Henry Christian (c.1809-91), the grandfather of the photographer, was one of the first settlers in Kew. He arrived in Victoria with his wife Agnes and son Orlando in 1855 on the Gypsy Queen. He established a rope-making business in Bulleen Road by 1858 but was declared insolvent two years later. In his final years, he was celebrated as one of the oldest living settlers of the district. His son, Orlando Henry Beater Christian (c.1853-1930) became a member of the Hawthorn Band and a foundation member of the Willsmere Swimming Club. Orlando and his wife Elizabeth had four children of which Henry Beater Christian (1886-1962) was the eldest.An item from an outstanding and diverse photographic collection, assembled by members of the Christian and Washfold families of Kew.View of grounds of Macauleys boathouse. Gum trees and willows. Stacked embankment. Person rowing boat. Others sitting on bank.macauley's boathouse, yarra river -- kew (vic.), christian-washfold collection

A brown wooden award with the words 'The Arthur Nothing Trophy' and 'Victoria v South Australia' inscribed on the base. A table tennis player sits on top of the award, with the sole winner's name and score inscribed below it '1978 Victoria 61-20'.Wooden upright rectangle with two shoulders, curved mid-section topped by gold coloured person with table tennis batThe Arthur Nothling trophy Victoria v. South Australiaassociation for the blind, awards

Imported and sold by Holden and FrostImported and sold by Holden and FrostNickle plated semi circular stirrup designed for a person riding side saddle, to fit both feet, primarily ladies.Nickle silver. horse shoe logo ,other too worn to deciphersteel, stirrup, double footed

Rectangular cardboard container in two parts for holding razor. Inside sleeve has person's name written in black ink.Inside sleeve written in black ink: Bickerton

Certificate of Discharge. V143139 Sergeant Albert William Guard. Served with Citizen Military Forces from 13 October 1941 to 30 June 1947. Interim Army 1 July 1947 to 26 October 1948.Wooden frame, glass front, printed certificate with cream coloured border, has details of the persons service and discharge date.“Certificate No 224024”documents - certificates/army records, glass technology, discharge

Colour photograph Rotary Club 40th Annual Dinner, Mavis Warne, second person unknown. Lakes Entrance Victoriarotary club, volunteering, celebration

The obituary is remembering the life of Panoyiannis (Peter John) Raftopoulos who migrated from the Ithacan village of Kioni to come to Australia in 1937 where he joined his sister Kalypso and her husband Dimitiri Sofianos. He was a respected member of the Ithacan community and an Honorary Life Member. He also worked for a range of causes in broader community. He is remembered every year at the Ithacan Philanthropic Society's annual bursary awards which were initiated by him. The award for the highest achieving Year 12 graduate is named after him.A scanned copy of an obituary that was published in the Ithacan Philanthropic Society's Newspaper about one of the members. A photograph of the person is included with then article.obituaries, bursary awards

Item collected By Ernest King NEWMAN VX100091 2nd AIF. Refer Cat No 317 for his service history.Aerial message , with string to be delivered from Japanese aircraft. Cloth is off-white."Any person who has received this package is cordially requested to send it over to the Army Headquarters of Port Moresby"streamers, communication, aerial

Colour print of Bendigo SECV Bendigo trams 2 and 4 at Charing Cross. On Kodacolor paper with a Kodak red ink stamp on rear. Trams have dash canopy lights, but no large white strip under the drivers windows. Photo dated 21.11.1962. Buildings on corner of Pall Mall and Mitchell St in background. Both trams fitted with roof ads and dash canopy ads - White Horse Whiskey. Shows "safety zone" arrangements. No. 2 has destination of "Quarry Hill" while 4 has destination of "Eaglehawk". Has a number of passengers boarding trams. Note "PYE" name on radio tower mast.On rear top left hand corner "2 and 4 / 21.11.62" in very wavy handwriting, typical of an aged person.charing cross, bendigo, mitchell st., safety zone, tram 2, tram 4

Colour postcard, with two cable tram sets in Queens Parade Clifton Hil and the buildings on with side of the very wide roadway. Yields information about the view along Queens Parade Clifton Hill.Postcard - colour with divided back, used with a Victorian 1d stamp on the rear.Handwritten note and date stamp of the Clifton Hill Post Office. Has a Christmas Greetings on the rear for a person in Sebastopol.trams, tramways, cable trams, clfiton hill, queens parade

This photo is part of the Fred Griffith Photographic Collection documenting his time with the Australian Alpine Club and the formation of the Albury Ski Club. Frederick Charles “Fred” Griffith was born in Albury, NSW on 2 March 1910. Educated in Albury and Geelong Grammar. Beginning in 1927 he spent many years working first as a jackeroo and on a range of prominent pastoral and merino stud properties in NSW and Queensland. In 1935 he repurchased his former family property “Toonallook", Bowna, NSW and developed it to be the largest Romney Marsh stud in the world, exporting rams to Argentina. He introduced many innovative practices on his property including rabbit control measures and aerial crop dusting. He was an active member of the Albury Show Society and in 1949 established the Albury Sheep Show. Fred was also the Albury representative on the Graziers’ Association Council for over 30 years. He became a life member of both the Albury and Commercial Clubs. Fred’s greatest hobby was snow skiing. His first visit to the snow was to Kosciusko in 1919. The Albury Ski Club was formed in 1935 and Fred was an inaugural member. In 1949 they were granted a site at Falls Creek to build their own lodge. Fred guaranteed the Club for finance from the Bank of NSW. The first portion of the prefabricated building was constructed in Albury. It was transported to Falls Creek on the back of Fred’s truck and erected in one day. This was the bathroom section and the rest was completed in 1950. The original lodge was burned down in 1952 and a new one built the following year. In 1955, Fred also built the Bowna Lodge for his family in partnership with David Fairbairn. He became head of the North Eastern District Skiing Association (N.E.D.S.A.) and successfully applied to run the Australian Ski Championships. Fred also inaugurated children’s races at Falls Creek and ran them for about 20 years. He also formed the company “Falls Creek Ski Tows”. In 1956 Fred along with a group of key people selected the site for Thredbo Village. Fred and his brother sold Toonallook in sections between 1951 and 1974. He moved to Albury and set up as a landscape gardener and fencing contractor. After a serious work accident, Fred retired in 1985 and moved to Rosebud, Victoria where he died on 19 August 1992. This image is from the Fred Griffith collection which documents the early development of Falls Creek.Black and white square photograph of two people wearing snow gear in the snow. The person on the left is in a lighter coloured suit and holding a ski pole and the person on the right is in a dark suit and holding skis and ski pole. There are skiers in the background, where there is mostly snow-covered hill and small amount of sky above. Stamped - SUPER / G & D . SERVICE Pencil - 61bogong, falls creek, snow, snowfields, albury ski club, skiing, snow sports, fred griffith, australian alpine club, albury

People who have been identified are Phyliss Payne (2nd row 10th person), Miss King (3rd row 5th person), Mrs Round (3rd row 6th person), Mrs Mether (3rd row 10th person), Mrs Watts (3rd row 12th person), Mr Chambers (4th row 10th person),Group Photo of men and women who were members of the Chelsea Choral Societychelsea choral society, chelsea, choral, society

A card folder containing a copy of a menu. The folder cover is signed by a number of persons, including G M Ingram VC MM.

Photo of a Rambler Wireless Patrol car in 1965Rambler Classic with unidentified person in driver's seat. The front wheels are turned to the right. Registration number JNC-003. Circa 1966police vehicles; motor transport branch; motor transport section; wireless patrol; rambler classic car

This piece of wood is from the American clipper ship LIGHTNING was a 3 masted, fully rigged extreme clipper ship. She was commissioned by James Baines, of the Black Ball Line in Liverpool, England, during the time of the Australian Gold Rush for the trade of passengers and cargo between England and Australia. Her cargo listed early consignments of livestock and animals, including rabbits sent to Thomas Austin of Barwon Park, Winchelsea, Victoria. The LIGHTNING was built in 1854 by shipbuilder Donald McKay, of East Boston, USA. She was described as spacious and comfortable, and one of the smartest ships known. The LIGHTNING set many speed records for her sea crossings, and became one of the most famous of the racing clippers and one of the fastest ever launched. In 1854, with Captain ‘Bully’ Forbes and Mate ‘Bully’ Bragg, LIGHTNING made the return trip from Melbourne to Liverpool in only 64 days, 3 hours and 10 minutes; a record for all time. Captain Enright became the new Master of LIGHTNING soon afterwards. He has been described as one of the finest mariners in the Australian trade. One of Captain Enright’s innovations was to publish a ship’s paper called The Lightning Gazette. (Captain Forbes had left to captain the SCHOMBERG.) In January 1855 Capt. Enright sailed the LIGHTNING from Liverpool with over 700 passengers and returned home carrying gold as her cargo. In 1857, for a very brief time under Capt. Byrne the LIGHTNING was used as a troop ship, taking British officers and soldiers, stores and ammunition, to fight in India. In 1859 she then returned to her run between Liverpool and Melbourne, apart from 1867 when she made a special trip between Melbourne and Port Chalmers in New Zealand. In 1869 the LIGHTNING was sold to Thomas Harrison of Liverpool, and she continued to sail for the Black Ball Line. Master of LIGHTNING, Captain Henry Jones, sailed her to Geelong in October 1869, and whilst docked, he had her loaded with a cargo of wool, copper, wire, tallow and other goods. At about 1am on 31st October 1869, whilst still docked and fully laden, a fire was noticed on the LIGHTNING. Efforts to extinguished the fire were unsuccessful, so she was towed to the shoals in Corio Bay, where she eventually sank, losing all cargo but no lives. The area is now known as Lightning Shoals. The LIGHTNING is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register VHR S415. She is historically significant for being one of the fastest wooden ships ever built, the first clipper built in the USA for British owners and being the worst shipping disaster in Geelong's history. It spent its whole career carrying cargo and immigrants from England to Australia.Sample of wood from the wool clipper LIGHTNING, 1854-1869, The sample has a label and a card with information about the ship and a person. Card, typewritten, "PIECE OF TIMBER FROM FAMOUS WOOL CLIPPER / "LIGHTNING". BUILD IN DONALD McKAY'S SHIPYARD / IN BOSTON, U.S.A.. SHE WAS BURNT TO TOTAL LOSS / IN GEELONG IN 1869"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, sailing ship lightning, extreme clipper ship, american clipper ship, record breaking clipper ship, james baines, black ball line, donald mckay shipbuilder, captain ‘bully’ forbes, australian immigration, liverpool to melbourne migration, captain enright, captain byrne, captain henry jones, lightning shoals geelong, rabbits introduced to australia, wood sample from lightning

studio portrait, part thereof, female with seated child. Coloured by hand. RH side of photo cut off - person removed.unknownperson, family

Metal set of dog tags worn by service person CP Chadwick attached to metal chain. Also a rusty bottle openerdog tags

A black and white photograph in a gold frame of the Change Over of Navy personnal at Sembewang Naval Dockyard in Singapore on the 1st march 1967.On a gold plaque under the photograph reads "Change Over Sembewang naval Dockland, Singapore - 1st Mar 68photograph, cerberus collection

Tomato Growing at Hines property Pomonal. Stan Cox in foreground digging with people in the background. The tomato's plants are being irrigated with water along the rows.Black and white photograph of a scene depicting watering a vegetable crop. Two people are working the crop in the background and in the foreground a person is digging. Stan Cox watering Hines Tomatoes Pomonal.stawell

Black and white photograph of a group of revellers and band members with their instruments. One unidentified person featured in the foreground. Photo and duplicate of photo. On back of original photo: "Back to School, Easter 1948. x2" On back of copy: "Back to School part of Back to R'glen Celebrations 194 "back to rutherglen, back to school, marching bands, festivals

Original photograph in the Jim Crow Ranges (around Daylesford)/ A person and horse can be located in the centre of the photograph, and a timber bridge in the background. jim crow ranges, daylesford, bridge, trestle bridge, horse, nicholas caire

Sepia photo of a person in a horse & cart. Photo is outlined by a cream (& gold decoration) mounting board, inside a wooden frame with glass.(see photo) Front: 150th Anniversary Celebrations 31-3-1985 Back: Re-enactment of the arrival of first settlers to the district. Staged by the Numurkah Historical Society during Victoria's 150th Anniversary Celebrations 1985horse, cart, first settlers, victoria's 150th celebrations, re-enactment

Cariacature drawing/painting of unknown person (Geoff Pollard?) holding tennis racquet. Materials: Wood, Glass, Cardboard, Paper, Inktennis

Three Penn tennis balls (.1 - .3), all autographed, in black marker, by the same person. Materials: Rubber, Felt, Inktennis

Two Penn tennis balls (.1 - .2), all autographed, in black marker, by the same person. Materials: Rubber, Felt, Inktennis