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Running Rabbits Military Museum operated by the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch
Cap
Cloth, black with badge, Royal Dutch Army Infantry Pioneers.uniform, afghanistan, army -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, 2001
Longest recorded march by AIF Battalion in full kit Puckapunyal Tatura Shepparton and returnLong Marcch 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion November 1940a i f, 2/2nd battalion, photograph, people -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Know your city, 197-?
Places of interest in Nunawading. Describes early pioneers and properties in the area.Places of interest in Nunawading. Describes early pioneers and properties in the area.Places of interest in Nunawading. Describes early pioneers and properties in the area.antonio park mitcham, city of nunawading, schwerkolt cottage, slater, william, burwood east primary school no. 454, mcclelland, john, witt, william, tally ho boys home, stanley works pty ltd -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, German Settlers of Doncaster
Information from 'German Pioneer Families in Australia' of early settlers.Information from 'German Pioneer Families in Australia' of early settlers.Information from 'German Pioneer Families in Australia' of early settlers.schramm's cottage, von schramm, max rev., orchardists, thiele, henry, lutheran church, athenaeum, john gottfried, anna may, hanke, louise ida, karoline bertha, ernst john, carl william, finger, karl hernrich, christian benjamin, charles henry, ernest f., caroline emma, august, dorothea, ferdinand, eric, neumann, johanne louise, johann, fankhauser, george, john, schramm, rachel, rhoda, joseph, ada, victor, schramm albert, walter, hubert -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Black and White, Wombat Hill Lookout (Pioneers Memorial, c1935, c1935
Black and white photograph of the Pioneers Tower at Daylesford Botanical Gardens.daylesford, wombat hill botanical gardens, wombat hill, pioneers tower, lookout tower -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Craft - CROCHETED DOYLEY IN A FRAME
Crocheted doyley in a frame. Croceted words 'To the Pioneers of Bendigo 1851' -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Photograph, 1907-8
The photo from 1907-8 is a sepia print, depicting a small valley with building at base. There are flumes visible above areas of water, trees on hills and a few small cottages on the hillside. Cock's Pioneer Gold & Tin Sluicing Co NZ No 2 Site. The photo was taken of Matthews Gully looking west. Sluicing was undertaken in the area from 1900 to 1942 with some short breaks between these periods. The image depicts a location mined by Cocks Pioneer Gold and Tin Sluicing Company (as recorded on the annotation on the card mount) The Cocks Pioneer Gold and Tin Mines N.L was one of El Dorado's two largest open cut sluicing mines of the 20th Century. The other was named the Cocks El Dorado Gold Dredging Company. The Cocks Pioneer Mines operated from 1901 until 1941 and found a total of 117,378 ounces of Gold and 1,673 tones of tin concentrates over these years. The Cocks company was formed in 1898 and operated until 1941. Open cut sluicing involved the use of high-powered hoses which used the centrifugal sand pump system (known as hydraulic sluicing) which broke down the soil which was then processed for gold and other precious metals. From 1914 , four years after this image was captured, the company reformed to Cocks Pioneer Gold and Tin Mines NL (previously it was known as Cocks Pioneer Sluicing Co) and undertook large scale sluicing operations until 1929 and then 1934-1941. El Dorado is located on Reedy Creek and is surrounded by forested country to the north and east. It is 20 km east of Wangaratta in Victoria's regional north-east. John Cock was the son of a Cornish minor who arrived in El Dorado in 1858. Cock founded his gold and tin mining company which ran successfully for many years in the El Dorado region. It was an open cut sluicing company because of the abandonment of underground mining after this was deemed too dangerous. In 1935 Cock's El Dorado Company commissioned the floating dredge which is still visible in El Dorado today. The dredge was built by the Thompson engineering works, Castlemaine, and weighed over 2,000 tones and today has a place on the Victorian Registers of historic buildings. Interestingly, the name El Dorado does not derive from the gold in the region, but from the Barambogie pastoral run completed by William Baker in 1840-1841. Gold was discovered in El Dorado 1854 but the gold was too deep for individual prospectors to find, it required the use of heavy machinery.The search for gold is ingrained into the history of Victoria and therefore, images like this one which portray an open cut sluicing site can reveal important information for society and technology for the date when the photograph was taken. This image is of important historical significance for its ability to convey information about sluicing and the methods used to find gold in 1910. It also shows a location where sluicing was undertook which provides insight into the impact of sluicing on the environment at a time when it was done. This image is important for current research into the history of El Dorado, a small regional location near Wangaratta in Victoria's North East. Therefore, this image has the capacity to be beneficial for research into society and the motivations of those living and working in this region during this period and therefore, has social significance. The Beechworth Burke Museum has additional images relating to gold sluicing and El Dorado which can be analysed and studied alongside images like this one.Sepia coloured rectangle photograph printed on gloss photographic paper Reverse: 1997. 2613/ A02613/ No2 site/ Matthews Gully/ Cocks Pioneer G&T. ?? Co NZ/ No2 Site looking West/ 1907-8/ (7)sluicing, hydraulic sluicing, 1907, 1908, mining, cock's pioneer gold & tin sluicing co nz, nz, site no 2, matthews gully, west, valley, building, cottages, hillside, trees, water, gold and tin mine -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Murray Views, Pioneer's Memorial in Stawell c1950 -- Postcard, C 1950
Sister of Donor Visited Stawell in th e1950'2 When she Purchased thes Murray Views Cards. The Cards were produced for sale to touristsSet of 8 Murry Views Postcards No 1 to No 8 C. 1950Murray Views No.8 Pioneer Memorial Stawell -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Medal
Collection of Margaret ScarlettAlloy Medal. Dayton. Birthplace of the Airplane.,1924. Pulitzer races Embossed with Airplane and Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville On the back - Pulitzer Races October 1924Dayton, Birthplace of the Airplane|Wilbur & Orville Pioneerstrophies & awards, public events -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Book, Paul Davies, Pioneers Past, A History of Families in the Stawell District
Faqmily HistoryClear Plastic Cover front and rear History of Families Pioneers Past In The Stawell Districtstawell davies -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph, 19 June 1940
WW2 Uniformed soldiers.Two uniformed Army Soldiers from 2nd/2nd Pioneer Btn.With fondest love from Jack and Ken, June 17th 1949 - To Grandma, Trixie and Lindsay.photograp, ww2 -
Greensborough Historical Society
Article - Magazine clipping, Port Phillip Pioneers Group, St.Katherine's Church, 1998
A short history of St.Katherine's church in St.Helena includes information on Anthony Beale.Article from Port Phillip Pioneers Group, printed on yellow paper.st.helena, st.katherine's church, anthony beale -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Folder, James and Isabella Donaldson
Folder of information on James and Isabella Donaldson and family, Kangaroo Ground pioneersjames donaldson, isabella donaldson, alex donaldson, william donaldson, john donaldson -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - EAGLEHAWK AND DISTRICT PIONEER REGISTER VOLUME 6 T - Z, 2008
EAGLEHAWK AND DISTRICT PIONEER REGISTER VOLUME - T - Z 1936 pages.Annette Donohue, Bev Hanseneaglehawk, pioneers, eaglehawk, pioneers -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Document - Folder, Tatura Early Settlers, 2001
Many pages of donated material covering history of Tatura and families from 1880--- including Hogan, Park, Flanagan, Brady, Curtis, Crawford, Maher, Ranson, Reilly familiesBlack folder containing photographs, recollections of early Tatura and District Pioneers. Mactier/Wilsonpark, flanagan, brady, curtis, crawford, maher, ranson, reilly, tatura history, family histories, hogan, tatura families -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - Article, `Pioneers' From the Past, 1984
`Pioneers' From the Past - Tracing the beginnings of Mitcham High School. With photos.secondary schools, mitcham high school, stuchberry, a.h. -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, Tambo Shire, 1994 c
Also second identical copyColour photograph of the roadside Pioneer Memorial at Murrindal near Buchan, Victoria.topography, vegetation -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Newspaper - Obituary, Death of Ringwood resident, Dan Wright on March 8, 1945
Local newspaper clipping - 15/3/1945 - Passing of Old Pioneer.Born in Gloucestershire, England ... Settled in Ringwood and was employed at the old Federal Brickyards. It was here that he lost his arm, getting his hand caught in machinery. This handicap did not greatly interfere with his working capacity, and for years he was employed as carter at Bamford's timber yards. He married and settled down at Mt Dandenong Road, Ringwood East and acquired various properties. Interred Box Hill Cemetery on Friday, 9th March. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BASIL G WATSON: PIONEER AIRMAN, 1967
Basil Watson departed Melbourne on 24th January 1917, on the initial leg of Australia's first 'barnstorming' aviation tour, promoted by the entrepreneurs Albert Sculthorpe and R. Sissons. During the trip, which lasted over a month, Watson visited Warrnambool, Hamilton and Mount Gambier, before returning via stopovers at Casterton, Hamilton, Warrnambool and Camperdown. At each town he presented a public flying demonstration for crowds of spectators, featuring his usual aerobatic displays with feats such 'looping the loop', upside down flying, somersaulting and 'perpendicular nose dives', generating much amazement and admiration. The promoters had received approval from the Postmaster General's Department to carry an experimental airmail consignment on the return journey from Mount Gambier, and Watson landed in Albert Park on his arrival back in Melbourne on 27th February, carrying over 1,000 pieces of airmail collected from each of the towns on route. Much of the mail was in the form of official souvenir postcards commemorating the event, which were reposted on arrival to local addresses in Melbourne. Churchward, M. (2017) Basil George Watson, Pioneering Aviator (1894-1917) in Museums Victoria Collections https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/articles/15473 Accessed 18 December 2018.Book. ' Basil G. Watson, Pioneer Airman, the Mount Gambier to Melbourne 1917 experimental air mail'. Grey cover, 39 pages with photographs and illustrations.H.N. Eustisbiography, aviation, basil g. watson, aviation, airmail, bendigo, basil g. watson.eric j. ames pty ltd printers, 14 chesser street adelaide -
City of Ballarat
Artwork, other - Public Memorial, Addington Memorial
This stone monument stands was built in 1934, then moved and unveiled at this spot in 1990, the monument is constructed of stone and features multiple plaques. One in the shape of a boomerang commemorates the indigenous inhabitants of the region, and another commemorates the pioneers of Addington. This item is of historic and social significance to the people of Ballaratstones shaped into a memorial cairn with bronze boomerang and plaquesIN MEMORY OF THE BLACKS ERECTED BY A. J. BESELER IN 1934, RESITED BY LEARMONTH AND DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. UNVEILED ON 1-4-1990 BY Gr. A. R. Mc DONALD BALLARAT SHIRE PRESIDENT ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE PIONEERS OF ADDINGTON 1934 addington, aboriginal history, koori history -
Bendigo Military Museum
Certificate - DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE, 31/1/1919
James Joseph Kirkham No 685 enlisted in the AIF with F Coy 8th Batt on 21.8.1914 age 25 years. Embarked for Egypt 19.10.1914, embark for Gallipoli 5.4.1915, hospital 19.5.1915 with Influenza then Rhuematism, return to Gallipoli 6.8.1915. Embark for France 26.3.1916, hospital 25.4.1917 with Appendicitis, return to unit 10.12.1917, attached to 1st Pioneer Batt 9.3.1918, return to Australia, leave for 1914 personnel 8.10.1918, discharged from the AIF 31.9.19. Refer 1283, 1986P.Certificate of discharge, Register No 1135 for Pte James Joseph Kirkham no 685, 1st Pioneers, 31/1/1919. Details name, rank, regt no, enlistment date, service at home and abroad, reason for discharge and discharge date. Certificate has been laminated.documents - certificates, military history-service records, kirkham -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Booklet, Manual of Land Warfare Part 2 Engineer Training Vol 3 Pam 4 Demolitions (RAE and Assault Pioneers) 1982, 1982
A soft covered booklet providing RAE and Assault Pioneers with guidance in military demolitions.7610-66-106-0085military engineering, demolitions -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - PIONEER SCHOOLS OF AUSTRALIA, 1977
Pioneer Schools of Australia. Signed Copy. History of Education including Aboriginal Schools.L. J. Blakeschool, early education -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Vermont
Photocopy of handwritten, unsigned document, listing pioneers in Vermont from 1862 to 1911.Photocopy of handwritten, unsigned document, listing pioneers in Vermont from 1862 to 1911.Photocopy of handwritten, unsigned document, listing pioneers in Vermont from 1862 to 1911.vermont, nunawading -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Deaths a loss to Arts Society, 1996
Mitcham Arts Association - deaths of pioneer members, Peg Farnington and Jean Wilson.art, mitcham arts association, farnington, peg, wilson, jean, wilson, jack, rogalski, barbara -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Forest Hill, Boyle, Dudley
Information on early settlement of Forest Hill and names of pioneers dating back to 1864.Information on early settlement of Forest Hill and names of pioneers dating back to 1864.Information on early settlement of Forest Hill and names of pioneers dating back to 1864.bolster family, bayle family, mcclare family, oru? family, read family, cawise? family, peacock family, jayau? family, mcarthur family, gregory family, forest hill holiday house, forest hill residents kindergarten -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Pioneer's House, S.W. Corner of Canterbury and Heatherdale Roads, 1987-88
Pioneer's House on Subdivision - Homestead Rise: S.W. Corner of Canterbury and Heatherdale Roads.pioneer's house, homestead rise subdivision, canterbury road mitcham, heatherdale road mitcham -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Legal record - The Indenture, Crown Portion 86, otherwise known as 'The Morgan Deed', 1852 (and later)
This indenture once formed part of the City of Kew's Municipal Collection. Cr. W.D. Vaughan in his history 'Kew's Civic Century' (1960) records on page 194 that: "The original deed of conveyance of the land being all of Crown Portion 86, Kew, purchased by John Quick, James Venn Morgan, Samuel Derrick and William Derrick was presented by the Historical Society of Victoria on behalf of Mrs Fryer, a daughter of the later J.V. Morgan, to the [Kew] Council on August 5, 1941. Crown Portion 86, comprised all the land between Cotham Road and High Street to an alignment opposite the east boundary of Glenferrie Road. On it the first residential house was built by Mr. J.V. Morgan in 1852." Following the donation, the Indenture was surrounded by other original related text and explanatory notes and framed. The resulting framed documents are the largest framed objects in the collection.The Indenture and the accompanying contextual documents are some of the most historically significant manuscripts to have survived since the settlement of Kew in the 1850s. They provide a link to Kew's most famous pioneering families.Framed 1952 Indenture recording the sale of land in Kew to pioneering Kew families.james venn morgan, john quick, william derrick, samuel derrick, kew (vic) - history, kew (vic) - pioneers, samuel watts, kew (vic.) — municipal collection -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia - Realia, 1930's
Wooden Sign - Pioneers Mr T & Mrs C Rea & M.A. Barnettstawell -
Canterbury History Group
Photograph - L Kuglemann's Pioneer Store, c1910
Sepia photograph of Kuglemann's Pioneer Store with two people (children?) standing outside.canterbury, canterbury road, kuglemann> l., grocers, general stores