The Society has an archival collection
comprising photographs, documents and three-dimensional objects which
are housed in one of three locations, viz. the Maffra Sugar Beet
Museum, the Maffra Public Library (secure section) and the Dairy
Interpretive Centre at Winnindoo. While much of this material is
now catalogued, the catalogue itself is not yet on-line.
Society members will undertake an initial
search on your behalf. Our basic fee is $15, which gives you an
hour's look-up time. This look-up will include an extensive
search of our catalogues and indexes to determine whether or not we
have material relevant to your request/s, a reasonable amount of
copying (if required) and a report back to you indicating what's
available and where. You can then decide whether you need to go
further or not.
Public access is available to each of
the locations and visitors are welcome should you wish to research
personally. However, as access times and availability of
volunteers vary at each location, we suggest that to get the most out
of your visit you contact the Society several weeks prior to your
intended arrival.
If you are unable to get to Maffra,
detailed research can be carried out on your behalf. Costs will
be subject to negotiation.
Contact us for any research
enquiries
Maffra &
District Historical Society Bulletin
1973 to 2004
The Society published 120 editions of the
Bulletin; the content is vast and varied. All editions have been
copied to electronic format and are available. Both an Index of
Names and an Index of Topics and Places are on-line. The Society does
not object to copies being made of these
Indexes for personal, non-profit purposes; be warned though that a hard copy
will occupy 20+ pages in each case.
Purchasing Bulletins
Copies of all Bulletins are available from the Society at $2 each, plus
a set fee of $3.00 for postage, packing and disk (regardless of how many
actual Bulletins you order at the one time)
Each Bulletin will be supplied as a .pdf
file ; you will need an Adobe Acrobat Reader or similar
If there is more than
one reference within a particular Bulletin, you are only required
to obtain that Bulletin once
If you wish to purchase, please click
above; note that payment is required before delivery; see order form for
details
Help required with photographs
MDHS has been given copies of photos taken from a set of C19th albums containing
images of inhabitants of Briagolong, Maffra, Stratford, and Dargo. About
70% have been identified; we have posted the remainder in the hope that visitors
to this page might assist us.
Names of families possibly represented are: Allison, Beecher,
Beeker, Blair, Blake, Butters, Brien, Browne, Brun, Butters, Butters, Cahill,
Carey, Connelly, Corr, Dargan, Dingwall, Dugan, Duthie, Fieldaw, Fitzgibbon,
Forbes, Hardy, Hazlett, Hosking, Hosking, Irwin, Jones, Kelly, King, Kinley,
Knipe, Lee, Liddelow, Lotton, Luke, McInerney, McKenrie, McSween, Meek,
Mitchell, Morrow, O’Connor, Paton, Pollock, Reeves, Rogers, Scott, Sheer, Smyth,
Stothers, Swan, Taylor, Traille, Tulloch, Warren, Warriner, Wier, Wigg
If you are interested, please click
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