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National Wool Museum
Book, Historic Australian Quilts
This book provides an overview of the history of quilts in Australia. It was written by well known quilt historian, Annette Gero. She curated an exhibition on historic Australian quilts for the National Trust of Australia (NSW) which was held at Old Government House, Paramatta between 5 June and 22 August 2000. This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition. A quilt now owned by the National Wool Museum (W3157) was display in this exhibition (although it does not feature in the book). Annette Gero has signed the title page.Annette Gero / Historic Australian Quiltsquilting - history patchwork - history, national trust of australia (nsw), gero, dr annette, quilting - history, patchwork - history -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document, Robert Green, "Brief History of Melbourne's Horse Omnibus System", c2000
Manuscript - printed on 2 A4 sheets, titled "Brief History of Melbourne's Horse Omnibus System", prepared by Robert Green on early public transport systems in Melbourne using horse buses. Includes references to the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company (MTCo), services, lines, routes, stables, proposals for horse tramways. Notes work of Francis Clapp, the Managing Director and the eventual operation of the cable tram system in Melbourne. Two copies held.trams, tramways, horse trams, horse buses, cable trams, melbourne, public transport -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Newspaper, The Age, "Treasure House of history to shed light on millions of museum's secrets", 8/03/2008 12:00:00 AM
Newspaper clipping from The Age, Saturday 8/3/2008, titled "Treasure House of history to shed light on millions of museum's secrets", reporting on the Museum's intention to show more of its exhibits. Features a photo of the Flying Tram - 2006, that was used in the opening of the Commonwealth Games and other objects. Quotes Museum Director, Dr Patrick Greene and Vegan McMasters of the Museum. Item written by Chee Lung with photos by Andrew De La Rue.Keith has written in ink "This opportunity is not the one we visited in '05 which has a cable tram (front half only)".trams, tramways, commonwealth games, museums, events, w class, tram 2006 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Ephemera - Ticket/s, Wal Jack, Australia Worldwide tickets - Wal Jack Collection, 1950's
Has tickets from:, ESCo Ballarat, Form TYE 1-37 re acceptance of breach of regulations - to Reg Item 5017, Geelong tramways – 1, Bendigo ESCo – 3, SEC – weekly, tourist and parcel / newspaper, scholars, SEC – various, also for Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong and small packet of loose tickets., Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust, MTT Adelaide including a small packet of loose tickets, MMTB – 2 sheets including two loose sheets with tickets and a Pensioners Fare Concession Certificate for 61 – 62 with some loose tickets, NSW – Sydney two pages, NSW – Newcastle one page + 2 tickets, and four tickets for the Yass to Yass Junction tram Brisbane – two pages with one Rockhampton ticket, VR St Kilda Brighton, Parramatta steam tram – Sydney ferries limited, Hobart, Launceston, Wellington NZ – two pages, Christchurch, Wanganui, Auckland, New Plymouth - 1, Invercargill - 1, Johannesburg, Cape town, Pretoria – 1, Liverpool, Sheffield, London – 3 pages + loose 7 day go as you please issued in 1963 to Wal Larsen, Manchester, Newcastle and Gateshead, Bolton, South Lancashire Transport – 1, Oldham, Barry Corporation – Lancs, Birmingham, Llandudno, Salford, Stockport, Sunderland, South shields, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Darwen Corporation – 1, Dublin, Belfast, Blackpool – 1, South Wales – 1, Bradford, Dundee, Southampton, Plymouth, Leicester, Douglas, Southend on Sea, Croydon, Naples and other Italian ones, Antwerp – 1, Istanbul, St Quentin, Vevey Switzerland, Dusseldorf, Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Bangkok, Penang, Milwaukee Electric Railway, Los Angeles Railway – loose on page was a Tram pass for American Fleet celebration, 2/9/1908 to Eaglehawk - to Reg Item 5017, Market St Railway, Loose San Francisco Municipal railway, Puget Sound, St Louis Public Service Co., Sandwich, Tacoma Railway, Capital Transport Little Rock, Pittsburgh, Connecticut – New Haven, Twin City Lines, Chicago and West Towns, Chicago Aurora and Elgin, Elgin and Belvidere, Chicago Rapid Transits, Chicago Surface, ClevelandFeatures tickets from Australian and Overseas tramway systems. Collected by Wal Jack. Light brown paper covered album with dark red binding band, with off-white paper inside covers holding some 40 sheets of card on which tickets have been mounted using stamp hinges, captions in blue or black ink. Three supplementary sheets have been glued in as well. Has some 750 tickets including loose tickets. Reg Items 5017 (ESCo Employee Report outcome) and 5018 (Bendigo Tramways ticket for the visit of the personnel from the American Fleet - 1908) were loose in the album and have been separately collected. Some tickets in envelopes of clipped into the sheets.Individual captions for each group of tickets from a city.trams, tramways, tickets, ballarat, melbourne, usa, uk trams, esco -
Federation University Historical Collection
Poster, The AIME Journey, Australia
AIME is an Australia wide program. It stands for "Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience". It gives Indigenous High School students the skills, opportunities, belief and confidence to make things possibleColoured posteraime, mentoring, skills, experience, aboriginal, indigenous -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Study and Survey of Prisoner of War Facilities in Western Australia
Written by E Polis after reading Stalag Australia and realising what was written was not entirely correct. No mention of the Italian prisoners of war and the importance of of the internment camps in Western Australia.White pages, yellow plastic outer cover front and rear. Name of book and author (Enest Polis) and date (1996) on first page in black ink.On acknowledgements page inscription reads: "presented to Arthur and Lurline with many thanks for all their generous help with my research. E Polis 29 July 1998".internment camps in western australia, italian pow's in western australia, major hector foley, marrinup prisoner of war camp -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Instruction, General Electric, "General Electric Equipment for Double End Presidents' Conference Committee Type Car furnished Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board Australia", c1949
Instruction - approx. 250 A4 photocopied sheets, loose, titled "General Electric Equipment for Double End Presidents' Conference Committee Type Car furnished Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board Australia". Has a table of contents. Gives a very detailed description of the equipment's, its maintenance including trouble shooting. Has some duplicate copy of static tests at the end of the document.Has the stamp of "Electrical Running Sheds Branch Hanna St" on some sheets.trams, tramways, pcc, controllers, general electric, tram 980 -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Newspaper, The Age, "Australia Day strike cuts trams by 25pc", 25/01/1994 12:00:00 AM
Newspaper clipping from The Age,25/1/1994, titled, "Australia Day strike cuts trams by 25pc" about a strike by staff at two depots over Sunday rosters. Item written by John Mangan. PTC commented that it was a "pay grab" Quotes CEO of the PTC Ian Dobbs, Lou Di Gregoria of the Union. Gives a list of the proposed tram services cancelled.trams, tramways, unions, ptc, strike, wages, rosters -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Personal Effects, safety razor blade 'King Gillette'', 20thc
King Camp Gillette observed in 1902 that as existing, relatively expensive, razor blades dulled quickly and needed continuous sharpening, a razor whose blade could be thrown away when it dulled would meet a real need and likely be profitable. Safety razors had been developed in the mid-19th century, but still used a forged blade that dulled and rusted. In the 1870s, the Kampfe Brothers ( Germany) introduced a type of safety razor Gillette improved these earlier safety-razor designs, and introduced the high-profit-margin stamped razor blade steel blade. Gillette's innovation was the thin, inexpensive, disposable blade of stamped steel. Gillette's safety razor retailed for a substantial $5 half the average working man's weekly pay — yet sold by the millions. The most difficult part of development was engineering the blades, as thin, cheap steel was difficult to work and sharpen. This accounts for the delay between the initial idea and the product's introduction. To sell the product, Gillette founded the American Safety Razor Company on September 28, 1901 (changing the company's name to Gillette Safety Razor Company in July 1902). Gillette obtained a trademark registration (0056921) for his portrait and signature on the packaging. Production began in 1903, when he sold a total of 51 razors and 168 blades. The following year, he sold 90,884 razors and 123,648 blades, thanks in part to Gillette's low prices, automated manufacturing techniques and good advertising. By 1908, the corporation had established manufacturing facilities in the United States, Canada, England, France and Germany. Razor sales reached 450,000 units and blade sales exceeded 70 million units in 1915. In 1918, when the U.S. entered World War I, the company provided all American soldiers with a field razor set, paid for by the government, and as they were allowed to take them at discharge they continued their use of this product thus ensuring future sales. The company continues in the present day as the Gillette brand of Procter & Gamble, USA. Throughout the 20thC most men used this type of safety razor with disposable stainless steel razor blades to shave their beards prior to the introduction of affordable electric razors in 1960'sA blue packet of unused 'King Gillette' safety razor blades.on top of packet; Press with thumb / and snap end open / GILLETTE QUALITY THE / SAME THE WORLD OVER / FACTORIES IN / USA / CANADA , GREAT BRITAIN / MEXICO , FRANCE / COLUMBIA, GERMANY / BRAZIL, SPAIN / ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA / GILLETTE TRADE MARK / KING C GILLETTE / RED. TRADE MARKS / GILLETTE (AUST.) PTY. LIMITED / MELBOURNE / DE 2023 / MADE IN AUSTRALIA / shaving equipment, safety razors, gillette king, proctor & gamble, moorabbin, bentleigh, cheltenham, -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Script, Robin Boyd, University of the Air. Design in Australia 5. Architecture, 1964
Robin Boyd was involved in creating several TV series for the ABC University of the Air. 'Design in Australia' was an eight part series. (Items D184-D193 contain all the manuscripts except part six titled 'Communications'.) In Part 5, Boyd identifies three styles of interior decoration in Australia. The first, Exhibit A is directly influenced by the fashions of Paris, London and New York and does not integrate the interior with the exterior. Exhibit B is the Australian architectural style of the 1960s. Exhibit C is characterised by practical, cheerful and easy to clean up interior fittings based on colourful plastics. Boyd refers to this style as "Australian pop art". He continues by explaining why Exhibit C came to be the preferred Australian style over Exhibit B. He suggests that the Australian public is ill-informed and misguided, ultimately concluding that Australian interior design reflects the public's lack of taste. (Same content as item D193, differing side notes on left side of pages)This is a draft script for the ABC television program 'University of the Air', subtitled 'Design in Australia', broadcast in 1965.Typewritten (c copy), foolscap, 15 pages (compared to D193, 11 pages) (Two copies)One copy has crisper letters typed over on pages 1 and 5.university of the air, design in australia, australian style, interior decoration in australia, frederick ward, lester bunbury, frances burke, grant featherston, modernage fabrics, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Script, Robin Boyd, University of the Air. Design in Australia. 5. Interiors. Working Script, 24.11.1964
Robin Boyd was involved in creating several TV series for the ABC University of the Air. 'Design in Australia' was an eight part series. (Items D184-D193 contain all the manuscripts except part six titled 'Communications'.) In Part 5, Boyd identifies three styles of interior decoration in Australia. The first, Exhibit A, is directly influenced by the fashions of Paris, London and New York and does not integrate the interior with the exterior. Exhibit B is the Australian architectural style of the 1960s. Exhibit C is characterised by practical, cheerful and easy to clean up interior fittings based on colourful plastics. Boyd refers to this style as "Australian pop art". He continues by explaining why Exhibit C came to be the preferred Australian style over Exhibit B. He suggests that the Australian public is ill-informed and misguided, ultimately concluding that Australian interior design reflects the public's lack of taste. (Same content as item D188, differing side notes on left side of pages)This is a script for the ABC television program 'University of the Air', subtitled 'Design in Australia', broadcast in 1965. Item D188 is the draft version.Typewritten, foolscap, 11 pages, (compared to D188, 15 pages)university of the air, design in australia, australian style, interior decoration in australia, frederick ward, lester bunbury, frances burke, grant featherston, modernage fabrics, manuscript, ohm2022, ohm2022_30 -
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection
Book - History 8/13 VMR, The history of 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles 1048-1982, 2023
The 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles was raised as a regiment of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps on 1 May 1948 with Headquarters in Melbourne and squadrons in Sale, Benalla/Wangaratta and Albury. In 1955 Regimental Headquarters moved to Wangaratta and a second squadron was located at Albury. The Sale squadron transferred to 4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse and an additional troop of the Wangaratta squadron was raised at Cobram. In 1977, 8/13 VMR was reduced to an independent squadron, A Squadron 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles, and in 1991 it was linked with 4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse forming the VMR Squadron of the new regiment.Book with colour cover and 82 pages with photographs, perfect bound.non-fictionThe 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles was raised as a regiment of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps on 1 May 1948 with Headquarters in Melbourne and squadrons in Sale, Benalla/Wangaratta and Albury. In 1955 Regimental Headquarters moved to Wangaratta and a second squadron was located at Albury. The Sale squadron transferred to 4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse and an additional troop of the Wangaratta squadron was raised at Cobram. In 1977, 8/13 VMR was reduced to an independent squadron, A Squadron 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles, and in 1991 it was linked with 4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse forming the VMR Squadron of the new regiment. vmr, history, cmf, army reserve, hunter -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - TAA Maintenance, Trans Australia Airlines Maintenance Instruction Manual
Trans Australia Airlines -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - Mechanical Technology, Aerospace Technologies of Australia Restructure Study Guide Level 1 to 2 Sheetmetal Worker to AME Mechanical
Aerospace Technologies of Australia -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - Trans Australia Airlines Maintenance Instruction Manual DC-9, Trans Australia Airlines Maintenance Instruction Manual McDonnell Douglas DC-9
Trans Australia Airlines -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - Trans Australia Airlines Maintenance Instruction Manual Cessna 310, Trans Australia Airlines Maintenance Instruction Manual Cessna 310 Service Manual
Trans Australia Airlines -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - Ansett - Douglas DC-9 Operating Manual, Douglas DC-9 Operating Manual Ansett Airlines of Australia
Ansett Airlines of Australia -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - Trans Australia Airlines Maintenance Instruction Manual DC-9, Trans Australia Airlines DC-9 Maintenance Manual
Trans Australia Airlines -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - Trans Australia Airlines Maintenance Instruction Manual DC-9, Trans Australia Airlines Maintenance Instruction DC-9
Trans Australia Airlines -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - Trans Australia Airlines Maintenance Instruction Manual DC-9, Trans Australia Airlines Maintenance Instruction Manual DC- 9
Trans Australia Airlines -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - Trans Australia Airlines Maintenance Instruction Manual DC-9
Trans Australia Airlines -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - Trans Australia Airlines Maintenance Instruction Manual DC-9
Trans Australia Airlines -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - Trans Australia Airlines Maintenance Instruction Manual DC-9, Trans Australia Airlines Maintenance Instruction Manual DC- 9
Trans Australia Airlines -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - Ansett Airlines Douglas DC-9 Flight Study Guide, Douglas DC-9 Flight Study Guide Ansett Airlines of Australia
Ansett Airlines of Australia -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - Ansett Airlines Douglas DC-4 Maintenance Manuals, Ansett Airlines of Australia Maintenance System Manual Douglas DC4/ATL98 Carvair Maintenance Manual
Ansett Airlines of Australia -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - TAA Douglas DC-4 Manuals, Trans Australia Airlines Maintenance Instruction Manual Vol.3 - DC4
Trans Australian Airlines -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - TAA Douglas DC-4 Maintenance Manuals, Course Notes Engineering School Maintenance Dept. Trans Australia Airllines "C" Licence Douglas DC-4
Trans Australia Airlines -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - TAA DC-6 Course Notes, DC-6 Electrical & Instruments Course Notes Engineering School - Maintenance Dept. Trans Australia Airlines
Trans Australia Airlines -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Metal Detecting in Australia
Metal detecting in Australia.Orange soft cover book with title and author in black print. Photograph of man with metal detector.metal detecting -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (Item) - Australian De;pt.of Civil Aviation Air Navigation Orders, Commonwealth of Australia Department of Civil Aviation , Air Navigation Orders
Australian Department of Aviation