued by the Trades Hall Library until c.2004. Approximately 5-10% of the collection comprises posters produced by the VTHC for union campaigns and by the VTHC Arts Workshop providing a visual record of VTHC campaigning and lobbying, union coordination and Art and Working Life activi Finding Aids: Draft
2010.0048 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council 1985-1988 Access: Open
The records of the VTHC described here were originally filed within the Council's classification schemes, and were selected for permanent preservation using the VTHC Retention and Disposal Schedule. See appendix 1 of the list for details of the classification scheme and its evolution. The VTHC records documented in this list were created within a filing system which ceased in 1989. The scheme c Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
2010.0052 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council 1977-2010 Access: Restricted
The records of the VTHC described here were originally filed within the Council's classification schemes, and were selected for permanent preservation using the VTHC Retention and Disposal Schedule. The VTHC records documented here were created within a filing system which commenced in 1989, although individual records might have been created earlier. In 1989 the Victorian Trades Hall Council C Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE
2015.0056 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council 2011-2014 Access: Restricted
VTHC Executive Council Minutes and Business Sheets July 2013-June 30 2014; VTHC Council minutes and Business Sheets July 2013-June 30 2014; TH&LI Agendas and Minutes August 2013-May 2014; VTHC Strategic Planning Forum Agenda's 2011, 2012, 2013 (cancelled) and 2014; Victorian Trades Hall Council Directory 2014 (UniM Archives call number 331.88025945 VICT). Finding Aids: No Finding Aid. Request all boxes
1986.0098 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council 1874-1976 Access: Restricted
Minutes, Council and Executive 1884-1974. Financial papers including ledgers, cash books, balance sheets, strikes and appeals accounts, petty cash, wages, building fund, Eight Hour Day Committee, leasing agreements between THC and other Unions 1874-1976. General Correspondence 1925-1971. Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE: see consolidated list at 1978.0082. Please request under reference number 1978.0082
1986.0156 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council 1877-1927 Access: Open
Microfilm of: - Council Minutes 1877-1883, 1887-1897, 1897-1901. - Executive Minutes 1904-1909, 1910-1912, 1917-1922, 1922-1927. The majority of these mintes have now been digitised. Please search for digital copies online at archives.unimelb.edu.au Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE: see consolidated list at 1978.0082.
1988.0062 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council 1910-1975 Access: Open
Minutes, correspondence, subject files, financial material, pamphlets, flyers, etc. See 'The Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council: First Accession, 1857-1988' listed and indexed by Andrew Forell and Maryanne McCubbin, in 2 Vols. published by VTHC and University of Melbourne Archives 1989 for a full description of the contents (scanned version available at 1978.0082) Finding Aids: Yes listed ONLINE: see consolidated list at 1978.0082. Please request under reference number 1978.0082
2015.0049 Records of the Victorian Trades Hall Council 2005-2013 Access: Restricted
Executive Council Minutes and Business Sheets (July 2010-30 June 2013); Council Minutes (July 2010-30 June 2013)); TH&LI Agendas and Minutes (18 Feb 2005-2 May 2013); publications: Victorian Trades Hall Council catalogue of events, documents and memorabilia of the Trades Union movement's Eight Hour day (888) 150th celebrations held in 2006; Melbourne Trades Hall 150th Anniversary commemoration b Finding Aids: No Finding Aid. Request all boxes
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