Digital Photo taken from glass slide by Geoff McMillan, Cooper Street Stawell and reproduced as a photo - printed at Stawell Historical Society 2019Black & White Photo of 13 men and boys at Best's Vineyard, Great Western with their buckets. Some are kneeling. All are wearing hats or caps on. winery, wine making

Digital Photo taken from glass slide by Geoff McMillan, Cooper Street Stawell and reproduced as a photo - printed at Stawell Historical Society 2019Black & White Photo taken at Bests Concongella Vineyard, Great Western. - a child and three men, names unknown. Charles Best had a apiary there.

Digital Photo taken from glass slide by Geoff McMillan, Cooper Street Stawell and reproduced as a photo - printed at Stawell Historical Society 2019Black & White Photo taken at Bests Residence at their vineyard, Great Western. Charles and Fanny Best with her brother W.J. Fisher who lost a leg in WW1ww1

Digital Photo taken from glass slide by Geoff McMillan, Cooper Street Stawell and reproduced as a photo - printed at Stawell Historical Society 2019Black & White Photo showing workers at Best's vineyard, Great Western. All have hats or caps on. Two men and a dog are on the horse drawn cart with the barrels of grapes.winery, wine making

Digital Photo taken from glass slide by Geoff McMillan, Cooper Street Stawell and reproduced as a photo - printed at Stawell Historical Society 2019Black & White Photo taken at Charles Best's apiary at Best's vineyard Great Western. Two men removing honey frames - Bill Fisher on the left and Charles Best

Digital Photo taken from glass slide by Geoff McMillan, Cooper Street Stawell and reproduced as a photo - printed at Stawell Historical Society 2019Black & White Photo showing grape vines and the Cellar buildings at Best's vineyard, Great Western. Some men in the cellar doorways. Best's Cellars written in large letters on the roof.winery, wine making

Digital Photo taken from glass slide by Geoff McMillan, Cooper Street Stawell and reproduced as a photo - printed at Stawell Historical Society 2019Black & White Photo of 13 men with barrels and buckets of grapes. Photo shows the rows of grapes with the homestead and cellars in the background. At Best's Vineyard, Great Western. All are wearing hats or caps on. winery, wine making

Digital Photo taken from glass slide by Geoff McMillan, Cooper Street Stawell and reproduced as a photo - printed at Stawell Historical Society 2019Black & White Photo of 10 men and boys plus dog, having smoko at Best's Vineyard, Great Western. All have hats or caps on. The horse and cart with the barrels for the grapes behind the group.winery, wine making

This is a soft-cover book of 133 pages on the settlement of the Western District from prehistoric times to the present. It has a blue paper front cover and a grey paper back cover. The front cover is covered with a clear plastic sheet and the binding is plastic. The cover has an image of a sketch of the Warrnambool beach showing the lighthouse complex on Middle Island and the lighthouse on the beach (established 1860). There are a Contents page, a Foreword, a List of Plates and seven articles on different aspects of the Western District history by different authors. There are black and white photographs and illustrations. One page (p.17) has been annotated by Les O’Callaghan.This booklet documents a public lecture series held in Warrnambool 3rd November 1984.western victorian history, edmund gill, peter ronald, john sherwood, jan critchett, tony dingle, miles lewis, kevin o’toole, warrnambool, history

Digital Photo taken from glass slide by Geoff McMillan, Cooper Street Stawell and reproduced as a photo - printed at Stawell Historical Society 2019Black & White Photo taken at Charles Best's apiary at Best's vineyard Great Western. Two men and a child with tins of honey being filled from a tank. Men are Bill Fisher and Charles Best

RDNS Sister Marilyn Harper is giving medication via a syringe and tube to a male client..Medications ordered by Doctors in Hospitals was given by Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) Sisters to patients in their own homes. Specialized treatments were taught to RDNS Sisters by the RDNS Education Department. At times RDNS Sisters visited hospitals to learn special techniques which were to be used to care for the patient after their discharge. The RDNS Education department ran many programs for their staff including: a Post Basic Course, Cardiac Rehabilitation Nursing, Haematology/Oncology Nursing, Palliative Care program, Diabetic Stabilization Program, Leg Ulcer Management Program, HIV/AIDS Nursing Care, Cystic Fibrosis Home Support, Veterans Home Care Program, Breast Cancer Support Program, Continence Management Program, Stomal Therapy Program, In-Home Lactation Support Program and a Community Nursing Education Program extended to student nurses from hospitals and to other nursing organizations. RDNS staff attended several hospitals to observe and learn special care needed to some clients, e.g. to the Austin Hospital to learn the care required for paraplegic and quadriplegic clients at home and to Mount Royal Hospital to observe the care of clients in the rehabilitation ward.On the left of the black and white photograph is the side view of Royal District Nursing (RDNS) Sister Marilyn Harper, who is smiling. She has drawn back long curly hair and is wearing a white patterned short sleeve blouse under a dark V neck tunic style frock. Her right arm is extended onto a piece of equipment resting on top of the bedclothes of a male client who is lying in bed. Her left hand is holding a partly emptied syringe which is attached to a clear coloured tube attached to the man. The male client, whose head and shoulders are resting on a boomerang pillow on his bed, has short dark hair and is wearing a tartan shirt and cardigan over a white T-shirt. He is holding an upright filled syringe in his left hand. In the background you can see part of the wooden bedhead and part of a picture on the pale coloured wall behind it.Courtesy of the 'Western Independent'royal district nursing service, rdns, rdns care - medication, sister marilyn harper

Digital Photo taken from glass slide by Geoff McMillan, Cooper Street Stawell and reproduced as a photo - printed at Stawell Historical Society 2019Black & White Photo taken at Best's property at Great Western where apiarist Mr Charles Best was hosting a Beekeepers Field Day in January 1911. Around 100 beekeepers attended including a fair sprinkling of ladies.

Great WesternBlack & White photograph of Harris Family home, Weatherboard cottage at Great Western next to Great Western Hall. Note Tap on Footpath.

Digital Photo taken from glass slide by Geoff McMillan, Cooper Street Stawell and reproduced as a photo - printed at Stawell Historical Society 2019Black & White Photo showing a group of men and boys picking grapes at Best's Vineyard, Great Western. All with hats or caps, some kneeling, some standing. Horse and cart behind the group ready to take the grapes to the cellars. winery, wine making

Digital Photo taken from glass slide by Geoff McMillan, Cooper Street Stawell and reproduced as a photo - printed at Stawell Historical Society 2019Black & White Photo taken at Best's Cellars Great Western. Group of men and boys picking grapes. Some of them are standing on the tray of a cart with barrels into which the buckets full of grapes are tipped. All the workers have hats or caps on. winery, wine making

Collected by Dorothy Brumby in relation to Great Western ResearchStudio portrait of bride holding Boquet of flowersGladys Fisher Great Western

Part of the radio equipment in B-24 Liberator aircraft.This is a good example as it is unused and in its original box.Black crackle-finish radio control boxRadio control box/signal corps US Army/s.n. 84472/made by Western Electric New York.radio, control, box, bc-450-a, western, electric

These labels come from the Western Hotel in Warrnambool . The Western Hotel at the corner of Timor and Kepler Streets in Warrnambool was opened in 1870 and was a prominent hotel in the area until it closed in recent years. Thomas Hillier was the licensee from 1901 to 1906. These labels are of interest as mementoes of a former prominent hotel in Warrnambool – the Western Hotel..1 A cream-coloured card with cream printing on a red background and space for an address. .2 A label from a whisky bottle with gilt edging, gold-coloured lettering and a whisky logo. The paper has a straight-edged base and an oval-shaped top. .3 A small sheet of white paper with gold-coloured edging and printing and a whisky logo. .1 Hillier’s Western Hotel Warrnambool .2 Fine Old Scotch Whisky bottled by T.G.L. Hillier Western Hotel Warrnambool .3 Finest Scotch Whisky bottled by T.G.L. Hillier The “Western” Blend western hotel,, thomas hillier, history of warrnambool

S.S.Genista - built 1886, Sydney. Western Port Ferry 1889 to early 1930's.S.S. Genista sailing on Western Port Bay.local history, photographs, transport, shipping, maritime technology, fisheries, ferries, black & white photograph, phillip island, western port

Wallace Luxford postcard to his mother from Western Australia, 1916, on his way to World War 1.Digital copy of black and white photograph. luxford family, world war 1

Collected by Dorothy Brumby in relation to Great Western ResearchB/W Studio portrait of man in suite with Vest and Silk Cravat Thomas Fisher Great Western T. Fisher

Collected by Dorothy Brumby in relation to Great Western ResearchB/W photograph of five miners with shovels and gold pans in creekMiners at Great Western Jack Carra on Right

A collection of recipes showing the use of butter and cheese in wholesome, appetising food dishes15 pages, recipes and illus.recipes, western star, butter

Quite possibly the mining regulations were printed onto material so they could be displayed in harsh conditions without deteriorating like paper. The 1906 mining regulations were enacted on 01 June 1907. (See http://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/documents/Magazine/MSH_MineSafe_Dec09v18no3_LookingBack.pdf)Cloth mining regulations. The cloth appears to be a woven lawn, with black ink regulations printed onto it.mining, mines regulations, mining regulation actw m simpson

The articles in this issue give accounts of independent Aboriginal schools in various areas. The authors look at these schools' goals and outcomes in a range of situations.b&w illustrations, mapsaboriginal schools, worowa aboriginal college, yiyili, jitapurru, oombulgurri

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