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Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.Functional object - Pocket magnifier
A black oval plastic container with black plastic-edged magnifying glass that pivots on a metal hinge in and out of containerMade in Japanpersonal effects, seeing aids -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionPhotograph - Photograph - Aerial Photograph of Portland, n.d
Port of Portland Authority archives.Front: (no inscriptions) Back: (no inscriptions)port of portland archives -
The Cyril Kett Optometry MuseumSilver small lorgnette, unknown, 1850 (estimated)
This pretty folding silver lorgnette appears European in styling and may be French. The extensive scratching on the lenses indicates many years of use. This form of lorgnette was popular in the mid to late nineteenth century.This lorgnette is significant to the collection as one of the most ornate.Silver folding short handled lorgnette with pivoted bridge and ornamental loop handle. Round convex lenses badly scratched.lenses, glasses, lorgnette, folding spectacles -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - road construction, Portland, n.d
Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: 58% - centre in reen pencil. Pencil border 1cm wide. Reduce to 28cms wide top border in pencil.port of portland archives, road construction, madeira packet road, k s anderson wharf -
Orbost & District Historical Societycarpenter's pincers, first half 20th century
The main purpose of carpenter's pincers is to pull out nails from wood without damaging the surface. These carpenter's pincers would have been used in Orbost in the construction of new buildings or on a rural property for maintenance.This item is an example of a domestic carpentry tool in common use before the widespread use of power tools.Pincers with long, rounded, pivoted metal handles ending in a pair of jaws for gripping and extracting nails or holding or gripping small objects.woodworking tool pincers carpentry -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionPhotograph - Photograph - Lady Bay Reclamation: Dumping of surplus overburden in Lady Bay, January 1960, 1960
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: Lady Bay Reclamation (Pivot site)/ 1960 (pencil, upper left)port of portland archives, lady bay, reclamation, 1960s -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionPhotograph - Photograph - Lady Bay Reclamation: Dumping of surplus overburden in Lady Bay, January 1960, 1960
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: Lady Bay Reclamation (Pivot site)/ 1960 (pencil, upper left)port of portland archives, lady bay, reclamation, 1960s -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionPhotograph - Photograph - Lady Bay Reclamation: Dumping of surplus overburden in Lady Bay, January 1960, 1960
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: Lady Bay Reclamation (Pivot site)/ 1960 (pencil, upper left)port of portland archives, lady bay, reclamation, 1960s -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionPhotograph - Photograph - Lady Bay Reclamation: Dumping of surplus overburden in Lady Bay, January 1960, 1960
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: Lady Bay Reclamation (Pivot site)/ 1960 (pencil, upper left)port of portland archives, lady bay, reclamation, 1960s -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionPhotograph - Photograph - Lady Bay Reclamation: Dumping of surplus overburden in Lady Bay, January 1960, 1960
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: Lady Bay Reclamation (Pivot site)/ 1960 (pencil, upper left)port of portland archives, lady bay, reclamation, 1960s -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionPhotograph - Photograph - Lady Bay Reclamation: Dumping of surplus overburden in Lady Bay, January 1960, 1960
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: Lady Bay Reclamation (Pivot site)/ 1960 (pencil, upper left)port of portland archives, land reclamation, lady bay -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionPhotograph - Photograph - Lady Bay Reclamation: Dumping of surplus overburden in Lady Bay, January 1960, 1960
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: Lady Bay Reclamation (Pivot site)/ 1960 (pencil, upper left)port of portland archives, lady bay, reclamation, 1960s -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionPhotograph - Photograph - Lady Bay Reclamation: Dumping of surplus overburden in Lady Bay, January 1960, 1960
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: Lady Bay Reclamation (Pivot site)/ 1960 (pencil, upper left)port of portland archives, lady bay, reclamation, 1960s -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - silos, n.d
Port of Portland Authority Archivesport of portland archives, port of portland, silos -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Souvenir - Key Ring - PIVOT, n.d
Key ring clear plastic square, white insert with black lettering, red and black circle with PIVOT Act Safe. Metal ring.Front: 'ACT SAFE' 'Looking out for each other' Back: 'Act Safe' What am I about to do? Can I injure myself or others? How can it be done safely?local business, advertising, contemporary collecting -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)Instrument - Plotting Board, M16
Standard issue item as used by Australian servicemen during the conflict in Vietnam. A plotting board is a mechanical device used as part of a firing control system to track the observed course of a target, project its future position, and derive the azimuth (or direction) and range needed to direct the fire of the guns of a battery to hit that target.White plastic base. A circle marked with grid lines is printed on the base and a vernier for finding azimuth deflections in along top edge. Rotating disc pivots at the centre atop the disc with distances measured radially form 0 at the centre to 3400 metres around the rim range form 0-6400 metres. A scale pivoted at the centre assists in reading distances.Nth and Sth top and bottom on rotating disc. East and West in centre distances in black on outer of disc. Distances in green on inner North, South, East, West. Varn W left bottom of disc. varn E on right bottom of disc.plotting board, m16 -
Blacksmith's Cottage and Forge
Scales (part of ?), Early 20th century
Shaped thin metal bar with centre bracket/pivot with threads, light chain attached at each end of bar and two rings at ends of chain. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumSkip cable roller
8466.1 - Truncated cone roller with concave side attached by central pivot to rectangular metal plate which has bolt holes in each corner. -
National Wool MuseumTool - Pullover
Chrome plated pullover used to close wool bales. In early use at Strachans (a lighter, simple long handled hook was used later). Chrome plated tool with wood handle. Tool pivots at two points and has hooks on the end. The wood handle also has string binding. chrome, baling hook, pullover, tool, sheep, wool, industry -
Kiewa Valley Historical SocietyMcGill's Mouth Gag
This medical / hospital equipment was used in the Tawonga District General Hospital which was builtin the 1950s specifically for the increase in population due to the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme Historical: Shows the development of scientific hospital equipment. Provenance: Used in the Tawonga District General Hospital which was remote and therefore required good equipment. Metal instrument with rubber over 'handles'. One end has 2 curved handles with grooves crosses on outside at ends and covered with rubber. The pivot has a screw. The other end is smooth and on the inside. It has wavy grooves on the outside and a slight curve. About one third of the way down from the pivot is a steel, moveable, 'clasp' which catches at the correct width.t T on cross bit and on the inside of the handle.medical equipment. hospital equipment. tawonga. mt beauty. hospital. medical. nurse. mouth. medical instrument. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph, View of Portland Harbour and port, 1960s
Port of Portland Authority archives.Front: (no inscriptions) Back: (no inscriptions)port of portland, lady bay -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - aerial view of Portland Hanrbour, n.d
Port of Portland AuthorityBack: Reduce to 52cms wide and 30cms deep - pencil ruled pencil border.port of portland archives, aerial photography, portland harbour -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Equipment, Handheld Directional Compass, 1960s
This work forms part of the collection assembled by the historian Dorothy Rogers, that was donated to the Kew Historical Society by her son John Rogers in 2015. The manuscripts, photographs, maps, and documents were sourced by her from both family and local collections or produced as references for her print publications. Many were directly used by Rogers in writing ‘Lovely Old Homes of Kew’ (1961) and 'A History of Kew' (1973), or the numerous articles on local history that she produced for suburban newspapers. Most of the photographs in the collection include detailed annotations in her hand.The Rogers Collection provides a comprehensive insight into the working habits of a historian in the 1960s and 1970s. Together it forms the largest privately-donated collection within the archives of the Kew Historical Society.Circular compass, marked by degree to 360. Metal case with cracked glass upper surface. Metal ? with brass pivot. North marked by an exterior metal knobInterior labelled with N,S,E, and W in large print. NW, NE, SE and SW in smaller print. Outer circle marks the degrees, notated in 20 degree steps Numbered KH311compass, handheld compass, dorothy rogers -
Yarrawonga and Mulwala Pioneer MuseumInfuser -Coffee/Tea
Coffe percolator. Container suspended on pivots at the top edge so that the container can be tilted to pour its contents. It is suspended over a burner used for heating the contents -
Mont De LanceyFunctional object - Dressmaking Shears, 1900's
These vintage steel sewing shears were used at 'Belle's Bonnets' Milliners in Flinders lane Melbourne in the 1950's. Mrs Belle Phillpi was the Proprietor. Mrs Jill Sebire's wedding head piece was made at Belle's Bonnets.A pair of heavy vintage large hand forged steel dressmaking, tailors shears. They are joined with a pivot point screw. One finger hole is larger than the other.steel, scissors, cutting tools, dressmaking equipment, dressmaking shears, dressmaking scissors -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionPhotograph - Photograph - Portland Harbour, 1960-1966
Port of Portland Authority archivesFront: (no inscriptions) Back: (no inscriptions)port of portland archives -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Smokers Pipe Cleaner, 1940's
Made and used by internees at Camp 3 TaturaPipe cleaner instrument consisting of 4 shaped parts (wire, nails, bicycle spokes) joined at one end by "pivot". Beige leather case is open at one endpipe cleaner, fischer g, streker k, camp 3, tatura, ww2 camp 3, personal, effects, smoking, accessory -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.Artwork, other - French Art WWI, "The Egg Bird"
Example of WWI French Art, using found material.Contemporary label, Whimsical article made from weapons (hand grenade + Bullet casing) + uniform buttons.Example of WWI French Art consisting of hand grenade "bird" mounted on wooden base using .303 calibre cartridges as pivot surrounded by 4 British Buttons as "fence".Contemporary label: The Egg-Bird" found in "No-Man's Land"french art - mounted with contemporary label.. -
Nhill Aviation Heritage CentreInstrument - Astro Compass Mk.II, c1940
This instrument was one of the type used for training night navigation at the Nhill Air SchoolBlack metal instrument with pivot points and white markings to 360 degrees. Telescope sighting piece and bubble level gauges and screw adjusters. Includes separate sight original fitting.AM Astro Compass Mk.II, REF 6A/1174, 4C astro compass, compass, instrument, navigation, cramer -
Nhill Aviation Heritage CentreInstrument - Astro Compass
This instrument is the type used in the Nhill Air School navigation trainingBlack metal instrument with pivot points and white markings to 360 degrees. Telescope sighting piece and bubble level gauges and screw adjusters. Includes separate sight original fitting.AM, Astro Compass Mk.Ii, 6A/1174O, 4Pastro compass, navigation, instrument
