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Mont De Lancey
Utensils, Circa 1950's to 1960's
Used by Donor's (Mrs. C. Doe) mother during the 1950's and 1960's 2 kitchen utensils - a. Egg slide with wooden handle and b. Utility spoon with wooden handleb. "Utility Beater Masher Strainer Lifter"kitchenware, eggslices, kitchen spoons -
Mont De Lancey
Book, Peter Cuffley, Chandeliers and Billy Tea: a Catalogue of Australian Life 1880 - 1940, 1984 (1995 reprint)
A comprehensive historical catalogue of the life and times between 1880 and 1940 in Australia of household items, the people, favourite pastimes, life outdoors, travel and adventure, packaging, down on the farm, tools of trade and much more.A comprehensive catalogue book: Chandeliers and Billy Tea 1880 - 1940. The front cover has brown tonings and shows a full page photograph of many kitchen and household objects from the past. The title is written in different elaborate lettering inside a square shape towards the top of the cover. The author's name, Peter Cuffley, is printed in white lettering at the bottom. Inside is a Contents page with Catalogue references, a Selected Bibliography, Acknowledgements and an Introduction. There are hundreds of black and white drawings and photographs of household items and general life of the times.non-fictionA comprehensive historical catalogue of the life and times between 1880 and 1940 in Australia of household items, the people, favourite pastimes, life outdoors, travel and adventure, packaging, down on the farm, tools of trade and much more.social history, australian history, family history, history -
Orbost & District Historical Society
first day cover, April 1970
The Bicentenary of James Cook in Australia was commemorated in Australia in 1970. The British explorer Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook sailed and charted the East Coast of Australia in 1770, and claimed the eastern seaboard of the Continent for the British Crown. This was not considered the official bicentenary of Australia, but rather the mapping of the Eastern coastline.This item reflects the commemoration of a significant event in the history of Australia.An envelope with a first day issue stamp commemorating the 1970 voyages of James Cook. It has a large orange map of Australia - "Nouvelle Hollande" on the front.addressed to - "M/s J.A. Spate Esq. B.V. Sc, P.O. Box 312 trbost Vic"first-day-cover cook-james-bicentenary philately -
Orbost & District Historical Society
photograph / postcard, first half 20th century
The child in the photograph is Delia Murray (Mrs Jack Kenny). She was one of eight children of Herbert Cecil Murray and Evelyn Murray. Photographs of children families sitting in hollowed out pumpkins were common in the first half of the 20th century. This item is associated with a popular activity of the Orbost community in the first half of the 20th century. Pumpkins have been been paat of the district's agricultural history since settlement.A black / white photograph / postcardof a small girl sitting in a hollowed out pumpkin. It appears to have been taken outside on a verandah of a wooden house.on front - " H. M. S. Orbost" ; "Stanley Vogt, Bairnsdale" on back is a letter - "I got the plants......."pumpkins-orbost murray-delia -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
4 Coloured photographs numbered 10043 to 10046, Demolition of buildings in Adelaide Street -Ringwood. Circa 1960
Postcard size coloured photograph"Written on back of photograph" Demolition of buildings corner Adelaide Street. Early 1960's. K.T.Williams- Chemist -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood Market - circa 1960's
Postcard size colour photograph'Written on back of photograph" Ringwood Market, Ringwood St, later to become Cosco - circa 1960's -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, View of Ringwood. circa 1960's
Postcard size coloured photograph"Written on back of photograph" View of Ringwood showing berry farms West of New Street -circa1960's -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
RSL Christmas, War widows Christmas gift, early 20th century
ceramic pottery glazed surface.. Also includes large oval shaped indentation in which is painted an old o letteridsnow sceneAn inscription, in gold lettering, reads "MAY A LOVING SFAMILY SURROUNDS YOU" and the emblem of the R S L -
Shepparton RSL Sub Branch
Vickers Machine Gun ammunition belt, 1940
Standard .303 Vickers Machine Gun Belt from ww2250 round Vickers Machine Gun Ammunition Belt MK III 1940 Brass loading tabTF&S Ltd .303 250 M/C PATd APP 40 III to brass tabvickers machine gun -
Frankston RSL Sub Branch
Cap, RAN
Royal Australian Navy ratings cap worn by able seamen when in uniform, this white cap has a tally band and chinstrap in black material with the embroidered name "H.M.A.S. BRISBANE". This type of cap is a personal purchase for 'wearing out' and is known to sailor's as a "tiddly" hat. The hat has internal red (for Port) and green (for Starboard) lining bands.embroidered with the inscription : "H. M. A. S. BRISBANE" and the name "MAWBY D. A." and "DALE MAWBY" written inside. -
Phillip Island and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, SPENSER, Edmund, Faerie Queene : Book 1, 1921, c1893
Labelled: Phillip Island Historical Society, Cleeland Bequest. Inscribed 'Ruth S. Smith, U.C.W., Aberystwyth' -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Souvenir - Membership ticket - Heywood Football Club 1957, c. 1957
Membership ticket for Heywood Football Club, season 1957. Green cardboard, two diagonal gold stripes, black print. Folded, inside office bearers and fixtures 1957.Front: '118' blue biro Back: 'Eileen S. Bell Drumborg' - hand written, blue biro -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Frank Sandeman, Lionel, Colin Reynolds, n.d
Port of Portland Authority ArchivesBack: Frank Sandeman, (S & R clerk) Lionel Shelton,(Engineer) Colin Reynolds (Secretary ACCH)port of portland archives, frank sandeman, lionel, colin reynolds -
Friends of the Cerberus Inc
Mk II Common Shell, 21/July/1896
10 inch, Mk II, Steel Common ShellOn side - "21/D 7 C/96" On Base - "[1]0 IN II/[C] s/R.L.shell, common, common shell, mk ii, ammunition -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, The Autography of a Merchant, late 19th century
This book was given in 1886 as a prize to Annie Egerton from Allansford State School. The prize was for recitation. Allansford State School No. 3 was opened in 1856 as a National School and is still operating. Allansford is about ten kilometres from the Warrnambool city area and most of it today is within the boundaries of the City of Warrnambool. John Jones was the Head Master of the school from 1867 to 1891. No details have been found on Annie Egerton or her family This book is of interest because it concerns 19th century Allansford State School, Head Master John Jones and pupil Annie Egerton. It is also a book of antiquarian interest. This is a hard cover book of 436 pages. It has a green cover with gold and black ornamentation and black and green lettering. The pages are edged with gold colouring. The book has 36 chapters telling the story of the merchant, James Meetwell and some pages at the back giving details of other books available from the publishers, Ward, Lock & Co. The cover is somewhat soiled. There is an inscription inside the front cover with handwriting in black ink and the word ‘Reciting’ written in pencil on the second page. ‘Allansford S. School, 3, Presented to A. Egerton for Reciting, 19-4-86, J.E.Jones, teacher’ ‘Reciting’ annie egerton, allansford primary school, john jones,, allansford state school, history of allansford -
Victoria Police Museum
Photograph (police car)
Studebaker Lark Wireless Patrol car registration number HNM-107 with three men leaving the car and the driver remaining behind the wheel. Circa 1962Rear - Cliff Schwab, driver. R/Rear - Rod Sheddon. Front - S/C Ken Chandlerpolice vehicles; wireless patrol; motor transport branch; studebaker lark car; sheddon, rod; chandler, ken; schwab, cliff -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Booklet - Lettering Book, Halstead Press Pty Ltd, The Australian Lettering Book, 1945
Author Herbert Newell. Alphabets of varied fonts, headings, flourishes, plans, numerals, sketch maps, scrolls, shading, common errors, compass points. Especially designed for use in Australian Schools, offices of Lawyers, Architects, Surveyors, Engineers, Engravers, and Draughtsmen. Table of contentsThe author is a teacher of show card and ticket writing at Sydney Technical College. Book used by many students and offices. Note by the publishers provides standards for the correct form of the characters. Light brown light card cover with black ink font and border patterns. 32 Cream pages with black ink. Two staples. Hand written name on top of outline black border S. R Coleston. Price 3/9warrnambool, lettering book, angus & robertson limited, s.r. coleston, herbert newell -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Mayor S. Morris speaking at 'Back to' at Ringwood Civic Centre, 1974
Written on back of photograph, 'Mayor S. Morris speaking at 'Back to' at Civic Centre, 19/10/74'. -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Mayor S. Morris at 'Back to' at Ringwood Civic Centre, 1974
Written on back of photograph, 'Mayor S. Morris speaking at 'Back to' Civic Centre, 19/10/74'. -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Tool - Caulking Tool, A Mathieson and Son, Early 20th century
Caulking is the traditional technique used on wooden vessels built with butted or clinker-built planks to fill the gaps between these planks while still allowing the wood to flex and move. This involved driving the irons, hammered in with the mallet, deep into the seams to open them up. After this, spun yarn, oakum (hemp) or cotton was driven deep into the gaps. The hemp or cotton was soaked in creosote or pine tar to make the joins watertight. Caulking also played a structural role in tightening up the hull or deck by reducing the longitudinal movement of the neighbouring planks. The subject item was made by Alexander Mathieson & Sons but the company was established in 1792 when John Manners had set up a workshop making woodworking planes at 14 Saracens Lane Glasgow. He also employed an apprentice Alexander Mathieson (1773-1851). But in the following year at Saracen's Lane, the 1841 census describes Alexander Mathieson as a master plane-maker now at 38 Saracen Lane with his son Thomas Adam working with him as a journeyman plane-maker. Presumably, Alexander must have taken over the premises and business of John Manners. Now that the business had Thomas Adam Mathieson working with his father it gradually grew and became more diversified, and it is recorded at the time by the Post-Office Glasgow Annual Directory that by 1847-1848 Alexander Mathieson was a “plane, brace, bit, auger & edge tool maker”. In 1849 the firm of James & William Stewart at 65 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh was taken over by Mathieson and Thomas was put in charge of the business, trading under the name Thomas A. Mathieson & Co. as plane and edge-tool makers. Thomas's company went on to acquire the Edinburgh edge-tool makers “Charles & Hugh McPherson” and took over their premises in Gilmore Street. In the Edinburgh directory of 1856/7, the business is recorded as being Alexander Mathieson & Son, plane and edge-tool makers at 48 Nicolson Street and Paul's Work, Gilmore Street Edinburgh. In the 1851 census, Alexander is recorded as working as a tool and plane-maker employing eight men. Later that year Alexander died and his son Thomas took over the business. Under the heading of an edge-tool maker in the 1852/3 Post-Office Glasgow Annual Directory the firm is now listed as Alexander Mathieson & Son, with further entries as "turning-lathe and vice manufacturers". By the early 1850s, the business had moved to 24 Saracen Lane. The directory for 1857/8 records that the firm had moved again only a few years later to East Campbell Street, off the Gallowgate area, and that through further diversification was also manufacturing coopers' and tinmen's tools. The ten-yearly censuses report the firm's growth in 1861 stating that Thomas was a tool manufacturer employing 95 men and 30 boys; in 1871 he had 200 men working for him and in 1881 300 men. By 1899 the firm had been incorporated as Alexander Mathieson & Sons Ltd, even though only Alexander's son Thomas appears ever to have joined the firm so the company was still in his father's name. In September 1868 Thomas Mathieson put a notice in the newspapers of the Sheffield & Rotherham Independent and the Sheffield Daily Telegraph stating that his firm had used the trade-mark of a crescent and star "for some time" and that "using or imitating the Mark would be proceeded against for infringement". The firm had acquired its interest in the crescent-and-star mark from the heirs of Charles Pickslay, the Sheffield cutler who had registered it with the Cutlers' Company in 1833 and had died in 1852. The year 1868 seems also to be the one in which the name Saracen Tool Works was first adopted; not only does it figure at the foot of the notice in the Sheffield press, but it also makes its first appearance in the firm's entry in the Post-Office Glasgow Annual Directory in the 1868/9 edition. As Thomas Mathieson's business grew, so too did his involvement in local public life and philanthropy. One of the representatives of the third ward on the town council of Glasgow, he became a river bailie in 1868, a magistrate in 1870 and a preceptor of Hutcheson's Hospital in 1878. He had a passion for books and was an "ardent Ruskinian". He served on the committee handling the bequest for the setting up of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. When he died at Coulter Maynes near Biggar in 1899, he left an estate worth £142,764. In the Company's later years both Thomas's sons, James Harper and Thomas Ogilvie were involved in the continuing life of the firm. James followed in his father's footsteps in becoming a local public figure. He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the County of the City of Glasgow and was made a deacon of the Incorporation of the Hammermen of Glasgow in 1919. His brother Thomas Ogilvie was recorded as a tool manufacturer and employer in the 1911 census. Thomas Ogilvie's son Thomas Alastair Sutherland Ogilvie Mathieson was born in 1908 and took a rather different approach to engineer, however, by becoming a racing driver. In 1947 he wed the French film actress Mila Parély. The firm had won many awards at world fairs for their goods. At the Great Exhibition, London, 1851. Prize medal for joiners' tools in the class of Cutlery & Edge Tools, Great London Exposition, 1862. Prize medal honoris causa. International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1880. Gold medal International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art, Edinburgh, 1886. Prize medalThe firm Alexander Mathieson & Sons were one of the leading makers of hand tools in Scotland. Its success went hand in hand with the growth of the shipbuilding industries on the Firth of Clyde in the nineteenth century and the emergence of Glasgow as the "second city of the Empire". It also reflected the firm's skill in responding to an unprecedented demand for quality tools by shipyards, cooperages and other industries, both locally and far and wide. The subject item is of further significance as it gives a snapshot of the technological development of sailing ships and their operation before steam-powered vessels took over around the world. Tools such as the subject item demonstrate the traditional craftsmanship and skill of the shipwright and the aesthetic quality of the timber ships designs of the time. Caulking tool Off-set. Stamped on blade "Mathieson & Son Glasgow" also stamped in handle, James S Steele tool box.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, james s steele, caulking iron, caulking tool, offset caulking tool, alexander mathieson & sons, shipwrights tools, ship building, clinker hull caulking, sailing ships -
Blacksmith's Cottage and Forge
Male ceremonial sash, circa 1920's
A sash of green taffeta with black cotton lining. It has gold fringing at each end; gold frogging and button. There is gold inscription on the sash.H A C B S Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society Faith Hope & Charity Ballarat -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Calipers, Moore & Wright, 1925-1935
Established in 1906, Frank Moore soon became well known amongst discerning tradespeople for the quality & accuracy of his tools. The Company was acquired by John Shaw & Son in 1945 & James Neill & Co in 1970. Currently part of the Bower Meteorology UK Group, they still produce superb tools & measuring instruments in Sheffield. The subject item is made from high-grade carbon silver tool steel with the patented 'Firm Lock' joint, that identifies the maker as Moore & Wright.A tool used for external measurement of items made by a maker who patented the "firm lock" jointing system now used on many different types of tools in many different industries. These items are now collectible and quite rare as a result are sought by tool collectors in the USA and UK.‘Firm Joint’ external measuring calipers believed made by Moore & Wright. Impressed into the metal "L A J S" (Probably the owner and company that used the item nothing to do with manufacturing) flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, calipers, callipers, external calipers, outer caliper, pottery tools, masonry tools, glass making tools, external measurement -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, A.C. Wannan et al, Wannan's engine-drivers' guide to the management, care, and working of steam boilers, engines, and pumps; and guide to examinations for certificates of competency, 1890, 1890
In 1898 Arthur Fussell did Mechanics in Mining at School of Mines Ballarat.A small red cloth bound book of 189 pages containing diagrams and illustratins. The cover title was printed in gold. On the inside cover and on the title page is written in pencil Arthur Fussell, 73 Errard St S, Ballaratwannans, engine driver's guide, steam boilers, steam engines, pumps, arthur fussell, steam -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Magazine - Yearbook for Norwood High School/Secondary College, North Ringwood, Victoria, Weemala 2010
Soft cover school magazine showing alternative covers - "Wicked Witch" and "Good Witch" editions. Winter supplement attached "Looking back on Semester One".non-fiction -
The Ed Muirhead Physics Museum
Photograph, Cyclotron accelerator
Builit in 1950s and used till the mid 1970s within the Physics Department used in Melbourne. John Rouse and David Caro was involved in the construction.Black and white photo of cyclotron (nuclear physics accelerator): Scattering Chamber & associatedeletronics. Sticky typed labels on back from left to right: “ASSOCIATED ELECTRON(IC)S”, “SCATTERING CHAMBER” -
St Kilda Historical Society
Photograph, 12 and 14 Gurner St, St Kilda
photo taken in 1973black and white photograph, unmounted, good conditionstamped on back: Graeme S. Breydon, 204 Carlisle St, Balaclava, 3183, phone 94 2886 -
St Kilda Historical Society
Postcard, 1 and 3 Gurner Street, St Kilda, 1970s
photo taken in 1973, 1960s/ 70s car parkedin the street, 'Victorian' house on left has 1950s-70s filled in verandablack and white photograph, unmounted, fair conditionstamped on back: Graeme S. Breydon, 204 Carlisle St, Balaclava, 3183, phone 94 2886 -
St Kilda Historical Society
Photograph, 8 Gurner Street, St Kilda, 1970s?
photo taken in 1973black and white photograph, unmounted, good conditionstamped on back: Graeme S. Breydon, 204 Carlisle St, Balaclava, 3183, phone 94 2886 -
St Kilda Historical Society
Photograph, Reinterment of Glenhuntly Pioneers, 27/08/1898
Reinterment of Glenhuntly Pioneers black and white photograph accompanied by a copy27/8/98 (1898) OW A 144B. Glen Huntly Pioneer Grave S K Cem. -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Photograph, Undated c.1900
The "Zion" Welsh Independent Chapel was established in Albert Street Sebastopol in 1861. The church moved from Albert Street to Walker Street in around 1882.B & W exterior photograph of the Zion Congregational Church, Sebastopol.From J.D. Northey to Rev S. M ... (?) Taken around the turn of the century before the hedge was planted.sebastopol, welsh, congregational, chapel, zion