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Victorian Apiarists Association
Publication, The Dances Of The Honey Bee - The Bulletin Of Animal Behaviour No. 5(K. von Frisch, The University, Graz, Austria), December 1947
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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, A W Reed, Aboriginal legends : animal tales, 1999
Collection of creation stories.creation stories, animals, rainbow snake, eagle-hawk, dreamtime -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Leopoldine Mimovich, Bronze Sculpture : Boy with Animal, 1990
Leopoldine Mimovich was born in 1920, in Neumarkt in the Italian Tyrol. In 1940, aged 20, she moved to Vienna where she studied clay modelling and drawing. From 1943 she attended the School of Wood Sculpture in Hallstatt, graduating in 1947. Following her marriage to Ljubisa Mimovich, the couple migrated to Australia in 1949 travelling on MV Skaugum. After an initial period at Bonegilla and Royal Park Migrant Hostels the couple moved to Yarraville and then to 33 Miller Road, Kew, where she established her studio. A wood sculptor, painter and etcher, she was awarded an OAM for services to the arts in 1985. Examples of her sculptures in Kew can be found in the Kew Library and in the Alexandra Gardens.Black and white photograph of sculpture or sculptures by Leopoldine Mimovich photographed in her home at 31 Miller Grove, Kewartists - kew (vic), leopoldine (poldi) mimovich -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Leopoldine Mimovich, Bronze Sculpture : Boy with Animal, 1990
Leopoldine Mimovich was born in 1920, in Neumarkt in the Italian Tyrol. In 1940, aged 20, she moved to Vienna where she studied clay modelling and drawing. From 1943 she attended the School of Wood Sculpture in Hallstatt, graduating in 1947. Following her marriage to Ljubisa Mimovich, the couple migrated to Australia in 1949 travelling on MV Skaugum. After an initial period at Bonegilla and Royal Park Migrant Hostels the couple moved to Yarraville and then to 33 Miller Road, Kew, where she established her studio. A wood sculptor, painter and etcher, she was awarded an OAM for services to the arts in 1985. Examples of her sculptures in Kew can be found in the Kew Library and in the Alexandra Gardens.Black and white photograph of sculpture or sculptures by Leopoldine Mimovich photographed in her home at 31 Miller Grove, Kewartists - kew (vic), leopoldine (poldi) mimovich -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Leopoldine Mimovich, Bronze Sculpture : Boy with Animal, 1990
Leopoldine Mimovich was born in 1920, in Neumarkt in the Italian Tyrol. In 1940, aged 20, she moved to Vienna where she studied clay modelling and drawing. From 1943 she attended the School of Wood Sculpture in Hallstatt, graduating in 1947. Following her marriage to Ljubisa Mimovich, the couple migrated to Australia in 1949 travelling on MV Skaugum. After an initial period at Bonegilla and Royal Park Migrant Hostels the couple moved to Yarraville and then to 33 Miller Road, Kew, where she established her studio. A wood sculptor, painter and etcher, she was awarded an OAM for services to the arts in 1985. Examples of her sculptures in Kew can be found in the Kew Library and in the Alexandra Gardens.Black and white photograph of sculpture or sculptures by Leopoldine Mimovich photographed in her home at 31 Miller Grove, Kewartists - kew (vic), leopoldine (poldi) mimovich -
Park Orchards Community House
Photograph, POCH & LC Playgroup visiting the animal farm 1984, with Tait patting a calf
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Park Orchards Community House
Photograph, POCH & LC Playgroup visiting the animal farm 1984, with Christopher Horden patting a dog
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Park Orchards Community House
Photograph, POCH & LC Playgroup visiting the animal farm 1984, with Maree & Kieran Phillips patting a dog and donkey
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Park Orchards Community House
Photograph, POCH & LC Playgroup visiting the animal farm 1984, with Daniel Schubert and Christopher Horden patting lambs
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Park Orchards Community House
Photograph, POCH & LC Playgroup visiting the animal farm 1984, with Daniel Schubert patting a goat
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Healesville Sanctuary Heritage Centre
Newspaper - Cutting, Mixed Bag for Animal Sanctuary, 27 February 1950
Importation of several species of animals and birds from different part of Australia.PhotocopyImportation of several species of animals and birds from different part of Australia. 1950s -
Healesville Sanctuary Heritage Centre
Newspaper - Cutting, The Argus, Melbourne, Animal Sanctuary Needs Help, 26 February 1949
Petrol restrictions and no Sunday train is restricting visitors to Healesville.Photocopy two pagesPetrol restrictions and no Sunday train is restricting visitors to Healesville.1940s -
Nillumbik Shire Council
Sculpture: Angela NAGEL, Angela Nagel, Last on the Island, 2012
With an interest in 'Collective Unconscious' Nagel aims to explore the human condition, and our impact on the natural world / This figure embodies human and animal traits with semi-autobiographical references to investigate concepts relating to identity and home / Nagel focuses on the extinct, the pest, the endangered and the introduced as a way to reveal her concerns of humanity as creator and destroyer / In this sculpture a koala headed figure is in the pose of the martyr St. Sebastion / With no arms, there is an inability to protest or fight. This work is by a local contemporary artist and encompasses contemporary themes / This work was a finalist in the Nillumbik Prize 2012.Ceramic - sculpture human and animal like (koala) armless figure depicted standing in a similiar stance to that of a classical sculpture / Blue and white body with a yellow face / Made from porcelain with oxide, clear glaze and undergaze.nagel, sculpture, porcelain, animal, ceramic, classical -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
School Slate, Slate, Circa 1900
Slate has been used for hundreds of years as a base for writing and many young students began their schooling using one to practise their writing. They had many advantages among them the fact that they were reusable and errors could be erased and corrected. A small duster or cloth was often attached for cleaning. This is an example of a typical school slate and as such has representative and historic value.Many older people would identify it as an object from their own school days.Rectangular black slate, bordered with timber, which is painted green, darker on one side than the other. The lighter side has the alphabet engraved down either side and animals on the top and bottom. The reverse has numbers 1-10 at the top and also animals. engraved. There is a red felt tie at the top , threaded through a hole in the wood.The lighter side has the alphabet engraved down either side and animals on the top and bottom. The reverse has numbers 1-10 at the top and also animals engraved. Made In Portugal trade mark. warrnambool, school slate, slate, writing slate -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper clippings
Newspaper article by naturalist Graham Pizzey on problems for animals and birds during the rough weather of the equinox.Article on plight of animals and birds at equinox by Graham Pizzey.local history, documents, newspapers, newspaper clipping, phillip island wildlife, black & white newspaper clipping, phillip island, graham pizzey, wildlife -
Wheen Bee Foundation
Publication, Cutts, N. A, Design of Honey Houses- central and mobile (Cutts, N. A.), Sydney, 1967, 1967
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Wheen Bee Foundation
Publication, Benecke, F. S. & Clemson, A. A, Showing honey and beeswax (Benecke, F. S. & Clemson, A. A.), Sydney, 1970, 1970
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Wheen Bee Foundation
Publication, Benecke, F. S. & Clemson, A. A, Showing honey and beeswax (Benecke, F. S. & Clemson, A. A.), Sydney, 1970, 1970
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Wheen Bee Foundation
Publication, Benecke, F. S, Beekeeping: the economics of mechanization (Benecke, F. S.), Sydney, 1969, 1969
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Wheen Bee Foundation
Publication, Cutts, N. A, Four important bee diseases (Cutts, N. A.), Sydney, 1968, 1968
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Wheen Bee Foundation
Publication, Benecke, F. S, Design and maintenance of beehives (Benecke, F. S.), Sydney, 1968, 1968
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Wheen Bee Foundation
Publication, Rothenbuhler, W. C, Behavioural genetics of nest cleaning in honey bees. I. Responses of four inbred lines to disease-killed brood (Rothenbuhler, W. C.), St Andrews, 1964, 1964
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National Wool Museum
Book - Pattern Book, Animal Knitwear, Southdown Press Pty Ltd, 1940s
Sixteen page knitting pattern book featuring black and cream printed graphics and text. The colour cover shows three knitted children's jumpers with animal motifs.front: [printed] ANIMAL / Knitwear / 1'. front: [handwritten] Mrs W J Walkerknitting, pattern, fashion, knitwear, children -
Benalla Art Gallery
Painting, George W. LAMBERT, Mountain landscape with Maurice, 1913
Born: St Petersburg, Russia 1873; Arrived: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1887; Lived and worked: England, France, Wales, Egypt, Palestine 1900-1921; Died: Cobbity, New South Wales, Australia 1930EdwardianGift of C.J.R. Ansett, 1980Mountain and valley landscape with figure and animals. Painted timber frame.Recto: Signed and dated "G. W. LAMBERT. 1913" in black paint on l.l.c of composition; Not titledpainting, figure, boy, dog, animal, mountains, landscape, lizard, snow -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper clippings
Article on dangers to native animals and birds on Phillip Island due to tourism and need for greater State and Federal Government finance to protect them. Includes photographs of Ventnor Koala Reserve and debris in Penguin nest.Article on dangers to native animals and birds due to tourism on Phillip Island.local history, documents, newspapers, newspaper clipping, phillip island wildlife, black & white newspaper clipping, phillip island wildlife, tourism -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
registration disc, Pre 1993
Shire issued various registration tags for animals.Brass plate issued by the Shire of Rodney as registration for an animal. Designed to be attached to a collar. Pointed at both ends to be pushed into collar.Rodney Shire No.10 -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, To the Pound Keeper at Warrnambool, C1967
This book records the impounding of animals which have been found wandering on local roads or trespassing on land. Many are farm animals and give the various breeds of animals from red Ayrshire cows to bay ponies, and nanny goats. Impounded animals were either claimed by their owners after payment of a fee or if unclaimed , they were sold to defray the costs. It operated from Merrivale Drive.Black cloth covered card cover . Rectangular in shape. The pages are written in black and blue giving details of cattle and animals which have wandered from farms. It dates from 1967 to 1980.The top of each page reads: To the Poundkeeper at Warrnambool impounded by ............. of ............................... the following cattle.. . The pages are signed by J P O'Keefe at the front of the book followed by K Nixon, C Eales, P Eccles,warrnambool, warrnambool pound -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Book - Coles Animal Picture Book, C 11/04/1918
Animal picture and story book. Promoted by E.W. Coles - sold Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Inscription to Val from Auntie Jean & Uncle Bob.Hard cover Book - multi-coloured Childrens Animal Picture Book No. 2 promoted by Coles. Black cover - beige lettering RainbowE.W. Cole - personal gift inspirationchildrens book, e.w. coles -
Bendigo Military Museum
Award - The Peter Dew Memorial Award "The Golden Dewy", 1977
A humorous novelty award presented generally annually to a Litho Squadron member selected as the "Super Animal of the Year" Wooden pedestal with engraved brass plates on the front. The upper plate contains a list of award recipients 1977 - 1992 Lower plate engraved: " The Golden Dewy", The Peter Dew Memorial Award, Presented to the Litho Squadron "Super Animal of the Year"royal australian survey corps, rasvy, fortuna, army survey regiment, army svy regt, asr, litho sqn -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, A Year in Review, 2019
Annual report highlights of the City of Whitehorse 2018/2019Annual report highlights of the City of Whitehorse 2018/2019 including library visitors, hard waste collections, business workshops, lost animals, tree replacements, grants, vaccinations and sporting fields.Annual report highlights of the City of Whitehorse 2018/2019 annual reports, city of whitehorse