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Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Letter - Letter - Borough of Portland, 28/03/1916
Letter from Borough of Portland to the Secretary Free Library, Portland, letterhead paper, typedFront: signed by Town Clerk, comments in pencil -
Federation University Historical Collection
Booklet, FedUni Students: your rights, your responsibilities, 2014, 2014
Small booklet on a booklet aimed at keeping FedUni free from discriminations, harassment and bullying. federation university, student support, bullying, discrimination, equal opportunity, disability -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Plan - Proposed Playground, Ada Mary A'Beckett Free Kindergarten, Fishermans Bend, Martin & Tribe, Architects, 31 Aug 1948
Martin & Tribe - ArchitectsBlueprint of plan: Proposed playground layout, Ada Mary A'Beckett Free Kindergarten, 1947.education - kindergartens, garden city, built environment - civic, fishermans bend, ada mary a'beckett, martin & tribe, ada mary a'beckett kindergarten -
Scouts Victoria
Plaque, Baden-Powell Janaury 1977
Presented to the Boys Scouts of Victoria from the contingent of Boy Scouts of Nippon attending 11th Australian Jamboree at Rosmoyne Park, Dandenong - January 1977A thank you for Victorian/Australian hospitalityFree standing -Timber with metal embosed head of Baden-Powell, plus inscription on front"Baden Powell of Gilwell" - "In appreciation / 11th Australian Jamboree / from / Boy Scouts of Nippon / January,1977"scouts, australian jamboree, baden-powell -
Clunes Museum
Book - FREE LENDING LIBRARY
HARD COVER WITH COTTON SPINE MINUTES OF MEETINGS AT THE FREE LENDING LIBRARY 1879 TO 1884WHITE STICKER ON FRONT: "BOOKS PRESENTED BY RH BLAND"free lending library, rh bland -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Folio, German POW Association. Straszewski Collection.|Kurt Straszewski Collection
Material collected by Kurt Straszewski.Black three ring folder containing photos and printed articles in acid free sleeves.camp 13, dhurringile pow camp, photography, photograph, slides, film -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Pamphlet - Newsletter, Burwood bulletin, c-1981
Free community newsletter for Burwood and district. 1981 - For holdings see Series Contents card.Free community newsletter for Burwood and district. 1981 - For holdings see Series Contents card.Free community newsletter for Burwood and district. 1981 - For holdings see Series Contents card.burwood, newsletter -
Mont De Lancey
Towel Rail
Owned by Wandin Sebire. Mass produced. Carved, free standing wooden towel rail. Has three rails and base rail. domestic furniture, bathroom furniture -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Airlie, Catherine, The Last of the Kintyres by Catherine Airlie, 1959
Romance novel.Hardcover book, 188 pages. Book has a brown cover.fictionRomance novel.catherine airlie, romance, fiction -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Anderson, Jan, Haunted Melody by Jan Anderson, 1961
Romance novel.Hardcover book, 192 pages. Book has a brown cover.fictionRomance novel.jan anderson, romance, fiction -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Surgical thread, early 20th century
This surgical silk is braided for strength and used for purposes such as sewing sutures to close wounds and attaching drainage tubes after surgery. The thread is usually classified by its diameter. The surgical thread was donated to Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village by the family of Doctor William Roy Angus, Surgeon and Oculist. It is part of the “W.R. Angus Collection” that includes historical medical equipment, surgical instruments and material once belonging to Dr Edward Ryan and Dr Thomas Francis Ryan, (both of Nhill, Victoria) as well as Dr Angus’ own belongings. The Collection’s history spans the medical practices of the two Doctors Ryan, from 1885-1926 plus that of Dr Angus, up until 1969. ABOUT THE “W.R.ANGUS COLLECTION” Doctor William Roy Angus M.B., B.S., Adel., 1923, F.R.C.S. Edin.,1928 (also known as Dr Roy Angus) was born in Murrumbeena, Victoria in 1901 and lived until 1970. He qualified as a doctor in 1923 at University of Adelaide, was Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1924 and for a period was house surgeon to Sir (then Mr.) Henry Simpson Newland. Dr Angus was briefly an Assistant to Dr Riddell of Kapunda, then commenced private practice at Curramulka, Yorke Peninsula, SA, where he was physician, surgeon and chemist. In 1926, he was appointed as new Medical Assistant to Dr Thomas Francis Ryan (T.F. Ryan, or Tom), in Nhill, Victoria, where his experiences included radiology and pharmacy. In 1927 he was Acting House Surgeon in Dr Tom Ryan’s absence. Dr Angus had become engaged to Gladys Forsyth and they decided he would take time to further his studies overseas in the UK in 1927. He studied at London University College Hospital and at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and in 1928, was awarded FRCS (Fellow from the Royal College of Surgeons), Edinburgh. He worked his passage back to Australia as a Ship’s Surgeon on the on the Australian Commonwealth Line’s T.S.S. Largs Bay. Dr Angus married Gladys in 1929, in Ballarat. (They went on to have one son (Graham 1932, born in SA) and two daughters (Helen (died 12/07/1996) and Berenice (Berry), both born at Mira, Nhill ) Dr Angus was a ‘flying doctor’ for the A.I.M. (Australian Inland Ministry) Aerial Medical Service in 1928 . The organisation began in South Australia through the Presbyterian Church in that year, with its first station being in the remote town of Oodnadatta, where Dr Angus was stationed. He was locum tenens there on North-South Railway at 21 Mile Camp. He took up this ‘flying doctor’ position in response to a call from Dr John Flynn; the organisation was later known as the Flying Doctor Service, then the Royal Flying Doctor Service. A lot of his work during this time involved dental surgery also. Between 1928-1932 he was surgeon at the Curramulka Hospital, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. In 1933 Dr Angus returned to Nhill where he’d previously worked as Medical Assistant and purchased a share of the Nelson Street practice and Mira hospital from Dr Les Middleton one of the Middleton Brothers, the current owners of what was once Dr Tom Ryan’s practice. Dr L Middleton was House Surgeon to the Nhill Hospital 1926-1933, when he resigned. [Dr Tom Ryan’s practice had originally belonged to his older brother Dr Edward Ryan, who came to Nhill in 1885. Dr Edward saw patients at his rooms, firstly in Victoria Street and in 1886 in Nelson Street, until 1901. The Nelson Street practice also had a 2 bed ward, called Mira Private Hospital ). Dr Edward Ryan was House Surgeon at the Nhill Hospital 1884-1902 . He also had occasions where he successfully performed veterinary surgery for the local farmers too. Dr Tom Ryan then purchased the practice from his brother in 1901. Both Dr Edward and Dr Tom Ryan work as surgeons included eye surgery. Dr Tom Ryan performed many of his operations in the Mira private hospital on his premises. He too was House Surgeon at the Nhill Hospital 1902-1926. Dr Tom Ryan had one of the only two pieces of radiology equipment in Victoria during his practicing years – The Royal Melbourne Hospital had the other one. Over the years Dr Tom Ryan gradually set up what was effectively a training school for country general-practitioner-surgeons. Each patient was carefully examined, including using the X-ray machine, and any surgery was discussed and planned with Dr Ryan’s assistants several days in advance. Dr Angus gained experience in using the X-ray machine there during his time as assistant to Dr Ryan. Dr Tom Ryan moved from Nhill in 1926. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1927, soon after its formation, a rare accolade for a doctor outside any of the major cities. He remained a bachelor and died suddenly on 7th Dec 1955, aged 91, at his home in Ararat. Scholarships and prizes are still awarded to medical students in the honour of Dr T.F. Ryan and his father, Dr Michael Ryan, and brother, John Patrick Ryan. ] When Dr Angus bought into the Nelson Street premises in Nhill he was also appointed as the Nhill Hospital’s Honorary House Surgeon 1933-1938. His practitioner’s plate from his Nhill surgery states “HOURS Daily, except Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturday afternoons, 9-10am, 2-4pm, 7-8pm. Sundays by appointment”. This plate is now mounted on the doorway to the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, Warrnambool. Dr Edward Ryan and Dr Tom Ryan had an extensive collection of historical medical equipment and materials spanning 1884-1926 and when Dr Angus took up practice in their old premises he obtained this collection, a large part of which is now on display at the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village in Warrnambool. During his time in Nhill Dr Angus was involved in the merging of the Mira Hospital and Nhill Public Hospital into one public hospital and the property titles passed on to Nhill Hospital in 1939. In 1939 Dr Angus and his family moved to Warrnambool where he purchased “Birchwood,” the 1852 home and medical practice of Dr John Hunter Henderson, at 214 Koroit Street. (This property was sold in1965 to the State Government and is now the site of the Warrnambool Police Station. ). The Angus family was able to afford gardeners, cooks and maids; their home was a popular place for visiting dignitaries to stay whilst visiting Warrnambool. Dr Angus had his own silk worm farm at home in a Mulberry tree. His young daughter used his centrifuge for spinning the silk. Dr Angus was appointed on a part-time basis as Port Medical Officer (Health Officer) in Warrnambool and held this position until the 1940’s when the government no longer required the service of a Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool; he was thus Warrnambool’s last serving Port Medical Officer. (The duties of a Port Medical Officer were outlined by the Colonial Secretary on 21st June, 1839 under the terms of the Quarantine Act. Masters of immigrant ships arriving in port reported incidents of diseases, illness and death and the Port Medical Officer made a decision on whether the ship required Quarantine and for how long, in this way preventing contagious illness from spreading from new immigrants to the residents already in the colony.) Dr Angus was a member of the Australian Medical Association, for 35 years and surgeon at the Warrnambool Base Hospital 1939-1942, He served as a Surgeon Captain during WWII1942-45, in Ballarat, Victoria, and in Bonegilla, N.S.W., completing his service just before the end of the war due to suffering from a heart attack. During his convalescence he carved an intricate and ‘most artistic’ chess set from the material that dentures were made from. He then studied ophthalmology at the Royal Melbourne Eye and Ear Hospital and created cosmetically superior artificial eyes by pioneering using the intrascleral cartilage. Angus received accolades from the Ophthalmological Society of Australasia for this work. He returned to Warrnambool to commence practice as an ophthalmologist, pioneering in artificial eye improvements. He was Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist to Warrnambool Base Hospital for 31 years. He made monthly visits to Portland as a visiting surgeon, to perform eye surgery. He represented the Victorian South-West subdivision of the Australian Medical Association as its secretary between 1949 and 1956 and as chairman from 1956 to 1958. In 1968 Dr Angus was elected member of Spain’s Barraquer Institute of Barcelona after his research work in Intrasclearal cartilage grafting, becoming one of the few Australian ophthalmologists to receive this honour, and in the following year presented his final paper on Living Intrasclearal Cartilage Implants at the Inaugural Meeting of the Australian College of Ophthalmologists in Melbourne In his personal life Dr Angus was a Presbyterian and treated Sunday as a Sabbath, a day of rest. He would visit 3 or 4 country patients on a Sunday, taking his children along ‘for the ride’ and to visit with him. Sunday evenings he would play the pianola and sing Scottish songs to his family. One of Dr Angus’ patients was Margaret MacKenzie, author of a book on local shipwrecks that she’d seen as an eye witness from the late 1880’s in Peterborough, Victoria. In the early 1950’s Dr Angus, painted a picture of a shipwreck for the cover jacket of Margaret’s book, Shipwrecks and More Shipwrecks. She was blind in later life and her daughter wrote the actual book for her. Dr Angus and his wife Gladys were very involved in Warrnambool’s society with a strong interest in civic affairs. Their interests included organisations such as Red Cross, Rostrum, Warrnambool and District Historical Society (founding members), Wine and Food Society, Steering Committee for Tertiary Education in Warrnambool, Local National Trust, Good Neighbour Council, Housing Commission Advisory Board, United Services Institute, Legion of Ex-Servicemen, Olympic Pool Committee, Food for Britain Organisation, Warrnambool Hospital, Anti-Cancer Council, Boys’ Club, Charitable Council, National Fitness Council and Air Raid Precautions Group. He was also a member of the Steam Preservation Society and derived much pleasure from a steam traction engine on his farm. He had an interest in people and the community He and his wife Gladys were both involved in the creation of Flagstaff Hill, including the layout of the gardens. After his death (28th March 1970) his family requested his practitioner’s plate, medical instruments and some personal belongings be displayed in the Port Medical Office surgery at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, and be called the “W. R. Angus Collection”. The W.R. Angus Collection is significant for still being located at the site it is connected with, Doctor Angus being the last Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool. The collection of medical instruments and other equipment is culturally significant, being an historical example of medicine from late 19th to mid-20th century. Dr Angus assisted Dr Tom Ryan, a pioneer in the use of X-rays and in ocular surgery. Beige envelope containing white braided silk. “Braided silk / No. 16” from the W.R. Angus Collection. Hand written in blue pen on front of envelope. Red Cross symbol is printed onto top left corner of envelope and at bottom of envelope are the words printed in red “ISSUED FREE BY AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY TO HOSPITAL PATIENTS”. Once part of Dr T.F. Ryan's medical practice.Envelope has text “Braided silk / No. 16”, “ISSUED FREE BY AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY TO HOSPITAL PATIENTS”. It also has a red cross on the upper left cornerflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, suture, silk suture, surgical silk, dr t f ryan, dr angus, medical equipment, nhill base hospital, warrnambool base hospital, flying doctor, medical history, medical treatment, mira hospital, flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, suture, silk suture, surgical silk, dr t f ryan, dr angus, medical equipment, nhill base hospital, warrnambool base hospital, flying doctor, medical history, medical treatment, mira hospital -
Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.
Information folder - St Cuthbert's Church, Menzies Creek
Folder containing information pertaining to St Cuthbert's Church. Contents: -article, "Don't take our church away: plea", by Liz Tunnecliffe, Free Press, 7th December 1988 -article, "Church future is still not decided", Free Press, 14th Dember 1988 -opinion piece, "Church belongs to them", Free Press, 14th December 1988 -letters to the editor, The Trader, 8th February, 1989 (2 sheets) -letters to the editor, "Please don't shut doors on area's worship and history", Free Press, 15th February 1989 -article, "Easter approaches and still 'No decision' on St Cuthberts", The Trader, 1st March 1989 -article, "United bid to save church" by Liz Tunnecliffe, Free Press, 2nd March 1989 -article, "group in bid to save Menzies Creek church" by Liz Tunnecliffe, Free Press, 8th March 1989 -article, "Trust registers church", Free Press, 15th March 1989 -article, "St Cuthberts recorded by the National Trust", The Trader, 15th March 1989 -article, "Church's future hinges on planning authority listing", by Liz Tunnecliffe, Free Press, 22nd March 1989 -article, "Easter service is last for St Cuthbert's Church", Free Press, 29th March 1989 -article, "St Cuthberts – the final service", The Trader, 29th March 1989 -article, "Church popular", Free Press, 2nd August 1989 -article, "Roper refuses to protect church", Free Press, 23rd August 1989 -article, "St Cuthbert's to stay closed", Free Press, 6th September 1989 -articles, "Church worth under scrutiny" and "'Buy it plea', Free Press, 9th May 1990 -article, "St Cuthbert's reprieve", Free Press, 1st August 1990 -article, "St Cuthberts – of 'special significance'!", The Hills Trader, 1st August 1990 -article, "Battle to save St Cuthbert's flares", by Liz Tunnecliffe, Free Press, 17th July 1991 -article, "St Cuthberts – the final chapter", by Sara Byers, The Trader, 14th February 1995 -article, "St Cuthbert's owner to preserve past" (re. David Vickery) by Steve Theodore, Rangers Mail, 28th February 1995, 2 copies -article, "New wedding venue a hit", The Trader, 16th June 1998 st cuthbert's church, menzies creek -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BENDIGO TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY COLLECTION: LETTER, 13 June 1917
Document. Letter from the Chief Secretary's Office, to the secretary, free library, Bendigo, forwarding a form of receipt for sixteen pounds, five shillings and seven pence, which has been allotted to your Free Library. Signed by W.A.CALLAWAY, Under-secretary.organisation, community, abstinence society -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - LODGE COLLECTION: BOOK RITUAL OF THE FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD DEGREES, CHARGES, AND LECTURES
Black covered book, 145 pages, 'RITUAL' Ritual of the First, Second, and Third degrees, Charges and Lectures. Printed by Mason, Firth & McCutcheon Pty Ltd. Melbourne. 1949.Printed by, Mason, Firth & McCutcheon Pty., Ltd., Melbourneclubs, social, united grand lodge of antient, free -
Clunes Museum
Book, ANNIE MARTIN, Home Life on an Ostrich Farm, 1890
IN THE YEAR 1881, HAVING OUR NATIVE LAND WRAPPED IN THE COLD FOGS OF NOVEMBER, MY HUSBAND AND I START FOR SOUTH AFRICA: WHERE IT WAS THE INTENTION OF FORMER TO RESUME THE OCCUPATION OF OSTRICH-FARMING...HARADCOVER BOOK WITH GEOMETRIC DESIGN PANEL ON FRONT COVER IN CREAM AND BROWN COLOUR 288 PAGESnon-fictionIN THE YEAR 1881, HAVING OUR NATIVE LAND WRAPPED IN THE COLD FOGS OF NOVEMBER, MY HUSBAND AND I START FOR SOUTH AFRICA: WHERE IT WAS THE INTENTION OF FORMER TO RESUME THE OCCUPATION OF OSTRICH-FARMING...rivett bland, clunes free lending library -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Flyer - Free concert, Port Melbourne Town Hall, International Year of Peace, 1986
Amongst a series of items donated by former Cr Perce WHITE reflecting his commitment to the arts and social justiceFlyer advertising a free concert for the International Year of Peace at the Port Melbourne Town Hall, 1986local government - city of port melbourne, arts and entertainment - music, international year of peace, concerts -
Clunes Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH FREE LIBARY
THE OLD CLUNES LIBRARY IS SITUATED IN TEMPLETON STREET, CLUNES. HAS BEEN USED AS SCOUT HALL THEN LATER NEIGHBOUR HOUSE AFTER LIBRARY CLOSED.COLOURED PHOTOGRAPH OF CLUNES FREE LIBRARY ESTABLISHED 1874 PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN DURING RESTORATION WORKlocal history, photographs, free library -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Problem solvers, 1976
A new free counselling service in Nunawading City was opened at East Burwood (photo - telephone staff).A new free counselling service in Nunawading City was opened at East Burwood (photo - telephone staff).A new free counselling service in Nunawading City was opened at East Burwood (photo - telephone staff).east burwood counselling and care centre, city of nunawading, community services, citizens advice bureaus -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, City of Nunawading Information 1983/84, 1983/84
List of 1983/84 Councillors, Services & Centres and Free coupons for the Municipal Tip & swimming pool.List of 1983/84 Councillors, Services & Centres and Free coupons for the Municipal Tip & swimming pool.List of 1983/84 Councillors, Services & Centres and Free coupons for the Municipal Tip & swimming pool.city of nunawading, services centres -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - FREEMASONS CERTIFICATE, 1925
Certificate presented to Alexander James Smith by the United Grand Lodge of Antient, Free and Accepted Masons of Victoria upon being received into free masonry. Printed on parchment paper, topped with coat of arms above 3 columns & Masons symbols. Markings - 53118person, individual, alexander james smith -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, The Life of Lord Russell of Killowen, 1902
Maroon coloured cloth covered spine and cardboad covers. Text in gold.lord russell of killowen, political history, social history -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Card - Christmas Card
As the card says, these were supplied free of charge to people who wanted them in the POW camps.German Christmas card. German inscription reads "warmest Christmas and New Year greetings from " "free supplied by POW's held World Committee of Christian Young Men Association Australia" Back of card reads Kurt Frank "Herzlichste Weihnachts and Neujahrs Gruesse von ...." "frei geliefert von Kriegsge fangenen hilfe welthomitee der christichen Jungermannerveseine Australien"kurt frank, german christmas cards -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, The Panmure Papers. Vol: II, 1908
The Panmure Papers being a selection from the correspondence of Fox Maule, second Baron Panmure, afterwards eleventh Earl of Dalhousie, K.T., G.C.B. vol II, Hodder & Stoughton, 1908.Maroon cloth-covered spine and cardboard covers. Graphics and text in gold on spine and front cover.The Panmure Papers being a selection from the correspondence of Fox Maule, second Baron Panmure, afterwards eleventh Earl of Dalhousie, K.T., G.C.B. vol II, Hodder & Stoughton, 1908.history, military history, crimean war, florence nightingale -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Administrative record - Receipt - Commonwealth Bonds, Portland Free Library, 09/02/1922
glenelg shire council archives, portland free library, bonds -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Plan - Ada Mary A'Beckett Free Kindergarten, Fishermans Bend, Martin & Tribe, Architects, 21 Mar 1949
Martin & Tribe - ArchitectsPlans, Ada Mary A'Beckett Free Kindergarten - final details i.e. kerbing, tanbark, flagpole. 1947.education - kindergartens, garden city, built environment - civic, fishermans bend, ada mary a'beckett, martin & tribe, ada mary a'beckett kindergarten -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book - Register of Visitors, Port Melbourne Free Library, 1894
Register of visitors to the Port Melbourne Free library at the Town Hall. 02 - covers 5.07. 1894. to 11.06.1895port melbourne library, port melbourne town hall, local government - town of port melbourne, port melbourne free library -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Barraclough, Linda and Watt, Dorothy, Briagolong Mechanics' Institute. More than just a place of amusement, 1994
A history of the Briagolong Mechanics' Institute and free library. The oldest operating Mechanics' Institute building in Gippsland, Victoria.mechanics' institute -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Mixed Media - Compact Disc, Family Tree Magazine, Family Tree 1891 Census, 2007c
Free discs from Family Tree Magazine includes census from Buckinghamshire, Herefordshire,Wiltshire, Hampshiregenealogy -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Mixed Media - Compact Disc, Family Tree Magazine, Conservation of Australia's Historic Heritage Places, 2011c
Free discs from Family Tree magazine includes census from Durham, London, Sussex, Denbighshiregenealogy -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Toc H Members Ted Arrowsmith and Len Crawley, 1960
Black and white photo of Ted Arrowsmith and Len Crawley at Free Kindergarten at Forest Hill.|Ref ND2597toc h - mitcham branch, arrowsmith, ted, crawley, len, forest hill residential kindergarten