Shannon Family Manuscripts

These manuscripts contain the personal and business papers of the Shannon Family of Saltbush Park, Cardowan and Blenheim stations.

John Shannon arrived in Rockhampton in 1864 and took up land in 1865, Saltbush Park becoming his home station in 1872. His youngest son Alan was Manager from 192? to 1946, when Alan Jnr (b. 1925) became Manager of Cardowan Grazing Company.

The manuscript collection was deposited by Alan Shannon Jr. and includes diaries, correspondence, station books, work agreements, and photos. Files remain as deposited, but covers have been replaced.

The Logan Collection includes photographs of members of the Shannon family and properties.

List of Shannon Family manuscripts:

Call number MS A58/110-136:

• Diaries, correspondence and accounts from 1865 - 1950's (MS A58/110-117)
  
• Correspondence and accounts from 1910 - 1960's (MS A58/118-127)
  
• Accounts 1900 - 1951 (MSA58/129-136)
  
• Complete list of items at call number MS A58/110-136

Call number MS X10/128:

• A Saltbush Park station journal (34 x 22 cm.), partially indexed, commenced 1877 and dealing with many aspects of the station's management in the 1870s and 1880s.
• An exercise book, endorsed "S H Crompton, Provisional School, Nebo, 1885", used as a diary by "R M Shannon, Saltbush Park, St Lawrence" for the period November 1887 to February 1888.
• An "album" scrapbook (34 x 27 cm.) containing an eclectic assembly of material, mostly newspaper clippings and prints, formed by Maude J Shannon between 1906 and the end of World War I; a number of loose items (the latest a newspaper clipping dated 1986) were later inserted between the scrapbook pages.
• A number of photographs, some of which have been identified, are mostly recent reprints.
• Loose papers inside cover of Saltbush Park Journal and R M Shannon's Diary.
• Complete list of items at call number MS X10/128.

Call number MS W2/2078-2080

• Summary of correspondence from 1900 - 1916
  
• Work agreement made under "The Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Acts, 1897 to 1901" between John Shannon and George Budby
  22 August 1906 (manuscript item 2078/2 - 7)
  
• Handwritten letter to Mrs Margaret Shannon from Robert Archer re Stone Hill Paddock and prickly pear, dated 4th July, 1912 (manuscript item 2078/3 - 22)
  
• Inward correspondence from Stanley to John Shannon re fencing, water and fire, dated 12th July, 1906 (manuscript item 2078/4 - 20)
  
• Details of correspondence 1900 - 1916 (MS W2/2078 - 1)
• Details of correspondence 1900 - 1916 (MS W2/2078 - 2)
• Details of correspondence 1900 - 1916 (MS W2/2078 - 3)
• Details of correspondence 1900 - 1916 (MS W2/2078 - 4)
• Details of correspondence 1900 - 1916 (MS W2/2078 - 5)
• Details of correspondence 1900 - 1916 (MS W2/2079 - 1)
• Details of correspondence 1900 - 1916 (MS W2/2079 - 2-4)
• This donation also included eighteen boxes of glass plate negatives. No comprehensive list exists at this time. Some photographs have been reprinted from these negatives.
• Complete list of items at call number MS W2/2078-2808

Logan Collection photographs

A collection of photographs including members of the Shannon family. Originals are in the care of Alastair Logan, 'Kia Ora', Wallangra, NSW.