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Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Leary, Frank and Judith, Colonial Heritage Historic Buildings of New South Wales, 1972
A pictorial study of over 250 early buildings of New South Wales, including historical descriptions. Sites of buildings are Sydney, Parramatta, Campbelltown, Windsor, Newcastle, The Blue Mountains, Bathurst, and locations from Mittagong to Canberra.architecture, social history, land settlement, bridges -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Ferguson, George, Some early Australian Bookmen, 1978
An account of some of the booksellers and publishers of Sydney and Melbourne from 1830 to 1900booksellers, biography -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Bullen, Leonard A, The Early Australian Booksellers - The Australian Booksellers Association Memorial Book of Fellowship, 1980
Short biographies of early Australian booksellers, now deceased, and their individualistic attitudes to their trade. Contains table of contents.booksellers, biography -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Arnold, Ken, Bygones of Yesteryear, 1998
Some household items available to Australian homemakers in the 19th. and early 20th. centuries. Illustrated with catalogue advertisements and photographs. Illustrated and indexed.advertising -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, GibbsW J and Yeates R, Pages from the Past Bairnsdale High School 1912 - 1962, 1962
Bairnsdale High School Golden Jubilee- 1912- 1962. Early records of the headmasters, students, school captains and aims and memoriesschools -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Patricia Crooke, Is Emu on the Menu
Recipes, some very early, from many personal sources and brief descriptions of 44 historical homes of Gippsland including photographs and sketches.recipes, buildings, land settlement -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Paill Raymond, Old Walhalla- Portrait of a Gold Town, 1964
A history of the town of Walhalla victoria, from the early alluvial mining in 1860's through the heady days of rich underground mining to its rgression to a sleepy ghost town in the 1960'smines and mining, township, transport -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Bull, J.C, Sailing Ships and Paddle Wheels and Other Gippsland Shipping, 1974
Book in two parts. Part One consists of the manuscript written by Captain James Bull, giving an account of his early life on sailing ships, and as a shipowner and businessman on the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria. Part Two written by Joseph Bull, an account oships and shipping, waterways -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Lakes Entrance Regional Family History Resource Centre, Casting the Net. Early Fishing Families of the Gippsland Coast, 2001
Memories of stories told by members and descendants of fishing families from he Gippsland Lakes and Gippsland coast, including Mallacoota. Introduction gives a brief overview of the early fishing industry.settlers, township, fishing industry -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Dyce, G.R, Combienbar The Valley of Contentment, 1982
An account of the early settlers of Combienbar, East Gippsland, Victoria - their struggles and achievements to 1945. Illustrated with photographs and includes map of the valley.settlers, agriculture, mines and mining -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Green, D. S, Sale The early years and Later, 1980
An account of the origin and development of the Sale, Victoria, Municipality and surrounding district. Includes photographs, maps.settlers, commerce -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Sunderland, Queenie, Bride of an Anzac, 2000
... as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum) 2 Marine Parade Lakes ...Autobiography covering early life in England, working life during World War I, marriage to an Australian soldier, and family life in Australia.military history, settlers -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Rienits, Rex and Thea, A Pictorial History of Australia, 1980
History of Australia from Aboriginal occupation, early European contact as a penal settlement, federation, until the mid 20th century. Well illustrated and indexed.social history, photography -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Porteus, Stanley D, Providence Ponds - A Novel of Early Australia, 1950
A fictional account of the settling of the Providence Ponds area of Gippsland, Victoria, based on factual events.settlers, history -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Wells John Carlyle, Colourful Tales of Old Gippsland, 1977
A collection of stories about the pioneering days of Gippsland Victoria The hardships and achievements of t he early settlers, prospectors and the generations who followed.history, settlers -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Walshe, Jemma, The Farm, 2004
Research, interpretation and management recommendations for The Farm, and early mining area at Deptford, near Bairnsdale, East Gippsland, Victoria, by a Forestec student.mines and mining, schools, land settlement -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Derbyshire, John and Helen, Maritime Trade on the Gippsland Lakes, 2005
An overview of the early shipping trade on the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, between 1854 and 1937, before road and rail transport made shipping obsolete. Indexed.ships and shipping, waterways -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Langley Eve, White Coolies, 1994
A thinly veiled autobiography of the authors early life which includes time spent living and working on the land in the Metung area of East Gippsland Victoria.employment, social history -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Porter, Hal, John Bulmer's Recollections of Victorian Aboriginal Life 1855-1908, 1963
A thinly veiled biography reflecting life in the country town, Bairnsdale, Victoria, during the earlier half of the twentieth century.biography, township -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Barca Margaret, Gordon Joanna, Creeks and Harbours of the Gippsland Lakes, 1979
A reproduction of a letter of advice sent to Maria Macarthur in New South Wales in 1812, from Mrs E, containing menus, meal preparation and housekeeping advice. Contains a short history of the Macarthur family in early Australia.genealogy, social history -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Flagg Simon and Gurciulla Sebastion, Flynn of the Inland, 2008
A story of the struggle of the Aboriginal Pepper family to survive in the prevailing attitudes of the early twentieth century The extracts from Archival records show the harsh and uncompromising attitude of government, and the effect laws and policies haaboriginals, genealogy -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Fish Marie, Survival at Sea, 2008
The story of the cottages at the New Works area at Lakes Entrance Victoria, their relationship to the early fishing industry and the construction of the artificial entrance from Bass Strait to the Gippsland Lakes, and the past and recent residents.civil engineering, land settlement -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Morgan, Patrick, If The Walls Could Speak - A Social History of the Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria, 1998
A collection of writings, both poetry and prose, with the theme of early Gippsland, Victoria.literature -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Aaron B Gaunt. L, Personalities and Stories of the Early Orbost District, 2000c
A list of some school students in alphabetical order taken from available attendance records East Gippsland Victoriaschools, occupation -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Dorothy Stein, Personalities and Stories of the Early Orbost District, 2000
A collection of life stories of the early settlers indicating struggles resilience and triumphs of a remote community Orbost Victoriatownship, settlers, transport -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Mary Gilbert, The Curlip, 1972
The third edition of Mary Gilberts collection of stories gathered from writings of early pioneers or their descendants Orbost Victoriasettlers, township, agriculture -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, John Carstairs, Harbeck Postcards & Messages Peter Harbeck Diary 1894, 1937
Contains photocopied pages from a notebook written by Jock Carstairs recalling his memories of the early fishing industry the fishermen and boats from 1878 to 1900c Gippsland Lakes Victoriafishing industry, boats and boating -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, LERHS, Maisie Byrne Reminiscences, 2010
Newspaper clipping on the life of local women Vera Bennett nee Allen plus her reminiscences of life during her early years in her teaching career Lakes Entrance Victoriatownship, schools -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, A K MacDougall, Gippsland Regional Coastal Plan 2015 to 2020 Draft, 2002
Two centuries of tales epics ballads myths and legends containg drawings and photographs of the era from early shipwrecks to late twentieth century in Australiahistory, language, folklore -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, LERHS, Tambo Shire Historical Society History
Folder containing information on artist Flora Gregson nee Minter who painted scenes from 1870 to 1923 a record of early life an changes on the Gippsland Lakes Lakes Entrance Victoriaarts, history, genealogy