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Texts related to the state of Western Australia.
Authors
[edit]See also: Category:Western Australian authors
Works
[edit]- 1840: Sailing Directions For The Navigation About Rottnest Island by John Septimus Roe
- 1847: Register of land sale, Armstrong to Hall, 1847
- 1849: Ordinance enabling transportation of convicts to Western Australia by Charles Fitzgerald
- 1849: Resolutions of a Meeting held to determine whether Western Australia should apply to become a Penal Settlement
- 1872: An Australian Parsonage by Janet Millett
- 1878: Report of the Colonial Secretary and Colonial Surgeon on the salaries and emoluments of the assistants in the Perth Hospital and Fremantle Lunatic Asylum Trove record
- 1881: Account of the schooner Ethel being caught in a cyclone by William Shakespeare Hall
- 1899: Report of the Commission Appointed to inquire into the Penal System of the Colony
- 1903: Report on the outbreak of plague at Fremantle (transcription project)
- 2017: Wadjemup speech by Lindsay Dean
Newspapers
[edit]Manuscripts
[edit]- 1834: Henry William Bunbury, diary, Book of Odds and Ends in the Australian Colonies.
- 1895: Sergeant Thomas Wheatley, Diary, 1895. Policeman at Fremantle, Bunbury, Roebourne, and Wyndham.
- c.1920s: Ricard Allen, Reminiscences'. Kimberley, Ashburton, Gascoyne, and Coolgardie.
Works relating to Noongar language
[edit]- The colours in the table below relate to the current page status of the work.
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- Items still under copyright are included here because this is a small corpus of works and it's not impossible to be exhaustive.
Status | Title | Author(s) | Date | Publisher | Notes | Scans | Trove |
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Not proofread | The Australian Race: Its Origins, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent | C. F. Armstrong, C. Taylor, et al. (Edward Micklethwaite Curr, ed.) | 1886 | Government Printer, Melbourne | Yes | 14703121 | |
Problematic | Papers of Daisy Bates | Daisy May Bates | Unpublished | National Library of Australia MS 365. | 17461786 | ||
Problematic | A few notes on some South-Western Australian dialects, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 44, 1914, pp. 65-82. | Daisy May Bates | 1914 | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland | Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2843531 | 172253139 | |
Problematic | Native names for places, birds, fishes, etc. suitable as names of ships | Daisy May Bates | 1907 | Unpublished | Battye Library, PR565/1. | 173671612 | |
Copyright | A Nyoongar Wordlist: from the south-west of Western Australia | Bindon, P. and R. Chadwick (compilers and editors). | 2011 | Western Australian Museum | Probably not suitable for Wikisource? | Not found | |
Problematic | A descriptive vocabulary of the West Australian Aboriginal language | Right Rev. J. Brady, Bishop of Perth | 1899 | T. Bryan, Perth. | 19711312 | ||
Problematic | Aboriginal Proper Nouns in Names from various sources for future reference by the Nomenclature Advisory Committee | Samuel Isaacs (compiled by F. S. Brockman) | 1949 | The Nomenclature Advisory Committee, Department of Land Administration, Perth | Not found | ||
Problematic | South West Aboriginal Language or Dialect – What the Aboriginals term ‘Dornderup Wongie’ And Other Things Concerning Australia generally. Typescript. | Alfred John Bussell | 1930 | Unpublished | Typescript, prepared by Battye Library, Perth, c. 1930. | 172252023 | |
Problematic | A glossary of the Bibbulbmum (i.e. Bibbulmum) language | Davis, J. (compiler and illustrator). | Undated | Unpublished | Typescript, 196-?, Battye Library, Q 499.15 GLO | 38612779 | |
Not proofread | Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Language of Western Australia | George Grey; Charles Macfaull (ed.) | 1839 | Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, Perth | Yes (6 parts) | nla.news-article638998 | |
Problematic | South West | George Grey, edited by Sandra Harben | Undated | Unpublished | Sourced from old Gazetteer Cards, Landgate. | Not found | |
Copyright | ‘Native Vocabulary’ in Names from various sources for future reference by the Nomenclature Advisory Committee | Ethel Hassell | 1949 | The Nomenclature Advisory Committee, Department of Land Administration, Perth | Not found | ||
Problematic | My dusky friends: Aboriginal life, customs and legends and glimpses of station life at Jarramungup in the 1880s | Ethel Hassell | 1975 | C. W. Hassell, Fremantle | 13421072 | ||
Proofread | Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia performed between the years 1818 and 1822 | Philip Parker King | 1827 | J. Murray, London | Vol. 2, pp. 144–7. | Yes | 8483795 |
Proofread | Diary of ten years eventful life of an early settler in Western Australia and also A descriptive vocabulary of the language of the aborigines | George Fletcher Moore | 1841 | University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W. A., facsimile ed., 1978. | Yes | 9388373 | |
Proofread | Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London/Volume 1/Description of the Natives of King George's Sound (Swan River Colony) and adjoining Country | Isaac Scott Nind | 1831 | Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol 1, 1831, pp. 21–51. | Yes | 12967007 | |
Problematic | ‘Native Vocabulary, 1913’ in Names from various sources for future reference by the Nomenclature Advisory Committee | W. J. Rae | 1913 | The Nomenclature Advisory Committee, Department of Land Administration, Perth, 1949 | Not found | ||
Problematic | Wordlist, Stirling Range area, Field Book 8, p. 146, Manuscript | Henry Samuel Ranford | 1875 | Department of Land Administration Library, Midland, Western Australia | Not found (See also all H. S. Ranford items) | ||
Problematic | The Salvado memoirs: historical memoirs of Australia and particularly of the Benedictine mission of New Norcia and of the habits and customs of the Australian natives | Rosendo Salvado (E. J. Storman, ed.) | 1977, first published in 1853 as (Spanish) | University of Western Australia Press | 8489598 | ||
Problematic | Grammatical introduction of the study of the Aboriginal language of Western Australia | Charles Symmons | 1841 | Western Australian Almanack, Perth, 1842, appendix. | 19897168 |