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RARE BOOKS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY GUIDE TO THE COLIN BERCKELMAN PAPERS Descriptive Summary Title: Colin Berckelman Personal Papers Collection Date: [1600s]-1966 Creator: Colin Berckelman Finding aid compiled by Laura Anderson and Finlay Mackenzie (Museum & Heritage Studies interns, the University of Sydney) Language represented: Predominantly English, with some German, Czech, and French material. Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Sydney Library https://library.sydney.edu.au/collections/rare-books/ Extent: 34 boxes, 1 elephant folio box, and 1 box with restricted access Genre and Forms: Books, bookplates, bookmarks, photographic prints, glass and film negatives, postcards, pamphlets, booklets, newspapers and newspaper clippings, flyers, scrapbooks, manuscripts, typescript and handwritten papers, albums, artistic prints, catalogue cards, magazines and magazine clippings, letters, embroidered silk, embossed leather samples, financial documentation, wooden boxes, promotional cards, maps, realia, etc. Abstract: The Berckelman collection encompasses a broad range of material relating primarily to Australian social history, including politics, business and commerce, early settlement history, architecture, literature, and the arts. Berckelman’s home city of Sydney features most prominently, in addition to photographs and documentation from Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands. Some material also pertains to Berckelman’s periods of international travel and collection, with particular representation of England and Central Europe. The most significant feature of the collection is Berckelman’s extensive array of bookplates, comprising both those commissioned for his own use and those owned by others, obtained through exchange or in the form of replica prints or publications. Guide to the Colin Berckelman boxed collection ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Provenance Fisher Library purchased the Berckelman collection from Colin Berckelman’s widow, Jo Berckelman, between 1966-7. Access Rare Books and Special Collections is a closed access collection located on Level 1 of Fisher Library. Readers may not browse the shelves. Please make an appointment to use material from Rare Books and Special Collections using the online request form at https://library.sydney.edu.au/collections/rare-books/request-form.html. Staff will retrieve the material for you which must be read under supervision in the Rare Books Reading Room. You must provide identification (eg. University of Sydney library card, driver’s license, passport) while you are using the material. Copyright Information The status of copyright of materials described in this guide and other collections of papers in the custody of the University of Sydney Library is governed by copyright law in Australia. Special provisions, access conditions and restrictions apply governing the use of, photoduplication or publication of the items described. Readers should consult with Rare Books and Special Collections Library staff for further information concerning these conditions. Preferred Citation Colin Berckelman Papers, Rare Books and Special Collections, the University of Sydney Library Biographical Note Colin Blake Berckelman (1907-1965) was an Australian bibliophile, author, amateur photographer, and collector of material primarily related to books, bookplates, and printing material, particularly Australiana. Born in Bondi, Sydney on 1 May 1907 to Lewis John Berckelman and Emma Lillian Berckelman (née Blake), he attended Sydney Grammar School, and entered the cadet force at the age of 14. By 1925, at the age of 18, he had entered the Australian Citizen Militia. In later life, his employment as the New South Wales and Northern Territory agent for Jackson’s, Locksmiths of Tasmania and numerous other business interests accorded him significant leisure time for the indulgence of his interests. Consequently, he frequented various booksellers across Sydney, amassing his own collection and forming connections with other new and established bibliophiles. Notably, he was a founding member of the Book Collectors’ Society of Australia, acting as secretary and treasurer from its establishment in 1944 to his death in 1965, in addition to participating in numerous other societies and associations, many of which related to the collecting of books and bookplates. One such organisation was the Friends of the University of Sydney Library, with his wife ‘Jo’ (Allison Evelyn Anne Pritchard, married 19 December, 1952) also being a university employee. Following Colin Berckelman’s death on 22 April 1965, Jo Berckelman arranged for the Fisher Library to acquire a large proportion of his collection, partially addressing concerns raised by Berckelman himself that the library owned relatively little material relating to Australia. The purchase was Last updated 28/01/2020 Page 2 Guide to the Colin Berckelman boxed collection completed between 1966-7, encouraged by acquaintances of Berckelman’s and with assistance from the Friends of the University of Sydney Library. The material purchased by the library includes both Berckelman’s personal papers and his literary and artistic collections, with a particularly high number of items reflecting his interest in bookplates, politics, photography, Australiana, and Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands. Local Catalogue Headings Berckelman, Colin B. Related Collections Hugh McCrae Collection Hugh McCrae Personal Papers Lindsay Family Papers Rex Armitage Personal Papers Last updated 28/01/2020 Page 3 Guide to the Colin Berckelman boxed collection DESCRIPTION OF SERIES Box 1 Item 1 Binder of newspaper clippings [1920-1950]. Item 2 Australian history. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings (1938-1940). Item 3 Index to Berckelman Collection Item 2 scrapbook. Item 4 Book prospectuses (38). Item 5 Book prospectuses (13). Item 6 Book prospectuses (24). Item 7 Book prospectuses (18). Item 8 Book prospectuses (6) and bookseller material (1). Item 9 Science fiction fan material (26). Item 10 Bushrangers. Newspaper clippings [late 1930s to early 1940s]. Item 11 Bushrangers. Newspaper clippings [late 1930s to early 1940s]. Item 12 Bushrangers. Newspaper clippings [late 1930s to early 1940s]. Item 13 ‘The Kelly Gang or The Outlaws of the Wombat Ranges’, published by G. Wilson Hall, Proprietor of the Mansfield Guardian 1879. Photographic copy. Includes title page, preface-p. 19 and pp. 108-112. ‘On the trail of the Kellys’. Photographic copy of image. Item 14 Architecture book [‘Valid Architecture – 9460’]. Galley proofs. Typescript. 63 ff. Item 15 Prices and Rent Control Referendum of 1948. Circulars [all parties] (23). Item 16 Bushrangers. Newspaper clippings [1961]. Item 17 Exhibition invitations, flyers and catalogues. Item 18 Concert and performance material. Programmes and newspaper clippings. Last updated 28/01/2020 Page 4 Guide to the Colin Berckelman boxed collection Item 19 ‘The Kelly Gang: Australian Bushrangers’ by Charles White. Printed and published by Marchant & Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney. Item 20 ‘Captain Moonlight: Australian Bushrangers’ by Charles White. Printed and published by Marchant & Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney. Box 2 Item 21 The Royal Visit 1954. Souvenir booklet. Item 22 Tourism Australia pamphlets (20). Item 23 Taronga Park [opening programme, 7 October 1916]. Item 24 Headstone inscriptions [cemetery not known]. Item 25 Bon Voyage to Hugh D. McIntosh (1908) [autographed]. Item 26 Rejection slips (7). Item 27 Wattle Recordings flyers. 6 ff. Item 28 ‘Narrative of the Mutiny of the Bounty’, pp. 1-32. Item 29 ‘The Atlas’. Galley proofs. Typescript. Item 30 Waxworks catalogues (4). Item 31 Ralph Rashleigh. Newspaper clippings [1951-1953]. Item 32 ‘The squatter’s hornpipe’. Postcard. Item 33 18th century book illustrations (15). Item 34 Hand-painted illustrations (6), “To Robert”. Item 35 Church history, Australia. Newspaper clipping (1) and catalogues (4). Item 36 ‘Report by the Hon. Assistant Secretary concerning the behavior of the Hon. Research Secretary (Mr. A. T. Christine) during the evening of Thursday, 25 May, 1944’. Manuscript and typescript. Item 37 The NIPA NEWS. Vol. 1, No. 14. 1 September 1945 (pp. 1-2). Item 38 ‘To commemorate the arrival of the Australian fleet’. Sydney, 4 October 1913. Last updated 28/01/2020 Page 5 Guide to the Colin Berckelman boxed collection Item 39 Union Jack-Up. No 2 (2 September 1945). Item 40 Temperance material (2). Item 41 Bushland Bulletin, No. 1. [n.d.]. Bushland Notes. Bulletin No. 2 (June 1950). Bushland Notes. Bulletin No. 3 (September 1950). Bushland Notes. Bulletin No. 4 (December 1950). Item 42 Peace Action. Vol. 1, No. 1 (June 1960). Peace Action. Vol. 1, No. 2 (July 1960). Item 43 ‘Airforce today’, published by the Director of Public Relations, Department of Defence (1976). ‘Navy today’, published by the Director of Public Relations, Department of Defence (1976). ‘Neptune’, printed in England for Continental Publishers and Distributors Ltd. (October 1940). Item 44 The Bulletin promotional pamphlet [n.d.] Item 45 Menus (10). Item 46 ‘Lawrence Hargrave: An Appreciation’. Article by W. H. Nicholas. Sea Land and Air, Vol 2, No. 23 (February 1920). Item 47 ‘Our Conquest of the Pacific: The Narrative of the 7,400-Mile Flight from San Francisco to Brisbane in Three Ocean Hops’. Article by Charles E. Kingsford-Smith and Charles T. P. Ulm. The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. LIV, No. 4 (October 1928). ‘Flying the Pacific’. Article by William Burke Miller. The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. LXX, No. 6 (December