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Robin Boyd Foundation
Functional object - Daybed cover
The daybed cover here is same fabric as some of the cushions (items F045-F058) located on the two daybeds in the front west facing rooms of the Children's Pavilion.Charcoal grey and off-white striped fitted cover, with self-piping and corner pleatswalsh st furnishings, robin boyd -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia - Realia
Trickey Collection, Gents Collar Holder, Grey Aluminium self floral patterned Lidstawell -
Peterborough History Group
Book - Self Published book, Leaving, Arriving and Settling: From Kent, England to Peterborough, Victoria. The Story of Ian Evelyn Llewellyn Jarvis, circa 2010
Story of an early settler (circa 1920) at Peterborough. Includes the story of the author's Great Grandfather John Brumby.Dairy farmer plus references to his family's migration to Australia. References to other local identities.Plastic bound 179 page self published book with Table of Contents and Index of Names.ian jarvis, peterborough 3270, peterborough settlers, john brumby peterborough -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Document - Oakley Type Life boat drawings & detailed description, Oakley Type Life boat details
Oakley type life boat detailsSignificant details about the 'self righting' Oakley life boat design & constructionColour photo, Drawings & Written details of the 'self righting' Oakley type life boatReverse - " nil "historical references -
Mont De Lancey
Shawl, 1850
Hand made 1850 in the United States of America.Cream silk self-embroidered shawl, with deep crochet base, finished with long tassels -
Broadmeadows Historical Society & Museum
Book - School History, Years of Achievement 1961- 1986: A brief history of Broadmeadows Technical school
Details information and stories relating to the history of the school to the date of publication.Self-Published souvenir book soft card cover with stapled pages (2 copies)non-fictionDetails information and stories relating to the history of the school to the date of publication.silver anniversary, broadmeadows technical school, education -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Clothing - Blouse
Beige long sleeved blouse, self-tie at neckline with 6 buttons down front.Sportscraft - made in HongKongjulie jones -
Vision Australia
Plaque - Object, John Olsen commemorative tablet
The Queensland Musical, Literary and Self Aid Society for the Blind was established on 13 March, 1917. Many children who were blind and who had studied music with Mr Hebert Leon Newman at the 'Queensland Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution wished to continue after leaving school but could not afford to do so. Mr Olsen, the librarian, who was blind, conceived the formation of a Society to meet this need as well as providing an after work social centre and to address the limited job opportunities available for adults who were blind. The committee of the Blind Deaf and Dumb Institution encouraged the new Society by providing a grand piano and seating accommodation for 100 people in their library. In 1921 he established the John Olsen Literary Competition, then became the Edwin Dickinson Literary Competition and later the Vision Australia Dickinson Literary Awards. When he died in 1926, this tablet was made to recognise his contribution to Braille literacy and work involved to encourage Braille in the community.Marble tablet engraved and with coloured lettingIn Affectionate Memory of John Olsen Founder Queensland Musical, Literary & Self-Aid Society for the Blind President 1919-1926 Died 9th January 1926queensland musical, literary and self-aid society for the blind, john olsen -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Ephemera - SHOWBAGS COLLECTION: O-SO-LITE SELF RAISING FLOUR SHOWBAG
O-So-Lite self raising flour showbag. The bag is quite simple in design with the words O-So-Lite self-raising flour in blue on a white background. Both side of the bag are the same. There are four bags in different conditions.business, retail, advertising, business advertising usually found at agricultural shows and other promotional activities. -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Tool - Auger, Mathieson, First half of the 20th Century
In 1792 John Manners had set up a workshop making woodworking planes at 14 Saracens Lane Glasgow. He also had 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 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. 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 fathers' 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, 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. 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 tool manufacturer and employer in the 1911 census. Thomas Ogilvie's son Thomas Alastair Sutherland Ogilvie Mathieson was born in 1908 took a rather different approach to engineering, 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 medal The firm of Alexander Mathieson & Sons was 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.Scotch Eye Auger, Double Twist with Lead Screw 2 inch bit with round shaft leading to handle socketStamped A Mathiesonflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, auger, ring auger, ship building -
Blacksmith's Cottage and Forge
Fork. Toasting
Used for toasting food items over fire.An example of home made ingenuity.Handmade from No. 8 fencing wire. Looped handle twisted together, then separating into 3 7.5 cm long prongs.Nonedomestic, wire, cutlery, fork, utensil, food preparation, toasting -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Bit, W M Ridgway
Bit, double twist with lead screw, size 11 Maker W M Ridgway Sheffield 222mm x 13mmflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, bit, double twist, double twist bit, w m ridgway -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Functional object - Dorade Vent Cowl, 1930s
A dorade is a type of ventilator that permits the passage of air in and out of the cabin or engine room of a boat while keeping rain, spray, and sea wash out. The basic form is a low, rectangular box fixed to the deck or cabin top, fitted with interleaving vertical baffles. The baffles alternate to be free at the floor of the box, or free at the ceiling, forming a series of chambers. A horn-shaped ventilation cowl is usually fitted facing forward to a large hole at the top of the chamber at one end of the box with another large hole opening down into the boat from the chamber at the other end. Limber holes perforate the wall of the box at the floor of each chamber. Dorade boxes operate on the principle that air can pass relatively freely through the chambers, yet rain or sea wash will be trapped in successive chambers and drain out the small holes in the sides of the box. The first appearance of Dorade boxes was on the Olin Stephens-designed Dorade, a yacht built in 1929 for ocean racing. As originally built, the Dorade's vents led directly below, but this was found to allow water below, and the vents were modified in the early 1930s.An early piece of marine equipment from the 1930s that still is in use today on smaller vessels to improve below deck ventilation. Dorade Ventilator Cowl brass casting with wide open mouth twisted to side with swivel base. Box and baffles missingNonewarrnambool, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, ventilator, dorade, maritime equipment, ships fittings, ventilator box -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Jewellery, Necklace, 1970s
Necklace comprised of twisted heavy clinks. The necklace might have been worn with a similar set of earrings (2017.0186) in the collection.costume jewellery, fashion accessories, necklaces -
Mont De Lancey
Functional object - Coffee pot, Megworth, Unknown
This coffee pot was awarded to Bro. William. J. Sebire P.C.R. in recognition for 35 yrs. service as secretary, Tent No. 246 1.4.29.Lidded silver coffee pot with twisted silver decoration around the top and a bakelite knob on lid. There is an inscription engraved on the side.I.O.R Presented to Bro. Wm. J. Sebire P.C R in recognition of 35 yrs service as Secretary to I.O.O.R. (Independent Order of Rechabites) Tent No 246 1.4.29. coffee pots, coffee accessories, coffee, awards, silverware -
Charlton Golden Grains Museum Inc
Domestic object - Tin Jewellery Box, c. 1900
Owned by Nurse Howell, Barrakee.Decorated tin jewellery box with lid and twisted metal handle. Pansy motif - all over pattern. c.1900.howell, jewellery box -
Federation University Historical Collection
Instrument - Scientific Object, TOWER, Petrographic Microscope
Used in the mid-seventies in petrology laboratories of BIAE.A petrographic optical microscope, with three objected lens turret. Black enameled frame, chrome components. Blonde polished wood storage box.TOWER No 19621. On frame self-adhesive sticker: "Ballarat CAE GEOLOGY"ballarat cae geology, microscope, petrographic microscope, scientific instruments, lens -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photographs / Album, Official opening of the Ringwood Shopping Centre by Sir John Allison - 6th July 1954
Black and white photograph -Bird's Self Service - Ringwood Shopping Centre -86 Whitehorse Road -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Sticker, "We travelled Searoad by Empress of Australia", Art Colour Transfer Co Pty Ltd, 1960s
Self adhesive sticker, unused: 'We travelled Searoad by Empress of Australia', with separate application instructionstransport - ferries, transport - shipping, empress of australia, piers and wharves -
National Wool Museum
Tool - Secateurs
Foot paring, scissor style foot parring secateurs with replaceable blades and self spring action. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Booked for spot in literary history, 2010
Author Margaret Rowe has three self-published novels about the lives of quilting enthusiasts.Author Margaret Rowe has three self-published novels about the lives of quilting enthusiasts.Author Margaret Rowe has three self-published novels about the lives of quilting enthusiasts.railway crossings, rowe, margaret -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Clothing - Nightdress
Apricot sleeveless long nightdress scalloped edge on neckline with self embroidery at neckline. Tie for waist.costume, female nightwear -
RMIT Design Archives
Advertising signs, Ajax Pumps
One of Australia’s most acclaimed printmakers, Grahame King originally trained as a commercial artist in the mid-1930s. The Design Archives holds a collection of embossed advertising showcards designed by King in the 1950s which reveal examples of graphic design and typography in post-war Melbourne. The showcards were used by iconic companies for advertising and promotion on shop counters and in window displays and were produced by Firestone Embossed Showcards. Megan Atkins, 2017 Sign shows centrifugal pumps, close coupled centrifugal pumps and self-oiling piston pumps.Printed text bottom left on verso, Firestone embossed showcards PTY. LTDshowcards, advertising, graphic design, commercial art, artist -
Mont De Lancey
Medicines
1 yard of "Surgeons" zinc oxide plaster. Self adhesive. White container with blue writing. surgical equipment -
St Patrick's Old Collegians Association (SPOCA)
Photograph - Alumni, General
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Melbourne Tram Museum
Ephemera - Minister for Public Transport Envelope, Minister for Public Transport, c.1990s
Envelope used in the office of the Minister for Public Transport during the 1990's for mailing Quarto size documents or publications. Office located at 589 Collins St. Melbourne, known as Transport House.A stationery that is associated with a now-evolved ministerial department which existed in the 1990s. White paper pre-printed envelope with a self sealing flap, printed for the Minister for Public Transport.public transport, letters, stationery, transport, minister for public transport -
National Wool Museum
Photograph - Twisting or Doubling, 1960s
One of fifty one photographs originally in a photo album found in the National Wool Museum’s office. The album was water damaged and the images were removed for conservation. The images follow the process of wool. Beginning in a sheep paddock and finishing as a folded fabric. It includes all the steps in between in this process, including shearing, transporting, selling, washing and the many different steps in the process of turning a single thread of wool into fabric.Black and white image showing detail of machinery with spools of wool. A hand is shown on the right handling a thread of wool.AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL PUBLICITY / ASSOCIATION / FLINDERS STREET RAILWAY BUILDING, / MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA / W18 / W18. Twisting or Doubling.wool industry, working life, women, boonoke station, farming, sheep farming, agriculture, sheep stations, transport, wool processing, shearing, textile industry, wool -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Fountain Pen, Pre 1939
A black self filling fountain pen with a cap over the nib of gold coloured metal with name HASCO in gold on the cap. The pen comes in its own box of green cardboard with gold writing - 'HASCO ' Self-Filling Fountain Pen - Marvel of Value.HASCOdomestic items, writing equipment -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Clothing - Fur Coat, 1920
Coat was worn by the grandmother of the donorFull length fur coat in varying shades of brown. Origin of fur unknown. Coat is lined with a rayon damask and has a deal of detail i.e. pocket with self rouched trim and bows, the hem was self rouched trim, rosettes and bows. The coat has three self-covered fur buttons closing with elasticised loops. The collar is a stand-up shawl collar. The style is 1920s. One sleeve has a split at cuff.costume, female -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Book - Maritime history, Wendy Lowenstein et al, Under the Hook, 1982
Self published because no-one believed it would sell; had to be reprinted the same year and still selling. This copy was acquired from Wendy Lowenstein the day of Tim Hills' wake at the Maritime Workers' Union, 17 May, 1995. It had been signed some years previously as many of the informants are now dead.Hardcover second edition signed by authors and wharfies, black cloth-bound with black/red/white dust jacket titled "Under the Hook - Melbourne Waterside Workers Remember 1906 - 1980" (2 copies)1 copy (169.01a) is signed on first page by both authors plus 12 of the 31 waterside workers quoted in the book, and on title page by Wendy Lowenstein. The other copy (169.01b) is only signed on the title page by Wendy.piers and wharves - waterside workers, depression, industrial disputes, transport - shipping, tom hills, wendy lowenstein, manny calleja, jack marotte, charlie morgan, henry briggs, mick fisher, sol green, tippo hayes, alf greenwood, ernie briggs, bert king, henry hall, harry saunders