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Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Book, Latin-English Dictionary
This book was part of a large group of books referred to as the Pattison Collection, which belonged to the Warrnambool Public Library, part of the Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute. About RALPH ERIC PATTISON and the ‘PATTISON COLLECTION’ The ‘Pattison Collection’ is a collection of books and records that was originally owned by the Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute, founded in Warrnambool in 1853. By 1886 the Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute (WMI) had grown to have a Library, Museum and Fine Arts Gallery, with a collection of “… choice productions of art and valuable specimens in almost every branch and many wonderful national curiosities are now to be seen there, including historic relics of the town and district.” It later included a School of Design. Although it was very well patronised, the WMI was led to ask the City Council to take it over in 1911 due to lack of financial support. In 1935 Ralph Pattison was appointed as City Librarian to establish and organise the Warrnambool Public Library as it was then called. Ralph Eric Pattison was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, in 1891. He married Maude Swan from Warrnambool in 1920 and they set up home in Warrnambool. In 1935 when Pattison accepted the position as City Librarian for the Warrnambool City Council his huge challenge was to make a functional library within two rooms of the Mechanics’ Institute. He tirelessly cleaned, cleared and sorted a disarrayed collection of old books, jars of preserved specimens and other items reserved for exhibition in the city’s museum. He developed and updated the library with a wide variety of books for all tastes, including reference books for students; a difficult task to fulfil during the years following the Depression. He converted all of the lower areas of the building into a library, reference room and reading room for members and the public. The books were sorted and stored using a cataloguing and card index system that he had developed himself. He also prepared the upper floor of the building and established the Art Gallery and later the Museum, a place to exhibit the many old relics that had been stored for years for this purpose. One of the treasures he found was a beautiful ancient clock, which he repaired, restored and enjoyed using in his office during the years of his service there. Ralph Pattison was described as “a meticulous gentleman whose punctuality, floorless courtesy and distinctive neat dress were hallmarks of his character, and ‘his’ clock controlled his daily routine and his opening and closing of the library’s large heavy doors to the minute.” Pattison took leave from 1942 to 1945 to serve in the Royal Australian Navy, Volunteer Reserve as Lieutenant. A few years later he converted one of the Museum’s rooms into a Children’s Library, stocking it with suitable books for the younger generation. This was an instant success. In the 1950’s he had the honour of being appointed to the Victorian Library Board and received more inspiration from the monthly conferences in Melbourne. He was sadly retired in 1959 after over 23 years of service, due to the fact that he had gone over the working age of council officers. However, he continued to take a very keen interest in the continual development of the Library until his death in 1969. THE NEW WARRNAMBOOL LIBRARY When the WMI building was pulled down in 1963 a new civic building was erected on the site and the new Warrnambool Library, on behalf of the City Council, took over all the holdings of the WMI. At this time some of the items were separated and identified as the ‘Pattison Collection’, named after Pattison. Eventually, the components of the WMI were distributed from the Warrnambool Library to various places, including the Art Gallery, Historical Society and Flagstaff Hill. Later some were even distributed to other regional branches of Corangamite Regional Library and passed to and fro. It is difficult now to trace just where all of the items have ended up. The books at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village generally display stamps and markings from Pattison as well as a variety of other institutions including the Mechanics’ Institute itself. The Pattison Collection, along with other items at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, was originally part of the Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute’s collection. The Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute Collection is primarily significant in its totality, rather than for the individual objects it contains. Its contents are highly representative of the development of Mechanics' Institute libraries across Australia, particularly Victoria. A diversity of publications and themes has been amassed, and these provide clues to our understanding of the nature of and changes in the reading habits of Victorians from the 1850s to the middle of the 20th century. The collection also highlights the Warrnambool community’s commitment to the Mechanics’ Institute, reading, literacy and learning in the regions, and proves that access to knowledge was not impeded by distance. These items help to provide a more complete picture of our community’s ideals and aspirations. The Warrnambool Mechanics Institute book collection has historical and social significance for its strong association with the Mechanics Institute movement and the important role it played in the intellectual, cultural and social development of people throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. The collection of books is a rare example of an early lending library and its significance is enhanced by the survival of an original collection of many volumes. The Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute’s publication collection is of both local and state significance. Latin-English Dictionary Author: William Smith Publisher: John Murray Date: 1871 Further Information: Tenth EdtitionThe label on spine cover with typed text PAT 470 SMI Pastedown front endpaper has a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service Front loose endpaper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, latin-english dictionary, william smith -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Sign - Sign, Danger
A white rectangular metal sign with rounded corners and a black line border. It has holes drilled in four corners. plus two larger central holes for fixing it to wall or pole and is rusted on the left side. Centre justified warning message reads: Commonwealth Of Australia (in black)/ DANGER (in red) /Live Firing/ Unexploded/Ordnance/ Trespass/ Upon This Land/ Is Prohibited. Centre justified message reads: Commonwealth Of Australia (in black)/ DANGER (in red) /Live Firing/ Unexploded/Ordnance/ Trespass/ Upon This Land/ Is Prohibited. sign, commonwealth of australia, danger, warning -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Book - THE MIGHTY 747, JIM EAMES, 2022
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Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - RHODA'S REWARD OR IF WISHES WERE HORSES, 16/01/1887
Red hardcovered book in Black print with green leaves and flowers on the cover and spine. Inside the front cover hand written in blue ink is 'Presented to Elizabeth J Hall By The Primitive Methodist Sabbath School, Eaglehawk, Ellaishall Rec. dated 16/01/1887Emma Marshall. Printed by Cassell & Company, Ltd, Paris, London, New York and Melbourne 1886books, fiction, young adult, emma marshall, elizabeth hall, sabbath school eaglehawk, ellaishall rec. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - CAMPASPE RUN, ANNUAL REPORT 2000/2001
Campaspe Run, Annual Report, 2000/2001. NOT IN CUPBOARD AT TIME OF THIS ENTRY.cottage, miners, the h. v. mckay rural discovery centre. campaspe run. -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, A People's History of the Vietnam War, 2003
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Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Book - 60 Years on - History of the Wodonga Albury Camera Club 1953 - 2013, Paul Temple et al, 2013
A history of the Wodonga Albury Camera Club from its inception in the 1950s. Produced to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the club in 2013non-fictionA history of the Wodonga Albury Camera Club from its inception in the 1950s. Produced to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the club in 2013camera club, wodonga albury, clubs wodonga, photography -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Book (item) - CAC Collection - Avon MK.20 Description and Operation
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Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - OUR COOKERY BOOK
Soft covered book of recipes by Flora Pell, fifth edition published by the Speciality Press pty ltd Melbourne, red cover with illustration of woman carrying a pudding. Name written in ink inside front cover Lydia Pethard.Flora Pellbooks, cookery -
The Celtic Club
Book, Pauline Hamilton, The Irish, 1978
A story of Irish migration to Australia from the beginning of settlement to the recent present.Index, bib, plates, ill. p.108.non-fictionA story of Irish migration to Australia from the beginning of settlement to the recent present.irish - immigration, irish - australian culture -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Year of the tigers: the second tour of 5th Battalion (Copy 3)
vietnam war, 1961-1975 - regimental histories - australia, australia. army. battalion, 5th -
Victorian Railway History Library
Book, Leigh Alexander, Policies behind the trunk railways of Victoria in the 1870s and 1890s, 1965
An economic history essay on the policies of the Victorian Government for building trunk railways in the 1870s and 1890s.bib, p.22.non-fictionAn economic history essay on the policies of the Victorian Government for building trunk railways in the 1870s and 1890s.railway construction - australia, victorian railways construction - history -
Victorian Railway History Library
Book, Ferry, John et al, Glenreagh The Railway Heritage: Glenreagh Mountain Railway 2004, 2004
A history of the railway from Glenreagh and the North Coast railway in northern New South Wales, including the railway, the town, it's railway station and its locomotive depot.ill, maps, p.98.non-fictionA history of the railway from Glenreagh and the North Coast railway in northern New South Wales, including the railway, the town, it's railway station and its locomotive depot.railroad construction - new south wales - history, railroad operations - new south wales - history -
City of Greater Bendigo - Civic Collection
Ceremonial object - Robe, Late 20th century
Loose fitting black ceremonial robe.city of greater bendigo ceremonial item -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Book, Graeme Massey, Gallipoli Heroes, 2004
stawell ww1 -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Macmillan, P.O.W. : Australian prisoners of war in Hitler's Reich, 2011
Australians from every field of conflict in World War II found themselves as prisoners in Hitler's notorious Stalags, or prisoner of war camps. Most were forced to labour in factories, down mines or on the land - often in conditions of enormous privation and hardship. All suffered from shortages, overcrowding and the mental strain of imprisonment. Peter Monteath's fascinating narrative history is exhaustively researched, and compelling in its detailed evocation.Index, bibliography, notes, ill, p.523.non-fictionAustralians from every field of conflict in World War II found themselves as prisoners in Hitler's notorious Stalags, or prisoner of war camps. Most were forced to labour in factories, down mines or on the land - often in conditions of enormous privation and hardship. All suffered from shortages, overcrowding and the mental strain of imprisonment. Peter Monteath's fascinating narrative history is exhaustively researched, and compelling in its detailed evocation.world war 1939 – 1945 - prisons and prisoners – germany, prisoners of war - australia -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Gippsland Lakes Use Strategy Plan Background Report
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Bendigo Military Museum
Book, From Yalta to Berlin. The Cold War Struggle over Germany, 1999
Hard cover, plain light grey, title in gold on spine, dust jacket illustration of seaman. Emblem (black eagle on yellow shield, subtitle in white on red. 465 pages some with photos and maps. Hand written on fly leaf "Donated by Bgo "y" mens club". books-military-history, cold war -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Gell, Hazel F, The Gells of Paradise Valley, 1977
An account of the Gell family, tracing their history from Birmingham to their farming experiences in the Heyfield district of Gippsland, Victoria.genealogy -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Book, Boston Publishing Company, The aftermath, 1982
Photography, maps, and eyewitness accounts describe the War in Vietnam.Index, Bibliography, ill, maps, p.185.non-fictionPhotography, maps, and eyewitness accounts describe the War in Vietnam.vietnam war 1961-1975, vietnam - history - 20th century -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book, Shauna Hicks, Where do I start? a brief guide to researching your family in Australia and New Zealand, 2015
71 p. col. illustrationsnon-fictionfamily history, genealogy -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BENDIGO OUR GOLDEN PAST, 2007
Bendigo Our Golden Past. Signed by Ken Arnold 2007. History of Bendigo. Photographs: black and white. Street maps, copy opf painting. 80 pages. Signed by: Ken Arnold, December 2007. 80 pages.Ken Arnoldbendigo, history, bendigo & district, history of bendigo -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Book - Country Branch Lines Victoria: Wodonga - Tallangatta - Cudgewa: a Photographic Profile 1950s - 1979, Neville Gee and John A. Sargent, 01 Feb 2008
The book covers the branch line that ran eastward from Wodonga past Lake Hume and on to Tallangatta, over the highest point on Victorian Railways at Shelley and terminated at Cudgewa. A photographic profilenon-fictionThe book covers the branch line that ran eastward from Wodonga past Lake Hume and on to Tallangatta, over the highest point on Victorian Railways at Shelley and terminated at Cudgewa. A photographic profilelocomotives -- victoria -- history, cudgewa train, victoria railways, high country trains -
Lilydale RSL Sub Branch
Book, John M Wilkins, Centenary of the Australian Navy, 2001
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Unions Ballarat
Book - Labour History No. 66 May 1994 (D.J. Spiers Collection), Irving, Terry
Published semi-annually, contains refereed, scholarly articles about social and labour history in Australasia, - labour politics, trade unions, management labour practices, co-operatives, gender and ethnicity. This edition includes these articles: -Labourism: a Political Genealogy -Class, Populism and Labour Politics in Victoria, 1890-1914 -Keynesianism, Socialism and Labourism and the Role of Ideas in Labour Ideology -A Century of Laborism and the State, 1891-1993: An Historical Interpretation -We are of Age: Class, Locality and Region at Port Kembla, 1900-1940 -Researching Industrial Relations History: The Development of a Databas on Australian Trade Unions 1825-1900 -Loyalty and Communists: an interview with Bill Gollan -International Women's Day in Newcastle in the Fifties and Sixties: A Personal Account -Forthcoming: A Bibliography of Australian Communism -Postcard from California: the Hoover Institute -The ACTU Congress of 1993 -Australian Canadian Labour History Conference -The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History -The Classing Gaze: Sexuality, Class and Surveillance -Book reviews -Newcastle's Special Day; Australians in Spain Memorial UnveilingLabour and class politics; direct relevance to industrial relations; social issues in general that fall within the purview of the union movement.Book; paper.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, history - labour, labourism, politics - class, industrial relations, economics, politics - communism, women's rights, book reviews, conference reports -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Sign - Australian Red Cross Society Sign
circular red and white painted metal sigh with large red cross in middle. Australian Red Cross round outside. Recreation Centre - Reading Room - handcrafts - Libraryaustralian red cross -
The Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, Tales from Shakespeare, 1908
In the twenty tales told in this book, Charles & Mary Lamb succeeded in paraphrasing the language of truly adult literature in children's terms.Ill, p.374.fictionIn the twenty tales told in this book, Charles & Mary Lamb succeeded in paraphrasing the language of truly adult literature in children's terms.willian shakespeare - paraphrases, william shakespeare - adaptations -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Servos, Michael, The Royal Australian Regiment 50th Anniversary 1948-1998 (Copy 2)
This book was compiled by the National Committee of 3 RAR Association (Qld Faithful) Inc. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Regiment.This book was compiled by the National Committee of 3 RAR Association (Qld Faithful) Inc. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Regiment. australia. army. royal australian regiment - history, australia. army - regimental histories, 3 rar -
Moorabbin Air Museum
book (item) - Nulka Active Decoy Project, The Nulka Story. The Rocket that Thought it was a Ship
BAE Systems -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Department of Planning and Urban Growth/Department of Conservation and Environment, Draft Gippsland Lakes Management Plan, 1990
This document presents background information, policy directions, and actions need for improved management of the Gippsland Lakes.waterways, conservation, recreation