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Greensborough Historical Society
Container - Bottle, Inkwell, 1900s
This bottle held ink for use with a nib pen.Green glass bottle, 'C' pressed into base.glass bottles, inkwells -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Folder, H.C. Jones, JP, 1872
Folder of information on H C Jones, 1872h.c jones -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Folder, Arthur Chichester Allen, 1852
Folder of information on A C Allen, Eltham, 1852.arthur chichester allen -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Personal Effects, chamber pot, white enamel, c1950
A chamber pot is a portable toilet, meant for nocturnal use in the bedroom. It was common in many cultures before the advent of indoor plumbing and flush toilets. A typical chamber pot used in City of Moorabbin c1950White enamel chamber pot c 1950chamber pots, toilets, nightcarts, iron maidens, septic tanks, sewerage, sandringham, city of moorabbin, county of bourke, moorabbin roads board, parish of moorabbin, shire of moorabbin, henry dendy's special survey 1841, were j.b. bent thomas, o'shannassy john, king richard, charman stephen, highett william, ormond francis, maynard dennis, early settlers, pioneers, post world war 2 estates, plateway, -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)
Dolls, antique copy 'Parlour Maid', 1990
This doll is used as an educational toy to help visitors imagine life c1880This doll is used as an educational toy to help visitors imagine life c1880A doll dressed as a 'Parlour Maid c 1868'dolls, craftwork, dressmaking, moorabbin, bentleigh, thatcher lorna, lace, porcelain, education, domestic servants, -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Fountain Inn, Bay Street, Port Melbourne, 2000
Colour photograph of the Fountain Inn c 2000hotels, built environment - commercial, fountain inn -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, 2001
Tatura cricket team at Toolamba c.1920cricket team, photograph, people -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Tatura Cricket Team, 2001
Joe Byham (back row) held by Baden HillTatura Cricket Team at Toolamba c.1920tatura cricket team, toolamba, photograph, people -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph, Frank Williams Snr, 2001
Frank Williams head & shoulders c.1895williams, frank snr c1895, photograph, people -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Photograph
Tatura State School children, c.1920. -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, Revolution in the Restaurants
Changing dining habits - the loss of Australian pub dining rooms, new motel dining, bistros, the often poor surroundings, location of the toilets. Extreme sarcasm and criticism.Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 6 pagesPencil annotationsrestaurants, bims, high tide, the carousel, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, Melbourne: 2001 AD, 1969
Searing critique on the public apathy of the environment in which we live, as well as the dichotomy of the professional view of the city and suburbs. Boyd imagines what Melbourne might be like in year 2001.Original manuscript of an article published as 'Melbourne 2001 AD' in "The Australian", 05.03.1969. This is the second of a series of three articles about Melbourne published on consecutive days (see D022 and D024).Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 7 pagesmelbourne, trams, flies, road congestion, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, Melbourne Transformed, 1969
Discusses the many paradoxes of Melbourne, humorously described: eg trams, flies and road congestion.Original manuscript of an article published as 'A new Melbourne with the professional touch' in "The Australian", 06.03.1969. This is the third of a series of three articles about Melbourne published on consecutive days (see D022 and D023).Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 6 pagesenvironment, apathy, rupert hamer, melbourne, suburbia, 2001, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, The Internal Conflicts of Modern Architecture
Discusses the artistic and intellectual motivations behind building and the role of the architect. Robert Venturi is mentioned as being important in the movement towards modern architecture. The question asked is "What is architecture?"Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 20 pagesmodern architecture, pop art, art and science, architects, robert venturi, building, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd
List of projects with dates and short description of features. Projects date from 1954 to 1969. Seven more detailed descriptions. Potentially exhibition labels.Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 8 pagesarchitecture, building materials, residential architecture, houses, motels, romberg and boyd, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, Australia Square, 1969
Discusses Australia Square in Sydney; its plan, structure, materials and artworks (tapestries and sculptures by Le Corbusier, Vasarely and Calder).Original manuscript of an article published as 'Australia Square: Circle in the Square' in "Architectural Forum", Vol. 130, No.3, April 1969, pp.26 - 35.Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 4 pagesaustralia square, sydney, harry seidler, plaza, pier luigi nervi, tapestry, sculpture, le corbusier, vasarely, calder, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, No Quotas for Architecture, c1969
Discusses 'Domus' (an Italian architecture and design magazine) as visually exciting and trend starter; compares recent international opinions on Australian architecture and culture (Charles Eames on Sydney Opera House, J. M. Richards on Australian architecture as primitive and vulgar). Boyd indicates international opinions of Australian architecture as important because many Australian buildings are being designed by overseas architects; argues for greater promotion of Australian architecture and architects.Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 5 pagesLast page: no image attached but this inscription "caption to illustration"; appears that Boyd wanted image of St James Building, AMP Tower and Shell House by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill attached.domus, sydney opera house, charles eames, jm richards, australian culture, globalisation, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, Architecture: The Schizophrenic Style, 1971
Boyd proposes to apply art criticism techniques to architecture; claims architectural criticism in Australia is "all but dead" because of the 'schizophrenic nature of architecture" (i.e. building a socio-economic object as well as art). Boyd compares Kevin Borland's design of The Legend restaurant (Lonsdale St) with a recently designed residential apartment block (15 Collins St); claims that both are schizophrenic but The Legend is masterfully so whereas the apartments are aesthetically lacking.Original manuscript of an article published as ‘The schizophrenic style’ in "The Sunday Australian", 14.3.1971Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 11 pagesTop of page 1 handwritten where and when published. The last page credits photographer Mark Strizic, so images may have been attached.architectural criticism, art criticism, melbourne architecture, the legend restaurant, lonsdale st, leonard french, legend milk bar, tivoli theatre, clement meadmore, kevin borland, colonial architecture, 15 collins st, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, An Essential Kind of Madness, 1970/1971
Discusses pragmatic buildings in contrast to the architecture of dreamers, experimenters and idealists through a review of Peter Cook's book "Experimental Architecture".Original manuscript of an article published as 'Utopians versus the squares' in "The Sunday Australian", 1971.Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 9 pagespeter cook, archigram, experimental architecture, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, A Lead From the Plumbers, 1971
Boyd discusses Graeme Gunn's Plumbers & Gasfitters Employees Union Building; indicates it is unusual for Australian trade unions to be a patron of the arts; discusses the angular design and its raw concrete, which Boyd praises as internationally fashionable; suggests that the last great piece of union-commissioned architecture was the Wharf Labourers' Union building, a 1916 Art Nouveau building by Robert Haddon.Original manuscript of an article published in "The Sunday Australian", 06.06.1971 (Review of Graeme Gunn’s Plumbers and Gas Fitters Building, Victoria Parade, Carlton).Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 7 pagestrade unions, plumbers and gasfitters employees union of australia, graeme gunn, brutalism, concrete, robert haddon, wharf labourers' union building, flinders st, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, The Shanty Town at Tullamarine, 1971
Discusses the reasons for Sydney's and Melbourne's new airports. Discusses the transformation from picturesque landscape to a growth of unordered supplementary structures surrounding airports (motels, sheds, storage rooms, petrol stations, shopping mall). Boyd predicts this "shanty town" image will only get worse, and critiques the image of Australia first presented to international visitors.Original manuscript of an article published in "The Sunday Australian", 27.06.1971Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 8 pagesNumbered in 13 paragraphstullamarine airport, international airport, melbourne's shanty town, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, Something Wrong with our Cities
Makes comparisons between Australian cities and American and European cities. Melbourne and Sydney are heading in the same direction as Los Angeles. A possible future the city containing entertainment and culture, with the suburbs having open space and gardens but with access to city life.Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 3 pagescity, cities, suburbs, melbourne, sydney, american cities, european cities, urban planners, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, Kenzo Tange, 1946-1969, 1971
Book review of "Kenzo Tange, 1946-1969. Architecture and Urban Design", edited by Udo Kultermann, Praeger Publishers, 304 pp $29.50. Boyd praises Tange's unapologetic adherence to modernism and his adaptation of le Corbusier's ideas to tradition. He appraises the book's merits and problems (explanatory and not analytical writing, building omissions).Architectural Forum, Vol. 135, No.3, October 1971, p8. Book review by Robin Boyd of 'Kenzo Tange, 1946 - 1969, Architecture and Urban Design', edited by Udo Kultermann, Praeger Publishers,Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 3 pageskenzo tange, japanese architecture, modern movement, le corbusier, creative realism, expo, skoplje, yugoslavia, hiroshima, children's library at hiroshima, shizuoka olympic arena, tokyo, nichinan, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, The Dead End of Modern Architecture, 1971
Discusses the new skyscrapers changing our skyline and classifies them into two types - development buildings and name buildings.Original manuscript of the article ‘Big boxes with holes – for high profits or for prestige’ published in The Sunday Australian on 01.08.1971.Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 8 pagesmodern architecture, skyscrapers, development buildings, name buildings, sculptural competitions, clean and uncomplicated, marland house, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, Mr Claudio Alcorso
Gives four reasons why the introduction of creative design was a "dismal failure", ranging from conservative department store buyers to an unsupportive government. (It is not clear if this is Boyd's view or that of Alcorso, the managing director of a textile company.)Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 1 pagemodern design, textiles, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, A New Phase in Canberra, 1971
Describes Canberra as a city that has minimal architectural character, as it is mainly characterised by its natural landscape and roadways. The new phase in Canberra refers to several civic projects that will serve to define Canberra as a national capital.Original manuscript of the article 'A New Phase for Canberra' published in Sunday Australian, 05.09.1971.Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 9 pagescanberra, urban planning, walter burley griffin, capital circle, capital hill, campbell park, australian architecture, harry seidler, robin boyd, manuscript, national capital -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, That Sneaky Strategic Plan, 1971
Boyd discusses the role of Sydney and its Strategic Plan. He touches on floor space ratio but focuses on the goal of enticing residents to return to the inner city as the real challenge of the plan.Original manuscript of the article ‘Sydney’s Sneaky Strategic Plan’, published in The Sunday Australian, 15.8.1971.Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 11 pagesThe last page is a redraft of the third last page.sydney, strategic plan for sydney, urbanisation, decentralisation, city, suburbs, master plan, harry seidler, floor space ratio, inner city residential, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, The New Revolution in Modern Architecture
A speech describing the modern architecture movement, its different styles.Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 9 pagesmodern architecture, modernism, anti-classicism, walter gropius, harold desbrowe-annear, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, Antiarchitecture, 1968
Boyd argues that there is little that is truly avant-garde or revolutionary in architecture. Boyd defintes 'antiarchitecture' as architecture which rejects aestheticism, an approach explored by constructivists, Archigram and Venturi. Boyd indicates that he suspects that architecture can never fully escape aestheticism.Original manuscript of the article published in The Architectural Forum, Vol. 129, No. 4, November 1968, pp. 84-86.Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 6 pagesAnnotation on p2radicalism, venturi, archigram, reyner banham, buckminster fuller, new brutalists, constructivism, john m johansen, paul rudolph, charles moore, japanese metabolism, george nelson, aestheticism, robin boyd, manuscript -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, The New Strength in Australian Architecture
Discussion of three important changes in Australian architecture in the past ten years: loss of supremacy of Melbourne, the greater confidence and determination to build well, and greater experimentation and individual expression.Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 6 pagesaustralian architecture, melbourne, australian style, robin boyd, manuscript