Subject	Germany–Emigration and immigration
	German language–Writing
	Socialism
	Sydney (N.S.W.)
	Women
	Photographs
	Research
Category	1. Settlement
	2. National boundaries
	3. World War I
Keywords	Education
	Certificates
Creator	McKeown, Wilma
Current Holder	State Library of New South Wales
Date	1865
Series Number	MLMSS 10086
Item Number	9NamE5WY
Access Rights	Request at location
Rights	Copyright status: Manuscripts – in copyright Approval for reproduction required: No reproduction without prior written approval of copyright holder Out of copyright: Photographs – Created before 1955 Please acknowledge: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Country Of Origin	Germany
	Australia
Place	Sydney
Language	German
	English
Description From Source	A collection comprised of personal papers and photographs from key moments in the life of Bertha McNamara (1853-1931) and research documents. 01. School report of Mathilde Kalkstein, 1865, with translation. 02. Confirmation certificate awarded to Mathilde Kalkstein, 1867, with translation. 03. Letter from Bertha McNamara to the Elberfeldt police in Germany enquiring after her deceased first husband’s inheritance, 1903, with translation. 04. Baptism document of Emilie Mathilde Berta, in German, 18 May 1869. 05. Research documents, provided to Wilma McKeown by the Unions NSW secretary, relating to Bertha McNamara’s legacy. These documents mostly concern Bertha’s legacy as a political activist in Sydney, and correspondence organising a bronze memorial in her honour at the Sydney Trades Hall in Goulburn street. 06. Photographic portrait of family inscribed on reverse ‘Karl von Kalkstein’. 07. Photographic portrait inscribed on reverse ‘Mathilde Emilie Bertha Bredt’ / Anson, Hobart. 08. Photographic portrait inscribed on reverse ‘Grandma Bredt’ / Anson, Hobart. 09. Copy of a photograph of four women and a child identified as: Grandma Vi Brett, Violet David (nee Brett), Bertha Lawson, Mathilde Emilie Bertha Bredt (McNamara) and Wilma G. Brett David, taken at Heidelberg, Victoria, 1930.
Physical Format	Manuscripts
	Certificates
	Typescripts
	Photographs