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J. Ward Museum ComplexBook, Under Padlock and Seal 1905
A classic detective story. Harold Avery was born in 1869. His life reads like one of his own adventure stories. He was shipwrecked off the coast of Malaysia at the age of ten on his way to Australia with his parents who were drowned. Avery was brought up by the natives who, after three years put him on a Dutch boat bound back to England. He was brought up by an aunt who sent him to Eton and then settled with him in Edinburgh. Avery took a job in the city’s Water Department and in 1894 wrote his first book The Orderly Officer. In the next 45 years he wrote over fifty more books, mainly school stories and adventure stories. In 1941 he left Scotland to travel round the world and the last that was heard from him was a postcard sent to his aunt from Rio de Janeiro in 1943. It is chosen from his large output as being a typical school story but, it can be argued, it is the precursor of work by Enid Blyton and J K Rowling, dealing with school life, five children who go on an adventure and a mystical wizard who ends the story not with a wave of a wand but with kindness and consideration.fictionA classic detective story. Harold Avery was born in 1869. His life reads like one of his own adventure stories. He was shipwrecked off the coast of Malaysia at the age of ten on his way to Australia with his parents who were drowned. Avery was brought up by the natives who, after three years put him on a Dutch boat bound back to England. He was brought up by an aunt who sent him to Eton and then settled with him in Edinburgh. Avery took a job in the city’s Water Department and in 1894 wrote his first book The Orderly Officer. In the next 45 years he wrote over fifty more books, mainly school stories and adventure stories. In 1941 he left Scotland to travel round the world and the last that was heard from him was a postcard sent to his aunt from Rio de Janeiro in 1943. It is chosen from his large output as being a typical school story but, it can be argued, it is the precursor of work by Enid Blyton and J K Rowling, dealing with school life, five children who go on an adventure and a mystical wizard who ends the story not with a wave of a wand but with kindness and consideration.#detectivestory, fiction, adventurebook, boysownadventure -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaPlaque - Memorial Plaque, P.J. King, Celia Little, 1917
A similar plaque was placed in the chapel of the former Institute to Seamen, Siddeley Street, as indicated on this one. Some money from Miss Little's estate, in England, went to the construction of the new wing of the Siddeley Street Insitute on condition it was used as a chapel until a permanent church was built. We can see the plaque on the top corner of photographs taken in the chapel at that time. Celia Little (1822-1895) was the Reverend Alfred Gurney Goldsmith's aunt. She was the sister of his mother Mary Anne Little (1820-1877) who married Malcolm Goldsmith (1818-1871). Celia didn't marry and lived with her nephew John Philip Goldsmith (1847-1919), Alfred's brother, and his family in Devonport, where she died. Bronze plaque placed on the east wall of the "Celia Little Room" in the Mission to Seafarers, 717 Flinders Street.This hall is built in loving memory of Celia Little of Devonport England / who died March 4th 1895 / It replaces the wing of the former institute which served as the chapel from 1909 to 1917 / Erected by her nephew.celia little, celia little room, plaque, memorial plaque, chapel, siddeley street institute, alfred gurney goldsmith -
Mission to Seafarers VictoriaPhotograph - Photograph (2 copies), Easter Sunday in Siddeley Street chapel, c.1913
The photograph depicts the interior of the chapel located on the east wing of the Siddeley Street Mission.The chapel is decorated for Easter service. The altar, the pulpit were reused in the St Peter's chapel of the Flinders Street Mission. On the wall hangs the plaque erected to Celia Little, another plaque in memory of Celia Little is now in the "Celia Little" room at the Flinders Street Mission. In the "Jottings from our log" number 30, dated from Easter 1913, it is written: "Miss Tracy kindly did The Easter decorations with white flowers and palms in pots, all in beautiful keeping with the glad thoughts of Easter." Maybe the picture was taken on that occasion.The chapel was built in 1909. Celia Little (1822-1895), was the Reverend Alfred Gurney Goldsmith's aunt. Some funds from her estate were used to build the chapel. Small monochrome photograph, inside chapel, Siddeley Street Institute, decorated with white flowers and palms.'Stevedore's Bldg Siddeley St Easter Sunday in the Chapel old Institute' siddeley street institute, chapel, easter, pulpit, reverend w.f. haire, celia little, plaque, alfred gurney goldsmith -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.Document - THE BOWSERS AT HOME: BY LUCY HILL
''The Bowsers at Home'' by Lucy Hill - newspaper cuttings. Cuttings at rear of exercise book relate to 'Bowser' name and are above the signature of Lucy Hll. Articles at front of book have 'Bowser' handwritten in over the names of other people ('names'). Loose untitled photograph (road scene with gums, valley in distance is at front of this document). Presumably published in the Bendigo Advertiser.person, individual, lucy hill, journalist, advertiser, aunt evelyn, the centenary song, gravel hill state school, in the spot light, an unexpected achievement, bendigo, the bowsers at home. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.Document - AN UNEXPECTED ACHIEVEMENT: BY LUCY HILL, 2nd February to October 2
See 2804.4//''An Unexpected Achievement'' by Lucy Hill - Cuttings from newspaper (Bendigo Advertiser and published in serial form in the Woman's Page. These articles are multiple ''letters'' from a 'Miss Margaret Holmes' of 'North Plains, Victoria' to a ''Miss Beth Stanhope, Melbourne' .. Dear Beth … (signed Peggy). Some in latter pages from Miss Peggy Holmes to Miss Beth Brownlee!!) Handwritten pencilled list of various words appended at end of extracts. l.Dated February 2 -October 25person, individual, lucy hill, journalist, advertiser, aunt evelyn, the centenary song, gravel hill state school, in the spot light, an unexpected achievement, bendigo. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.Document - AN UNEXPECTED ACHIEVEMENT: BY LUCY HILL
''An Unexpected Achievement'' by Lucy Hill - Cuttings from newspaper (Bendigo Advertiser and published in serial form in the Woman's Page. These articles are multiple ''letters'' from a 'Miss Margaret Holmes' of 'North Plains, Victoria' to a ''Miss Beth Stanhope, Melbourne' .. Dear Beth … (signed Peggy). Some in latter pages from Miss Peggy Holmes to Miss Beth Brownlee!!) Handwritten pencilled list of various words appended at end of extracts. .Dated February 2 -October 25person, individual, lucy hill, journalist, advertiser, aunt evelyn, the centenary song, gravel hill state school, in the spot light, an unexpected achievement, bendigo. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.Document - MEMORIES OF THE LATE MRS LUCY HILL
''Memories of the late Mrs Lucy Hill'' A series apparently published over the pseudonym of ''Joch'' in the Bendigo Advertiser (ca. 1973) with a variety of article Headings e.g. Bendigo Mining Fields; The Quartz King - and Quartz Crystal; The last cab home; Court Highlight. These are obviously drafts prior to publication. Mention in attached page (News Letter) that Mr and Mrs Hill published in the Bendigo Advertiser in a column titled ''In the Spotlight''. Attached page also is a short 'biography' of Mrs Hill (nee Lucy Robotham), wife of Mr W T Hill titled ''Success of Bendigo Poetess'' (may be extract from Bendigo Advertiser??)person, individual, lucy hill, journalist, advertiser, aunt evelyn, the centenary song, gravel hill state school, in the spot light, an unexpected achievement, bendigo. -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)Book, Jury, Mark, The Vietnam Photo Book
Mark Jury was sent to Veietnam in July 1969. This was not one of the military's wisest decisions. Drafted into the Army, he was eager not to fight in the war but to document it. For the next twelve months, armed with a trio of bruised and battered Nikons (one would eventually be retrieved from where it had been dropped - the bear pit in the Saigon Zoo) and supplied with thirty-six-exposure rolls of Tri-X by his aunt in Pennysylvania.Mark Jury was sent to Veietnam in July 1969. This was not one of the military's wisest decisions. Drafted into the Army, he was eager not to fight in the war but to document it. For the next twelve months, armed with a trio of bruised and battered Nikons (one would eventually be retrieved from where it had been dropped - the bear pit in the Saigon Zoo) and supplied with thirty-six-exposure rolls of Tri-X by his aunt in Pennysylvania.vietnam war, 1961-1975 - pictorial works, saigon, saigon zoo -
Swan Hill Regional Art GalleryPainting, MOORE, Ross, The aunt's story, 1978
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Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.Newspaper - Article, The Aunt's Story, 30/01/1999
Article discussing authenticity of painting entitled 'Woman and Tent' considered to be work of Sidney Nolan. and painted in Nunawading. Written by nephew.painting, carroll, steven, nolan, sidney, carroll, katherine, clark, jane -
Public Record Office Victoria
Legal record (item) - Divorce Papers for Frank Paice and Florence Paice (otherwise Cox)
A file previously held in the collection of the Supreme Court of Victoria and now in Public Record Office Victoria contains records of the annulment of the marriage of Florence Cox in 1919. As the earliest known record of a person with intersex variations in Victorian history, Cox’s story – and this record – are of unique historical significance to the LGBTIQ+ history of the State. Florence Cox (1887–1950) had a middle-class upbringing in Melbourne. In 1914 she travelled to Bengal to marry her fiancé Frank Paice and to join him in his missionary work for the Baptist church. The couple returned to Melbourne in 1918 and the following year the Supreme Court of Victoria, at Paice’s request, annulled their marriage. The Supreme Court file reveals that Paice declared he had been unable to consummate the marriage, due to ‘a malformation frigidity or other defect of the parts of generation’ of his wife. Both Paice and Cox were subject to medical examination, which established that Cox had what is recognised today as the intersex condition complete androgen insensitivity syndrome. The court determined that marital intercourse, as it was understood at the time, was impossible for Paice and Cox, and granted the request for an annulment. Paice remarried, fathered children and led a successful professional and civic life, serving a period as Mayor of Nunawading, in the middle- class eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Cox’s life was very different. It is unlikely that anyone in her life would have known what had prompted the end of the marriage, but gossip would certainly have focussed on her part in it. She never remarried and, although she remained connected to her family, her story was rarely discussed. Cox was admitted to Mont Park Mental Hospital in Melbourne’s northern suburbs in 1945, where she died five years later. The Supreme Court file preserves one of the most detailed medical descriptions of a person with intersex variations from that period. It is particularly striking that following the court case, the file was closed ‘forever’. This indicates how seriously the court took the case, and its determination to protect Cox and Paice from public scrutiny. It speaks loudly to the thinking of the time on a matter that was rarely, if ever, raised in public. In 1997, Cox’s great-nephew Ian Richardson set out to investigate the secrecy surrounding his great-aunt Florrie. Following a relentless, two-year campaign by Richardson and other descendants of Cox and Paice, the Supreme Court file was finally opened to the public. Richardson’s book, God’s Triangle, recounts his quest and brings Cox’s story out of the archives and into the light. Quoted from "A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects" by Graham Willett, Angela Bailey, Timothy W. Jones and Sarah Rood. -
Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial LibraryBook, Blackwood, The daft days, 1923
It is the story of a little American girl, Bud, who has lost her parents and comes to stay with her relatives in a small Scottish town (clearly based on Inveraray). She progresses, thanks to her enlightened but only semi-liberated Aunt Ailie, to become a Shakespearean actress in London's West End - in spite of the negativity of the Scottish education system and the background of social and religious attitudes which regarded the theatre as unsuitable and rather sinful. It is especially interesting because it confronts the problem of the female creative artist in a society whose mores inhibit the expression of her talent.p.284.fictionIt is the story of a little American girl, Bud, who has lost her parents and comes to stay with her relatives in a small Scottish town (clearly based on Inveraray). She progresses, thanks to her enlightened but only semi-liberated Aunt Ailie, to become a Shakespearean actress in London's West End - in spite of the negativity of the Scottish education system and the background of social and religious attitudes which regarded the theatre as unsuitable and rather sinful. It is especially interesting because it confronts the problem of the female creative artist in a society whose mores inhibit the expression of her talent.england - fiction, feminism -
Mont De LanceyBook, Ethel Turner ( Mrs. H.R. Curlewis) et al, Mother's Little Girl, 1904
An Australian story of a family that has too many children and not enough money, so gave up for adoption their last baby, Sylvia to its aunt.Dark green fabric covered novel, Mother's Little Girl by Ethel Turner (Mrs H.R. Curlewis) and illustrated by A.J. Johnson, with gold lettering on front cover for title and author with a gold illustration of two children sitting on a bank. Spine has gold title and author and floral pattern. Has black and white illustrations throughout.fictionAn Australian story of a family that has too many children and not enough money, so gave up for adoption their last baby, Sylvia to its aunt. young people's fiction, australian fiction, family life -
Merbein District Historical SocietyPhotograph, Kerwood Gran Alice GranPa Harris Dora Marion Jenner, 1921
aunt alice, gran kerwood, grandma and grandpa harris, dora jenner, marion jenner, bert jenner, perc jenner, rose jenner, will -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.Book - Children's book, James' trip to the zoo, 2020
Produced in 2020. Author Grace Kavanagh, illustrator Kim KavanaghThis book was written by Grace Kavanagh, mother of James Kavanagh, so that others could appreciate that children (and others) in wheel chairs are capable of enjoying similar things to non-wheel chair bound children. It is one of few children's books produced by Warrnambool authors. The illustrations are by James' aunt, Kim Kavanagh.Soft cover book with image of child in wheel chair wearing a blue shirt and multi-coloured black, yellow and white pants, with a giraffe bending over him.The background is predominantly white, the title text brown and sub-title text black. The back cover is yellow with black text.Happy reading! James & Grace Kavanaghchildren's literature
