MS 7493
Papers of Ruby Rich (1888-1988)


Biographical Note

Feminist. Born in Walgett, NSW and grew up in Sydney. Concert pianist in London and Sydney. Joined the Feminist Club in Sydney in 1923 and in the next 50 years was a member and office-holder in numerous feminist, family planning, peace, international and Jewish organisations.

Box 1 (Folders 1-7)

Correspondence and some personal papers, newspaper cuttings, politics and
papers of Doctor M. Schalit, 1930-82

Box 2 (Folders 8-16)

Private letters, 1930-79 re:
Women's organisations (especially AFWJ)
Published and non-published articles on Ruby Rich
Papers by Doctor M. Schalit
Women on culture
Ruby Rich versus politics in general
USA - 1937-39
De Burgh tape transcript
Turkish Women's Association
Writings on peace

Box 3 (Folders 17-25)

Writings about Jewish matters (The Jewish National Fund)
Broadcast material on the equal status of women
Broadcasts of Writings
China
Poetry/plays
Doctor Schalit's papers
Family planning
Writings, poems, plays

Box 4 (Folders 26-35)

Ruby Rich's lectures in Queensland, 1936
Broadcasts, 1938-39
Dare We Deny Them
Family planning, 1969
Women in politics, 1951-75
Psycho Analysis
British Chidren and the Second World War

Box 5 (Folders 36-40)

Lectures in Queensland and United Association of Women
Index of tapes
Correspondence with National Library
Co-masonic pamphlets, letters on peace, 1938-76
Masonic material

Box 6 (Folders 41-48)

Dare We Deny Them
Music for play "Tomorrow"
Peace song "Ceasefire"
Notes on prostitution
Association for Moral and Social Hygiene
Papers and reports on prostitution

Box 7 (Folders 49-54)

International Abolition Federation
Prostitution
Association for Moral and Social Hygiene
Freedom from Hunger
Amnesty International

 

Box 8 (Folders 55-63)

Australian Federation of Women Voters

Correspondence, 1946-81

Confidential papers – China

United Nations, 1947

Minutes of Executive Meetings, 1964-71

 

Box 9 (Folders 64-71)

Australian Federation of Women Voters

Correspondence

Articles and clippings

Papers and correspondence

The Dawn newsletter

 

Box 10 (Folders 72-78)

AFWV, 1934-81

Conference minutes

Correspondence, including photographs

 

Box 11 (Folders 79-87)

Board meetings

Minutes, 1936-80

Media clippings, 1967-70

Broadcasts, 1967-70

Equal Pay cases, 1952-69

Women’s Parliament, 1937

Correspondence, 1963-72

Australian Federation of Women Voters

 

Box 12 (Folders 88-95)

International Alliance of Women Congress, 1949-76

IAW, 1961-80

Correspondence and newsletters

 

Box 13 (Folders 96-102)

Women

Celegon Conference, 1955

23rd Triennial Conference, 1973

Family planning, 1973-74

IAW Congress, 1975

International Alliance of Women

 

Box 14 (Folders 103-108)

International Planned Parenthood Association

Business Resolutions, 1973

Newsletters and pamphlets, 1965-72

Family Planning Conference, 1969

Newsletters and pamphlets, 1966-75

Family Planning pamphlets

 

Box 15 (Folders 109-114)

International Planned Parenthood Association

Newsletter, 1968

South East Asia and Japan, 1965-75

Pamphlets and magazines, 1980

Newsletters, 1980

Correspondence and newsletters, 1968-80



Box 16 (Folders 115-125)

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

History

Tour Committee, 1977-78

Australian-Israel Society for Cultural Exchange, 1973-81

Friends of the IPO

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Magazines and pamphlets

Scholarships, 1963-71

Interstate correspondence, 1964



Box 17 (Folders 126-129)

Judge Rainbow Memorial Appeal Fund

Committee and Executive Committee, 1962-80

 
Box 18 (Folders 130-133)

Memorial Appeal Fund

Executive Committee

Publications Crime, 1965-80

Judge Rainbow Memorial Appeal Fund

United Nations

Box 19-23 (Folders 134-164)

Box 19

United Nations

Box 20

UNESCO material

UNICEF

United Nations miscellaneous, 1967-85

Research section

UN Association of Australia

FAO

Box 21

Youth

Racial determination

UNICEF & Information of Children

UNESCO news

UNESCO newsletter, 1977-80

UNESCO & Women

Guide to UN information

Box 22

Children

Charters and declarations

UNAA The reporter, 1955-63

UNAA The reporter, 1960-62

Miscellaneous

Box 23

In Action, 1972-85

 

Box 24 (Folders 165-169)

UN In action, 1973-75

International Labour Organisation

United Nations Posters

Documents on Status of Women

 

Boxes 25-29 (Folders 170-198)

Box 25

General Assembly

Disarmament

UN miscellaneous, including pamphlets and publications

Box 26

UN Miscellaneous

Relief, Administration, women’s role in development

AMNESTY, 1970-71

UN Plimsoll address on international co-operation

Box 27

Assorted pamphlets

Public information

UN and women, 1970

ECAFE – economic situation in Asia

UN Conventions and journals

Box 28

General Assembly

Apartheid

UN and children

Newspaper cuttings, Japan Times, 1967

Economic and Social Council

Box 29

Committee of correspondence

UN miscellaneous

Pamphlets

Press publications

UN Secretariat

Info Services

Status of Women

 

Box 30 (Books)

United Nations Economic and Social Council Posters

 

Boxes 31-32 (Folders 199-211)

Box 31

Pamphlets

UN Association of Australia

UNAA Annual reports, 1972-73

Annual Conference, 1977

Minutes of Annual general meetings, 1968-78

Box 32

International year of human rights, 1968

UN commission on the status of women, 1968-69

Report on the inter-American commission on women

Commission of the status of women

United Nations Association of Australia

 
Box 33 (Folders 212-216)

UN Economic and Social Council

Commission on the status of women

Representations of IAW, 1968

Commonwealth Countries League

Literature and Documents



Box 34 (Folders 217-222)

Commonwealth Countries League

Newsletters, 1983-84

Australian Federation of University Women, 1963-65; 1970

International Federation of Business and professional women

Married Women Association

Pan Pacific and South East Asian Women’s Association

 

Boxes 35-37 (Folders 223-243)

Box 35

Women’s organisations

Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom

Local Government – Australian Women’s Association

United Association of Women – Assorted Associations

Box 36

International Council of Women

Women’s organisations – Big Sister

Assorted women’s association

Box 37

Women’s Organisations

Assorted Women’s organisations

Wilenshi Report, 1978

Pan Pacific and South East Asian Women’s Association of Australia, 1961-76

Australian Liaison Committee

 

Box 38 (Folders 244-250)

NSW Women’s Justice Association

Women’s Bureau, NSW and overseas bureau

The Feminist Club

National Library of correspondence, 1980

Pan Pacific and South East Asian Association of Women

 

Box 39 (Folders 251-258)

WIZO

International Women's Year, 1975

 
Box 40 (Folders 259-265)

International Women's Year, 1975

Denmark's Women Conference, 1980

 
Box 41 (Folders 266-271)

The year of the child

Children and crime

Juvenile delinquency

Crimes conference

 

Box 42 (Folders 272-279)

UN prevention of ‘criminality’, 1960

Prison Aftercase

Israel: juvenile delinquency

WIZO, 1981-82

The Year of the Child, 1975 - Children and Crime

 
Box 43 (Folders 280-286)

WIZO

Human rights

National rights, 1935

Apartheid

Miscellaneous including League of Women votes

Apartheid – SA Defence fund in Australia

 

Box 44 (Folders 287-297)

Family planning minutes, 1971-74

World Population Year

Family Planning

Indonesia Planned Parenthood Association, 1968-72

Australian Crime Prevention

 

Box 45 (Folders 298-302)

Australian Crime Prevention and Correction and After Care Council

World Population Year

Women's Organisations on Crime

Publications of Assorted Australian Rehabilitation Organisations

Box 46 (Folders 303-307)

Children and Crime

Crime

Rehabilitation

Victimless Crime Seminar

"The Social Dilemma" by Paul Wilson, 1971

 
    
Box 47 (Folders 308-312)

Culture – musical artists

Culture – libraries

Culture – book reviews

Culture – Joseph Kretschmann Club

                                                                          

Box 48 (Folders 313-315)

Second Women in Labour Conference Volumes 1 and 2, 1980

Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

Box 49 (Folders 316-322)

Abortion

Equal Pay

Social hygiene

Boxes 50-53 (Folders 323-346)

Box 50

Equal Pay

Box 51

Equal Pay, 1970s

Equal rights international

Australian Federation of Women Voters

Box 52

Equal Pay

AFWV, 1950s

Equal pay – newscuttings

Non-feminist involvement, equal pay, 1940s

Equal Pay – overseas

Box 53

Equal Pay – women’s involvement, 1960s

Newspaper cuttings, 1935-37

IDPFF and India, 1968-75

  

Boxes 54-60 (Folders 347-386)

Box 54

Family planning

NSW magazines and pamphlets

Correspondence, 1940-47

Family planning and the status of women

Box 55

Family planning

People magazine, 1975-79

Newspaper cuttings

Box 56

Family planning pamphlets, population

Family planning in developing countries

Family planning overseas

Box 57

Play ‘Tomorrow’

Preamble to the Spirits Assembly

On the edge of beyond

Family planning

Box 58

Family planning resolutions

Family planning – VD

Pamphlets

Contraception

Abortion

Box 59

Family planning Association of Australia

Miscellaneous official documents

Newsletters, 1971-72

Staff bulletin, 1979-80

FPAA in other states

Box 60

FPAA Annual Reports



Box 61 (Folders 387-390)

Family Planning and the Status of Women

Family planning – population

 

Box 62 (Folders 391-397)

Family Planning

United Nations Human Rights

 
Box 63 (Folders 398-403)

Human Rights

The Unmarried Mother and Child

Feminist Press

Women in Juries

                                              

Box 64 (Folders 404-407)

Human rights

Religions

Women on juries

Guardianship of children

Child endowment

Box 65 (Folders 408-412)

UN Human rights

Population

World Population Year, 1974

 

Box 66 (Folders 413-416)

Women’s material

Committee of Correspondence

Australian Liaison Committee

WIZO

Australian History

 

Box 67 (Folders 417-423)

Prostitution

 

Box 68 (Folders 424-427)

Racial hygiene - The minute books were transfered to the Mitchell Library -
NLA is keeping the photocopies.

Margaret Sanger and Josephine Butler

Box 69 (Folders 428-433)

Australian suffragettes

British suffragettes

                                                                    

Box 70 (Folders 434-438)

Slavery - Women and politics

Local Government Law Employment

 

Box 71 (Folders 439-443)

Women - Australia, America, World War Two

Women in the church

New Dawn magazine

 
Box 72 (Folders 444-450)

Women and work

Women and unions in Australia

Pamphlets

Women’s equality in employment

 

Boxes 73-74 (Folders 451-465)

UN and the status of women

Material on women, 1981-79

 

Box 75 (Folders 466-473)

The Status of Women

Peace Issues

 
Box 76 (Folders 474-481)

Newspaper cuttings, articles and poems

Peace organisations

American, British and Australian plans for peace and construction (WW2)

 

Boxes 77-79 (Folders 482-490)

World War Two plans for peace and reconstruction

 

Box 80 (Folders 491-495)

World War Two plans for peace and reconstruction - includes colour portraits

 

Box 81 (Folders 496-503)

Newscuttings and photographs

WIZO photographs

 

Box 82 (Folders 504-510)

World Federalists

Federal Union

Viola Smith

 

Boxes 83-84 (Folders 511-524)

Miscellaneous

Equal rights

Animal rights

Personal letters

Memoir material – photographs, letters

 

Box 85 (Folders 525-530)

Miscellaneous - includes certificate "Rebecca Sieff Award"

Quotations – scrapbooks

Vida Goldstein

 

Box 86 (Folders 531-539)

Women’s Day, 1978

Famous women

Quotations – scrap books

 

Box 87 (Folders 540-547)

Miscellaneous - includes portrait

Jessie Street

 
Box 88 (Folders 548-554)

Freedom from Hunger

Sex education Open Door

International Poverty in Australia

 

Box 89 (Folders 555-561)

Miscellaneous - includes World Federation and Government

Women

Equal Pay

People in cultural activities

 

Box 90 (Folders 562-570)

Also includes correspondence regarding the International Alliance of Women

Publications include: Women of Europe, 1981-83

      

Box 91 (Folders 571-577)

Publications include: British Commonwealth League, Commonwealth Countries League

International Women’s News, Women of Europe, 1963-84

 

Box 92 (Folders 578-583)

Publications include: United Nations, Commonwealth Countries League Newsletter , 1963-84

 
Box 93 (Folders 584-589)

Publications include: Current Affairs Bulletin, Current Notes on
International Affairs

Box 94 (Folders 590-593)

Publications include:Current Notes on International Affairs, International
Labour Office (ILO), 1951-70


Box 95 (Folders 594-600)

Publications include:
Australian Women's Digest
Nation's Forum of the Air
League of Women's Voters of South Australia
Peace and Freedom
Equality

 
Box 96 (Folders 601-607)

Publications include:
Equality
The Shield
Publications on population

Box 97 (Folders 608-614)

Publications include:
Children and their Law-makers
World View
ILO

 
Box 98 (Folders 615-621)

Publications include: (1948-68)

ILO

Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE)

Box 99 (Folders 622-629)

Publications (1968-73) include: ECAFE

 
Box 100 (Folders 630-637)

Publications include: ECAFE

World Alliance News Letters

Traffic in Women

Box 101 (Folders 638-644)

Publications and miscellaneous articles include: Peace and Freedom crime prevention

Box 102 (Folders 645-649)

Publications and miscellaneous articles include: Crime Prevention Congress of the United Nations

Box 103 (Folders 650-657)

Publications and miscellaneous articles

Box 104 (Folders 658-663)

Publications and miscellaneous articles include war issues and religion

Box 105 (Folders 664-669)

Publications and miscellaneous articles include The Dawn, 1936-58

Box 106 (Folders 670-676)

Publications include:
The Dawn
Publications on population

Box 107 (Folders 677-686)

Publications (1946-80) include:

Publications on population

International Women's News

Boxes 108-109 (Folders 687-702

Publications include:

International Women's News


Box 110 (added 1995)

Letters and correspondence

Miscellaneous papers

Printed material

Conference/committee papers