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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ItemSome early recollections( 2011-06-24T08:14:38Z)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.
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ItemInterview with Mrs MP Mitchell as to Andre, Attwood, Bell, Wakefield etc. families( 2011-05-30T03:02:45Z)Transcription of interview conducted on 11 October 1986.
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ItemInterview with Miss B. Jones, Toorak Gardens, on German Colonists in South Australia in 1848( 2011-05-30T03:02:38Z)Transcription of interview with Miss B. Jones regarding German Colonists in South Australia in 1848, October 1996.
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ItemInterview with Mrs Priscilla Mitchell as to Edward Gibbon Wakefield( 2011-05-30T03:02:16Z)Transcription of interview conducted on 10 October 1986.
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ItemInterview with Miss Lorna Ellershaw as to W. Light( 2011-05-30T03:02:05Z)Interview with Lorna Ellershaw and others regarding William Light and other early figures of South Australian colonial history.