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Ballarat Tramway Museum
Sign - Warning Sign - Entering or leaving this tram, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Entering or leaving this tram on the wrong side is prohibited", 1960's
... Signs ...Demonstrates how the SEC used enamel signs to convey instructions to passengers or to confirm the advice of the conductor and how enamel signs were made.Enamel sign, black capital letters and lines on white background, titled "Entering or leaving this tram on the wrong side is prohibited". Sign has a black enamel backing, with marks from the enamelling process and screw holes sides. Has not been used. trams, tramways, signs, sec, passengers, btm, ballarat tramways -
Vision Australia
Photograph - Image, Association for the Blind New Beginnings sign, 1994-1998
Blue perspex sign, rectangular in shape, with white adhesive printing. The Association's symbol of the stylised Guiding Light is in the top left hand side. Marked: Front of sign : "ASSOCIATION / FOR THE BLIND / NEW BEGINNINGS." The New Beginnings trademark was used from 1994 until 1999, to signify the changes that the organisation was going through. In 1999/2000, the organisation was renamed Vision Australia Foundation.Acrylic blue rectangular sign with white writing and AFB logoAssociation for the Blind New Beginningsassociation for the blind, signs and signboards -
Puffing Billy Railway
Sign - Advertising - Pure Velvet Soap - Enamel Sign, pre 1950s
Velvet Soap was a widely used laundry bar soap launched in 1906, produced by J. Kitchen & Sons, owned by John Ambrose Kitchen (1835 - 1922). Kitchen was born in Britain and emigrated to Victoria in 1854. After a less than successful period at the Caledonian and Blackwood diggings, Kitchen returned to Melbourne and joined his father and brothers in establishing a tallow candle making works. Through merger and expansion the company became the pre-eminent manufacturer of soap and candles in the eastern colonies in the mid to late 19th century. Kitchen also speculated in a number of enterprises but suffered financial setbacks as a result of the 1890s bank crashes. Despite this, the company continued to grow in the early twentieth century with the introduction of products such as Velvet Soap and Solvol. The company merged with the British company Lever Bros in 1914 who eventually took full control of the company in 1924, becoming Lever and Kitchen. Advertising for Velvet Soap in Australia was extensive and pervasive. All manner of surfaces were used to advertise the product such as building walls, roofs, and most commonly, enamelled sheet metal signs which were fastened to any available surface internally and externally. The most common form of sign that Velvet Soap used was the words 'PURE VELVET SOAP' in white lettering within a vivid dark blue, elongated Maltese cross. On the enamelled metal signs the Maltese cross sat on a red background with a yellow border. While this was the dominant form for Velvet Soap signs, there were variations from the standard. The Velvet Soap sign is of historical significance as a representative of painted signs that were once a common form of advertising during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. - : http://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/14447#sthash.Vb6KAUWl.dpufHistoric - Advertising Sign - Velvet SoapTin sign with white, yellow, red and blue enamel. Pure velvet soap.puffing billy, enamel sign, pure velvet soap -
Greensborough Historical Society
Print, Orcades to the Sea by Peter Jones, 1942_10
RMS Orcades was a British built ocean liner that served on the UK-Australia route as a Royal Mail Ship from 1937-1939. Orcades was requisitioned by the British government as a troopship in 1939. It was torpedoed and sunk in October 1942 with the loss of 48 lives. The next Orcades was the first new purpose-built vessel to enter the Australian migrant trade after the Second World War and made over 55 voyages to Australia between 1948 and 1972.The significance of this painting is that it was presented as a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the second world war by the Scullin Australia Remembers Committee in 1995.Framed and signed print of ship "Orcades". Print measures 22 x 30 cm. Print is signed "Peter Jones '95".On back of frame "No.9 Orcades to Asia Peter Jones". orcades, world war ii, scullin australia remembers committee, prints, peter jones -
Orbost & District Historical Society
black and white photograph
Mr Alex McDonald , head of the Department of Education, signed the visitors' book at the Golden Jubilee of Orbost High School in 1962.Orbost High School / Orbost Secondary College has played a significant part in the education of senior students in the Orbost district . It is the sole senior educational institution. This item is representative of its historyA black / white photograph of a man wearing glasses signing a book.on back - "Orbost H.S. Jubilee 1962.Alex McDonald"education-orbost orbost-high-school-golden-jubilee -
Vision Australia
Photograph - Image, Memorandum of Understanding between Vision Australia and the Blind Citizens Association, 27/7/2006
On July 27, 2006 a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Vision Australia and Blind Citizens Australia. 31 digital images of signing a MOU between Vision Australia and BCAvision australia, blind citizens australia, gerard menses, kevin murfitt, owen van der wall, robyn gaile, nadia mattiazzo, michael simpson -
Wangaratta RSL Sub Branch
Photograph - Framed photograph, Japanese Surrender
Japanese Surrender 15th August 1945 General Douglas McArthur & Tojo signing instrument of surrender.Brown timber frame containing photograph of soldiers watching signing of document.Attached Plague - Japanese Surrender 15th August 1945 General Douglas McArthur & Tojo Photo taken and donated by Alan Goodwininstrument of surrender, 15/8/1945, general douglas mcarthur, tojo -
Forests Commission Retired Personnel Association (FCRPA)
FCV Benalla Forest District office sign
This sign is believed to have hung outside the Benalla Forest District Office. The sign features a pine tree (so probably made before the 1956 restructure). In 1956, the new Chairman of the Forests Commission, Alf Lawrence, introduced a major restructure of the organisation to create 56 Forest Districts. The process included amalgamating the plantations and hardwood divisions, which had been separate and rival entities up to that time. Things remained largely unchanged for the next three decades until the early 1980s. The iconic Forests Commission Victoria (FCV) “two-tree” logo was designed in the early 1960s by graphic artist, Alan Rawady.Benalla Forest District Office Sign -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Sign, "Seat for 12 Adults", 1880s?
... signs ...Possibly from a horse omnibus which was licensed to carry 12 passengers inside and 2 on the outside. Not applicable to cable tram or an electric tram.Demonstrates the method of advising the licensed capacity of a vehicle.Sign - rectangular sheet steel - provided with three screw holes - badly damaged around the centre hole where it has been removed from the original vehicle and paint damaged. Dark red background paint with yellow letters. Painted brown on the rear side.signs, public transport, horse omnibus -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Sign, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "WARNING TO NOT LEAN AGAINST DOOR", 1940's??
... Signs ...Enamel sign - steel back, black enamel with white letters, slightly impressed = "WARNING TO NOT LEAN AGAINST DOOR". Has the marks from the sign being supported during the enamelling process on the rear. May have been fitted to a Victorian Railway's tram.trams, tramways, signs, tramcars, victorian railways, passengers, behaviour -
Marysville & District Historical Society
Photograph (item) - Colour photograph, 28-04-2004
A colour photograph of the brown tourist sign for Lady Talbot Drive in Marysville in Victoria.A colour photograph of the brown tourist sign for Lady Talbot Drive in Marysville in Victoria. Lady Talbot Drive a 24 kilometer scenic rainforest car journey which passes a number of walks and waterfalls in the Yarra Ranges National Park. Lady Talbot Drive is named after Lady Sarah Elizabeth, the wife of Sir Reginald Talbot, who was the Governor of Victoria from 25th April, 1904 to 6th July 1908.lady talbot drive, lady talbot forest drive, marysville, victoria, sir reginald talbot, lady sarah elizabeth talbot, taggerty river, phantom falls, keppel falls, the beeches rainforest walk -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Exit Sign, 1926 to 1927
Donated when the existing signs in the Rutherglen Memorial Hall were replaced by an electricianExit sign with a gold coloured metal casing, grey lettering on red background -
Port of Echuca
Plaque - Timber sign, Murray River Sawmills, 1926
This large wooden sign was originally attached to the barge D26 which was one of the 4 barges used to carry logs behind the PS Adelaide. The D indicated that it was the fourth barge to be built in 1926 by Murray River Sawmills. The number represented the year it was built.This original timber piece, salvaged from the D26 barge is an important relic from an original outrigger logging barge from the early 20th century, one of the last logging barges built as the Murray River timber trade was declining. The barge was restored by the Port's chief shipwright Kevin Hutchinson with assistance from Laurie Rendle and Alan Battsch. and the PS Adelaide is also a significant feature in the Port's collection. Large red gum timber signD 26d26, barge, logging industry, murray river sawmills, ps adelaide -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Sign, Yarra Trams, Metlink, Tram Stop Sign, c2005
... Signs ...Tram Stop Sign - folded anodized aluminium, overlain both sides with a reflectorised backing plastic material which has been bonded to the to sign, printed with tram stop information, with Metlink and Yarra Tram logos. Has three holes in the small angled side, enabling it to be fixed to a structure at the tram stop or a pole. Tram stop - model or a sample sign for a tram stop sign for the MCG/Vodaphone Arena, route 70, stop 7C on both sides.trams, tramways, tram stops, metlink, signs, route 70, sports, mcg, vodaphone arena -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Sign, Yarra Trams, Metlink, Tram stop sign, c2005
... Signs ...Tram Stop Sign - folded anodized aluminium, overlain both sides with a reflectorised backing plastic material which has been bonded to the to sign, printed with tram stop information, with Metlink and Yarra Tram logos. Has three holes in the small angled side, enabling it to be fixed to a structure at the tram stop or a pole. Tram stop - model or a sample sign for a tram stop sign for the MCG/Vodaphone Arena, route 70, stop 7C on both sides.trams, tramways, tram stops, metlink, signs, route 70, sports, mcg, vodaphone arena -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Sign - Ballarat Tramways - SEC - timetable board, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), c1960
Ballarat Tramways timetable changes sign. This was painted at the Ballarat Depot then screwed to the large timetable boards in the Sturt Street and Lydiard Street shelters. Sign is shaped to replace only those times which needed altering. This item demonstrates how changes to service times were communicated to the public.Black metal tramway sign with departure times hand painted in red and white. Irregular shape.ballarat tramways, timetable boards -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Sign - Ballarat Tramways - SEC - timetable board, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), c1960
Ballarat Tramways timetable changes sign. This was painted at the Ballarat Depot then screwed to the large timetable boards in the Sturt Street and Lydiard Street shelters. Sign is shaped to replace only those times which needed altering. This item demonstrates how changes to service times were communicated to the public.Black metal tramway sign with departure times hand painted in red and white. Irregular shape.ballarat tramways, timetable boards -
Federation University Historical Collection
Poem, Frank Wright, Frank Wright MBE, July 1967
Frank Wright was a renown resident of Smeaton, where he was born on 2 August 1901. He lived at Laura Villa, and attended Smeaton State School. His father William was a gold miner and his mother's name was Sarah. Their family won many singing and instrumental awards. Frank was tutored by Percy Code and was awarded a gold medal for the highest marks in the ALCM examinations in the British Colonies at the age of seventeen years. He became the Australian Open Cornet Champion by the age of eighteen. A year later, Frank conducted the City of Ballarat Band, and later the Ballarat Soldiers’ Memorial Band. He formed the Frank Wright Frisco Band and Frank Wright and his Coliseum Orchestra. These bands won many South Street awards, and Frank as conductor won many awards in the Australian Band Championship contest. In 1933 Frank Wright sailed to England to conduct the famous St Hilda’s Band and was later appointed Musical Director of the London County Council, where he organized many amazing concerts in parks, in and around the London district. He was made Professor of Brass and Military Band Scoring and conducted at the Guildhall of Music and Drama. Frank was often invited to adjudicate Brass Band Championships around Europe, in Australia, including South Street and in New Zealand. The Frank Wright Medal at the Royal South Street competition is awarded to an individual recognized as making an outstanding contribution to brass music in Australia.A single typed page containing a 4 verse poem by Frank Wright signed and dated July 1967. Each line of each stanza begins in turn with a letter from Frank's name and the letters MBE.Signed and dated in pen by Frank Wright.frank wright, poem, composer, judge, conductor -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Sign, "Ballarat Tramways Alteration to Time-Table", Mar. 1970
... Signs ...Paper sign titled "Ballarat Tramways Alteration to Time-Table" dated 16/3/1970 that has been mounted with a Perspex front onto a manufactured wooden board with a blackened edge and secured with steel mounting clips and a hanging bracket. Used to exhibit or show a SEC timetable alteration announcement or sign that from the given date, a new timetable would apply from that date for Week days and Saturdays. Signed by F.K. White, Manager and printed by Alex King & Sons Ballarat. Original sign is understood to be slightly larger than that mounted on the object. Mounting or securing clips on rear of the object are stamped "Swiss Made PAT" and the hanging bracket "EMO Swiss". 2nd copy of poster added 1/11/2005 - stored in box 01-01-01 - relocated to package with others. See Reg Item 3445 for original posters.In the bottom left hand corner at the back of the object within a circle are the letters "M1".trams, tramways, signs, timetables, sec -
Dandenong/Cranbourne RSL Sub Branch
2 x Photographs, Unknown
WWII historical significance.2 x Black and White photographs from WWII. #1 X photograph was taken in Wewak, New Guinea in September 1945 showing the signing of the surrender of the Japanese Forces in readiness for the signing of the main surrender. #The 2nd photograph shows the signing of the peace treaty with a RAAF Guard of Honour on shore at the ship in Wewak New Guinea in September 1945.#1. On the back of the photograph written in pen: Nth New Guinea Sept 1945 surrender of Wewak in readiness for the signing of the surrender. #2. On the back of the photograph written in pen: Nth New Guinea Sept 1945 surrender of Wewak. RAAF guard of honour at the ship while the signing was in progress. -
Vision Australia
Sign - Object, 3RPH radio sign, 1980s
Small signboard advertising 3RPH. To th left of the sign a figure speaks into a microphone beneath a curved arc of lines representing sound waves.Black and White 3RPH sign with two holes in top cornersAssociation for the Blind 3RPH 1629 Radio for the Print Handicapped 3rph radio station, signs and signboards -
Orbost & District Historical Society
banknote, 1957
The Indian rupee is the official currency of the Republic of India. Notes of all denominations issued by the Reserve Bank of India after independence have the Ashoka Pillar and the Seal of Reserve Bank of India. The first banknote printed by independent India was a 1 rupee note.Indian 1 and 2 rupee notes were discontinued in 1995 and only coins used. However The Reserve Bank of India will soon put new one rupee currency notes back into circulation.A greyish green 1 rupee paper Indian note. One one side is a picture of a one rupee coin in the top left corner and "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA" with Indian script below. On the other side is "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ONE RUPEE" and the serial number. It is signed by the Secretary, Minister of Finance.In the top right corner is a picture of the Ashoka Pillar.Signed by L.K.Jhacurrency india-one-rupee money -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Photograph, Lorrae Desmond, 1/03/1969 12:00:00 AM
Photograph of Lorrae Desmond in an evening dress singing to troops. Photograph is signed by Lorrae Desmond.To Denis Darling love & kisses Lorrae Desmond Nui Dat March 69 signed May 97lorrae desmond, photograph, entertainment -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Sign, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Pay as you Enter", 1960's
... Signs ...Demonstrates how the SEC used painted signs to advise passengers about fare payment arrangements.Folded metal and painted "Pay as you Enter" sign used on Ballarat single truckers until 1971. Black lettering on a yellow front with a Yellow back. Sign has been manufactured to fit the timber holders that were provided on each side of each door. Painted by the SEC Ballarat painter George Wright at the tram depot. (Advised by Bill Llewellyn to Richard Gilbert at the time of donation)trams, tramways, signs, sec, tramcars -
Lakes Entrance Historical Society
Photograph - Eastern entrance to Lakes Entrance, Lakes Entrance Tidy Town Committee, 1990
Eastern entrance to town Princes Highway on right of image pathway to left of Welcome to Lakes Entrance sign holding metal sign indicating local services Lakes Entrance Victoria. Also two other colour photographs taken at Eastern entrance to Lakes Entrance from pathway beside St. Brendans looking towards Eastern Beah Road Tidy Town signs in foreground 04278.1 and 04278.2 size 10 x 15 cmColour photograph showing Eastern entrance to town Princes Highway on right of image pathway to left of Welcome to Lakes Entrance sign holding metal sign indicating local services Lakes Entrance Victoria. Also two other colour photographs taken at Eastern entrance to Lakes Entrance from pathway beside St. Brendans looking towards Eastern Beah Road Tidy Town signs in foreground topography, signage, tidy town -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Sign - End of Section
... signs ...Indicated or provided a location to tram conductors and passengers where a fare or ticket section changed from one to another - an extra amount may have had to be paid to travel past this point.Demonstrates the type of sign used by the MMTB to indicate where ticket sections changed. Similar signs used by the SEC in Ballarat and Bendigo. Sign - End of Section formed from a metal sheet with a short leg for fixing to a pole. Enameled white background, black text.tram stop, signs, mmtb, tickets, tramways, trams -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Sign - Tramcar advertisement - "White Crow Tomato Sauce"
... signs ...Use to promote White Crow tomato sauce by having advertisements that could been seen by motorists and pedestrians. Would have been attached to the ends or driver's cabins of trams.Demonstrates the methods the manufacturer of White Crow used to advertise their product. See Reg Item 4349 for an example of the use on the front of tram 876, dated April 1960. Have photographs on either W2 class or other wide body trams.Sign - Zincalume steel sheet, with four holes in angled or trimmed corners painted to advertise "White Crow Tomato Sauce" on tramcars.signs, mmtb, white crow tomator sauce, advertising, trams, tramways -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Sign, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Bell St Only"
... Signs ...Demonstrates that methods and equipment use by the SEC to give destination information to passengers and later on advertising for events that passengers could access from the trams with a walk. Yields information about an event and its location, but the date of the event is unknown at this time.Sign - painted onto a SEC (very similar to a MMTB auxiliary destination board of the type that could hang on the front of a Ballarat tram car with the words "Bell St Only" on the front and a paper advert on the rear for the Homes and Industries Fair, at the Drill Hall in Curtis St. Has another former painted advertising sign underneath. Date of use not known at the time of acquisition. To be researched. Bell St was a destination on the Ballarat Destination roll, so it may have been used on trams which were not fitted with full destination rolls and then recycled by the SEC for advertising means. Metal sign, fitted with metal hanging brackets, riveted to sign on both sides, made from about 1.5mm sheet steel. Purchased by the Museum August 2015.trams, tramways, signs, auxiliary board, events, advertisements -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Slide - 35mm slide/s, Travis Jeffrey, c1962
... Signs ...Agfa plastic mount (blue base, white cover) with a photo of Bendigo 7, in McCrae St, near Arnold St. at the end of the double line track. Note the "End of Section" sign on the pole. Tram has the destination of North Bendigo. Photo taken c1962. Tram has a "The Age" sign on the front cab panel."BES 7" in penciltramways, trams, bendigo, mccrae st, signs, tram 7 -
Vision Australia
Sign - Object, RVIB Mid Western District Office
Large round sign with yellow lighthouse shining yellow lights either side on blue background. Around the outside of the circle in yellow writing is: Royal Victorian Institute (upper half) and For the Blind (lower half). The words 'Mid Western' and 'District Office' sit either side of the lighthouse.Blue and yellow large round signRoyal Victorian Institute for the Blind Mid Western District Officenameplates, royal victorian institute for the blind