Media Archives Project

    
Content Summary
            
-- Newspapers: 
-- Hard copy and microfilm, and indexes to 1960 for local newspapers:
-- "Berrima District Post", 1960-1969 
-- "Bowral Free Press", 1883-1906 
-- "The Four Mails", 1942-1954
-- "Goulburn Evening Penny Post", 1870-1900
-- "Goulburn Herald", 1848-1908 
-- "Highlands Post/News", 1981-present  
-- "Mittagong Argus", 1902-1906
-- "Mittagong Express", 1899-1902
-- "Mittagong Star", 1927-1932 and 1956-1960
-- "Moss Vale Post", 1929-1958
-- "The Moss Vale Scrutineer", 1900-1907
-- "The Post", 1979-1981 
-- "Robertson Advocate", 1920-1915
-- "Southern Highland News", 1871-1988 
-- "The Southern Mails", 1914-1942
-- "Wollondilly Press", 1904-1906

-- Other publications:
-- Berrima District Historical and Family History Society "Newsletter", 1975-present (also on website from November 2009)
-- Journals and newsletters of many historical and family history societies throughout Australia
-- Bound sets of Royal Australian Historical Society Journals, 1900-present

-- Papers, press cuttings and other information on local families, including on:
-- William McCourt (and his son William Murdoch McCourt), founder of "The Moss Vale Scrutineer" in 1874 (later MP and Speaker in NSW Legislative Assembly), research papers and archival objects, 1890s-1930s  
-- Beer family, founders and managers of the "Bowral Free Press", research material, photographs, family trees, etc., c1890-1940s
    

    
Comments
            
Researchers can do their own research in the archive, or can request by phone or email that research be done for them. Fees apply in both cases for non-members of the Society. A computer catalogue is available on site. The Archives and Research Centre is open Mondays and Tuesdays 10-4 and Saturdays 10-1. Other times by appointment.