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Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Albert MOWLAM's 1940 Ford Prefect outside 35 Cruikshank Street, 1940s
Congues and Mowlam families Images of two families who lived in Cruikshank Street from the 1930s to 1950s. .10 - Albert MOWLAM's 1940s Ford Prefect outside 35 Cruikshank Streetfamiles, congues family, mowlam family, albert 'tich' mowlam -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: GOLDEN FLEECE
Bendigo Advertiser "The way we were" from Thursday, May 6, 2004. Golden fleece: a farmer loads up his wool clip in the early 1930s at Derby near Bridgewater.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: HERD INSTINCT
Bendigo Advertiser "The way we were" from Wednesday, September 24, 2003. Herd instinct: a sheep sale in the 1930s. Little has changed in sheep sales since then except the prices.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Slide, Robin Boyd
Colour slide in a mount. Image from a magazine, a Roy Ground's house, likely Lyncroft Estate, Shoreham or Chateau Tahbilk, Nagambie Region, Victoria, Australia, 1930s. (Architect: Roy Grounds.)Made in Australia / G11 (Handwritten)victoria, slide -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Headwear - Hat, straw
Bought from Op Shop in Forest Hill for Society's collectionCream straw hat, possibly 1930s - 1940s , with shallow crown, rolled ribbon band around crown, and 8 cm nylon bow at back. Black milliners elastic to hold hat oncostume, female headwear -
Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.
Postcard, Silvan Reservoir
Sepia-toned postcard featuring distant view of Silvan Dam. The middle ground shows cleared land all set out for agriculture, houses also visible. c. early 1930s -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Leisure object - Card Game, AMCO Playing Card Co, Bridge Card Bingo, 1955-1965
The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objects. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers. In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection.Bridge Card Bingo. U.S.A. 1938. AMCO Playing Card Company of New York & Chicago was an American company founded in the 1930s. It continued to produce playing cards up until 1987. binge card bingo, playing cards, card games -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Ledger, Ledger and Correspondence (Swinton), 1930s
.1 This is a ledger which was originally printed for the recording of agricultural and pastoral sales but has been used by the Warrnambool firm of Swintons Pty Ltd. to record sales of farm products and machinery from 1934 to 1945. .2 These are 13 items of correspondence, receipts, insurance documents, agreements etc. associated with the Warrnambool business firm of Swintons Pty Ltd. These were contained within the ledger referred to above. William and Ann Swinton migrated to Australia in 1854 and William Swinton worked as a builder and carpenter for a decade, erecting many buildings in the Warrnambool area, including the Wangoom Presbyterian Church. In 1865 he opened a shop in Timor Street, Warrnambool selling groceries, glassware and china. In 1888 the business was known as William Swinton and Sons. Branch stores were opened in Wangoom, Cudgee, Nullawarre, West Warrnambool and South Warrnambool. When William died his son Robert became the first managing director of Swintons Pty Ltd. In 1934 the business split in two with George Swinton and Sons selling furnishings, clothing and glassware and Swintons Pty Ltd selling produce, hardware and seeds. Today the Swinton family still operates a furniture and bedding store in Timor Street. This ledger and the accompanying paper material are of considerable importance as they are associated with the Swinton businesses in Warrnambool. The ledger contains lists of customers of the Swinton business in the 1930s and 40s and provides names, addresses and the cost of the product sold. This is very useful to researchers. The current Swinton business in Timor Street is the oldest family business in Warrnambool and, with the Swinton name associated with businesses in Timor Street for 152 years, is among the oldest family businesses in Australia..1 This is a hard cover ledger. It is beige-coloured with red leather edging on the corners and a red and gold label on the front cover. The pages are held in the folder with metal studs. The pages are white with red and blue printed lines and red leather tabs numbering 1 to 9. The entries are handwritten in blue and black ink. The ledger cover is slightly scuffed. .2 These are 13 items of correspondence from the 1930s and 40s. There is both handwritten and printed material. ‘The Perpetual Income Tax Recorder. No 5. Agricultural and Pastoral’. swinton family warrnambool, history of warrnambool -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Six children in Cruikshank Street, Port Melbourne, 1930s - 1950s
Congues and Mowlam families Images of two families who lived in Cruikshank Street from the 1930s to 1950s. .01 - Photo of six children taken outside houses on Cruikshank St in the 1940s. Back row - from left - Elva MOWLAM, Patsy MOWLAM, Barbara HEGARTY. Front row - Graham TAYLOR, Beverley HORTON, Peter CONGUES. Elva, Patsy, Beverley and Peter were cousins. Barbara and Graham were (and still are) friends.families, congues family, mowlam family, barbara gardiner nee hegarty, elva mason nee mowlam, pat frisby nee mowlam, graham taylor, beverley horton, peter congues -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Urban landscape, Henry Beater Christian, 1930s
Henry Christian (c.1809-91), the grandfather of the photographer, was one of the first settlers in Kew. He arrived in Victoria with his wife Agnes and son Orlando in 1855 on the Gypsy Queen. He established a rope-making business in Bulleen Road by 1858 but was declared insolvent two years later. In his final years, he was celebrated as one of the oldest living settlers of the district. His son, Orlando Henry Beater Christian (c.1853-1930) became a member of the Hawthorn Band and a foundation member of the Willsmere Swimming Club. Orlando and his wife Elizabeth had four children of which Henry Beater Christian (1886-1962) was the eldest.An item from an outstanding and diverse photographic collection, assembled by members of the Christian family of Pakington Street, Kew, comprising professional and amateur photography, depicting individuals, natural and settled environments and the interactions between these worlds. Many of the photographs vividly capture the worlds of three generations of men - Henry Christian, his son Orlando Henry Beater Christian, and his grandson of Henry Christian. The most important photographer was the youngest, Henry Christian, who was a keen explorer, not just of his immediate environment but also of the Victorian wilderness. His major opus is contained in two albums in which he records, sometimes in majestic detail and on other occasions the intimate features of the natural world. His photographic travels during the 1920s, often in solitary ramblings but on other occasions with companions, recall the heroic landscape photography of an earlier era, pioneered by Nicholas Caire. In addition to their aesthetic value, the albums are historically significant records within the State of Victoria, of what is now a distant point in time, and of places that have become radically altered through human intervention.Black and white photo of the rear view of a man in a hat standing under a tree on a hill looking across the Yarra River (unseen) towards Melbourne. The exhibition building and the spires of St Patrick’s Cathedral can be seen on the skyline. The man may be Orlando Henry Beater Christian. If all the spires are intact it must postdate 1939 when work begun in the early 1930s on the spires began. He may be standing on the edge of the Yarra Boulevard.melbourne skyline - 1930s, yarra boulevard -- kew (vic.), christian-washfold collection -
Greensborough Historical Society
Photograph - Digital image, Charles Marshall et al, Marshall family [female relatives], 1930s
This photograph shows several of the Marshall relatives, unidentified females, early 1930s Digital copy of black and white photograph. No caption on this photo.charles marshall, world war 1, marshall family -
Greensborough Historical Society
Photograph - Digital image, Charles Marshall et al, Marshall family [male relatives], 1930s
This photograph shows one of the Marshall relatives, unidentified male, early 1930s Digital copy of black and white photograph. Caption illegible..charles marshall, world war 1, marshall family -
St Kilda Historical Society
Postcard, St Kilda Baths, c. 1930s
Men sunbaking and playing cards, St Kilda Baths, late 1930sTwo black and white photographs - original and a copy, unmounted, good conditionThe group on right is playing cards -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Lace collars
9059.1 Victorian handmade needle run lace collar 9059.2 Lace collar with two press studs 9059.3 9059.4 9059.5 Light blue crocheted silk collar and cuffs. c1920s. 9059.6 Cream silk crocheted collar 9059.7 Hand crocheted Picot collar, c.1930s 9059.8 Cream silk crocheted collar, 1920s to 1930s 9059.9 French needle run lace collar 9059.10 Black silk faille collar, c. 1920s -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Damaged four wheel tram Ballarat, late 1930s
Black and white photograph of a single truck or four-wheel tram in the yard at the Wendouree Parade depot with its side missing following a collision with a vehicle. Given the traversing jacks on the tram, it was possibly derailed. The tram is in the 1930s colour scheme - photo late 1930s or early 1940s. Photographer unknown.Yields information about an unknown tram damaged in an accident, indicating the scale of the event.Black and white photograph on plain paper.trams, tramways, depot, secv, accidents -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Display board, Lagoon Confectionary labels, David Thompson, Mar 1999
Photographed by David THOMPSON when the display board was on loan from the company for Port Melbourne Festival 1999. Photos made upstairs at Pat GRAINGER'S house in natural light.One of seven digital photos of Lagoon Confectionery's display board of labels from the 1930s, 40s etc. There are also digital images of each individual label on the hard drive, numbered 1204.08-42industry - food, lagoon confectionery pty ltd -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Booklet - Wendy's Dressmaker Book, c1930
Green Scrap Book entitled 'David Lupton's Sons Company' re-entitled 'Wendy's Dressmaker' includes cuttings of dressmaking items collected by Olive Hughes in the 1930s from the Taraniki Daily Newsbooks, fashion -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Functional object - Haeusler Collection Mid-Century 'Miranda's Dream Cigarettes' Tobacco Tin, Dodo Designs
The Wodonga Historical Society Haeusler Collection provides invaluable insight into life in late nineteenth and early twentieth century north east Victoria. The collection comprises manuscripts, personal artefacts used by the Haeusler family on their farm in Wodonga, and a set of glass negatives which offer a unique visual snapshot of the domestic and social lives of the Haeusler family and local Wodonga community. The Haeusler family migrated from Prussia (Germany) to South Australia in the 1840s and 1850s, before purchasing 100 acres of Crown Land made available under the Victorian Lands Act 1862 (also known as ‘Duffy’s Land Act’) in 1866 in what is now Wodonga West. The Haeusler family were one of several German families to migrate from South Australia to Wodonga in the 1860s. This tobacco tin is one of the many objects in the Haeusler Collection that provides insight into life in early to mid-twentieth century Wodonga, and Australia more broadly. Smoking in the first half of the twentieth century was incredibly common in Australia and other western countries. In 1945, more than three out of every four men and one in every four women were regular smokers. While rates of smoking decreased over the next two decades due to observations and research regarding the links between smoking and illness, an increase in tobacco use was documented after the advent of television as people were bombarded with advertisements for cigarettes. These advertisements, much like the image on the Haeusler Collection 'Miranda's Dream Cigarettes' Tobacco Tin, depicted smoking as sophisticated and glamorous, distracting consumers from the serious health risks associated with smoking. Orientalist depictions of Middle East were common in tobacco advertising in the West in the first half of the twentieth century, an attempt to associate cigarettes with the supposed sensuality and mystery of the Orient. There have been significant changes in both legislation and popular perceptions of smoking in Australian society since the manufacture and consumption of 'Miranda's Dream Cigarettes'. In 1992 the Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Act was introduced, making it illegal in Australia to publish or broadcast messages that encourage people to start or continue smoking. In 2011 the Australian government also introduced plain packaging laws to reduce the appeal and promotion of tobacco products, and make health warnings more effective. This item has well documented provenance and a known owner. It forms part of a significant and representative historical collection which reflects the local history of Wodonga. It contributes to our understanding of domestic and family life in early twentieth century Wodonga, as well as providing interpretative capacity for themes including local history and social history. A tobacco tin with a coloured illustration of a woman in stylish 1920s-1930s dress sitting in an armchair smoking a cigarette, while watching an Orientalist scene featuring a belly dancer and a snake charmer wearing a turban. Branding on the lid of tin: "Miranda's Dream Cigarettes"cigarettes, tobacco, smoking, cigarette tin, haeusler, haeusler collection, wodonga -
Greensborough Historical Society
Postcard, Elizabeth Street Melbourne, 1930s
View of Elizabeth Street facing south towards Flinders Street station, circa 1930s.Rose collection postcardsBlack and white postcard, correspondence and address spaces on reverseRose Series P. 3458melbourne, elizabeth street melbourne -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Image, R.J. Romey, 1935 (Appoximate)
Small black and white snap shot of a boy, Dennis Williams, with violinOn back of photo: "Dennis Williams - Shop in Main Street early 1930s, down below Poachers" Rubber stamp: "L.J. Romey | Chemist & Chiropodist | Rutherglen, (Tel. 36)"dennis williams -
Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - The pea crop at the Breens
Photo (and copy) of six men picking up peas on the Breen farm in the 1930s. Five men are wearing hats. They are all wearing waistcoats. On the right of the photo is a square container. -
Greensborough Historical Society
Photograph - Digital Image, Looking toward Willis Vale c1930s, 1930s
A view of Greensborough looking toward Willis Vale, possibly taken from Jessop Street in the 1930s.Digital copy of black and white photograph.willis vale, jessop street greensborough -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Business card, Plenty Bridge Hotel, c.1930s-c.1940s
Business card for Plenty Bridge Hotel, C. Aarons, licensee, c.1930s-c.1940sBlack and white photographlower plenty, hotels, plenty bridge hotel, advertisements, c. aarons, bridges -
Tarnagulla History Archive
News clipping: A Happy & Gorgeous _______ - Renewal of Old Friendships, A Happy & Gorgeous _______ - Renewal of Old Friendships, 1930s
Murray Comrie Collection. A newspaper clipping in two fragments (unknown publication & date) with title: 'A Happy & Gorgeous _______ - Renewal of Old Friendships'. Discusses a week of celebrations by Old Tarnagullians probably the Back To Tarnagulla of 1930s. Describes several events, special train arriving, singing in the Hall, shooting melons, war veterans march, costume competition, procession by Dunolly-Tarnagulla Brass Band to the Rec Reserve and Maryborough Band playing at the Rec Reserve, a Back to School event on the Monday at which C. Bock took photos.tarnagulla, back to tarnagulla, old tarnagullians, community celebrations, community events, reunions, school, recreation reserve, public hall -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - SECV Ballarat depot, late 1930s
Black and white photograph of the SECV Wendouree Parade depot with tram 30 and another single trucker sitting outside the building - a worker with a bicycle is hiding the number. Note the SECV Electricity Supply Department plaque on the brick wall at the front of the depot. Tram 30 is in the 1930s colour scheme - photo late 1930s or early 1940s. Photographer unknown.Yields information about the SEC Depot late 1930sBlack and white photograph on plain paper.trams, tramways, depot, secv, tram 30 -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Johnnie CONGUES in army uniform, c. 1916
Congues and Mowlam families Images of two families who lived in Cruikshank Street from the 1930s to 1950s. .07 - John (Johnnie) Congues in full army uniform. John was awarded the Military Medal in 1916.families, congues family, mowlam family, john (johnnie) congues -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, Holding M, 2005
Date made February 2005Colour photograph of the Central Hotel, during redevelopment. Left hand side glimpse of Georges Cafe completed. Scaffolding around the 1930s tower and frontage being updated to blend with renovation. Lakes Entrance Victoriahotels, architecture -
Federation University Art Collection
Painting - Original poster, Eleanor Constance (Nornie) Gude, 'Ballarat - The Garden City' by Nornie Gude, c1934
Nornie GUDE (1915-2002) Eleanor Constance (Nornie) Gude was the daughter of Walter Gude, a leading musician, and highly regarded teacher. She grew up in Ballarat and was educated at Loreto College. From 1931 to 1936 Nornie Gude attended the Ballarat Technical Art School, a division of the Ballarat School of Mines. She was accepted into the School at the age of 15 because she was so advanced in painting. Nornie Gude studied at Ballarat for five years before progressing to Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria School. In 1936 Nornie Gude was studying at the Ballarat Technical Art School, and the National Gallery Drawing School in Melbourne. She won many art competitions, including first prize at the 1936 Melbourne Royal Agricultural Show for still life drawing, and in 1941 became the first woman to win the National Gallery Students Travelling Scholarship. In the 1936 Ballarat School of Mines Annual Report it was stated: "It is my pleasure to report a most successful year in the Technical Art School. I the Annual Poster Competition for Technical Schools, organised by Wiltshires Pty Limited, 16 prized valued at 33 pounds 8 shillings - out of 23 prizes valued at 56 pounds - were won by our students. As an artist Nornie Gude held no theories and was once heard to say, “You spend your first 20 years learning technique and the next 20 years losing it”. This item is part of the Federation University Art Collection. The Art Collection features over 1000 works and was listed as a 'Ballarat Treasure' in 2007.commercial artA large, original goauche poster produced for one of the regular poster competitions held during the 1930s (the exhibition stickers are still evident on the lower left hand side). It depicts a scene in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens. Written verso "Nornie Gude Technical Art School Ballarat" Exhibition Sticker "Exhibit NO 8545 Class No 1736art, artwork, gude, nornie gude, eleanor constance gude, ballarat, ballarat botanical gardens, statue, ballarat technical art school, alumni -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Audio - Launch of Port Talks, John Kirby, 25 Sep 2017
Launch of "Port Talks" by Janet Bolitho and Mary Jasper. Monthly speaker Jim Sinclair speaks on "Growing up in Port Melbourne" in the 1930s and 1940s Duration 01:27:55 (including meeting preliminaries)domestic life, jim sinclair, janet bolitho, mary jasper, port talks -
Ithacan Historical Society
Photograph, Greek School, Melbourne, 1930s
The Greek Orthodox Community with the support of the Ithacan Community in Melbourne established a Greek Language School in the early 1930s. The teaching of the Greek language to the Australian born children of Greek parents ensured that the language and culture was maintained within the Greek community. A sepia photograph mounted on grey board of the children and teachers at the Greek language school. The people are standing and seated in five rows in front of a stage.