Guide to Archives Relating to Aboriginal People
Archives of Government Agencies
- The following is a series listing according to Government Agency Recording.
- Unless agency is stated to be "Commonwealth" all agencies listed are either Northern Territory Government agencies created since self-government in 1978 or agencies whose title did not alter with the change from Commonwealth to Northern Territory Administration.
- Predecessor Agencies which do not have separate listing are recorded chronologically at the start of the listing of their subsequent agency.
The information listed below is ordered alphabetically
ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
NTRS 1753 Correspondence relating to Aboriginal matters 1982-1992
AREYONGA SCHOOL
NTRS 684 School Records 1958-1973
BAGOT SCHOOL
NTRS 1841 Enrolment list 1950-1959
NTRS 1842 Work programmes 1966-1967
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE - and the following predecessor Commonwealth Agencies:
1924-1927 Commissioner of Police (1)
1928-1931 Inspector of Police (11)
1931-1960 Superintendent of Police
F 284
1) List of Police Trackers on Strength 1926-1946
2) Ex-trackers Trust Fund Balances
DAGARAGU COMMUNITY COUNCIL
NTRS 848 General Records 1972-1980
DARWIN CITY COUNCIL
NTRS 234 Photographic copyprints of Palmerston, Port Darwin c.1880
DEPARTMENT OF THE CHIEF MINISTER
NTRS 1570 Miscellaneous Correspondence Folders and Reports relating to Aborigines
(recorded by David Pollock, Member of the Legislative Assembly 1974-1977
NTRS 908 Tennant Creek Aboriginal Liaison Files 1978-1987
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - ABORIGINAL DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
NTRS 366 Aboriginal Development General Correspondence Files - annual single number series with 'AD' Prefix 1979-1986
DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - COMMUNITY WELFARE DIVISION (and predecessor agencies)
1946-1973 : Administrator, Northern Territory - Welfare Branch
1973-1975 : Department of Northern Territory - Social Development Branch (1)
1975 : Department of Northern Australia - Social Development Branch
1975-1978 : Department of Northern Territory - Social Development Branch (2)
F 940 Correspondence Files "F" (Fostering) - single number series 1959-1974
F 941 Correspondence Files - annual single number series 1959-1978
F 942 Correspondence Files 'A' (Alleviation of Distress) - single number series 1946-1975
F 943 Correspondence files 'C' (Children) - single number series 1959-1967
F 944 Correspondence files 'SC' (State Child) - single number series 1959-1976
F 1057 Correspondence files 'FLA' (Family Law Act) - annual single number series 1976-1979
F 1411 Correspondence files 'SD' (Social Development) - single number series 1974-1980
DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - WELFARE SERVICES BRANCH - TENNANT CREEK REGIONAL OFFICE
NTRS 1619 Miscellaneous Registered Correspondence files 1958-1980
(1958-1978 Agency Recording: District Welfare Office, Lindsay)
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
NTRS 1122 Linguistic Records of Maningrida Community Education Centre 1989-1990
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, ABORIGINAL LAND BRANCH
NTRS 985 Aboriginal Land Branch Files 1978-1986
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND HOUSING
NTRS 986 Permit Applications to Enter Aboriginal Land 1987-1988
DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, LAND ADMINISTRATION BRANCH (Commonwealth) - and the following predecessor Commonwealth Agencies:
1925-1931 Lands & Survey Department
1931-1972 Lands & Survey Branch
1972-1978 Lands Branch
F 629 Correspondence Files, 'Mission Lease' series 1926-1976
NTRS 473 Mission Lease Files with 'ML' Prefix 1926-1976
DEPARTMENT OF MINES & ENERGY
NTRS 1737 Papers of T.C. Lovegrove, Secretary of Mines & Energy, concerning Land Rights Negotiations 1974-1986
DOCKER RIVER SETTLEMENT
NTRS 831 Docker River Settlement Administration Records 1968-1973
LOCAL COURT - ALICE SPRINGS
NTRS 1567 Hermannsburg Court Book 1965-1970
MAGISTRATES COURT -DARWIN
NTRS 1611 Case Files of Courts of Summary Jurisdiction held at Rose River Mission 1959
MINES BRANCH (Commonwealth)
F 333 Duplicate Aboriginal Pay Sheets, Hatches Creek 1943-1944
POLICE STATION - ADELAIDE RIVER (Commonwealth)
F 240 Police Journals 1946-1977
F 1323 Charge Books 1960-1975
F 1324 Radio Log Books 1965-1977
POLICE STATION - ALICE SPRINGS (Commonwealth)
F 68 Correspondence files - alphabetical single number series 1928-1945
F 69 Correspondence files - annual single number series 1945-1949
F 70 Correspondence files - annual single number series 1950-1955
F 80 Correspondence files of Curator of Convicts' Estates 1933-1947
F 81 Correspondence files relating to Death and Deceased Estates 1935-1951
F 82 Criminal Offence Reports 1943-1958
F 83 Correspondence file relating to Mental Defective 1949
F 84 Correspondence file, Complaints, Enquiries and Criminal Cases 1930-1955
POLICE STATION - ALICE SPRINGS (Commonwealth) (Cont'd)
F 91 Important Happening Returns 1948-1956
F 255
1) Police Journals, Officer-in-Charge 1886-1956
2) Police Journal 1943-1945
F 256
1) Police Journals (Office on duty) 11930-1956
2) Police Journal (recorded by Police Station Platelayers' Camp) 1928-1929
3) List of Persons in Receipt of Relief Work and Destitute Rations 1932-1941
F 884 Day Journals - unregistered series (recorded by the Criminal Investigation Branch) 1960-1967
F 885 Day Journals - single number series (recorded by the Criminal Investigation Branch) 1967-1974
POLICE STATION - ANTHONY'S LAGOON (Commonwealth)
F 242 Police Journals 1929-1962
F 243 Inquest Book 1898-1936
F 244 1) Police Journal 1906
F 245 Mortuary Book 1890-1949
POLICE STATION - BARROW CREEK (Commonwealth)
F 258
1) Police Journals 1926-1937
2) Outwards Correspondence 1926-1929
POLICE STATION - BATCHELOR (Commonwealth)
NTRS 1503 Police Journals and Miscellaneous Volumes 1954-1968
POLICE STATION - BORROLOOLA (Commonwealth)
F 265 Inquest Book 1889-1930
F 268 Police Journals 1899-1948
F 275 Outwards Letter Book 1886-1921
POLICE STATION - BROCKS CREEK (Commonwealth)
F 280 Police Journals 1926-1948
POLICE STATION - DALY RIVER (Commonwealth)
F 277 Letter Book 1925-1931
F 278 Police Journals 1906-1934
POLICE STATION - DARWIN - and Predecessor Commonwealth Agencies:
1933-1942 : Superintendent of Police
1942-1978 : Police Station - Darwin (Commonwealth)
F 282 Day Journals 1933-1978
F 498 Enquiries into Death Files - unregistered series 1959-1964
F 500 Enquiries into Death Files - N (Natives) series 1957-1960
POLICE STATION - ELLIOTT (Commonwealth)
F 492 Police Journals 1951-1972
POLICE STATION - FINKE (Commonwealth) - and Predecessor Agencies:
1905-1912 : Police Station - Illumurta
1912-1930 : Police Station - Alice Well
1930-1938 : Police Station - Charlotte Waters
1938-1939 : Police Station - Finke
F 241
1) Police Journals 1916-1948
2) Aboriginal Licences and Permits granted 1915
3) Correspondence relating to Death of Aboriginal 'Larry Doolan' 1939
POLICE STATION - FREW RIVER (Commonwealth)
F 608 Mortuary Book (also Newcastle Waters and Powell's Creek) 1893-1951
POLICE STATION - GROOTE EYLANDT (Commonwealth) - and Predecessor Agency:
1933-1938 : Police Camp - Groote Eylandt
F 494 Police Journal 1933-1934
F 1340 Day Journal 1970-1978
POLICE STATION - HARTS RANGE (Commonwealth) - and Predecessor Agencies:
1885-1897 : Police Station - Yardea
1888-1887 : Police Station - Hammond
1897-1899 : Police Station - Nectar Brook
1899-1944 : Police Station - Arltunga
F 260 Police Journals 1940-1951
F 296 Police Journals (see also Police Station - Hatches Creek) 1937-1950
POLICE STATION - HATCHES CREEK (Commonwealth)
F 296 Police Journals 1937-1950
POLICE STATION - KATHERINE/EMUNGALEN (Commonwealth)
F 291
1) Police Journal 1919-1922
2) Charge Book 1913
F 297 Police Journals 1915-1941
F 615 Register of names of Persons Charged with Supplying Liquor to Aborigines 1907-1914
F 618 Inquest Book 1887-1941
NTRS 1060 Mortuary Book (Copy) 1887-1941
POLICE STATION - LAKE NASH (Commonwealth)
F 298 Police Journals 1919-1950
POLICE STATION - LARRIMAH (Commonwealth and NT)
F 293 See Entry : Police Station - Mataranka
F 295 Police Journals 1958-1974
POLICE STATION - MANINGRIDA (Commonwealth and NT)
F 1353 Police Journals 1972-1979
POLICE STATION - MARANBOY (Commonwealth)
F 290 Police Journals 1928-1932, 1946-1979
POLICE STATION - MATARANKA (Commonwealth and NT)
F 293
1) Police Journals 1928-1978
2) Police Journals 1940-1941
3) Police Journals 1944
POLICE STATION - NEWCASTLE WATERS (Commonwealth)
F 493 Police Journals (also Powell's Creek) 1913-1952
F 608 Mortuary Book (also Powell's Creek and Frew River) 1893-1951
POLICE STATION - OENPELLI (Commonwealth)
F 1356 Police Journals 1977
POLICE STATION - PINE CREEK (Commonwealth)
F 294 Police Journals 1882-1948
F 309 Register of all Prisoners brought to the Police Gaol, Pine Creek 1916-1933
F 310 General Description of Prisoners at Pine Creek Police Gaol 1916-1933
POLICE STATION (CAMP) PLATELAYERS CAMP (Commonwealth)
F 256
1) Police Journals (Officer on Duty) 1930-1956
2) Police Journal 1928-1929
3) List of Persons in receipt of Relief work and destitute rations 1932-1941
POLICE STATION - POWELL'S CREEK (Commonwealth)
F 493 Police Journals (also Newcastle Waters) 1913-1952
F 608 Mortuary Book (also for Newcastle Waters and Frew River) 1893-1951
POLICE STATION - RANKINE RIVER (Commonwealth)
F 300 Police Journal 1930-1949
POLICE STATION - ROPER RIVER (Commonwealth)
F 299 Police Journal 1928-1932
POLICE STATION - TENNANT CREEK (Commonwealth)
F 303 Police Journals 1933-1969
POLICE STATION - TI TREE (Commonwealth)
F 1335 Police Journals 1959-1977
POLICE STATION - TIMBER CREEK (Commonwealth) - and Predecessor Agency:
1894-1898 : Police Station - Gordon Creek
F 302 Police Journals 1894-1977
POLICE STATION - WAVE HILL (Commonwealth) - and Predecessor Agency1914-1918 : Police Station - Bow Hill
F 292 Police Journals 1916-1977
SUPREME COURT OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
E 198 Adoption Dockets - annual single number series 1972-1975
NTRS 403 Supreme Court Adoption Files - annual single number series 1977-1983
