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Warrnambool RSL Sub Branch
Jumper, Calcoup Knitwear, C 2015
This jumper is part of a General Purpose Uniform issued by the Australian Airforce to Bernard Farley during service. This uniform type was developed in 2014 and replaced camouflage as the uniform worn during general base duties and in non-warlike environments. Although a camouflage pattern, this design is not intended for use as camouflage. This woolen jumper was presumably a winter addition to the GPU.This item has social significance, as an item of uniform worn by Warrnambool RSL community member and Secretary (2019), Bernard Farley during service with the Australian Airforce. The item is a representative example of current Airforce General Purpose Uniform and is in excellent condition. As a set, the uniform has aesthetic significance in it’s design, incorporating GPU uniform design from the Army alongside the colours and motifs of the Australian Airforce. Navy blue ribbed knitted jumper with stitched navy cotton elbow patches, rectangular in shape. Similar rectangular shaped patches on the left and right shoulder, bearing two epaulettes, stiched at one end and fastened with velcro and the other. The left shoulder carries an Airforce embroidered patch at the top of the arm. Arm cuffs have external seam for approximately 100 mm from the end, indicating that the jumper may have been worn with cuffs folded over. Synthetic strip of black fabric on the interior collar behind a cream coloured label.Label on interior of collar reads: “CALCOUP KNITWEAR/291083/ 06/01 / 8405/661468799 / SIZE: 115cm-125cm/SERVICE No........./ NAME........../MACHINE WASHABLE GENTLE CYCLE/Fasten shoulder straps before/washing. Warm machine wash,/inside out on medium cycle./Do not bleach./Warm rinse. Normal spin./Doi not tumble dry./Dry in shade. Warm iron./ Dry Cleanable A/80% Wool 20% Nylon”camouflage, general purpose uniform, airforce, uniform, australian defence force -
Bendigo Military Museum
Book, Kenneth Macksey, Invasion: The German Invasion of England July 1940, 1980
Two dried leaves taped to front end paper.Blue buckram hardcover with dust jacket. Book has title in gold on spine. Dust jacket has images of soldiers parachuting into fields at night. 223 plain paper, cut edged pages with illustrations.On bottom of first page "Mrs Mary Hall"books, military history -
National Wool Museum
Photograph, Finishing room R S & S
Milling and drying machinery, R S & S mill.R S & S finishing room/ L-millimg & scouring machines/ with wring-dryer ROBERT POCKLEY/ PHOTOGRAPHER/... G Kidmantextile machinery textile mills - history textile mills - staff textile mills, returned soldiers and sailors mill, dyeing, milling, scouring, finishing, kidman, mr g. l., textile machinery, textile mills - history, textile mills - staff, textile mills -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Container - Nestle Milk Tin
`Belonged to Norm Foun. Originally contained dried milk.Tall round tin with words 'Nestle Milk 'and picture of people on a boat. Empty.Use by December 84 R M 662domestic items, food storage & preservation -
Greensborough Historical Society
Domestic object - Clothes Pegs
Used to secure clothes etc. on a clothes line to dry.Four square wooden clothes pegs, two with sliding tightenersclothes pegs, laundry equipment -
Melton City Libraries
Newspaper, Stone Walls protected, 2015
Dry stone construction as a technique is used for much more than paddock walls. Across the volcanic plains of western Victoriaare marvelous sheep dips, stock loading ramps, huts, dams, retaining walls, and the rich and largely undiscovered heritage of indigenous dry stone structures. Dry stone walls indicate many aspects of our rural environment; the geological beginnings of the way the landscape was created, the patterns of early settlement by pastoralists and squatters, the types of stock that grazed the land and the methods of cattle and sheep management, of the efforts to thwart the spread of rabbits .... "For the casual but interested observer dry stone walls are good to look at, to photograph, to get up alongside and see the way they are constructed, to appreciate the varying shapes and sizes of stones and learn of the techniques of keeping often quite rounded stones in place. Apart from walls and other dry stone structures on grazing land we can also see dry stone techniques used in other places and in other phases of our history. Indigenous Australians have built, and continue to build, structures for shelter or hunting or trapping eels and fish in rivers and estuaries around the country. At spots around our coast line there is evidence of simple stone structures built by early maritime explorers. Prospectors in early mining encampments used dry stone construction to build retaining walls or the low walls of rudimentary shelters. If the future of dry stone walls in the Australian landscape is to be assured. wall owners and local governments have to accept and embrace their custodial role in assuring the preservation and celebration of walls. This is not an easy task, but, along with putting the necessary statutory mechanisms to ensure their retention, it is a task that must be pursued. The Dry Stone Walls Association of Australia has as its primary goal the increase in awareness of wall owners and local governments of the importance of dry stone walls. It also seeks to increase the level of training of skilled and semi skilled wallers, and the gaining of rudimentary skills by farmers so that they can maintain their own walls". Melton Star Weekly article about the Stone Wallslandscapes of significance -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Tester, Dry Battery, 1957
Tester, Dry Battery, (Aust) No 1 Mk 1. Mounted in wooden hinged case. Meter, selector switch and terminals in one side of case, instruction plate in the other. Leather carrying strap missingCat No Z4/ZDA 0426, Defence Broad Arrow, 1366, FF2 stamped in case, Serial No 341, V1140 painted on casedry battery tester, -
Nillumbik Shire Council
Painting: Yvonne BIRCH (nee BALL), Untitled, c.1984
Oil on canvas board, landscape painting in muted tones of an dry creek bed. Trees line the creek banks and a log bridge crosses the creek bed, perhaps built from the local tree timbers.Lower right, black paint 'Yvonne Ball' -
Federation University Art Collection
Painting - Watercolour, 'Towards Avoca' / 'Mount Buninyong in Autumn' by David Alexander, 1999
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.Unframed double sided landscape artwork by David Alexander. One side is 'Towards Avoca' and the other side is 'Buninyong From Main Road, 24/04/1999'David Alexander wrote on 'Buninyong From Main Road, 24/04/1999' "Wash wouldn't dry. People everywhere"art, artwork, david alexander, alexander, buninyong, avoca, watercolour -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Chicory cartage, 1943
Probably on French IslandPhotocopy of a small sepia photo of two trucks loaded with sacks of chicory. Man standing in front of one truck.De La Haye trucks loaded with dry chicory. 107 & 98 bags respectively. 1943 Rurric ( snr) in foregroundchicory growing, photographs, de la haye family, transport -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Shoe powder
Six small cylindrical tins containing coloured powders, with red, yellow black and white coloured labels on the sides.The Dazel Chemical Company's Dry Suede Powder. For Suede and Buck leather shoes and slippers. Net Weight 2 ozs. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood Horticultural Society- Ringwood Flower Show - 19 March 1959
Black and white photographWritten on back of photograph, "Mrs. D. Holloway won first prize for this beautiful dry arrangement at the Ringwood Flower Show." -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Clothing - Cap, c1990
White cotton peaked cap with five panel and airholes. Padded front panel with red and black lettering and a black logo. Stitch detail on peak. Adjustable white velcro fastening. Padded headband. Inside front panel lined with interfacing. Nylon label.front of hat ; City of Nunawading.|Label 100% cotton; hand wash; cold water; drip dry; Made in China.costume, male headware, female headwear -
Clunes Museum
Photograph - FIRE BRIGADE CHAMPIONSHIP 4, BAWDEN PHOTOGRAPHER CLUNES, 1930
PHOTOGRAPH OF FIVE CLUNES FIREMEN. CHAMPIONSHIP 4 .1 SEPIA PHOTOGRAPH MOUNTED ON CARDBOARD WITH INSCRIPTION. .2 COPY PHOTOGRAPH OF CHAMPIONSHIP 41ST. PRIZE CRESWICK EASTER MONDAY SPORTS. BEAT THE CLUNES NO. 1 TEAM EASILY. CHAMPION HOSE DRY PRACTICE.local history, photography, photographs, fire brigade -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Goulburn Waranga Main Channel Construction, 1957
Photo taken by the photographer for Victoria State Rivers and Water Supply Commission of the Goulburn Waranga main channel in 1957.Large black and white photograph - dry mounted to cream board. Channel excavation scene with excavator in right foreground, bucket scooping earth in middle foreground, two small figures of men working mid-distance.Below photo: "Goulburn Waranga Main Channel Construction / Bucyrus 200 W. Excavator with 6 c. yd. Bucket / Looking towards off-take at Goulburn Weir / Completed Excavation in Background.goulburn, waranga, irrigation, photo, victoria state rivers and water supply commission -
Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Near Saw Mill
Ten or more cattle pulling logs to a sawmill (possibly McLaren's sawmill in Belgrave). The land around the track is cleared and it is heavily treed in the background. There is dead timber lying around and the land looks dry. c.1920. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Postcard - Postcard - Flooding in Casterton, n.d
SOURCED FROM CASTERTON TOWN HALL (FORMER SHIRE OF GLENELG) Sourced From Casterton Town Hall (Former Shire of Glenelg)Black and white photo postcard. 1946 flood. Water halfway up tin fence, man standing on railing, tractor towing horse float, flooded shed, trees part submerged, no dry land visibleBack: Purple stamp - 'POSTCARD' Purple photographer's stamp -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - FLEMING COLLECTION: 1950S BENDIGO SLIDE, 5-6-1958
Bendigo 1950s. Marching Gils 5/6/1958. Probably Easter Procession. Easter Monday was 7 April 1958 date on slide may be wrong. Kings Dry Cleaners in background. Desmonds ? Also in background.event, easter fair, bendigo easter fair, bendigo. marching gils 5/6/1958. probably easter procession, easter monday was 7 april 1958 date on slide may be wrong. kings dry cleaners. desmonds ? -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - COHN BROTHERS COLLECTION: HANDWRITTEN LETTER DATED 1893
Cohns Letthead document dated 28th June 1893 handwritten from Jacob Cohn to E V Hastings co secretary. Paper also has Water Mark, Piries Real Vellum Air Dried.bendigo, industry, cohn bros brewery -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Wringer - washing clothes
Wringers were used to wring clothes dry after washing. This is a manual one that can be attached to a trough or container that holds the washing. Later on washing machines were made with the wringer already attached and were operated by electricity. Afterwards washing machines spun the clothes dry as part of their cycle.This wringer was used by a resident of the Mount Beauty township during the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme in the 1940's and 1950's. White metal machine with 2 adjoining cloth cylinders in the middle. The metal rectangular shape forms a frame around the cylinders which have a metal shield above them and a metal flap below them. At the bottom, on each side is a protruding metal vice enabling the machine to be attached to a container. On one side is a lever with a wooden handle that can be wound around to rotate the cylinders towards each other."Acme" in red on the middle of the top front and "Acme" in white in the middle of the top of the back.washing machine; ringer; mount beauty; laundry; -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Plaque made by Mr Hurley & placed in the middle of Lake Lonsdale when dried up 1968
Photograph of Plaque placed in the middle of Lake Lonsdale when dry in March 1968 by Presbyterian Church Paterson Campbell Fellowship. Plaque made by Mr Hurley father of Lyn Hurley. Many years later a reunion was held when the lake was once again dry. They could not find the plaque.P.C.F. Passed this spot March 1968 -
Federation University Art Collection
Mixed media - Collage, 'The' by Elwyn Lynn, 1968
Elwyn (Jack) LYNN (6 November 1917 – 22 January 1997) Born Canowindra, New South Wales Sydney based artist Elwyn Lynn was a self-taught artist who often used unconventional painting media and expressive surfaces to create abstract work. He trained as a teacher, and was a teacher of English and History in Sydney Secondary schools until 1968. From 1969 to 1983 Elwynn Lynn was Curator of the Power Gallery of Contemporary Art at Sydney University where he built up an international collection, which is now within the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art. He was an art critic at The Australian for many years, and wrote several books, including one on the artist Sir Sidney Nolan. Elwyn Lynn was awarded Membership of the Order of Australia in 1975. He won the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW in 1988, received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Sydney in 1969, and received the Emeritus Award from the Australia Council in 1994. This item is part of the Federation University Art Collection. The Art Collection features over 2000 works and was listed as a 'Ballarat Treasure' in 2007.Framed mixed media artwork. Like most of Elwyn Lynn's work 'The' is essentially abstract, although evoking a sense of landscape. " Lynn’s heavy textures were created by mixing polyvinyl acetate (PVA) with sand, cement or plaster, after which it was left to dry in the sun or near a radiator. With the upper level drying and hardening first, its skin could be cut, sliced, poked, prodded and distressed, pushed into folds and corrugations." (https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/artists/elwyn-lynn/elwyn-lynn/, accessed 22 October 2019)art, artwork, elwyn lynn, abstract, available -
Surrey Hills Historical Society Collection
Photograph, Mrs Blanche Cornell
Mrs Blanche Cornell, wife of Frank Cornell, at the beach with 2 of her children, ? c1905 Frank Cornell was first listed in Surrey Hills in 1906 at (6) Lorne Parade. In 1908 the listing gives his occupation as a clerk. He was born in 1869 in Richmond, Victoria and died 15 April 1917 in Surrey Hills. Blanche Annie Parsons Cornell (nee Bracher) was born in 1869 in Hokitika, New Zealand; she died on 21 January 1940. Children were: Gilbert Frank Cornell (b1894, Hawthorn; d1908, at Frankston beach, an accidental drowning) Ruth Amelia Cornell (b 1899, Kew; d 29 May 1977, Kew) Lorna Amy Cornell (b 1906, Surrey Hills; d unknown) Patience Blanche Cornell (b1907, Surrey Hills; d unknown. Frank and wife Blanche are buried in Box Hill Cemetery - CE-*-1058. Ruth Amelia married David Ellis, c1922 in Surrey Hills. David was a dentist who practised in Surrey Hills for many years. Patience (Pat) Blanche married Norman Henry Brewer (1893–1975) in 1931 in Surrey Hills. Given the children's dates of birth, it is likely that it is Gilbert and Ruth in the photo. A black and white photograph of a lady dressed in an ankle length skirt, long sleeved blouse and wearing a hat. She is sitting on the beach and drying off one small girl. There is another small girl or boy to the left of the lady.clothing and dress, 1908, (mrs) blanche cornell, beach, (mrs) blanche annie parsons cornell, (miss) blanche annie parsons bracher, box hill cemetery -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Goulburn Waranga Main Channel Construction, 1957
Photo taken by the photographer for Victoria State Rivers and Water Supply Commission of the Goulburn Waranga main channel in 1957.Large black and white photograph - dry mounted to cream board. Channel excavation scene with excavator, bucket upraised, in right foreground. Two men looking at something, left foreground. Two small figures mid distance.Below photo: "Goulburn Waranga Main Channel Construction / Bucyrus 200 W. Excavator with 6 c. yd. Bucket / Looking towards off-take at Goulburn Weir / Completed Excavation in Background.goulburn, waranga, irrigation, photo, victoria state rivers and water supply commission -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Letter - Correspondence, Letter re Licensing difficulties for Railway Hotel, Royal Hotel and White Horse Hotel, 9/02/1967
Letter to Mrs Leach from Jean Uhl quoting from the Argus of 1st July, 1921, re Hotels deprived of Licenses within the Shire of Nunawading. These hotels deprived would indicate when the area went 'dry'.railway hotel, box hill, royal hotel, surrey hills, white horse hotel -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Digital image, 1/08/2009 12:00:00 AM
Yields information about the condition of Lake Wendouree following a prolonged drought, photographed with some water in it during the winter of 2009.Digital Image of BTM Tram No. 14 at the St Aidans Drive terminus, 1/8/2009 with an almost dry Lake Wendouree in the background and green grass on the lake bed. There is some water in the lake after a long drought..trams, tramways, lake wendouree, drought, st aidans drive, tram 14 -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - CARWARDINE COLLECTION: HARGREAVES STREET BENDIGO, 1930/40's
Sepia photograph. Murray Views No 4 Hargreaves Street, Bendigo, Vic., showing the Ashmans Dry Cleaners, Ashmans Tailor, Ashmans Fine Suits & Morley Johnson Furniture also visible is the SEC building and other buildings.Murray Viewsphotograph, streetscape, bendigo, bendigo-history-businesses -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Leisure object - Snuff, Fribourg & Treyer, 1900's
This dry tobacco variety of snuff is a finely ground, flavoured tobacco intended to be sniffed into the nose (not further into the sinuses or throat). It can vary in grind, blend and moistness. Snuff sniffing has been popular, particularly amongst the aristocracy, since the 1600’s and into the 1900’s and is becoming popular again as an alternative to smoking. It delivers a ‘hit’ of nicotine with lingering flavours that last for 15 to 20 minutes. It can be used by pinching a small amount from the container with thumb and forefinger then holding the pinched fingers to each nostril and giving a quick short sniff to transfer the snuff into the nostril. Another way is to sniff it from the ‘anatomical snuff box’, the depression on the back of the hand between base of thumb and forefinger. The user can also purchase a specially crafted snuff box or a bullet shaped nasal dispenser. A useful accessory to have on hand is a handkerchief, as the process of inhaling snuff can cause sneezing and increased nasal discharge. Snuff will keep in its sealed packet for up to 2 years, and for up to 6 months once the packet is opened and kept in a cool dark place. The most popular line of the Wilson’s snuffs is the SP line’s ‘Best SP Snuff”. They are also still selling Fribourg & Treyer’s “French Carrotte” and “Hot Dry Toast”. This snuff was part of Dr Angus's personal effects and 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 WWII 1941-45, 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. Snuff in metal cylinder, part of the W.R. Angus Collection. Small silver metal cylinder with screw cap containing dark, fragrant ground substance. . Snuff aroma is “High Dry Toast”. Label on cylinder has information about the maker. The snuff container has been opened.Print on label reads "Fribourg & Treyer brand, est. 1720, Tobacconists & Purveyors of Foreign Snuff, to their Majesties the Kings of Stanober and Belgium, the Dukes of Sussex, Cambridge and Duchesses of Kent. No. 34 Upper End of the Haymarket W.S.1. Lloyds Leadenhal St, E.C.3, 130 High St Oxford and 18 Burlington Arcade, W.1".Symbol of a crown above a topless pyramid.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, dr w r angus, snuff, hot dry toast, fribourg & treyer, tobacco sniffing, personal effects -
Malmsbury Historical Society
Photograph (Item), "Ruins Of ""Fossway"" Kyneton, Early Kennedy House", Malmsbury c1980
People - "Kennedy Family; Watson, Mary" Buildings - "Stone Barn, Dry Stone Fences" -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Functional object - Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd, Austral Standard Photographic Dry Plates c.1920s, Kodak (A/Asia) PTY. Limited
These Kodak Photographic Dry Plates were manufactured at the Kodak plant in Abbotsford, NSW in the 1920s. A light tan coloured cardboard box with a paper label fixed to the label which features a Australian Red Ensign flag and printed text. The box is empty. photography, photographs, photo, kodak, history of photography, photographic equipment