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Greensborough Historical Society
Photograph - Digital image, Charles Marshall et al, Victorian country grandstand, 1920_
Victorian grandstand. Location not identified. This scene is part of Charles Marshall's collection of World War 1 photographs.Digital copy of black and white photograph"Les.R. Fitzroy Cup"charles marshall, world war 1, victoria -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Country Womens Association Montmorency, Eltham Community Festival Parade, Main Road opposite Wingrove Park, 4 August 1978, 04/08/1978
Eltham Community Festival, 4-13 August 1978 Second photo of 5 ladies very motion blurred but ladies named are L to R: Edi Levi, Joyce Finster, Thelma Smith, Jean Spencer, Norma Williams. Newsletter No. 3 September 1978 Eltham Community Festival. This year’s Eltham Community Festival was held from August 4th to 13th. The society was involved with the Warrandyte Historical Society in arranging an exhibition at the Community Centre and also provided notes and a map for a self-guided walking tour of historic buildings and locations around Eltham. Copies of notes will continue to be available from the Eltham Shire Offices and the tour may be under-taken at any time. The exhibition was divided into two sections. The Eltham Society displayed early photographs associated with the walking tour, whilst the Warrandyte Society showed their photographs and artefacts of the Warrandyte gold era. An outstanding feature was the large "blow-up" photos of early Warrandyte. Two colour photographs (one very blurry but with members names on it)eltham, main road, eltham festival, alan whitmore estate agents, shell service station, mount pleasant road, parade, parade float, wingrove park, country women's association, montmorency, edi levi, joyce finster, thelma smith, jean spencer, norma williams -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Magazine Article, "Seeing the Light" by Claire Miller, photography by Neil Lorimer, Country Style, December 1993, pp 64-67
"Artist Hilary Jackman gets her kicks from looking at life, a fascination that has given her paintings a distinctive style." Digital scan of magazine articleDigital fileartist, hilary jackman, eltham -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Poster Brochure, Mt Beauty Tawonga Heart Of Victoria's High Country, Circa 1995
The Item is a pictorial time piece of the valley and usage, farms,industry,town area, vegetation and winter snow levels Historical and the social-economical development at circa 1995 of land usage and residential buildings style.Major social events e.g. Festival of the Bogong Moth and the Mt Beauty Mardi Gras. It is also a good historical record of tourism campaigns of the Alpine Shire and Mt Beauty Chamber of Commerce. Also see "KVHS 0125"Brochure folds out from a 20.5cm x 29.5cm to 82cm x 29.5cm poster type documentinside panoramic photo of snow tipped alpine mountain range incorporating the Mount Beauty township, farming area of the Kiewa Valley and relevant tourist orientated informationtourism mt beauty tawonga photographs, victorian alps -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Ledger, Contract Register; Country Roads Board, Shire of Eltham, 1933
Ledger describing name and address of contractor, description and locality, particulars, schedule of tender (description incl quantities and price) and payments - hand written. Ledger maintained for period 1933-1964 and contains 97 entries.Hard cover bound ledger with leather corners and spine and pre-printed columns -
Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Book. WW1. Local Enlistments, For King & Country. Great War Enlistments from Warrnambool and District, 2016
Paperback. Coloured/Illustrated Front CoverAuthors, Ron Blair and James Affleck Published by James Affleck First Published 2004 Second Edition February 2016 Complimentary copy from WDHS 22nd April 2016 -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, Billanook Country Revisited, 1994
Shire of Lilydale History 1972-1994 -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, Secrets of Ghost Towns of the High Country
Featuring 50 "Ghost Towns" in and around Victoria's Alphine Region -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, Lillydale - The Billanook Country 1837-1972
Hardcover book outlining the earlier history of the Shire of Lillydale (Victoria). -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph - Group, Ringwood Technical School 1973 Cross Country, c 1973
Black and White Photographrts, ringwood tech -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph - Group, Ringwood Technical School 1974 Cross Country, c 1974
Colour Photographrts, ringwood tech -
Federation University Historical Collection
Map, Geological Sketch Map of the Werribee Gorge and Adjacent Country, 1914, 1914
A coloured geological sketch map of the Werribee Gorge, Bacchus Marsh, Rowlesy, Darley, Parwan. The scale is 1 mile to 1 inchwerribee gorge, bacchus marsh, darley, parwan, w.e. bennett, bennett, r.a.f. murray, c.c. brittlebank, rowsley -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, The Institution of Engineers, Australia Victoria Division Country Convention 1981, 1981
The conference was held at Ballarat.Yellow soft covered book of conference papers for the "New Generation Transport Fuels". Papers include * Vegetable Oils as Diesel Fuel (G. Stecher) * University of Melbourne's Hydrogen Fuelled Spark Ignition Engine (J. Edsell and E. Milkins) * Use of Producer gas in a 24kW Air-Cooled Diesel Engine (J. Stephenson and R.R. Raine) * Small Scale Liquid Fuel Production (G. Tippett, Horsham) * New Generation transport Fuels (L. Cubitt, Ballarat College of Advanced Education) * Hydrogen as Fuel for Motor Vehicles (Mercedes Benz Australia) Loose advertising material, letters and associated material is included.engineers, engineering, fuel, transport, institution of engineers, australia, e.j. barker, jack barker -
Federation University Historical Collection
Booklet, Proposal for Extension of University Education in Victorian Country Areas Through the School of Mines and Industries Ballarat, 1961, 1961
15 page foolscap report from the Ballarat School of Mines to the Committee for Development of Tertiary Education in Victoria. morgan b. john, m.b. john, university, regional universities, harry arblaster, commonwealth committee on teh future of tertiary education, ballarat school of mines, history, bella guerin, m.k. aston, e.j. barker, g.w. barrell, geoff biddington, d.a. black, a.c. burrow, j.a> dally, phil day, w.g. durant, lindsay hillman, f.h. hooper, dave jelbart, e.r. mcgrath, arch mackinnin, a.c. miller, n.h. musge, lindsay pattenden, m.t> pullen, harold trudinger, i.g. turner, hector yates -
Federation University Historical Collection
Booklet, Guides to Growers No 46, Purifying Water for Butter-making and for Country Purposes Generally, 04/1900
Realtes to the history of the agricultural industry in VictoriaCream paper, stapled together, illustrations, 6 pagesagriculture, department of agriculture, victoria, purifying water, butter making, growers guides, a n pearson -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Department of Sustainability and Environment et al, Spa Country: Victoria's Mineral Springs, 2010, 2010
Soft covered book of 32 pages. Includes information of Victoria's mineral water springs.spa coutnry, mineral water, mineral springs, bottles, bottling, cans, ballan, blackwood, daylesford, central springs, sailor's falls, deep breek, glenlyon, woolnoughs crossing, hepburn springs, locarno spring, pavilion spring, swiss and italians, argyle spring, geology, kyneton, taradale, leitches creek, spargo creek, carroll's mineral spring, vaughan, glenluce, geelong, eastern beach mineral spring, hepburn democratic club, macaroni factory -
Federation University Historical Collection
Booklet - Timetable, Country Lines Services - Passenger Time Tables (Dec. 6, 1926), 12/1926
The timetable included fare prices.Grey covered slimline 80 page booklet containing the various for timetables of passenger trains on the Victorian regional railway network. Includes indexes of stations and fares, and other information relating to traveling on the train, such as luggage transport. The cover features a picture of a train on the fronttime table, country lines, victoria, railways, train, timetable, transport, railway -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Mixed media - Video, RDHS Guest Speaker Presentation - "Ringwood Country Women's Association" - Lorraine Zimmerman
Digitised video (1.82GB). Duration: 26minutes. Recorded April, 2024. (Video is available for viewing at Ringwood & District Historical Society Archives by appointment)Ringwood CWA was formed on 7th March in 1946 in the small town hall, with 65 Foundation members. Even in the first meeting, there was a competition for the best scones and tomatoes. The consensus was to meeting monthly on the first Thursday. In this presentation, Lorraine Zimmerman talks of the history and some of the activities of Ringwood's CWA branch. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Map, Plan of Country Lands in the Parishes of Nunawading Ringwood and Scoresby - circa 1855
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.) -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Card, Heathmont Country Women's Association Branch Information and Syllabus Card 1962 and 1963, 1982
Small buff coloured card for the CWA Heathmont Branch with meeting times, syllabus, prayer and Rules. Provision to write names of President etc - but these have not been filled in. cwa -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Card, Heathmont Country Women's Association Branch Information and Syllabus Card 1983, 1983
Small buff coloured card for the CWA Heathmont Branch with meeting times, syllabus, prayer and Rules. Provision to write names of President etc.Handwritten entries: President: Mrs Perrott Vice-President: Pam Gallienne Secretary: Mrs Cattermole Treasurer: Joyce Austin (Committee names not written)cwa -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Archive - Parent Record, Country Womens' Associations - Ringwood, Heathmont etc - Parent Record
Parent Record for Archive collection of photographs and documents relating to CWAs in RIngwood and District -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Audio - Audio, CD, Australian country music sung by Alan McPherson (a Vietnam Veteran)
Songs from the Vietnam War erapopular music - australia -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Film - Film, DVD, Under Heavy Fire: his country honored him, his men blamed him, 2001
vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- drama, vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- aerial operations, american -- drama -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Dockery, Kevin, Operation Thunderhead: The True Story of Vietnam's Final POW Rescue Mission - and the Last Navy Seal Killed in Country, 2008
As the Vietnam War ground to an end, American forces were being withdrawn from combat duty. But some were still fighting for their lives: the prisioners of war. There were two operations lauched to rescue the POWs. One - the legendary Son Tay Raid - was revealed to the public. The other was classified as Top Secret. This is the incredible true story of that almost-forgotten mission..As the Vietnam War ground to an end, American forces were being withdrawn from combat duty. But some were still fighting for their lives: the prisioners of war. There were two operations lauched to rescue the POWs. One - the legendary Son Tay Raid - was revealed to the public. The other was classified as Top Secret. This is the incredible true story of that almost-forgotten mission.. 1961-1975 - prisoners and prisons, north vietnamese, prisoners of war - united states, vietnam war - 1961-1975 - search and rescue operations, u.s. navy seals, operation thunderbird, pows, son tay raid -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Evans, Carla, Serving Those Who Served: Looking After Our Vietnam who have served their country with honour, dignity and courage
This book is a collectio of stories. Some you will find humorous, others sad and tragic.This book is a collectio of stories. Some you will find humorous, others sad and tragic. 1961-1975 - participation, australian, vietnam war, 1961-1975 - veterans - australia -
City of Whittlesea
Booklet (item), Whittlesea Country Music Festival
booklet -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Evans, Carla, Serving those who Served: Looking after our Vietnam Veterans who have served their country with honour, dignity and courage (Copy 2)
This book is a collection of stories. Some you will find humorous, others sad andd tragic.This book is a collection of stories. Some you will find humorous, others sad andd tragic. 1961-1975 - participation, australian, vietnam war, 1961-1975 - veterans - australia -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Book, Blinco, Gary, Down A Country Lane To War
This novel will encourage anyone who has been forced to face life from a position of handicap, to believe in themselves, and to imprint images of success into their subconscious minds that will eventually overwhelm their seemingly hopeless current reality.This novel will encourage anyone who has been forced to face life from a position of handicap, to believe in themselves, and to imprint images of success into their subconscious minds that will eventually overwhelm their seemingly hopeless current reality.soldiers - australia - biography, vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - personal narratives, australian -
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Photograph, Con KROKER, Hill country, 1957
Purchased through the Horsham Art Gallery Trust Fund with the assistance of the Caltex-Victorian Government Art Fund, 1983 silver gelatin photograph