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Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Portland Lifeboat, Victoria, 1915-1930
Black and white photo of the Portland lifeboat in the gardens, sitting on blocks, no protection from the elements. View from stern along one side.Back: 'Lifeboat in Portland Gardens' - handwritten in black ink Round purple stamp 'PRINTED BY M.E. ANDREWS PORTLAND' -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Negative - Glass Plate Negative - Stone house with people on the veranda, c. 1890
Glass plate negative. Images shows a stone house. Iron roof, verandah across front, roof striped. Iron lace work on verandah. Group of people (adults and children) on verandah. Garden in foreground. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Negative - Glass Plate Negative - Botanic Gardens entrance, c. 1890
Stereoscopic glass plate negative. Image shows Entrance to Botanic Gardens. Two ladies standing just inside gate. Dress estimated to be late 19th, early 20th Century. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Negative - Glass Plate Negative - Botanic Gardens, c. 1890
Glass plate negative. Image shows 3 young women on bridge in Botanic Gardens - one of the bridges linking the islands. Dress estimated to be late 19th, early 20th Century. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Negative - Glass Plate Negative - 3 ladies standing in fenced garden, c. 1890
Glass plate negative. 3 ladies standing in fenced garden. Cane chair on circular lawn in centre of garden. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Botanical Gardens Portland, Victoria, n.d
Black and white photo of a cannon on wooden carriage inside entrance to botanical gardens, fron-on viewBack: 'Entrance to Portland Gardens' - handwritten in black ink. Round purple stamp 'PRINTED BY M.E. ANDREWS PORTLAND' -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Negative - Glass Plate Negative - Botanic Gardens, 1890-1910
Stereoscopic glass plate negative. Image shows a group of people having morning or afternoon tea near the tennis courts in the Botanic Gardens. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Negative - Glass Plate Negative - Side view of stone house, 1890-1910
Glass plate negative. Side view of stone house, gabled roof, shingled. Return L shaped verandah. Garden in foreground, people on veranda. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Negative - Glass Plate Negative - Beechwood garden, 1890-1910
Glass plate negative. Image shows three ladies posing in garden at 'Beechwood'. One sitting in chair, one standing and the third sitting on lawn. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Souvenir - China Scallop Dish, Westminster, Australia, n.d
White fine china Westminster scallop dish with gold rim and coloured decal of Gardens Cottage, Portland.Front: 'GARDENERS COTTAGE EARLY 1800 PORTLAND - VIC' Back: Makers stamp 'Fine china WESTMINSTER AUSTRALIA' -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Negative - Glass Plate Negative - Gardens Cottage, 1890-1910
Glass plate negative. Image shows a gardens cottage.Front: 'Gardens Portland' -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Curator's Cottage, Portland Botanic Gardens, n.d
Black and white photo of the curator's cottage in Portland Botanic Gardens.portland botanic gardens, curators cottage, portland -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Portland Maritime Discovery Centre, c. 1997
Coloured photograph: tip truck unloading garden mulch at the Portland Maritime Discovery Centre.portland maritime discovery museum, harbour development -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Portland Tennis Club, n.d
Black and white photograph taken from glass plate negative. Woman holding tennis racquet standing on court at Portland Tennis Club (Gardens). Man standing on court behind her. Estimated dress late 19th, early 20th Century. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Souvenir - Beer Glass - Portland Mechanical & Auto Electrical Services and Kalina Building & Garden Supplies, n.d
Pot beer glass advertising Portland Mechanical and Auto Electrical Services and Kalina Building & Garden Supplies. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Curators Cottage Portland Botanic Gardens, Victoria, n.d
Black and white photo of curator's cottage, Portland Botanic Gardens -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Negative - Glass Plate Negative - 'Beechwood' Garden, 1890-1910
Stereoscopic glass plate negative. Two men and two women in garden at 'Beechwood'. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Negative - Glass Plate Negative - Tennis Courts in Botanic Gardens, 1890-1910
Glass plate negative. Tennis Courts in Botanic Gardens with 'Kingsley' (obscured by trees) on the hill in the distance.Front: 'Portland' -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Portland, n.d
Black and white photo taken from Battery Point, looking towards Portland. Barton's Beach, Fishermen's Breakwater, baths, Railway Pier, Big Pier, botanic gardens, Wattle Creek, town, including All Saints' spireBack: '14' 'Portland, from Battery Point' - handwritten, black pen -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Portland Hospital, c. 1970
Photographic print of a rephotographed photograph. Image shows front entrance to Portland Hospital. Building bluestone, tin roof. Path leads to front entrance through the garden. Front entrance has stone portico supported by 4 stone pillars. 'PORTLAND HOSPITAL' carved into portico.Front: 'Portland Hospital' - green ink Back: 'Old Hospital at site of present' - blue biro -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Postcard - Postcard - Portland, n.d
Coloured postcard, hand coloured. View of Portland, including gardens, creek, Henty Beach, railway pier, Barton's Beach, from Battery Point. Printed in GermanyFront: 'PORTLAND FROM BATTERY POINT' printed, top left of postcard -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Film - Film - Negative Portland, Zillah Maschmedt, c. 1934
Negative for black and white photo. View from Battery Point, looking across Barton's Beach to Portland. Piers, gardens, town, spire of All Saints Church -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Film - Film - Negative - Portland, Zillah Maschmedt, c. 1934
Negative for Black and white photograph. Photo taken from Battery Point, Portland, looking towards town. Barton's Beach, Salt Creek, Gardens, Piers -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Print - Postcard - H.L. Vivian, n.d
Black and white photo postcard. H.L. (Bert) Vivian sitting on the ground in a garden setting; he is wearing a suit and tie.Back: 'H.L. (BERT) VIVIAN' -handwritten in blue biro -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Contact Print - Scenes of Portland, Victoria, 1970s
Sheet of 12 contact prints of rephotographed photographs: (a) 5 young women on dam wall (b) sailors (c) Bentinck Street, looking north from Post Office (d) Julia Street looking east from Percy Street (e) Railway line and Duttons (Nuns) Beach towards Whalers Bluff (f) Fawthrop Lagoon (g) sailors (h) Post Office (i) River, bush close to banks both sides (j) Botanic Gardens (k) Town and Port of Portland reproduced from III London News (l) North side, Julia Street looking west, Bank AustralasiaFront: (c) Bentinck Street approx. 1900 (d) Julia Street, portland Nicholls (h) Portland Post Officeportland scene, street scene, photography, portland harbour, portland seafront, julia street -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Negative - Glass Plate Negative, 1890-1910
Stereoscopic glass plate negative. Group of women in garden at 'Beechwood'.glass plate negative, beechwood, historic house, portland -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Negative - Glass Plate Negative - Beechwood, Portland, 1890-1910
Glass plate negative. Group portrait in the garden at 'Beechwood'. Dress early 20th Century.glass plate negative, historic building, beechwood house, portland -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Negative - Glass Plate Negative - Botanic Gardens Portland, c. 1890
Glass plate negative. Image shows a group of men and women with tennis racquets, posing on a bench in the Botanic Gardens. Dress estimated to be late 19th, early 20th Century. -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Portland Tennis Club, n.d
Black and white photo mounted on heavy dark grey card. Image shows a large group of people on the verandah and outside Portland Tennis Club Clubhouse. Tennis court in foreground. Dress estimated to be late 19th, early 20th Century.Back: 'Gardens Tennis Club' - blue biro -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book, Melbourne University Press, Heidelberg: the land and its people 1838-1900; by Donald P. Garden, 1838-1900
This book covers the early history of Heidelberg, Victoria from its beginnings in 1838 to 1900.There is some reference to the 'annexation' of Greensborough in 1875 and the route of the Heidelberg-Eltham railway line, 1893.Hard cover book. 218 p., ill., maps. Slip cover has a drawing based on an early photograph of the Old England Hotel.Property stamps from Nunawading Public Library (cancelled from their collection)heidelberg, greensborough, donald garden