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Anglesea and District Historical Society
Book, Tennyson in Memorium, 1876
"In Memorium" consists of 131 smaller poems of varying length. The stanzas are isometric with the rhyme scheme ABBA, a form that has become known as the "In Memorium Stanza". Tennyson wrote this book after he learned that his beloved friend Arthur Henry Hallum had died suddenly and unexpectedly of fever at 22. It was written over the course of 17 years (1833-1849).Front: In Memorium (gold with gold leaf) / Tennyson Also on spine.tennyson, poetry -
Clunes Museum
Book, STRAHAN AND CO. 56 LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, IDYLLS OF THE KING, 1869
TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF MATERIAL HELD IN VARIOUS FREE LENDING LIBRARIES AND MECHANICS INSTITUTESA GREEN COVERED BOOK WITH STRIP OF BROWN BINDING. "IDYLLS OF THE KING" BY ALFRED TENNYSONfictionTYPICAL EXAMPLE OF MATERIAL HELD IN VARIOUS FREE LENDING LIBRARIES AND MECHANICS INSTITUTESlocal history, book, poetry, idylls of the king, alfred tennyson -
Clunes Museum
Book, JAS TRUSCOTT & SONS, 5 YEAR'S COURSE OF BIBLE AND PRAYER BOOK TEACHING: LESSONS FOR THE FIFTH YEAR
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AT FIFTH YEAR LEVEL ANGLICAN CHURCH ISSUED IN THE 1900'SBROWN COVER BLACK INK DECORATION ON THE FRONT COVER, GOLD PRINTED LETTERING.198 PAGESnon-fictionRELIGIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AT FIFTH YEAR LEVEL ANGLICAN CHURCH ISSUED IN THE 1900'Slocal history, book, religion, hudson laura -
Clunes Museum
Book, MRS. GOTHER MANN, THE FOUR HOMES, CIRCA 1880
The Four Homes is a novel written by Valerie Boissier De Gasparin and published in 1878. The book tells the story of four different households, each representing a different social class and way of life. The first home is that of a wealthy aristocratic family, the second is a middle-class family struggling to make ends meet, the third is a poor family living in a crowded tenement, and the fourth is a group of homeless people living on the streets.ADAPTED FROM THE FRENCH AUTHOR MADAME DE GASPARIN, BY MRS. GOTHER MANN.fictionThe Four Homes is a novel written by Valerie Boissier De Gasparin and published in 1878. The book tells the story of four different households, each representing a different social class and way of life. The first home is that of a wealthy aristocratic family, the second is a middle-class family struggling to make ends meet, the third is a poor family living in a crowded tenement, and the fourth is a group of homeless people living on the streets.local history, book, novel, hudson, laura -
Clunes Museum
Book, HAUGHTON & CO, PICTURES OF HEROES AND LESSONS FROM THEIR LIVES
OVERVIEW OF HEROES IN THE VICTORIAN ERA OUTLINING EVENTS AND PERSONS OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCEHARDCOVERED GREEN BOOK CONTAINS FIVE ILLUSTRATED PAGES 274 PAGESnon-fictionOVERVIEW OF HEROES IN THE VICTORIAN ERA OUTLINING EVENTS AND PERSONS OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCElocal history, book, fiction, hudson, laura -
Clunes Museum
Newspaper, ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS LTD, 1953
COPY OF NEWSPAPER, DAILY MAIL, RECORDING THE CORONATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II IN JUNE 1953local history, documents, newspaper, newspaper, english -
Clunes Museum
Container - GLASS PHIAL, J.F. MACFARLANE & CO
IT WAS GIVEN BY J. KERRIN CHEMIST AT CLUNES.BLUE POISON BOTTLE WITH CORK AND RED LABEL - HECTAGONAL SHAPE.ATROPINE SULPHATE B.P. POISON..local history, medicine, pharmacy, shrigley -chemist -
Clunes Museum
Equipment - CHLOROFORM BOTTLE, THE BRITISH DRUG HOUSES LTD LONDON, UNKNOWN
A BROWN BOTTLE WITH A BLACK SCREW TOP. CHLOROFORM. PURISSCHLOROFORM PURISSlocal history, medicine, surgery, medical -
Clunes Museum
Equipment - DRUG SCALES, W A WEBB LTD LONDON
USED IN THE CLUNES HOSPITAL.1 WOODEN BOX BASE WITH ONE DRAWER. .2 METAL MEASURING STAND SCALES. .3 METAL HANGER WHICH MAY HOLD SMALL TRAYS. .4 CURVED BOWL / MEASURING CONTAINERS (2 GLASS, 1 METAL)CLASS B TO WEIGH 2 OZSlocal history, medical & pharmacy, medical pharmacy -
Clunes Museum
Certificate, UNITED KINDOM BAND OF HOPE & UNION, 3.3.1889
CERTIFICATE PRESENTED TO W. HO;MAN WHO BECAME A MEMBER OF THE BAND OF HOPE TO PROMISE TO ABSTAIN FROM ALL INTOXICATING DRINKS AS BEVERAGES. MAY ALSO BE HAD SO AS TO INCLUDE "TABACCO" IN THE PLEDGE.CERTIFICATE MEMBERS CARD TO CERTIFY W. HOLMAN WHO BECAME A MEMBER OF THE CLUNES WESLEYAN SUNDAY SCHOOL. BAND OF HOPE 3.3.1889. J.M.PASCOE . SECRETARY OR REGISTRAR.certificates, sunday shool, wesleyan., holman -
Clunes Museum
Book - A PARISIAN UNDER FIRE, WAKEFIELD, WILLIAM NICHOLSON & SON LONDON, A PARISIAN UNDER FIRE
GREEN COVERED BOOK. A TALE OF THE FRANCO PRUSSIAN WAR.military - history, a parisian under fire -
Ringwood RSL Sub-Branch
Book - Book - Mounted Military Training Manual 1909, Harrison and sons London, Mounted Military Training, 1909
Red covered manual 98 pagesSold by Rankine, Dobbie and Co Military Stores Sydney and Melbourne. -
Ringwood RSL Sub-Branch
Book - Book - 1914 Field Artillery Training Manual, 1914 Field Artillery Training Manual, 1914
Used for training in WW1Red card covers paper pages 440 pages with illustrationsNo 641 Driver K. G. Woodham A sub section -
Kilmore Historical Society
THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF SCOTTISH SONGS, The illustrated book of Scottish songs from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century
Faded brown/green hardboard and cloth cover. Gold writing on spine 'The book of Scottish songs, Illustrated' viii ; 327 pages ; 20 cm ; illuHandwritten inscription on first page '46' Stamp on multiple pages 'Kilmore Mechanics Institute' -
Mont De Lancey
Book, Songs of Victory
A collection of hymns and solos for religious gatheringsA red soft cloth covered book - Songs of Victory - hymns and solos for evangelistio meetings, conferences, and the home circle. With additional hymns 801 pieces in all. Large type edition. The front red cover is ornately decorated and the back cover has a black decorated square in the middle. There is a list of choruses at the back of the book on p.193 following the additional hymns and an additional Ccoruses list on p.202. There is an Index to first lines, choruses, additional hymns, additional choruses and subjects. Six extra pages are for advertising religious reading.non-fictionA collection of hymns and solos for religious gatheringsreligious books, hymns, churches, choirs -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Memoir, Irvine, Alexander, My lady of the chimney corner, 1927 (Eighteenth impression. First impression 1913.)
A partially fictionalised account/memoir of the author's parents.250 p. ; Dark grey cardboard cover, embossed with image of Nelson's Column.fictionA partially fictionalised account/memoir of the author's parents.rural life - ireland, poverty, ireland - social conditions, memoirs, biographical fiction -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Norris, Kathleen, Love Calls the Tune by Kathleen Norris, 1946 (First Australian edition)
Romance novel.Hardcover book with a dark blue cover. 189 pages.fictionRomance novel.kathleen norris, romance, fiction -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Fitzgerald, Errol, The Faithful Knave by Errol Fitzgerald, 1939
Romance novel.Hardcover book, 283 pages. Front cover of book has a colour image of a man and a woman in an open top vehicle. A dark coloured sedan following them.fictionRomance novel.errol fitzgerald, romance, fiction -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Wynne, Pamela (pen-name of Winifred Mary Scott), The Last Days of Summer by Pamela Wynne, 1934 reprint (first published 1931)
Romance novel.Hardcover book, 285 pages. Book has a red cover. Original dust jacket removed, title and author's name handwritten on spine.fictionRomance novel.pamela wynne, winifred mary scott, romance, fiction -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Riddell, Charlotte (Mrs J. H. Riddell), The mystery in Palace Gardens : Vol. 1, [n.d.] [1880?]
Volume 1 of 3(?) volumes. 313 p. : dark blue cover with brown leather trim. Title page missing, information for catalogue record from online sources and British Library catalogue.fictionfiction, charlotte riddell (mrs j. h. riddell) -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Riddell, Charlotte (Mrs J. H. Riddell), The mystery in Palace Gardens : Vol. 2, [n.d.] [1880?]
Volume 2 of 3(?) volumes. 307 p. : dark blue cover with brown leather trim. Title and volume number embossed in gold on spine. Title page missing, information from catalogue record from online sources and British Library catalogue.fictionfiction, charlotte riddell (mrs j. h. riddell) -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Mannin, Ethel, Julie : the story of a dance-hostess, 1939
176 p. : plain red cover, title and author's name hand written on spine.fictionfiction, ethel mannin -
Clunes Museum
Ephemera - BOOK, JOHN F. SHAW AND CO, WHITE LILIES
DECORATED BLUE HARD COVER BOOK WHITE LILIES BY L T MEADE BELONGS TO LILIE FROM CONNIE 19TH FEBRUARY 1896 12 YEARSTO LILIE FROM CONNIE 19TH FEBRUARY 1896 12 YEARSlocal history, book, novel, books -
Clunes Museum
Book, WILLIAM NICHOLS 46 HORTON SQUARE LONDON, MEMOIR OF THE REV. WILLIAM SHAW, 1875
MEMOIR OF THE REV WILLIAM SHAW LATE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE WESLEYAN MISSIONS IN SOUTH -EASTERN AFRICA.TAN COLOURED HARD COVER BOOK -MEMOIR OF THE REV WILLIAM SHAW LATE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE WESLEYAN MISSIONS IN SOUTH -EASTERN AFRICA.non-fictionMEMOIR OF THE REV WILLIAM SHAW LATE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE WESLEYAN MISSIONS IN SOUTH -EASTERN AFRICA.local history, books, religion -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Mannin, Ethel, Darkness my bride, 1938
Intertwined story of the lives of two young men in the 1930s, set against the background of European politics and the Spanish Civil War.296 p. : black cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to front, with image of a woman with dark hair, in black robe. Title and author's name hand printed on spine.Intertwined story of the lives of two young men in the 1930s, set against the background of European politics and the Spanish Civil War.fiction, ethel mannin -
Clunes Museum
Book, 18 WEST SQUARE LONDON SE, PUBLICATIONS OF THE CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY VOLUME 21, 1894
RELIGIOUS BOOK - NAVY COVER. PUBLICATION OF THE CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY VOLUME 21non-fictionlocal history, book, religious, books, religion -
Clunes Museum
Book - ROYAL READER GRADE VI 1877, T.NELSON & SONS PATERNOSTER ROW LONDON, 1877
THE ROYAL SCHOOL SERIES No VI. THE ROYAL READERSSOILED LINEN COVERED ROYAL READER No VI [6]E.PASCOElocal history, document, royal reader, royal readers -
Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History
Domestic object - Wine coasters, L.G.S. London, 1977
This pair of wine coasters were gifted by the Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Surgeons of England to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first meeting of the FARACS in 1952. The hallmarks engraved on the silver verify the maker and date.A pair of sterling silver wine coasters with a turned wood base.Engraved on both objects; PRESENTED BY / THE FACULTY OF ANAESTHETISTS R.C.S. ENG. / 1952-1977 [hallmark] LGS / character of lion / mark of leopards head / cursive script C / mark of Queen Victoriafaracs, royal college of surgeons of england, rcs, l.g.s. london -
Bendigo Military Museum
Financial record - PAY BOOK ARMY WW1, Mc & Co. Ltd London, 1914 - 1918
Pay book of CPL L. P. WARREN, Reg'n No. 615 Enlisted 18.8.1914 60th Battalion - AAVC 17.5.1917Small book, cotton cloth cover in brown colour with black print on cover. Rising Sun Insignia in centre. 19 pages.Paybook No. 146893. Surname WARREN Christian Names L.P. Reg'n No. 615 Unit AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE SOLDIERS PAY BOOK.passchendaele barracks trust, ww1, aif, paybook -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Book - Lace Machines and Machine Laces, B.T. Batsford Ltd London UK, 1986
- Documentation of history of lace machines & lace making - Dates covered 1760's - present day- Bound, hardcover book - Dust jacket - First published 1986 Book provides excellent comprehensive history of lace machines and machined lace.Various - Author Pat Earnshawlace, lace machines