Sedgwick Migration Photographs

A collection of 3 albums (now disbound) containing a small number of original photographs as well as letters, pamphlets, press cuttings and memoranda. The photographs are spread throughout volumes 1 and 2. Volume 3, 1913- (which was marked vol. IV inside) has no original photographs. Images reproduced in cuttings and articles are not listed.

Thomas Sedgwick (d. 1929) was a vigorous advocate of juvenile emigration. He led a party of fifty British boys to New Zealand in 1910 to carry out farm work, and took a further fifty boys to Ontario in 1912.

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Presented by Thomas Sedgwick in 1928.

Includes index.

The albums are described at RCMS 31 in the manuscripts catalogue, and are stored in the Manuscripts Collection.

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

The original scrap-books have been disbound.

Sedgwick's activities are summarised in: Simpson, D. (ed.) (1962), Thomas Sedgwick and Juvenile Migration, Royal Commonwealth Society, Library Notes With List of Accessions, New Series No. 71, p.1-3. There is a passing reference to him as a minor philanthropist in Constantine, Stephen (ed.) (1990), Emigrants and empire: British settlement in the dominions between the wars, Manchester : Manchester University Press. There is also an account of him in Bean, Philip and Melville, Joy (1989), Lost children of the Empire, London : Unwin Hyman.

This collection level description was entered by KS and RAS using information from the original typescript catalogue.

Sedgwick, Thomas E, d 1929