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Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionBook, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, n.d
... Ex - Portland Free Library, Museum and Library Institute....Front: Label on inside cover 'Portland Free Library, Museum... Shelley Front: Label on inside cover 'Portland Free Library ...Cloth-covered covers and spine, coloured red. Text and graphics in gold on spine.poetry, shelley, percy bysshe shelley -
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Book, William & Robert Chambers, Chambers' Encyclopaedia, Vol. II. BEA-CATA, 1888
... * Ex-Portland Free Library. * Portland Town Council...., pencil). Bookplate: Portland Free Library. 1595 (faded black ink... Library. * Portland Town Council. Front: 2113 (yellow label) REG ...Brown leather bound spine with maroon cloth-covered board covers. Gold lettering and gold graphics in six rectangles on spine. Leather corners on outer edges. -
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Book, George Alfred Henty, Dorothy's Double, 1894
... From the collection of the Portland Free Library. George...Front: Page 4 'Portland Free Library' stamp Inside bak... of the Portland Free Library. George Alfred Henty was an English novelist ...Dorothy Hawtrey's life is turned topsy turvy by a rogue enemy who cultivates a poor girl who resembles Dorothy and uses her to impersonate Dorothy. The tale expands to the California gold fields where the double and her captor are eventually discovered. The double turns out to be a long lost sister, the rogue is killed, and all ends well.Dark brown leather bound spine and cover corners. Green cloth-covered board covers. Gold text on spine.fictionDorothy Hawtrey's life is turned topsy turvy by a rogue enemy who cultivates a poor girl who resembles Dorothy and uses her to impersonate Dorothy. The tale expands to the California gold fields where the double and her captor are eventually discovered. The double turns out to be a long lost sister, the rogue is killed, and all ends well.fiction, historical fiction, thriller -
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Financial record - Cheque Book - Union Bank of Australia Limited, 1926, 1926
... , Portland Free Library stubs dated from May 9 1926 to 22 December...Front: '116' stamp, 4 purple Portland Free Library, Museum... Bank Front: '116' stamp, 4 purple Portland Free Library, Museum ...Used cheque book - The Union Bank of Australia Limited, Portland Free Library stubs dated from May 9 1926 to 22 December 1926, grey card cover.Front: '116' stamp, 4 purple Portland Free Library, Museum & Literary Institute stamps Back: 4 purple stamps, same as frontcheque book, payment, union bank -
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Book, George L. Chalk and Charles MacFarlane and other contributors, The Pictorial History of England, Vol. VI, 1785-1791, 1846
... * Ex-Portland Free Library * Portland Town Council...Front: Portland Free Library (label, inside front cover) 97... Library * Portland Town Council Front: Portland Free Library ...Light brown coloured leather-bound spine and cover corners. Paper-covered board covers with greens red and ochre marbling. Gold lettering and gold graphics on spine. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionBook - Book -s - The Modern World Encyclopaedia Vol,1, 7,8 and 9, 519.1 - The Modern World Encyclopaedia. Vol 1: A-BED519.2 - The Modern World Encyclopaedia. Vol 7: OBE-SHA519.3 - The Modern World Encyclopaedia. Vol 8: SHA-ZYG519.4 - The Modern World Encyclopaedia. Vol 9: World Atlas, 1935
... * Portland Free Library, Museum and Literary Institute....Front: 519.1 - Bookplate: Portland Free Library, Museum... Cliff Street Portland great-ocean-road * Portland Free Library ...Brown cloth-covered cardboard covers and spine. Gold text on spine. Title impressed on cover. -
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Book, Reid, Sir George Houstoun, My Reminiscences Sir George Reid, 1917
... Ex - Portland Free Library Museum and Literary Institute...Front: Portland Free Library Museum and Literary Institute...: Portland Free Library Museum and Literary Institute....purchased ...Ex - Portland Free Library Museum and Literary Institute, purchased 1/6/1917.Dark green cloth-covered board covers and spine. Black text and graphics on front cover. 16 photogravure plates.Front: Portland Free Library Museum and Literary Institute....purchased 1.6.17 (inside front cover, label) Back: (no inscriptions) -
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Book, George L. Chalk and Charles MacFarlane and other contributors, The Pictorial History of England, Vol. VII1, 1802-1815, 1846
... * Ex-Portland Free Library * Portland Town Council...Front: Portland Free Library (label, inside front cover... Library * Portland Town Council Front: Portland Free Library ...Light brown coloured leather-bound spine and cover corners. Paper-covered board covers with greens red and ochre marbling. Gold lettering and gold graphics on spine. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionBook, Henry Smith William, LLD, Historians History of the World. Vol I-XXV, 1908
... * Ex Portland Free Library. * Portland Town Council....Front: Presented to Public Library, Portland by James Long... Library. * Portland Town Council. history world history Front ...Leather bound black spine and cover corners with green cloth-covered board covers. Gold lettering and gold graphics on spine. Set contains volumes I-XXV, catalogued as 438.1 - 438.25. Vol I: Egypt & Mesopotamia (438.1); Vol II: Israel-Persia India-Pheonicia Asia-Minor (438.2); Vol III: Greece to the Peloponnesian War (438.3); Vol IV: Greece to the Roman Conquest (438.4); Vol V: The Roman Republic (438.5); Vol VI: Early Roman Empire (438.6); Vol VII: The Later Roman (438.7); Vol VIII: Arabs Crusades Papacy (438.8); Vol IX: Italy (438.9); Vol XI: France 843-1715 (438.11); Vol XII: France 1715-1815 (438.12); Vol XIII: France since 1815. Netherlands (438.13); Vol XIV: Netherlands. Germany (438.14); Vol XV: Germany (continued) (438.15); Vol. XXIII. The United States. Spanish America (438.23); Vol. XXIV. Turkey. Minor Eastern States. China. Japan (438.24).history, world history -
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Book, Chambers' Encyclopaedia, Vol. I. A-BEA, 1888
... * Ex-Portland Free Library. * Portland Town Council....Front: Portland Free Library label (inside front cover... Library. * Portland Town Council. Front: Portland Free Library ...The Chambers Encyclopaedia. Brown leather bound spine with maroon cloth-covered board covers. Gold lettering and gold graphics in six rectangles on spine. Leather corners on outer edges. -
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Book, Arnold Wright & Philip Smith, Parliament, Past and Present: A Popular and Picturesque Account of a Thousand Years in the Palace of Westminster, the Home of the Mother of Parliaments, c. 1912
... From the Portland Free Library Museum & Literary Institute...Front: Label on inside front cover 'Portland Free Library... on inside front cover 'Portland Free Library'. No. 360.... purchased ...Dark red cloth-covered spine and board covers. Text and graphics in gold.history, british history, parliament, westmisnter -
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Book, Walter Tyndale, Japan and the Japanese, 1910
... From the collection belonging to the Portland Free Library...Front: Label on inside front cover. 'Portland Free Library... belonging to the Portland Free Library. The author, Walter Tyndale ...Light blue, cloth-covered covers and spine. Text and graphics in gold. Coloured illustration on front cover-garden scene. 32 coloured illustrations by the author.japan, travel, social life, customs -
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Photograph - Photograph - 'My Portland' Photographic project (2007), 2007
... , curated by Carmel Wallace for the Portland Library in 2007. Images... for the Portland Library in 2007. Images include people, buildings ...Collection of Photographs from the 'My Portland' project, curated by Carmel Wallace for the Portland Library in 2007. Images include people, buildings, the Port, family life, land marks, ect. -
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Book, The Pictorial History of England, Vol. 1, BC55-AD1399.1, 1846
... Ex-Portland Free Library...Front: 3.8 Portland Free Library label (inside front cover... Cliff Street Portland great-ocean-road Ex-Portland Free Library ...Light brown coloured leather-bound spine and cover corners. Paper covered board cover: marbling, greens, red and yellow ochre. History of England, BC.55 to AD1815. Gold texta and graphics on spine.history of england -
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Book, Harriet Martineau, History of Peace Vol. 2, 1851
... Ex - Portland Free Library. Harriet Martineau...Front: Portland Free Library label (inside front cover... Cliff Street Portland great-ocean-road Ex - Portland Free ...Light-brown coloured leather bound spine and cover corners. Paper covered board covers, marbling design, red, greens and yellow ochre. The History of Peace 1800-1845non-fictionhistory, english, feminism, peace -
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Book, Virgil et al, Bell's Illustrated Classics: Aeneid and Caesar De Bello Gallico, 1903
... Ex - Portland Free Library refer to label inside front... to the Committee of the Portland Free Library by Mr. S. Sandys 30.12.12... Cliff Street Portland great-ocean-road Ex - Portland Free ...Light green cloth-covered board covers and spine. Black text on front cover and spine. Free Library label on inside front cover. Bell's Illustrated Classics: Vergil's Aeneid Book 2 and Caesar De Bello Gallico Book 2poetry, history, ancient rome, caesar, virgil -
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Photograph - Oral History Recording - Borthwicks Workers, n.d
... Coloured photo. Portland Library. Group of children plus... Cliff Street Portland great-ocean-road Coloured photo. Portland ...Coloured photo. Portland Library. Group of children plus man in yellow jacket posed on lawns outside Civic Hall. Photo not dated but some of the group appear in photos dated 29 Nov 2000 -
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Administrative record - Booklet - Portland Town Council, Report to Ratepayers, 1969 - 70, 1969-1970
... of Portland coat of arms and photo of Portland library, on front cover... of Portland library, on front cover. 8 pages Administrative record ...Booklet produced by Portland Town Council, Report to Ratepayers, 1969 - 70. Heavy white card, royal blue print, Town of Portland coat of arms and photo of Portland library, on front cover. 8 pages -
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Photograph - Photograph - Bentinck Street, Portland, 1956
... Portland Free Library... Free Library Portland town Back: '56' in pencil Black and white ...Black and white photo. Bentinck St. from near Free Library Hall, looking south to Cape Nelson RoadBack: '56' in pencilbentinck street, portland free library, portland town -
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Book, Editor: Benson, Arthur Christopher and Esher, Viscount, The Letters of Queen Victoria Vol 2, 1908
... Donated to Portland Free Library in 1909 by T.G. Henry... of the Portland Free Library by Mr T.G. Henry, August 1909.....' yellow... cover 'Presented to the committee of the Portland Free Library ...Red cloth-covered spine and covers. Impressed design on cover and spine. Gold text and graphics on spine.history, queen victoria, royal history, biography -
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Book, Editor: Benson, Arthur Christopher and Esher, Viscount, The Letters of Queen Victoria Vol. 1, 1908
... Donated to Portland Free Library in 1909 by T.G. Henry... of the Portland Free Library by Mr. T.G. Henry, August 1909...... yellow.... 'Presented to the committee of the Portland Free Library by Mr. T.G ...Red cloth-covered spine and covers. Impressed design on cover and spine. Gold text and graphics on spine.history, queen victoria, royal history, 1900s, 1800s -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionBook, The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante, 1879-1882, 1886
... From the Portland Free Library collection. The HMS...Front: 'Portland Free Library ........ purchased 17-5-92... George Prince Albert Front: 'Portland Free Library ...Blue cloth covered spine and cardboard covers. Text and graphics in gold. Vol. I.history, travel, hms bacchante, ship, naval, prince george, prince albert -
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Book, Hugh Ruttledge, Everest 1933, 1934
... From the Portland Free Library collection. Purchased 7-2... cover 'Portland Free Library ..... purchased 7-2-35... inside front cover 'Portland Free Library ..... purchased 7-2-35 ...Grey cloth bound spine and covers. Gold text on spine. Portland FLM&LI label on outside (damaged) and inside front cover.exploration, mountaineering, everest, 1933, hugh ruttledge -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionPainting, Bruce Vinall, High Tide, 2003
... Portland Library Exhibition, 2005...Portland Library Exhibition, 2005 Bruce Vinall Warrnambool ...Portland Library Exhibition, 2005Abstract painting with predominantly green, pink and yellow colours. Swirls and blotches giving the impression of movement. Mounted in cream double matt, in dark wood frame with glass glazing.Bottom right: Vinall 03bruce vinall, warrnambool artist, watercolour, abstract, seascape -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionBook, The Life of Lord Russell of Killowen, 1902
... Part of the Portland Free Library collection. Charles... page). 'Portland Free Library ..... purchased 20-4-12...). 'Portland Free Library ..... purchased 20-4-12....' Yellow sticky ...Maroon coloured cloth covered spine and cardboad covers. Text in gold.lord russell of killowen, political history, social history -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural CollectionBook, The Panmure Papers. Vol: II, 1908
... From the collection of the Portland Free Library, Museum... front page). Bookplate: Portland Free Library, Museum... of the Portland Free Library, Museum and Literary Institute. The Panmure ...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 CollectionBook, The Panmure Papers. Vol: I, 1908
... This book was once part of the collection of the Portland... front page). Bookplate: Portland Free Library, Museum... of the collection of the Portland Free Library, Museum and Literary ...Correspondence of Fox Maule, Second Baron Panmure, Afterwards Eleventh Earl of Dalhousie,Maroon cloth-covered spine and cardboard covers. Graphics and text in gold on spine and front cover.Correspondence of Fox Maule, Second Baron Panmure, Afterwards Eleventh Earl of Dalhousie,crimean war, history, war history, military -
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Book, Chambers' Encyclopaedia, Vol. IX, 1889
... * Ex-Portland Free Library. * Portland Town Council.... Library. * Portland Town Council. reference book; encyclopaedia ...reference book; encyclopaedia;Brown leather bound spine with maroon cloth-covered board covers. Gold lettering and gold graphics in six rectangles on spine. Leather corners on outer edges.reference book; encyclopaedia; -
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Book, Chambers' Encyclopaedia, Vol. VI, Humb to Malt, 1889
... * Ex-Portland Free Library * Portland Town Council... Library * Portland Town Council reference book Front: 2115 (yellow ...Brown leather bound spine with maroon cloth-covered board covers. Gold lettering and gold graphics in six rectangles on spine. Leather corners on outer edges.reference book -
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Book, Chambers' Encyclopaedia, Vol. V, Frid to Huma, 1889
... * Ex-Portland Free Library * Portland Town Council... Library * Portland Town Council reference encyclopaedia Front ...Brown leather bound spine with maroon cloth-covered board covers. Gold lettering and gold graphics in six rectangles on spine. Leather corners on outer edges.reference, encyclopaedia
