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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Camp Siren, 1940's
Used as a warning signal at the POW and Internee camps during WW2Camp Sirens - 2 bugle like sirens connected to a long bolt with a nut on one end of the bolt.siren, camp, merrigum museum, tatura, ww2 camps, security, alarms -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Functional object - Match Tin with lid, 1940
Originally held wax vesta matches, used by internees at Camp3Small tin for wax matches with lid attached ( hinged) and rasp like panel on the bottom for striking the match.Duncans Waterproof Wax Vestas.tatura, containers, industrial -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Ledger, 1960
Not very much known, many local Tatura names included. Possibly for sales at Tatura business.Very old accounts book, cream linen like cover. Stained. 1/2 metal clasp -
Puffing Billy Railway
Drop Bottom Clay Trucks - 800mm gauge
These trucks are over 100 years old and are constructed to a similar design to the coke wagons used in the English Midlands region during the 1800's. The trucks were used for the cartage of clay from the quarry to the clay bins, prior to crushing and molding into bricks. These came from Fritsch, Holzer & Company, Brickworks, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia Historic - Industrial Narrow gauge Railway Fritsch, Holzer & Company Brickworks , Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia - Rolling stock Drop Bottom Clay Trucks - Square like clay truck that has a very deep bottom floor.drop bottom, clay trucks, 2'7.5" gauge, puffing billy, fritsch, holzer & company, brickworks -
Mt Dandenong & District Historical Society Inc.
Photograph
Ivy May Child is standing 3rd from the right. The other people are unidentified as yet. Ivy May Child (1910 – 1989) was the daughter of Arthur Edward (Ted) Child (1878 – 1964) and Ethel May Madden (1888 – 1970). Ted Child was the son of Matthew Francis Child (1839 – 1933) and Martha Jeeves (1857 – 1926). He was the grandson of one of the early pioneers Francis Child. Ivy grew up on the family property on Childs Road and took many photographs. Ivy married Henry William Burgess (1906 – 1968) in 1944.Black and white photograph of a group of two men and seven women posed in front of a pavilion like structure.On reverse: Ivy M Childivy child, ivy may child -
Federation University Art Collection
Bookplate, 'Ex Libris John Gartner'
John Gartner was a fine printer and publisher, an author, a noted philatelist, and also collector of Australian banknotes and coins. He was born on 16 July 1914 and was largely self-educated, leaving school at fourteen for work following the death of his father. Gartner developed a strong interest in the history of typography and printing and was apprenticed at the Advocate where his father had been a linotype operator. Aged 17, Gartner bought a hand press and some fonts of type, and in 1937 acquired a platen press from which he set and printed his private press books, published under the imprint of The Hawthorn Press. Gartner had a strong collection of Australian bookplates. He also looked at the work of artists overseas and commissioned personal plates. He subsequently built an international collection with preference for artists who printed from wood. His initial searches were in Belgium and Holland.(http://www3.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-84/t1-g-t7.html) Backplate has an ornate floral like rectangular border around the title 'Ex Libris John Gartner'bookplate, printmaking, australian bookplate design awards, keith wingrove memorial trust -
Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History
Equipment - Mouth opener, Heister, 1941
The advent of anaesthesia posed immediate problems for the oral surgeons and dentists who were used to operating on awake patients with intact airway reflexes. Early anaesthetics were very light and often created an uncooperative patient. Dentists were quick to complain they had trouble opening the mouth quickly enough and dental props soon made an appearance. Gags and tongue depressors proliferated, all initially devised to improve surgical and anaesthetic access, not to protect the airway. Other instruments for opening the jaws included the somewhat fearsome devices known as mouth openers. Heister's mouth opener was incorporated in anaesthetic practice but was not designed for this purpose. Lorenz Heister (1983 - 1758) used his device for mouth inspection and for operations on the palate, tonsils and teeth in the pre-anaesthesia era. He was not impressed with the way it was used by others in his life time and believed that it overstretched the jaw when used inappropriately. Despite its apparent brutality, the Heister mouth gag was still advertised for sale in 1983 and its useful mechanism has been incorporated into modern surgical retractors. This Heister heavy patterned mouth opener was acquired from an Italian Army medical unit at Tobruk in 1941 and donated to the museum in 1946.Scissor-like metal device with a screw mechanism at the top which allows for the open or closed position to be locked.heister, lorenz, mouth opener, gag, heavy patterned -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Chair
Chair, circular back and sides with woven basket-like seat. Appears original. Seat needs restoring. -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Orange & Soda Cordial
Crumbling label S&H in a red Cycle, almost like the Japanese flag white cork lidS&H concentrated soluble Essence of Orange - Kola Guarantees Quality Stevenson & Howell limited, London -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Container - Compact
Purchased and donated by Valda ArrowsmithSquare, amber, marble like mirror compact with rose design on lid. A square and a round mirror insidepersonal effects-toilet requisites, cosmetics -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Container - Hat Box, c1940
Belong to Beryl Gray's mother Mrs. Evelyn Smythe.Round brown hat box - cardboard with leather like coating. Metal handle and three metal clasps.H250/16costume accessories, hat accessories, personal effects, travel goods -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Photograph - Image, 1925-1935 (Approximate)
Donated by Mrs Lockwood, Bonnie, formerly HamiltonBlack & white reproduction of large group of people in what looks like Rutherglen Memorial Hall, unframed.Written on back of photo: "Amy Hamilton nee Barrass centre front holding scroll, Norman Hamilton behind her to right large man with striped tie. David Glen Hamilton is boy apart on left."amy hamilton, norman hamilton, david hamilton, d g hamilton, hamilton family, amy barrass -
Buninyong Visitor Information Centre
Ceremonial object - Sash, Buninyong Gold King Festival 1991
Purple sash with gold writing used in the 1991 Buninyong Gold King Festival. The festival was an annual celebration that included a procession through the centre of the town. Possibly used as a prize. Long strip of purple satin-like fabric with gold printing on it. Gold coloured fringes on each end. Buninyong Gold King Festival 1991festivals, celebrations, prizes -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, N.S.W. Branch of Museums Association of Australia (Inc.), Plan and Program Events, 1996
A label writing guide for staff an volunteers involved in the development of displays in museums, historical societies and like organisations.reference material -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Negative - BILL ASHMAN COLLECTION: CHIP LIKE MATERIAL
Black and white negative of some chip like material beside a building. Stacks of wood also in the picture.sciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy, bill ashman collection - correspondence, negative -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Negative - BILL ASHMAN COLLECTION: DRUMS BESIDE BUILDING
Negative of drums of chip like material beside a building. Large stacks of wood in the background and beside the building.sciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy, bill ashman collection - correspondence, negative -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Letter, Peter Grose, Peter Grose (Curtis Brown) to Robin Boyd, 16.04.1971
Grose provides detailed comments and ideas for further development of the text of Robin Boyd's manuscript for 'The Great, Great, Australian Dream'.Typewritten, quarto, 2 pages. -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Subterranean Clover, 1954
Journal of AgricultureMagazine type paper cover book. White Paper, black printA name is written in ink on top right handcorner in pen. Looks like "Stan Parfet"rural, tatura, grasses, books, history, local -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Cordial Bottle
Has a rusted Lid no label just inscriptions seems to have had a label at some stageEBERHARD & Co (Crown like symbol) This bottle is the property of EBERHARD & Co Glumes & Talbot -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Bottle, glass
Rectangular clear glass bottle for stopper, with embossed text on base.'W Y H'. The 'Y' is stylised looking like a wine glass with a curved base. -
Bendigo Military Museum
Postcard - POSTCARDS, PHOTOGRAPHIC WW1
This is a set of coloured postcards from WW1. They have been glued to a cardboard backing piece. They are titled "Little "Grey Home in the West". NRS 1-4. They depict a British Soldier dreaming of his wife and two daughters. At ther bpottom of each card is a verse which could be set to music.passchendaele barracks trust, ww1, postcards -
RMIT GSBL Justice Smith Collection
Report, Access to the law : the structure and format of legislation, 1990
Report no. 33 May, 1990 Inside front cover is a with compliments slip: "Tim Hope you like it. David" ISBN: 0730605639law reform -- victoria, legislation -- victoria -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Lysacht's Referee, 1940
Used by E. J. Mitchell, Tatura. Timber merchant.Blue linen like cover. Pierced in left top corner. Blue silk look for hanging. 17th edition. E. J. Mitchelle j mitchell, tatura businesses, tatura timber merchants -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Prisoner of the Kormoran, 1944
Narrated by Mr. "Syd" Jones who paid James Taylor, the author, the compliment of asking him to write the book for him.Blue, linen like hard cover with black line around edge of front cover. Black text on the spineprisoner of the kormoran, taylor j, weinmann b, camp 3, tatura, ww2, books, history, local -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Cigarette Case
Made by German P.O.W in Camp 13Handmade wooden inlay cigarette box with separate sliding panel at top. Star-like inlay design on frontcigarette case, camp 13, murchison -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Brooch, 1940's
Made in Camp 3Wooden oval shaped brooch. Daisy like flower in the centre, gold coloured safety pin embedded into broochbrooch, wood, vollmer h, camp 3, tatura, ww2, handcrafts, woodwork -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Mast Hoop
Mast Hoop, ring metal hoop like with 2 nut & bolt holes, one bolt & nut missingflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Sign
Sign, advertising hairbrushes, white print of khaki coloured felt-like background with decorative cut away edge. Front : 'TITTERTON'S CELEBRATED HAIR BRUSHES'. On rear : in pencil 'LONG'. -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Coal briquette
8371.1 - Like a squat, oval-faced cylinder; flatted ends; edges 'lipped'; black coal; high-grade. -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Clay spade chisel
8415.1 - Metal rod that flattens out into a wide, shovel-like paddle. Used to break though hard clay.