FRYER LIBRARY Manuscript Finding Aid UQFL361 Rosemary Opala Collection Size
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Sketches, biographical material, photographs, artwork and short stories related to Rosemary Opala’s nursing career and her work as an illustrator and writer of popular magazine fiction.
Biography
Rosemary Opala (nee Fielding) was born in Bundaberg, Queensland in 1923. She trained as a nurse at Brisbane General Hospital during World War II, worked at the Peel Island Lazaret in the late 1940s, and eventually became a nursing supervisor at Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, she wrote popular magazine fiction and later wrote non-fiction, with an emphasis on Queensland and its history. She illustrated Going to the Gums: The Lazaret on Peel Island (2009).
Notes Open access Box 1 Folder 1
Sketches of scenes from the Brisbane General Hospital, [between 1940 and 1945 – most done in 1942]: 38 items, 23 x 30 cm or smaller: 1)
Casualty: It’s the nerves of me stummick – they’re twisted. (pencil & ink : 15 x 22cm)
Occupational therapy. (pencil & ink : 25 x 16cm)
Casualties. (pencil & ink : 18 x 14cm)
The blue coat. (watercolour : 11 x 15cm)
The sutures. (pastel & ink : 13 x 18cm)
R.M.O. on call for Casualty spends an unhappy night on one of the couches. (pastel & ink : 15 x 12cm)
[Gloving-up]. (pastel, ink & watercolour : 14 x 18cm)
Between operations. (pastel, ink & watercolour : 18 x 14cm)
Sunday morning. (ink & pastel : 14 x 18cm)
Day’s end. (ink & watercolour : 27 x 18cm)
The unrepentant. (ink & pastel : 14 x 21cm)
2:30 A.M. (ink & pastel : 14 x 15cm)
Nurses off duty. (ink & pastel : 25 x 16cm)
Casualty : old man with broken leg. (ink & watercolour : 22 x 14cm)
Casualty : man with broken ribs. (ink, pastel & watercolour : 14 x 21cm)
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[Five nurses off duty, two reading a newspaper] (pencil & ink : 8 x 8cm)
[Three nurses leaning over stair rail] (pencil & ink : 9 x 9cm)
The guinea pigs. (ink & watercolour : 30 x 23cm)
[Doctor and nurse examining patient’s foot] (pastel & watercolour :
Casualty : wet Sunday. (ink, pastel & watercolour : 22 x 19cm)
Baby dead of diptheria. (pencil & watercolour : 14 x 14cm)
Gran at 7 A.M. (ink & watercolour : 13 x 18cm)
Scabie Georgie. (ink & watercolour : 8 x 14cm)
Gentlemen of leisure. (ink & watercolour : 21 x 14cm)
[Patient in bed, person in chair with legs raised] (watercolour &
31) R.M.O. putting in I.V. drip. (watercolour & pencil : 15 x 23cm) 32)
[Operating room] (ink & watercolour : 28 x 22cm)
Night round. (ink & pastel : 15 x 23cm)
Students. (ink & watercolour : 22 x 15cm)
Post-tonsillectomy. (pen & watercolour : 20 x 17cm)
Return from theatre. (ink & watercolour : 18 x 14cm)
Casualty : hot day. (ink, pastel & watercolour : 26 x 19cm)
[Operation] (ink, pastel & watercolour : 28 x 21cm)
• Brief curriculum vitae, May 31, 2002, 1 p.
• Drawing of Hibiscus tiliaceus (Cotton Tree)
• Photograph of Rosemary Opala, taken in December 2001
• ‘Wanted * A Tidy Girl as a Nurse’, 10 p. [written to accompany the above sketches]
• ‘The Trees of Paradise’, 8 p. [Author notes this essay is ‘on schooldays in Palmwoods in the
Depression. Also called ‘When Dad Went Broke on Bananas!’’]
• ‘Sharing Lost Lives’, 2 p. [Account of the author’s time as a nurse at the Peel Island Lazaret
• ‘A Speck on the Map’, 9 p. [fuller account of the author’s time at the Peel Island Lazaret]
• E.J. Reye, ‘Leprosy’, 14 Sept. 1988, 3 p. [discusses the medical understanding of leprosy in
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• ‘Comments on The Lost Years by June Berthelsen’, 1996, 4 p.
• ‘A Legend of Leprosy in Moreton Bay’, Australian Folklore 12, 1997, pp220-223.
• ‘Building An Island Home’, January 1993, 5 p. [short account of Coochiemudlo Island life in
• ‘Coochiemudlo – ‘The Sixth Island’’, [c. 1993], 10 p. [fuller account of Coochiemudlo Island
• ‘Islands Revisited’, Version A, 3 p. [short account of Peel and Coochiemudlo Islands]
• ‘Islands Revisited’, Version B, 9 p. [fuller account of Peel and Coochiemudlo Islands ‘written
just prior to NPWS assuming management of Peel Island’]
• ‘Necessary Monsters’, 8 p. [on sea monsters and other legends]
• ‘Those Were the Days, My Friend….’, 4 p. [account of Brisbane life in the 1950s and the
• ‘Outward Bound’, 9 p. [historical essay on experiences of early Australian emigrants]
• Ethel Fielding, ‘A little world of insects’, [c. 1975], 21 p. [with covering note by Rosemary
Opala discussing her mother’s writing career]
• ‘I remember the rose: a study in communication’, The Australian Nurses’ Journal, Vol 9, No.
• ‘Mandy Comes to Stay’, The Australian Women’s Mirror, April 27, 1960, pp4-28.
Also in Box Magazine stories written in the late 1950s and early 1960s:
• ‘Change of Air’, All Story Magazine, No. 7, [n.d.], pp80-88.
• ‘My Battle with Talent’, The New Idea, March 12, 1958, p11.
• ‘Behind the Big Window’, The New Idea, May 28, 1958, p31.
• ‘Mushrooms are Funny Things!’, The New Idea, June 11, 1958, p10.
• ‘At the Bottom of Our Garden’, The New Idea, August 20, 1958, pp10-11.
• ‘Home is a Lovely Word’, New Idea, April 24, 1963, pp.6-43.
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• ‘Nightingale in Suburbia’, The Australian Women’s Mirror, January 8, 1958, p11.
• ‘Happy Days That Were’, The Australian Women’s Mirror, June 4, 1958, p13.
• ‘Why Not a Verandah?’, The Australian Woman’s Mirror, June 18, 1958, pp.10-29.
• ‘I Married a New Australian’, Woman, August 29, 1955, pp. 14-15.
• ‘The ministering angel with tired feet’, Woman, May 14, 1956, pp20-21.
• ‘The unwanted stranger’, Woman’s Day, July 28, 1958, pp20-45.
• ‘Afternoon of a hero’, Woman’s Day, April 27, 1959, pp20-59.
• ‘The White Rabbit’, Woman’s Day, November 9, 1959, pp20-63.
• ‘The Well’, Woman’s Day, December 12, 1960, pp.36-108.
• ‘So Quiet, So Deep’, Woman’s Day, May 22, 1961, pp21-70.
• ‘Tiger Under the Tree’, Woman’s Day, July 10, 1961, pp35-44.
• ‘Each heart has its Winter’, Woman’s Day, July 24, 1961, pp29-59.
• ‘Late Christmas’, Woman’s Day, July 31, 1961, pp20-24.
• ‘The Gift’, Woman’s Day, December 14, 1964, pp31-34.
Box 2 Photograph Albums: [mostly undated and no descriptions]
Album 1: Family photographs and photocopies of photographs [late 1800s? to modern day] Album 2: Coloured photographs showing scenery and vegetation of Coochiemudlo Island? [1990s onwards?] Album 3: Coloured photographs of area around Noosa, Rainbow Beach and Cooloola [some dated 1990] Album 4: Coloured photographs of Caloundra bell swamp, Moolalah River Park area. Includes photographs of Lois Davis, Cressy Walters and members of WPSQ Caloundra [early 1990s] Includes loose poem ‘Christmas Bells’ and three early photographs of Caloundra – Happy Valley 1919, Caloundra Heads, Sept 1900 and King’s Beach [undated] [all in back pocket of album] Item 5 Two diplomas admitting Rosemary Opala to College of Nursing and photograph of her at graduation [1976-1977]
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FRYER LIBRARY Manuscript Finding Aid Box 3 Album 1: Coloured photograph album includes photographs of Cobby Cobby Island, Eprapah, Woodgate Beach and other areas. Appears to be album of group excursions to various wetland areas [1990s?] Album 2: Coochie [Coochiemudlo] - Late 40s early 50s [includes loose plastic pockets with photographs] Folder 3 14 photographs [coloured and black and white] including Sunshine coast hinterland, replica Weyba Ck bridge under construction, Heather and Lois on ‘Heathers Hill’ [1993?], photograph of shack of Mr Harold Fielding in late 1940s for his daughter Rosemary (later Opala), unnamed photographs possibly Coochiemudlo and Victoria Point, 1 photo of Point Lookout Stradbroke Island 1940s. Also sketch of boat, two newspaper cuttings, photocopy of woman in row boat, Certificate of appreciation awarded to Rosemary Opala 2001, and certificate of Honorary Life membership from Friends of Peel Island Association Inc 2007 Item 4 Boxed Australia Day medal Rosemary Opala 2005 Cultural Parcel 4 Unnamed album of coloured photographs– appears to be Coochiemudlo [1950s onwards?] Box 5
Folder 1 Typescript of Chronicles of Coochiemudlo by Twelve Authors. The Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Correspondence relating to the publication of above material and talk at the Conference (1993- 1995) Folder 2 Folder of articles by Rosemary Opala including ‘The Old School Reader’, ‘Consider the lilies’, ‘Give me a home among the Banksias’ and items from Local group newsletters with assorted illustrations Folder 3 Botanical articles and some Peel Island material (2001-2005) by Rosemary Opala together with Toohey Forest Protection Society calendar 1996 illustrated by Rosemary Opala Folder 4 Articles and correspondence relating to Thespesia populnea conservation work (1996-2007) – with two watercolour drawings Folder 5 Folder of newspaper cuttings of Rosemary Opala’s botanical writings (1994-1999)
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FRYER LIBRARY Manuscript Finding Aid Folder 6 Newspaper cuttings relating to Rosemary Opala’s nomination and award of Living Treasure 2002, Certificates of appreciation from Redland District, Australian Day Cultural Award and general biographical information (1997-2007) Folder 7 Old Woman’s Mirror articles 1950s – 1960 written in the style of that period. Folder 8 Six Friends of Peel Island Greeting cards – new issue – artwork by Rosemary Opala Folder 9 Folder of newspaper cuttings of Rosemary Opala’s botanical writings (1989-1999) Folder 10 Folder of newspaper cuttings of Rosemary Opala’s nature writings (1989-1997) Folder 11 Folder of newspaper cuttings of Rosemary Opala’s nature writings (1989-2001, mostly 1989-1991) Folder 12 Material relating to the Going to the Gums exhibition, 31st May 2007 which included Rosemary Opala’s material. Includes two coloured photographs of Rosemary the opening Folder 13 Newspaper cuttings by or about Rosemary Opala 1898-1995 Folder 14 Folder of various photocopied articles including ‘Sharing lost lives: a brief history of a nurses’ experience of Hansen’s disease on Peel Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland’ (6 l., typescript) and ‘The Queensland Acclimatisation Society and the Southern Moreton Bay Islands’, written and published by RKLM Islands Heritage Group Inc Folder 15 Palmwoods – Schools : Folder of loose notes, mostly biographical information about Rosemary Opala, includes photograph of her school class, and photocopy of The Queensland Acclimatisation Society and the Southern Moreton Bay Islands, written and published by RKLM Islands Heritage Group. Box 6
Coloured slides (approx 300) some annotated, including Peel Island Box 7 - Photographs Album 1 Coloured photos, probably of group tour to Peel Island [undated] ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Last updated: 1/11/12
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FRYER LIBRARY Manuscript Finding Aid Album 2 Coloured photos, possibly of group tour to Peel Island, but includes early black and white photographs of Rosemary Opala and family. Includes an article about the death of her mother. Album 3 Coloured photographs, appear to be of group tour to Peel Island [undated] Folder 4 Photocopies of photographs, black and white and coloured, including photos from published works. Mostly relating to Peel Island and Caloundra. Includes one folder marked Indapamide and signed ‘from Peter’ Folder 5
• Item 1: Envelope of photographs ‘Marian’s family’
• Item 2: Envelope of photographs ‘Long Island early ‘50s’ [Long Island, Great Barrier Reef,
• Item 3: Envelope of photographs ‘Rosemary and Marian’ – family photographs
• Item 4: Envelope of photographs ‘Rosemary’ – family photographs
• Item 5: Envelope of photographs marked Redcl. Viaduct, St Helena, Peel Island, Nth
Stradbroke, Coochie Mudlo Isl, Vic. Point [aerial views, black and white] with negatives
• Item 6: Envelope of photographs ‘Then & later – Horseshoe, looking S.W.’
• Item 7: Envelope of photographs ‘Rosemary’ – appear to have been removed from a
photograph album – all of Rosemary Opala
Folder 6 Photographs, coloured and black and white, appear to be of tours to Coochiemudlo and Peel Islands Folder 7
• Item 1: small photograph album of coloured and black and white photographs, appears to
• Item 2: three coloured photographs and covering letter from Peter Ludlow (8 Sep 1995) of
group at the book launch of ‘Moreton Bay People vol. 3’, 24 Aug 1995, with names on back.
Folder 8 Index to photograph and tape archive [appears to refer to some photographs in the collection but unable to cross reference them] Folder 9 Unsorted photographs, mostly black and white, some coloured, majority are family photographs, but some coloured views of the Islands. Some are annotated. Includes two photographs of Bugler H.E. Fielding taken when a POW in Germany in 1910. Folder 10 Envelope of photographs ‘’54 flood’
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FRYER LIBRARY Manuscript Finding Aid Box 8 Folder 1 Loose sketches, coloured and black and white, some laminated. Folder 2 Loose sketches, coloured and black and white, some laminated Folder 3 Ten spiral sketch books Folder 4 Articles and newspaper cuttings relating to Coochiemudlo, including note cards with artwork by Rosemary Opala Box 9 Folder 1 Outward bound – published articles mainly relating to Stradbroke Island history Folder 2 Material relating to her article on the Queensland School Readers Folder 3 ‘Under the carpet’ article by Rosemary Opala Folder 4 School comics - ‘A pernicious influence (based on Penny dreadful and comics)’ Typescript article by Rosemary Opala, together with ‘Rules for teachers 1879’ (3 l.) Folder 5 Smiths weekly – typescript article ‘Who remembers Smith’s Weekly’ from George Blaidie’s: ‘Remember Smith’s Weekly’ Typescript article (13 l.) Folder 6 Movies - Two typescript articles ‘Our man who came to dinner’ by Iris Page (May 1990, Auckland, 4 l.) and ‘Fantales and jaffas’ author unknown, (typescript 1990? 12 l.), with newspaper cutting on Caloundra School of Arts by Stan Tutt Folder 7 Life styles – typescript articles ‘Australian etiquette of the 1880s’ (15 l.), ‘Before we had life styles’ (12 l.), by Rosemary Opala (10 l.), and cutting from Depression era, Courier Mail Jan 17, 1992. Folder 8 Local history – material relating to the Cleveland and Redland Bay area history Folder 9 Newspaper cuttings and photocopies of material relating to Peel Island history
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FRYER LIBRARY Manuscript Finding Aid Folder 10 Newspaper cuttings and photocopies of material relating to Coochiemudlo Island Folder 11 D. Downs 20’s – typescript articles on Darling Downs history, ‘Grandma Discourse on Cricket’, ‘The Twenties in vogue’, and untitled photocopies on Darling Downs (2) Folder 12 Victoriana – Envelope of ‘Beholders Eye’ typescript articles ‘Etiquette’, ‘Parlour games’, ‘Next to Godliness’ and ‘Seen but not heard’ plus loose handwritten notes. Folder 13 ‘Those were the days’ – drafts of article by Rosemary Opala Folder 14 Typescript scripts for Caloundra Lunch Hour Theatre by Rosemary Opala - ‘Childhood in Palmwoods – Depression Years’ [undated] ‘Kill or Cure’ (1991) (2 drafts) plus ‘Brisbane in WW2 (2 copies), ‘Paradise lost’, ‘Tangalooma’ (3 copies), drafts of script ‘Outward bound’ (3) For Caloundra Lunch Hour Theatre Folder 15 Typescript ‘Coochiemudlo – the sixth island’, two untitled typescripts on Australia in the 1800s, ‘From part of an account of a canoe trip to Swan Bay in search of a supposed wreck’, personal reminiscence ‘A good way to go – so they say’ (1997), ‘Skilled to rule’, ‘Introduction to Iceland’, ‘Islands revisited’, ‘From a kangaroo skin pouch’; miscellaneous biographical material and other material relating to nursing Folder 16 Convicts – typescript and published articles on convicts in Moreton Bay Folder 17 ‘Woodwork ghosts’ – drafts and newspaper cutting about ghosts Folder 18 ‘Old tales retold’ for May ’98 – drafts of article by Rosemary Opala Folder 19 Typescript articles – ‘Building an island home’, ‘Last man’ by M.E.M., ‘A good way to go – they say’, ‘A very strange boat’, and two poems ‘Coochie, then’ and ‘Voyagers’ Folder 20
Victoriana manners – Typescript articles – ‘When manners made man’, Untitled article on manners (14 l.), ‘Those good (?) old days’, ‘The Aristologist’ (19 l.) Folder 21 Folder of material relating to Sunshine Coast and Peel Island history mostly written by Stan Tutt
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FRYER LIBRARY Manuscript Finding Aid Folder 22 Material relating to J. Berthelsen’s book about Peel Island Box 10
Folder 1 Springback folder of articles written by Rosemary Opala (1990s) Item 2 ‘Australia’s Heritage in stamps’ – folder of three booklets – The Pastoral era, Boomtime, and Rush for Gold, accompanied by set of heritage stamps. (Set of stamps missing from ‘Rush for gold’) Folder 3 Brisbane and South Coast Hospitals Board certificates of Registration for Rosemary Fielding (1945-1948); small blue pouch with Australian Society of the History of Medicine Biennial Conference Norfolk Island 1995 medallion together with small woven badge Queensland Member 1996.; poster ‘Common seabirds’ from Gould League; two Christmas cards, one dated 2005, various loose notes on medicine and botany, and typescript article on Sir Ninan Stephen’ experiences in Water Transport Folder 4 Peel Island Ecological & Vegetation Survey Diploma of Horticulture students (RUH50198) Moreton Institute of TAFE Bayside Campus 2000 ; artwork courtesy of Rosemary Opala Box 11
Folder 1 Moreton Bay Strategic plan: a community proposal prepared by Friends of Coochiemudlo Island [undated] with loose newspaper cutting and article by Rosemary Opala ‘Paradise lost?’ Folder 2 Heritage area assessment & proposed conservation plan for the Quarantine Station, Platypus Bay – Peel Island by Diploma Students, Moreton Institute of TAFE Bayside Campus 1999. Folder 3 Site assessment and revegetation project, Platypus Bay, Peel lsland [by] Diploma of Community Natural Resource Management Students, 2001. (Drawings by Rosemary Opala) Folder 4 Peel Island ‘Turkrodar’ {Indigenous name} Ecological & Vegetation Survey [by] Diploma of Horticulture Students HRT531 Moreton Institute of TAFE Bayside Campus 2001; artwork courtesy of Rosemary Opala Folder 5 Newspaper and magazine cuttings and photocopies (1934-2003) mainly relating to Peel Island or Hansen’s disease
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FRYER LIBRARY Manuscript Finding Aid Folder 6 Correspondence (1987-2007) mainly relating to Peel Island and Hansen’s disease Folder 7 Material relating to Elbert ‘Bert’ Reddington Cobb including correspondence from Dudley M. Cobb, his great nephew Folder 8 Awaiting print - five pen and ink artworks (original and photocopy) Folder 9 Correspondence from Peter Ludlow (19.10.1987) together with his ms on ‘Peel Island’ Folder 10 Two hand drawn maps of Peel Island including layout of the Leprosarium 1949 (2 copies), together with published map Redlands North Stradbroke and Bay Islands road and tourist guide Folder 11 Typescript and hand written articles by Rosemary Opala (some incomplete) Folder 12 Folder of published articles on Hansen’s disease throughout the world Folder 13 Small notebook with some notes, Images : a small collection of haiku… by Gordon Dickens, artwork b Rosemary Opala, loose notes and newsletters on Peel Island including Peel Island Tour Guide accreditation, handwritten timelines of Dunwich and Peel Island Lazaret, photocopy of letter to E. Gregory, 1917 advising appointment as Assistant Superintendent at Peel Island with photograph. Folder 14 Publications: Wildlife Australia Summer 1992 with article by Rosemary Opala ‘Silent Bells’ ; National Trust Journal April 1993 with article on Peel Island ‘Out of sight, out of mind’ by Ed Brannigan, Dolphins Curve by Margaret A. Manson, illustrated by Rosemary Opala ; Signed copy of Matthew Flinders : the discoverer of Coochie Mudlo Island by Edward F. Jones [signed by author] , Not far from Heaven : stories in verse by the Bards of Coochiemudlo (accompanied by letter from Rosemary Opala to Joy) Folder 15 ‘Tours on the North Coast Line – Brisbane to Gympie’. Inscripted A.K. Hatfield. Box 12
Item 1 Adventures on Parrot Island by Biron Fielding, with illustrations by Rosemary Fielding (Opala), London: Ward Lock & Co., 1964 ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Last updated: 1/11/12
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FRYER LIBRARY Manuscript Finding Aid Folder 2 Wildlife Australia Summer 1992 (3 copies); Autumn 1994 (2 copies); Winter 1995 (2 copies) ; Summer 1995-96 (2 copies) ; Autumn 2003 (2 copies) – contain articles by Rosemary Opala Item 3 Flip file plastic file of coloured artworks – appear to be possible illustrations for children’s book Item 4 Plastic file of black and white pen sketches and coloured artwork, mostly botanical Item 5 Plastic file of black and white pen sketches and coloured artwork, mostly botanical Item 6 Plastic flip file of artwork, black and white and coloured, botanical drawings Item 7 Framed photo of Organising Committee and Special Guests at the Regional Conference ‘Chronicles of Coochiemudlo’ 1993, with names. Item 8 Spiral sketch book of pencil drawings Item 9 Spiral sketch book of drawings, mostly botanical Folder 10 Envelope of ‘Conservation work – Philip Island Hibiscus Item 11 Framed artwork – black and white botanical drawing (15 x10.5cm) in black frame (27 x 22cm) Parcel 13 Coloured botanical drawing of banksias(26 x 26cm) in white cardboard mounting (43 x 42cm) Parcel 14 ‘Survivor’ - framed coloured painting of a tree trunk (35 x 24 cm) in brown wooden frame (49 x 39cm) Parcel 15 Framed coloured painting of a hibiscus flower (37 x 22cm) in green wooden frame (55 x 38cm) Parcel 16 ‘Christmas bells – Blandfordia grandiflora’ – coloured artwork (37 x 21 cm) in brown wooden frame 50x35 cm) Parcel 17 Framed coloured painting of banksias (50 x 30cm) in gold frame (56 x 42cm)
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FRYER LIBRARY Manuscript Finding Aid Parcel 18 Framed floral landscape (40 x 33cm) in brown frame (52 x 42cm) Parcel 19 6 folders of coloured and black and white artworks, mostly botanical Parcel 20 ‘Plans of the Horseshoe on Peel Island’ - Folder of black and white botanical drawings (2 photocopies) Folder of aerial photographs of an island, probably Peel Scrapbooks (3) of Rosemary Opala’s articles in Woman’s Day (1958-1965)
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TONSILLECTOMY WHAT ARE TONSILS? The tonsils are two pads of tissue located on either side of the back of the throat. Tonsils can become enlarged in response to recurrent tonsil infections or Strep throat. They can also REASONS FOR TONSILLECTOMY: INFECTION—Recurrent tonsil infections or Strep throat despite antibiotic therapy. UPPER AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION—Enlarged tonsils can block