Geelong Law Association Picnics

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• The Geelong Law Association Picnics
• Arrangement of material
• About the Geelong Lawyers' Collection
• Lawyers and law associations in the collection

The Geelong Law Association Picnics by Vivian Hill
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What a great leveller these picnics were.  What pleasure it must have given the postage clerk to bowl out the senior partner for a zero score in the cricket match.  Why did they cease?  Was it the fear of democracy in the office?  Did the increased number of women on the staff bring about their demise?  In the early pictures those at the picnic are all men.  The photographs in this collection show lawyers and their staff enjoying themselves on a day out in the fresh air.  Other associations and trades had picnic days.  The law picnics seem to have stopped about the commencement of the 1939-45 war.  When all the staff and all principals were male it was not surprising that a game of cricket was the focus but later on a day at the beach was more popular.

Arrangement of material

The list below describes material held in the Geelong Law Association Picnics archive box, which is located at 340.099452 Geelon Hil/Glp on the shelves in the Geelong Lawyers' Collection within the Special Collection at the Waterfront campus.  The material has been arranged in date order. 

Date	Title	Item no.
1886	Photograph law holiday cricket and dinner.  Corio Cricket Ground [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP1
1893	Photograph law picnic [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP2
1894	Photograph law picnic at Barwon Heads [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP3
1896	Photograph law picnic at Clifton Springs [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP4
1897	Photograph law picnic at Barwon Heads [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP5
1898	Photograph law picnic [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP6
1900	Photograph law picnic [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP7
14/2/1907	Photograph law picnic at You Yangs [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP14
15/2/1907	Photocopy of Geelong Advertiser cutting re picnic at the You Yangs [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP13
10/3/1910	Photograph - News of the Week [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP15
10/3/1910	Photograph - News of the Week - Law picnic at Anakie Gorge [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP16
1921	Photograph law picnic - assembled at Yarra Street [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP8
1922	Photograph in Yarra Street ready to leave for law picnic [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP9
1923	Photograph law picnic at Point Roadknight [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP10
1928	Photograph law picnic [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP11
26/1/1929	Typewritten script of Geelong Advertiser article 'Geelong Law Association Picnic Sports Programme' [Click on image to enlarge it.]	GLP12

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