A history dealing with the Otways from Barramunga to Lower Gellibrand by R.H. Knox, the son of an original selector, and his wife, the daughter of another original selector.Yesterday on the Otway Ridge. R.H. Knox. 1st ed. np; R.H. Knox; nd. ii, 192 p.; illus. Soft cover.otway ridge; r.h. knox; history; settlers; timber; sawmilling; farmer; transport;

Diggers & Mining. Life Of The Selectors. Pictures title; Free Selection. Shows a family of 4 with a cow and a dog at their hut. Markings; Life Of The Selectors 1860-1890 Set 432 No. 25. Free Selection- ''Sydney Punch,'' November 4, 1865. Used as a teaching aid. Used as a teaching aid. Used as a teaching aid. Used as a teaching aid.Visual Education Centereducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Life Of The Selectors. Two men in a row boat, sign read 50 feet summer level. Title; Water, Everywhere. Free Selector.- Dear me allotment as being a little liable to inundation, but this is rather too moist. Waterman.- ''Never you mind sir there is fine fishing all year round, and wild duck in shooting season. It's worth all the money you paid.'' Markings; Diggers & Mining. Life Of The Selectors 1860-1890. Set 432 No. 18. Water, Water, Everywhere- ''Melbourne Punch,'' Sept. 26, 1872. Used as a teaching aid.Visual Education Centreeducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Life Of The Selectors. Land Act 1869. Sign reads; Regulations 49th Clause, other details listed. Regulation With A Vengeance. Mr McKean - ''Then there's the license fee, and the surveyors fee, and the half years rent, which will come to fifteen pounds, besides -- '' Free Selector. - Beg your pardon, sir hope no offence. But seems to me that this. New act is only for them with lots of money and lots of time to waste. Markings; Diggers & Mining. Life Of The Selectors 1860-1890 Set 432 No. 17. Regulations with a Vengeance- ''Melbourne Punch,'' Feb, 10,1870. Used as a teaching aid.Visual Education Centreeducation, tertiary, goldfields

BHS CollectionDiggers & mining. Life Of The Selectors. Minor sitting in front of his makeshift hut smoking a cigarette. Some of the necessities of a miner which are visible in the picture are; wheelbarrow, barrel for a table, buckets, shovels, axe, gold pan, hand saw, tin cup, wash board, axe, frypan horse collar, saw horse/also doubles as a seat, barrel/also used for storage, large pan, fresh fish hanging. Markings; Life Of The Selectors 1860-1890. Set 432 No. 5. Selector's Hut, East Gippsland - photo by N. J. Claire, 1884. Used as a teaching aid.Visual Education Centreeducation, tertiary, goldfields

This is the MINJAH telephone exchange testing unit. The exchange was adjacent to the property of MINJAH which is situated near Hawkesdale in Western Victoria. The exchange operated between 1955 and 1985. The testing unit was used for detecting and testing faults in the telephone system. The keys along the front were called "Hospital Keys" and were used to give subscribers a temporary connection in the event of a break down. The telephone exchange was replaced by an automatic exchange.This is a good example of a manual telephone system in Western VictoriaThis is a rectangular polished wooden box with a telephone mechanism on the side connected by a hook. On the front right is a dialling system which has been detached. On the front left is a volt meter. At the front bottom are seventeen switches. In the middle front are twenty keys which can flash up in various colours. There is writing on the side . There is a black metal label with writingAVD HAND SET S314470 c 7060 H/56 LINE & SELECTOR TEST SET HT& Co. Ltd. LIVERPOOL ENGLANDtelephone testing, minjah, manual telephone exchange

Diggers & Mining. Life Of The Selectors. Diggers & Mining. A soldier looks on as three male witches stand around a cauldron placing cards in the pot with OCCUPATION LICENSES, LEASE HOLDS and AGRICULTURAL AREAS written on them, the cauldron is labelled LAND MESS. The title of the picture is 'The Land Witches'. Markings; Life Of The Selectors 1860-1890 Set 432 No. 16. The Land Witches ''Melbourne Punch,'' Feb 25, 1864. Used as a teaching aid.Visual Eduation Centreeducation, tertiary, goldfields

Used in Physics and Electrical Engineering laboratory experimentsPotentiometer, Type D-73-E in polished wood box with lift out circuit diagram inside the lid. Black top panel with terminal posts, switches and selector knobs.Black Dymon tape on lid "Ass.No. 50"scientific instrument, potentiometer, physics, electrical engineering, laboratory

Diggers & Mining. Life Of The Selectors. Picture titled A Bush Idyll. Free (and Easy) Selector: ''Hi young ooman, when you to the corner of the track, 'just sing out 'Pig. Pig. Pig' once or twice, will ye so that this blooman wretch will think it's my ole ooman, and follow yer.'' Picture shows the man talking to the woman as he wrestles with the pig on the track near his home. The woman appears well dressed. Markings; Life Of The Selectors 1860-1890 Set 432 No. 23. A Bush Idyll- ''Sydney Bulletin,'' Nov 28, 1885. Used as a teaching aid. Used as a teaching aid. Used as a teaching aid. Used as a teaching aid.Vicual Education Centereducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Life Of the Selectors. Picture titled 'A Habitable Dwelling. ROUGH PARTY (appearing suddenly out of the end of a hollow log). ''Hullo, mate, what the blanks your little game?'' FREE SELECTOR. - ''Oh! Nothing much; going to take up a bit of land-run a few sheep, that's all friends.'' ROUGH PARTY. - ''Well, you needn't have come so blanked to the HOME STATION.'' Picture depicts man climbing out of a log and a man sitting on the log, and the billy over the fire with horse in background. Markings: Life Of the Selectors 1860 - 1890 Set 432 No. 20. A Habitable Dwelling- ''Melbourne Punch,'' October 22, 1874. Used as a teaching aid.Visual Education Centereducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Life Of The Selectors. Title of picture; 'The Cream Of It.' Agriculturalist.- I don’t think you'll suit me. I want a man accustomed to milk.'' Applicant.- ''So I am, sir, 'specially in the morning with a drop o' rum in it.'' Markings; Life Of The Selectors 1860-1890 Set 432 No. 26. The Cream Of It- ''Melbourne Punch,'' August 15, 1872. Used as a teaching aid. Used as a teaching aid. Used as a teaching aid.Visual Education Centereducation, tertiary, goldfields

BHS CollectionDiggers & mining. Life Of The Selectors. Minor carring baby while riding horse, people at table on the left at top rear. Minor boiling the billy, and a small child in the tent at the rear right of picture. Markings; Life Of The Selectors 1860-1890. Set 432 No.2 Free. Selection by Minors - ‘’The Australian Sketcher,' Jan 22, 1876. Caption at bottom of sketch; Free By The Minors. Rear left caption; Before the Land Court. Caption rear right; A residence. Used as a teaching aid.Visual Education Centreeducation, tertiary, goldfields

Balancing resistances in a varnished timber box. Black-painted metal lid holds four decade selector switches and three terminal posts. Lid attached with 6 knirled knobs. Instrument type 1370.Serial Number 142.scientific instrument, decade resistance box

Hogan, Thomas, early selector of land, member of Rodney Shire Council and Rodney Irrigation Trust.|Shire of Rodney|TaturaDocument and photograph

Battery operated radio which only operates when lid is open. There is a volume control and station selector. The inbuilt aerial is directional and the receiver should be oriented for maximum volume. This is a brown metallic radio with plastic strap.Operating instructions inside bottom cover (as described above). Front: "TASMA"tasma, radio, battery operated

Diggers & Mining. Life Of The Selectors. Slide headed 'The Latest Land-Sale Spasm.' Under picture ''Mr Wheeler Will Escort Intending Purchases Over The Estate.'' (A Fact - Herald Ad.) Ad on sign board is advertising Hardscrabble Estate Allotment For Sale 4s Monthly BOYS and GIRLS Instead Of Spending . . . Picture depicts a gentleman with 3 children one in pram. Markings: Life Of The Selectors 1860 - 1890 Set 432 No. 19. The Latest Land Sale Spasm - ''Sydney Bulletin,'' August 23, 1884. Used as a teaching aid.Visual Education Centreeducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Life Of The Selectors. Shows picture of 2 men showing large map of New South Wales marked with the new proposed divisions of NSW; West, Central and Eastern. Division between Eastern and Central run up between what may have been the major towns of NSW at the time. Leaving the Western district as pastoral for Homestead Squatters. Markings; Life Of The Selectors 1860 - 1890 Set 432 No. 15. The New Drop-Scene - ''Sydney Bulletin,'' November 10, 1883. Used as a teaching aid.Visual Education Centreeducation, tertiary, goldfields

BHS CollectionDiggers & mining. Life Of The Selectors. Man sitting outside his one room wooden hut, the name Howard above the doorway. Appears to be an out house in front of the hut. He has many of the items he would require around him, fry pan, axes saw. The letters MO are engraved in a large tree on the left of scene. Markings: Life Of The Selectors 1860-1890, Set 432 No.6 ''The Bushman'' reproduced in ''The Story of the Camera in Australia.'' Cato, J., 1955. Used as a teaching aid.Visual Education Centreeducation, tertiary, goldfields

Wheatstone Bridge, Type WBSRS, 4 Decade. Serial Number 3875. Black panel with terminal posts, selector knobs and switches in a polished wood box with lift-off lid. Circuit diagram photocopy inside the lid. scientific instruments, j.l. williams, wheatstone bridge

Mr Dempsey and family were the first selectors to arrive at Mt Wycheproof 1872 or early 1873. One Dempsey Land Application is dated 15-3-1873.Factual documents obtained from a Melbourne archive show settler,John Dempsey,securing land at Wycheproof. Several official Lands Department correspondence provides evidence of Dempsey's early land acquisition at the beginning of the town's farming history and settlement from 1872 - 1882. This is an A3 sized Display book with grey spine. Comprises official Lands Department Papers detailing Mr John Dempsey's Land Applications and acquisition at Wycheproof. Dated documentation is from 1872 through to 1882.Locally researched references give an overview about the Dempsey family.dempsey, land -act, bunguluke

Robert Logan took up Lot 28 in the Village Settlement in 1896 and worked it until his death in 1936. His second son, Malcolm, took over the selection and continued to work it until he married and then it was subdivided. This photograph shows the oats that Robert Logan grew to feed his horse. John Lundy-Clarke grew up in the Kalorama/Mt Dandenong area and later in life (1972-74) began to write a comprehensive history of the area working from an original settlement map in an effort to cover all areas.Black and white photograph of a white haired man with a large white moustache man wearing overalls tying up a sheaf of hay. Handwritten description on reverse by John Lundy-Clarke.Robert Logan with hay grown on LOT 28 SECTION 1 of the Village Settlement. He was the original selector and his LOT was the last worked fully (by his son Malcolm) in SECTION 1. 1920. robert logan, logan, malcolm logan, kalorama, john lundy-clarke

Diggers & Mining. Life Of The Selectors. Picture titled ''THE REASON THAT IS IN HIM.'' UP-COUNTRY PARSON; ''I am gratified to notice that you are becoming more regular in your attendance at church, Mr. Pottluck. MR. POTTLUCK (candidly): well fact is, parson, the pubs. Won't let a fellow in, on Sundays, now.'' picture depicts the parson looking down on Mr. Pottluck as they talk, a house in the background. Markings; Life Of The Selectors 1860-1890 Set 432 No. 22. ''The Reason The It Is In Him''- ''Sydney Bulletin,'' June6, 1885. Used as a teaching aid. Used as a teaching aid. Used as a teaching aid.Visual Education Centereducation, tertiary, goldfields

A testing set built into a polished timber box with a hinged lid and a carry handle. The semicircular scale reads 1-150. Four voltage ranges and four current ranges are obtainable with selector switches. Connecting diagram inside the lid. Three currentl shunts in storage compartment. Serial Number 52204scientific instruments, testing set, voltmeter, ammeter

These albums are attributed to Carl Grove (1849-1939) , first selector at Newmerella, where he planted hops in the 1880's. He was an orbost Shire councillor for 25 years, helped to establish the library and the Mechanics Institute and was one of the first Orbost Butter Factory directors.These albums are significant mainly for their connection to Carl Grove.The collection of live plant specimens from the wild with correct labelling can provide a record to be used for research.Three large books of botanical specimens. Each has a brown cloth cover which has cloth tape ties attached.On front cover - FRONTgrove-carl album plants botany

Blueprint copy of Survey Map detailing original Selectors' names and property locations. List of Parish map references including property bearings, distances in Links, and markings on trees. Descriptive remarks include areas marked "Farmer's Common", "Poor soil thickly/moderately timbered with stringy bark", and location of water and firewood reserves."Surveyed and plotted by N.M. Bickford, Superintendant of Mr. Hodgkinson's Field Party". "The land comprised in this survey is of inferior quality, moderately undulating, and thickly wooded. It is watered by Dandenong Creek and Deep Creek." Inset map showing location of (*proposed) cemetery on southern corner of Lillydale Road from Melbourne and Sawmill Road, later Mount Dandenong Road. (*Cemetery did not eventuate.)