Papers of Henry E. Boote, 1902-1949 [manuscript]
- Bib ID:
- 677190
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Boote, Henry E. (Henry Ernest), 1868-1949
- Access Conditions:
- Available for research. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- [1902-1949]
- 14 cm.
- Summary:
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Press clippings about the Australian Labor Movement from 1916-1942. The Australian Worker and Workers Weekly Biographical notes and epigram by Boote. Photographs of Boote and other Labor leaders, 1913-1928. The Bath by Henry Handel Richardson, P.R. Stephensen, 1933. Copies of magazines and newspapers.
- Biography/History:
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Henry Boote was born in Liverpool, England. In 1889 he emigrated to Australia and worked in Brisbane for 5 years as a jobbing compositor. During this period he contributed to the Queensland Worker. In 1894, Boote went to Bundaberg to edit the Bundaberg Guardian, a Labor paper. In 1897 he was invited by Andrew Fisher to start Gympie Truth. Boote was editor of Queensland Worker in 1902 and in 1911 he became leader and feature writer under Hector Lamond in the Australian Worker. He was active in the war years in the anti-conscription movement and in 1927 he was a trustee of the N.S.W. Public Library and later elected to membership of the Mitchell Library Committee.
- Notes:
- Manuscript reference no. : MS 6699.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1902-1949
- Occupation:
- Journalists
- Other authors/contributors:
- Richardson, Henry Handel, 1870-1946. Bath
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
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