Black and white photograph, in oval mounting.Written on rear of backing sheet: "Charlotte Pett (Gibbons) b. 13 February 1865".

Related to the West Family.Paper bank cheque of faded pale blue colour with printing and hand writing. Registered with two medals in McHaffie Pine Display Case.The Colonial Bank of Australasia, Melbourne. No 45, 5171. Dated May 29th 1861. Amount £7.8 shillings Payee and drawer cannot be deciphered.cheque, banks, west family, documents

A Souvenir brochure of Concongella. Personalities and Historical Events. compiled and written for the Concongell Progress Association by A..E. Heal.Yellow textured Card cover, with black print.Concongella (The Cradle of Stawell) A Souvenir Borchure 1861 - 1961 Personalities and Historical Events Compiled and Written for the Committee of the Concongella Progress Association by A.E. Healstawell

Upper Main Street Stawell. Mining Exchange and Commercial Hotel built 1861. Photo c1880. Hotel housed the Victoria Theatre. Commercial Hotel built and licensed in 1861 and added to over the years. About 1865 an assembly room/theatre was erected at the hotel, part of this was the assembly room of the Quartz Miners Hotel in Upper Main Street which had been demolished on account of the increased mining in the area. The assembly room was the only theatre at the Reefs until the Town Hall was erected. It was called the Victoria Theatre. In 1878 the Stawell paper reports that the Court of Petty Sessions had been held in the Victoria Theatre at the Commercial Hotel. Mr Sauerbrey was the owner of the Hotel in 1869 and he advertised extensive additions of sitting-rooms, bedrooms & bathrooms. First class stabling and carriage house. Rooms for Mining Meetings and bookings for Cobb & Co.Commercial Hotel with first floor balcony. Eight men lined up in street and three women on balcony. Two horse drawn buggies on right.stawell streetscape, hotel

Portrait - Sarah Allard 1861-1936stawell

JOHN ALFRED SHRIGLEY (1829-1880), WITH HIS THREE SONS JOHN (1861 - ), ALFRED (1863), JOSEPH (1858)PHOTOGRAPH - SEPIA COPY, JOHN ALFRED SHRIGLEY (1829-1880) WITH HIS THREE SONS - JOHN (BORN 1861), ALFRED (BORN 1863), JOSEPH (BORN 1858)SHRIGLEY FAMILY. LEFT TO RIGHT. JOHN (BORN 1861), JOHN ALFRED (1829-1880), ALFRED (BORN 1863), JOSEPH (BORN 1858). ALSO IN FAMILY ELEANOR MARY (1856-1931), GRACE ELIZABETH (1865- ), ANNE (1868-1948), KATHLEEN (1870 - ).local history, photography, photographs, crick, shrigley, mc lennan, lazarus

William Cain, 1861, Volunteer Rifles(Negative available)Black and white Photographdefence, volunteer, rifles

Pleasant Creek Hospital with garden and fountain at front. Built 1861stawell

Typewriten booklet of six pages folded in half and stapled together with photographs of the church in Beaufort and Pastor J.H .Hoarenon-fiction

Pleasant Creek Hospital with garden nurses standing in garden and at top of steps. Built 1861B/W photgraph of a brick building with wings either side, pine tree on the right. surrounding the picture is a fdrawn wooden frame.Front, Lower Left: Stawell Hospital On reverse: Post Card. This Space used for communication. Address Only On the Left Side: Semco Series. Box 545 G.P.O. Melbourne ( Turn 90 Degrees Clockwise to read)stawell

Pleasant Creek Hospital with garden nurses standing in garden and at top of steps. Built 1861stawell

Wooden Catholic Church Reefs built about 1865. Part of a collection of Photographs by Mr. O.G. Armstrong as commissioned by the Shire of Stawell for the Inter-colonial and Paris Exhibition in Melbourne in 1866. This wooden building was built about 1865 on a site held by minors right, near the present Stawell Courthouse. It was situated on a track later to become Patrick St. The present St Patricks church is built of granite, quarried in the nearby Black Range with facings of Grampians Freestone and was opened in 1873. Wooden Church with large bell tower with door at front. The edge slope of Big Hill can be seen at right.stawell religion

Sydney Smith (1771-1845) was an English writer and a Reverend of the Anglican Church. He founded the Edinburgh Review, an intellectual and cultural magazine. The Reverend Sydney Smith wrote this book about his works. The book is part of Flagstaff Hill's Pattison Collection, a large group of books and records, some of which are rare and valuable. The collection was originally owned by the Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute, which was founded in 1853 and is named after Warrnambool's Public Librarian, Ralph Pattison. The book is of interest as it has the conditions of borrowing a book from the Mechanic's Institute pasted onto the front cover, including the cost of a Quarterly Subscription, written by Secretary Geo. D. Alston. Thomas Longman founded his publishing firm in 1724 in London by the name Longman. In August of that year, he bought the two shops and goods of William Taylor and set up his publishing house there at 39 Paternoster Row. The shops were called Black Swan and Ship, and it is said that the 'ship' sign was the inspiration for Longman's Logo. After many changes of name and management, including Longman, Green, Reader and Dyer (1865-1880), the firm was incorporated in 1926 as Longmans, Green & Co. Pty Ltd. The firm was acquired by Pearson in 1968 and was known as Pearson Longman or Pearson PLC. The book is of special interest as it has the conditions and cost of borrowing from the Mechanics' Institute pasted onto the front cover, which gives insight into the importance placed on being able to borrow a book from the library. The book is important for its connection with the London publisher Longmans, Green & Co. The firm has been established for over two centuries and is renowned for publishing encyclopedias, dictionaries, books on English grammar, textbooks, poetry, reference books, novels, magazines and more. The book has additional importance for its connection to the Pattison Collection, which, along with other items at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, was originally part of the Warrnambool Mechanics' Institutes’ Collection. The Warrnambool Mechanics’ Institute book collection has historical and social significance for its strong association with the Mechanics Institute movement and its important role in people's intellectual, cultural and social development 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.The Works of The Rev Sydney Smith Author: The Rev Sydney Smith Publisher: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, London Date: 1869 Edition: A new edition Crimson hardcover book with a green sticker attached to the cover and all covered in clear plastic. The green sticker gives details and the cost of a subscription to the library and borrowers' rules. Inscriptions are on the spine in embossed gold, and on the fly are a stamp and several handwritten characters. The book is part of the Pattison Collection.Label on spine: "PAT 824 SMI" Label/sticker on front cover includes the print: "Mechanics' Institute" "Subscription 2s. 6d. per Quarter payable in advance" "Geo. D Alston" "Secretary" Sticker; a green sticker pasted to the front cover "Warrnambool Mechanics Institute and Free Library" Stamp on Fly "Warrnambool Mechanics Institute" Sticker on front endpaper "Warrnambool Mechanics Institute and Free Library" covered by a sticker "Corangamite Regional Library Service" Handwritten on fly: "M" "102" "G 29 (crossed out" "1179" "3" flagstaff hill, flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, warrnambool, maritime museum, maritime village, great ocean road, shipwreck coast, pattison collection, ralph eric pattison, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, mechanics’ institute library, warrnambool library, free library, corangamite regional library service, longman green reader dyer, sydney smith, rev. sydney smith, sydney smith biography, works of the rev. sydney smith, 1869, edinburgh times, secretary geo. d. alston., mechanics' institute subscription, geo. d. alston

In 1895 artist Gordon Coutts was commissioned by Elizabeth Harding (Mrs. Silas Harding), a wealthy pastoralist, to paint this portrait of Prince Albert. The portrait was completed by 1896 and is a copy of an original by German artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873). In 1843 Winterhalter was commissioned to paint matching portraits of Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort. These originals hang in the Garter Throne Room at Windsor Castle and are part of the UK Royal Collection. Queen Victoria’s appreciation of Winterhalter began after she saw portraits by him of other European monarchs. Accordingly, between 1842 and 1861 he made fifteen visits to England and painted over 100 portraits of Her Majesty, the royal family and other friends and dignitaries. There are a number of notable differences in the original Winterhalter work and this painting. The local artist Coutts has changed the colour of the Prince’s cloak from deep blue/black to red (perhaps as a result of working from a black and white photograph). Other differences include extra satin shoulder ribbons, a simplification of the furnishings, notably the floor, and an inexact representation of the medallions worn; collars of the Order of the Garter, Bath, and the Golden Fleece. The painting is framed to match the official copy portrait of Queen Victoria, with the coat of arms of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, fixed atop the frame in place of the royal crown.Framed portrait, oil on cotton, of Prince Albert. The Prince Consort wears the robes of the Order of the Garter, holds a Field-Marshal’s baton, and is posed in front of a curtain and colonnade. Timber frame with a layer of gesso and decorative composition ornaments. There are rose, scotch thistle, clover leaf and Acanthus ornaments. The coat of arms that sits on top of the frame is a combination of carved timber and composition elements.Signed lower right corner in red brushpoint: ‘after Winterhalter / By Gordon Coutts / 1896’.albert, prince consort of victoria, queen of great britain, 1819-1861, winterhalter, franz xaver, 1805-1873, coutts, gordon (1865-1938)

SEPIA COPY OF PHOTOGRAPH OF JOHN SHRIGLEY (1861-1922), DOROTHY SHRIGLEY, MARY JANE SHRIGLEY (DIED 1909)SEPIA COPY OF PHOTOGRAPH OF JOHN SHRIGLEY, [1861-1922] MRS. MARY SHRIGLEY AND DAUGHTER DOROTHY (SMALL CHILD)LEFT TO RIGHT - JOHN SHRIGLEY (1861-1922), DOROTHY SHRIGLEY (DAUGHTER), MRS. SHRIGLEY(MARY JANE) DIED 1909local history, photography, photographs, crick, shrigley, mc lennan, lazarus