Borrow Collection

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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.

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Some early recollections
(2011-06-24T08:14:38Z) Finniss, Boyle Travers
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 life of the colony, the progress of surveying and building the city of Adelaide, and his own career which included a term as the first Premier of South Australia under responsible government.
Interview with Mrs MP Mitchell as to Andre, Attwood, Bell, Wakefield etc. families
(2011-05-30T03:02:45Z) Mitchell, Priscilla; Borrow, Keith Travers
Transcription of interview conducted on 11 October 1986.
Interview with Miss B. Jones, Toorak Gardens, on German Colonists in South Australia in 1848
(2011-05-30T03:02:38Z) Jones, B (Miss); Borrow, Keith Travers
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
(2011-05-30T03:02:16Z) Mitchell, Priscilla; Borrow, Keith Travers
Transcription of interview conducted on 10 October 1986.
'The Queen's Theatre, Adelaide', portion of an address by Mr G.L. Fischer, to the Pioneers' Association of South Australia, 27 September 1989.
(2011-05-30T03:02:11Z) Fischer, Gerald
Interview with Miss Lorna Ellershaw as to W. Light
(2011-05-30T03:02:05Z) Ellershaw, Lorna; Borrow, Keith Travers
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
(2011-05-30T03:01:57Z) Hardy, Olga; Borrow, Keith Travers
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
(2011-05-30T03:01:36Z) Grandison, Ralph
Transcript of an address by Ralph Grandison to the Pioneers' Association of South Australia on 24 August 1989.

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